kchoudhu

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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   I remember when this came up on my Facebook feed a year or so ago. I shat all over it because they were essentially taking money in, calling it "saving" and then not paying out any interest. Have they fixed that? Sort of. They now
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   > Workers on "flex" schedules in the tech sector underperform by a wide margin. Proof, please.
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   Yeah. Individual achievement aside (and I'm not minimizing it in any way, shape or form), I'm pretty sure this is the CS profession's way of telling the FBI to get bent.
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   So true. No, it's best to just stick to what we know.
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   If only there were a way to automatically mark down poorly performing companies based on incoming market data on a daily, nay!, hourly basis...
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   > in our field. I'm working in the same field as you, and I talked my employer into a remote position abroad in a region with more statutory leave than in the US, working four days a week. All this was done without a pay cut. Knowin
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   Android SDK made available over HTTP, hashes not served securely

   2 points by kchoudhu 11y ago|0 comments
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   I don't want my boss to look out for my development -- I want my boss to make sure that I have a clear political field to advance my technical agenda. Do that, and I'll take care of my personal development.
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   by kchoudhu 11y ago

   I'm flying that in reverse in a couple of months. I hear good things about it.
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    Ask HN: What kind of immigration challenges do startups face?

    1 points by kchoudhu 11y ago|0 comments
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    >> Things like apache, mysql, etc etc etc. That's well beyond the remit of the OS developers who are only responsible for FreeBSD, but the ports team has happily provided us with `pkg lock` to prevent edits to ports once they are
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    The FreeBSD folks have made a pretty good separation between "base" (what you call Core OS) and "ports" (what you call user applications). It works wonderfully. This isn't a new observation, and I'm kind of sur
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Why?
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Sorry, I should have been clearer: at the time of purchase, there should be a zero-impact on your net worth. As time passes, a delta opens up between the value of your house and the amount owed. This can be positive (your house went up in v
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Because in theory, they own the deed to the property, which can in a pinch be sold to pay off the debt. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but it is true: if done correctly, the purchase of a house should have zero effect on the buyer&#x
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    AAPL cash reserves as of Jan 2016: 217B. Looks like the judge's district is about to make a metric shit ton of money!
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    Google Founders' IPO letter (2004)(abc.xyz)

    2 points by kchoudhu 11y ago|0 comments
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    For nearly a decade, I lived in New York and managed to avoid BA for all my travel needs. I recently moved to Doha and am working remotely for my company, with occasional trips back to the motherships in NY and London. Unless I fly ME3, BA
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    I wonder how WN is doing now that oil is at $20 a barrel... Hedges cut both ways.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    British Airways is notorious for having an unfavorably skewed ticket price to YQ surcharge ratio. Part of the reason they do this is because it allows them to book revenue for "free" award tickets: since your miles only cover th
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Is there anyone naive enough to think that the US government would turn the other cheek after getting egg all over its face? Of course they made extraordinary efforts to capture Snowden before he got away.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    This is the correct answer. Matt Levine did quite a long writeup about this a while back: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-17/how-can-yah... Taking an uncharitable view, Yahoo!'s core business ac
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    There was a book about this: Tomatoland. It's depressing in the extreme.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Interstate commerce is a thing. We'll happily pay you for the water you send us.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Hey, I'm starting my first remote gig this week. How very, very timely.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    His wikipedia page is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ver * He sold explosives on ebay back in the day, and went to prison for it. * He renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying taxes... *
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    Oh good, Roger Ver is involved as an investor. Steer clear, fellas. Steer clear.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    I started with a Linux, but eventually moved on to FreeBSD. I learned more about network technologies mucking around with an edge router then I ever did in my CS networking class. It's been an interesting decade.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    hostapd is a wonderful thing.
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    by kchoudhu 11y ago

    I nominate The Secret Pilgrim . It's a sequence of vignettes about the Service as related by Smiley during a training session for new recruits. I remember finishing the book, and feeling a profound sense of pity for the broken, fractu