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by ismail 13y ago
actually in india there is a cottage industry on training people to ace tech interviews and solve these kind of problems
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by ismail 13y ago
the Web site has not changed in all this time. I am getting all nostalgic now. I cut my teeth with linux on slackware. Think it was slackware 3.x Found out about linux by chance, at a flea market a guy was selling a bunch of used software.
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by ismail 13y ago
yep. there was a project to build an open source whatsapp clone.
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by ismail 13y ago
'Privacy' currently is just a facade, most people have just not realised that. Here is an interesting fact, that joe public do not realise. If you have a mobile phone, you can be tracked, even if there is no GPS on the device. Bes
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by ismail 13y ago
From where i am, it seems exorbitant. Granted here in Africa, $1m is quite a big investment, we have been running on <$10,000 for over 9 months now. Capital is very difficult to get access to. Forces you to be super-lean(and practically
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by ismail 13y ago
500k for consulting???????
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by ismail 13y ago
Not homework
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Ask HN: Graph Theory, What kind of Graph is this?
1 points by ismail 13y ago|3 comments
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by ismail 13y ago
wrt to sanboxing/security edx has some open source code for running python code in a sandbox. Though you could just as easily use something like docker.
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by ismail 13y ago
This is fake. While the ANC government is not perfect and there is a TON of things they do wrong, corruption etc. This is probably right wing extremist nonsense to drum up support since we have an election year coming up. Also to make tho
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How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition(brainpickings.org)
1 points by ismail 13y ago|0 comments
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15 Year old hackers Create a mobile 3D printing app and print a mobile cover(3dprintingindustry.com)
1 points by ismail 13y ago|0 comments
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by ismail 13y ago
saying that marriage and kids discourages entrepreneurship, is not entirely correct. think it depends on the person, yes your risk profile changes once you are married, and some would be discouraged. not all will be, I quit my job for a st
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by ismail 13y ago
Sorry about the repeat post. Posted from one of the mobile apps seemed to have messed up somehow.
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by ismail 13y ago
while the south african govt say they support oss and all gov departments ahouod be using it, in practice they hardley ever implement oss. there is actually a project on git hub to use information access laws to perform a ln audit on the us
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by ismail 13y ago
I noticed a number of startups are listed (and publicly raising) both on wefunder and angellist. How does it work if they raise >50% on each platform? Also showing the % raised the way it is now is a bit misleading, it gives off the impr
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by ismail 18y ago
let me just clear one thing up Misrepresentation for financial gain = Fraud as an example: I Tell the bank i earn $10,000 when i only earn half that to get a higher loan or in the case of a company: Reporting higher numbers to investors, r
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by ismail 18y ago
If the company signs the deal based on these claims the founder made, its called misrepresentation and misrepresentation = fraud. So should something screw up, and they want to get out of the contract they can use that as a basis,or even if
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by ismail 18y ago
Hey man, if people are doing it, it does make it right. My definition of fraud is gaming the system as they did, and using it in a way that was not meant to be used to get $$. It happens in all industries and it can drive a company into the
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by ismail 18y ago
I cant understand wtf the point of the article is. They make it seem as if the company was in some way picked on by the mighty google. Point being, they were committing FRAUD, don't let words like 'Arbitrage' confuse you. Its plain and simp
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by ismail 18y ago
hey, being from Africa: Yes, you could,though i dont in 'aid' and charity in Africa we need to resolve our problems, only then will we learn how to compete in the global economy. So for example, encourage entreprenuership etc. Take a look a
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by ismail 18y ago
i wouldnt suggest reverse billing, this is messy and complicated. Reverse billing indicates that the recipient pays(This is usually used when requesting content, that is not initiated via SMS i.e from WAP/Internet) However if you are reques
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by ismail 18y ago
Look for WASP... Wireless Application Service providers, they usually have links to all the mobile operators and they charge you a fee.
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Redit Opensources Code(mashable.com)
1 points by ismail 18y ago|0 comments
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by ismail 18y ago
@tx claiming that SMS has persistence is wrong, once the SMS is delivered to the customer, and the buffer fills up on the SMSC oldest messages are cleared, a record is written to a file which is then transfered to some other server (That de