ismail-khan

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Tajir (YC W20) Is Hiring Android and Back-End Engineers in Pakistan(workatastartup.com)
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by ismail-khan 6y ago
Shameless user of nextmv here! Nextmv has just the right level of abstraction needed for software engineers. Took us very little time to get a production model running.
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by ismail-khan 7y ago
What’s the point of the subject tests anyway when you already have AP exams? It was pointless for me to do both in high school, the subject tests were much easier.
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by ismail-khan 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating on how build scripts helped you (what problem did you solve?) and sharing learning resources?
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by ismail-khan 7y ago
Title: > Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads From the article: > More than 250 employees have signed the message Facebook has >35,000 employees. 250 signees is <0.7% of employees. Hardly seems like
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by ismail-khan 7y ago
Isn’t that Google Cloud Spanner?
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by ismail-khan 7y ago
> They are so used to live their own lives that they have extremely hard time compromising any part of it. Reminds me of this passage from The Brothers Karamazov: > “I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a d
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by ismail-khan 8y ago
> As a Russian, I don’t understand how Americans can “get into” Dostoevsky or Tolstoy. The cultural background required to understand them is simply not there, so you’re getting maybe 50% of what’s there, and that’s an optimistic estimat
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by ismail-khan 8y ago
Who said Linux was simple? :)
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by ismail-khan 8y ago
“We shape our buildings; thereafter our buildings shape us”
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by ismail-khan 9y ago
Leo Tolstoy took about 1400 pages to make exactly this point in War and Peace :)
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by ismail-khan 9y ago
Or, in continuous terms, marginal X is simply the first derivative of X with respect to some other variable.
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by ismail-khan 9y ago
This is really great insider information, thanks for sharing!
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by ismail-khan 9y ago
Tesla is still responsible for picking the right supplier & some degree of quality control even on components they didn't manufacture themselves. Perfectly OK to hold them responsible as well.
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
And Promises too!
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
Can you give an example where a shell script would solve the problem? Curious to know
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
That's not remotely close to what the parent comment was saying...
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
The buyer is usually not the end user. For example, a landlord is biased towards purchasing appliances that looks complex so they can show off all the extra "features" to clients.
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
This isn't the fairest comparison, because the richest Americans are richer than the richest Canadians. If the Canadian income distribution is tighter, then it's easier for a Canadian to reach the top 20% simply because the gap be
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
Upon further reflection, I think it's not so much about human vs physical capital (and I agree with your point), but about IT workers vs other types of workers. If a company of 5 Indian software engineers is booted out of the US, they
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by ismail-khan 10y ago
Another way to look at it: if restrictions on high skill tech immigration tighten, then tech companies that would have been founded in America will instead be founded elsewhere. This is more true of software than of any other industry, beca