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by harikb 7y ago
Why don’t we, as HN community, find a solution to pay for content before we take away the only legitimate, non-intrusive way to make a living from journalism. Remember Jamal khashoggi could have decided to become a software engineer and c
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by harikb 7y ago
whistleblower, working for a non-spy org, reporting what he believes to be illegal conduct to congress one one side. second is a guy who stole secrets he wasn't even supposed to have access to, ran with it and leaked to a russian mob c
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by harikb 7y ago
Did you ask that same question above about Snowden? Like “what orders did he follow”? If we are talking about whistleblower protection, it should be same whether the delivered news is favorable to you/us or not
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by harikb 7y ago
Just a few days, people were celebrating new Microsoft Edge being a viable competitor to Google Chrome and how it is all good for privacy. Let the thing take some hold, then complain about monopoly. If people want to "ban" somethi
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by harikb 7y ago
Java's code verbose-ness is not entirely due to static typing though. IMHO, it is ecosystem, people, SO-copy-culture
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by harikb 7y ago
With a large organization like Microsoft, people who understand this don’t have the power to make this happen. And people who the power will WTF this for 6 months. By the time they make the decision, it will be too late. I doubt Satya will
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by harikb 7y ago
I think this is a key point. Since they advertised this, it became a commitment for all future versions. Sure they can break again in 4.0
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by harikb 7y ago
The trouble is I publish a (new) code that advertises itself as working on 3.x and then it turns out it is being used by a person who only had the version prior to this change. That said, Go made a similar change (from insertion-order to ex
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by harikb 7y ago
This seems like a weird way to look at the problem. Hardware also has software/logic. The only reason it appears more stable is that people are shit scared of finding a bug that can't be fixed. If we delay the software release as
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by harikb 7y ago
In that fictitious scenario, would they have checked with Adobe if they wouldn't mind their users spied up on. What if this information is indirectly used for trading on ADBE stock? Would that be considered OK ?
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by harikb 7y ago
> Discord has never been afraid of embracing new technologies that look promising. > Embracing the new async features in Rust nightly is another example of our willingness to embrace new, promising technology. As an engineering team,
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by harikb 7y ago
It was also common for people to randomly get killed, barbarically, when crossing/migrating to another place uninvited.
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by harikb 7y ago
But I still don't get the point though.. unless of course you are arguing that a non-Prop-13 world would have reduced tax for everyone under 1%. That isn't going to happen. we have never reduced taxes in Californa :) Now let us lo
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by harikb 7y ago
I bet GP meant it to ironic. That said, having a backup and knowing that the data was just corrupted are two different things. In a word without storage level CRC checks, it is possible an otherwise successful test is overlooked and we move
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by harikb 7y ago
You have it backwards. Prop 13 overall increases house prices, yes. But kids, whose parents own a home, benefit the most from Prop 13.
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by harikb 7y ago
California, at least Bay Area in particular, has a slightly different problem that is keeping people stuck here. People can’t live here without both husband and wife working full time. Now to move to a different city or state, both husband
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by harikb 7y ago
Build better alternative works only when combined with a prohibition on cars. Otherwise as soon as the traffic situation improves (as in more people taking bus), car becomes even more faster and convenient. There has to some artificial cons
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by harikb 7y ago
If we read other people’s (say a manager, who is giving work) mind and just did that, we would be in the exact mess we are with shares mutable state.
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by harikb 7y ago
Whatever we did 30 years ago didn't allow multiple people to edit content simultaneously. In fact, even today, Office 365 can barely keep up with it. Moreover, there is an entire ecosystem around Google Sheets. See https://w
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by harikb 7y ago
> will need to migrate if it is going to be abandoned Doesn't sound very nice or supportive when you ask it this way.
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by harikb 7y ago
People who do these stats should see where the investment is for people who left. 1. Are they moving to Florida to take advantage of a tax shelter alone or have they also sold off any NY/California real estate. That is, people move for
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by harikb 7y ago
So far what I have seen is Google search giving snippets or Google AMP optimizing for mobile. Still the content is physically from some page verbatim. The AI/NLP comes in only in top 0.1% kind of queries like “what is the weather” or “
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by harikb 7y ago
1. Is your new service still based on Yodlee backend? Everyone else who provides any consolidation service seems to. I am not saying they are bad, but it is better to be clear upfront. 2. Are their any features for Pro consumers who are not
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by harikb 7y ago
It took the industry a decade or more to agree that some Oath + OFX was the way to go. I can’t blame them though. Originally Intuit and Microsoft were pitching “their own blackbox server” in Bank network to get this done. Nobody, not even t
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by harikb 7y ago
I think you meant to say 1. Zero open issues :o 2. Code is stable - no recent fixes :P 3. Not even the mighty spectre and meltdown demanded a fix PS: I am sure this is meant as a parody to make fun of other frameworks.
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by harikb 7y ago
I blame the lax bankruptcy laws in United States (in comparison to Germany). I think it creates a safety net that is too comfortable that the business can (a) give up too early or (b) use this as a pump & dump scheme where the owners wa
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by harikb 7y ago
If you have to handle (write code for) 2 and 3, why isn’t something like Postgres better?
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by harikb 7y ago
One thing that isn't considered is that these "benchmarks" are a rat race to the bottom in code quality. You can't blame the author(s) from wanting to win this fictitious wall of fame. I don't know why exact numbers
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by harikb 7y ago
That 500,000 number includes those who have been smoking for many many years from a wide age range. Also the total number of smokers is also a large number (across years). So it is really not a fair comparison
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by harikb 7y ago
LED lights are incredibly efficient though. Large buildings are creepy if you turn off most of the lights.

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