kinkrtyavimoodh

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by kinkrtyavimoodh 3y ago
Google feels like a bunch of headless chickens running around. it's painful to see what was once such a loved and admired brand be reduced to this. :(
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
i am no apologetic for the messy git UI. But i also know that any competent software engineer can be given a sufficient understanding / mental model of the basic git way of doing things in 1-2 hours, after which they can Google for the
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this! i feel this is a cautionary tale for us HN-minded folks since i see a rather unusual love for the look and feel of the "old internet", and what i like to call the Craigslist style of design. As someone who
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
> A film that exists is better than one that never gets made. Some might disagree. The democratization of content creation that happened with the internet and social media was in general a good thing, but it can't be denied that it
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
It's hard to say whether it _should_ go to journalists. Even before the digital era, newspapers largely made money through advertisements, not subscriptions. They were monetizing eyeballs just as much as the Facebooks or Googles of the
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
> "recognize that trying to parse any meaning from an email address' local-part is blatantly ignorant of IETF specifications and almost certainly will create bugs" I am sorry but this makes no sense. You do realize that th
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 4y ago
Unlike programmers, their work doesn't generate revenues as easily, otherwise every blogger would be rich.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
No thanks, we don't want another Prop 65 nuisance, this time for photos.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
Contacts in what sense? Probationary periods could work but it's a coordination problem. Such periods are the norm in Europe (coz it's very hard to fire someone) but for an at-will place like the US, given that the industry doesn&
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
Job training is not as much worth it for companies when employees can switch jobs at the drop of a hat.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
You can't force a private entity to sue another private entity. The regulator (government) can sue it if it finds it at fault. And a private entity can choose to complain to the regulator if it wants. The agreement here between MSFT an
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
Just... wow. The jokes write themselves at this point. So instead of posing a simple question to the customer that even the most tech-illiterate customer can understand and answer reliably (Is your router next to a microwave oven or aquariu
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
I think it's not obvious but it reduces to a relatively 'common' integral. 1 - cos(x) can be written as 2*cos^2(x/2) Take the logarithm and you get 2ln (cos(x/2)), which is relatively common and the solution is htt
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
I think when people say processed food they are referring more Doritos than canned corn.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 5y ago
Regardless of my personal feelings about Bezos and Musk, the fact of the matter is that SpaceX is at least an order of magnitude to being able to actually land on the moon than Blue Origin. BO hasn't even launched to orbit yet, why are
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
On the surface "zero-tolerance" sounds like well, "zero-tolerance". In reality, it's just shirking of responsibility. Schools neither care about creating an environment where bullying will be reduced nor about actua
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> Individual people aren't diverse, teams are. Yes, which is why I said he was the 'source' of diversity. If 7 data points have value X and one has value Y, then Y is the 'source' of the variance, else the varian
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am an Indian engineer in a tech company in Austin and out of the 8 people in my team 7 are Indians / Asians in their late 20s / early 30s who all followed roughly the same career trajectory (Undergrad in India / China from
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Companies don't care about theoretical definitions of talent (which for that matter this author fails to provide either, despite tying themselves up in knots to somehow try and discredit the notion of it). Companies do care about perfo
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
And perhaps countries do it because it benefits them that random companies can come and incorporate themselves in their country, but it doesn't benefit them (and often hurts them) when random people can? After all, there ARE countries
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am not sure if that's a bad thing? In some sense, that is the point of having different countries. It's nothing conceptually different from the US deciding to tax its citizens on their worldwide income even when they are living
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I think we do need a more consistent standard. Right now it feels like it's a popularity contest judged almost entirely by which industry the media has decided to hate on.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
It might be so, but I don't work in that field, so my perception will be guided by what I see. Which is my point, unless you are intimately familiar with how ACH etc works it's natural to assume that these transfers are near insta
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I AM a techie and even I would take RH on their word when they say 'instant'. When I send money to India from a US bank account via an intermediary (so that neither the US bank nor the Indian bank are first-party to the transactio
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> The world doesn't revolve around Facebook. Well said. However, if you are a business owner today who wants to be able to put out their app to half their customer base, your world does revolve around Apple, which is what those of u
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Robinhood doing anything unilaterally about this sounds and feels extremely sketchy and screams illegal to me (if it isn't it should be). It's one thing if the SEC stops all GME trade coz that would be fair across the board. But R
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
To play the Devil's advocate here, my personal intuition is that App reviews should be for how the apps perform, and shouldn't be used as proxy for reviewing those businesses. If the app is buggy or broken or whatever, it makes se
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Unfortunately anti-trust has become synonymous with whatever scores the administration at the time feels like settling.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
My guess is to be inclusive to both genders. Showing only a guy's body would be implicitly biased.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Why did Jan Koum and Brian Acton sell Whatsapp? They should have tried to monetize it with their $1 a year (or whatever) fee and see how many paid. The truth is that they became big in geographies like India (population 1.3 billion) because

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