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by kkarakk 8y ago
there are plenty of articles about paypal killing small companies due to mysterious fund freezes w/ no support in site.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
why? has ycombinator trademarked/registered hacker news?
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by kkarakk 8y ago
This article reminds me of the whole Japanese schoolkids being forced to keep their schools clean. Sure it works for some schools- the top elite ones where the kids may care about social censure. the remaining ones are typically filthy by m
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by kkarakk 8y ago
google play has plenty of apps that keep track of robocalls via third party solutions. truecaller is an app i used when i was in india getting inundated by robocalls.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
isn't this because our culture has shifted to "tweeting at" authors directly and twitter is currently in the shithole? most of the time i click the twitter link, see that the author is having a meltdown/delightgasm about
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by kkarakk 8y ago
imo the computer(or rather i'd say the internet) is just to help you find a niche of people who're interested in what you have to say and are willing to pay magazines/newspapers are used to having huge captive audiences that
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i think that's grounds for an instant strike against your new channel.since you only get 3 strikes before you're kaput it's not worth it
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by kkarakk 8y ago
> In other words an actual human being looked at the video of someone in their garden, and confirmed the claim that the sound of the birds in the background was copyrighted. i think it is likely that this human is just someone employed f
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by kkarakk 8y ago
it isn't sustainable, people end up either moving to a less strenuous industry or pursuing higher education so they aren't devs anymore. it's really weird
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by kkarakk 8y ago
2 years ago i'd say no but increasingly every new concept/tech stack i encounter has npm embedded in it to access a js library. same with python being used for automation/low level scripting. unless you set out with the minds
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>Now I work at a place where they prefer many 0.5x engineers under tight control that do what they are told. won't these engineers basically be replaced once someone figures out a way to automate menial dev tasks like wix for eg
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by kkarakk 8y ago
haha that really depends on the company. if you work in a company that focuses on "stability" expect to be surrounded by people who think family and culture is the most important. if you work in a startup expect a collegial "
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i'd say most managers from india are pretty worthless if i talk from a purely experience based domain knowledge perspective, it's four years of college education they don't pay attention to followed by 2 years of a job they d
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Literally everyone who is multiplatform uses Chrome/google utilities. it's undeniably better for internet workflows. i tried safari for a couple of days when i switched to mac and switched back to chrome. safari lack of feature pa
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by kkarakk 8y ago
doesn't it affect complexity on an exponential scale though? codebases aren't paragons of perfection when even 2 devs are working on them
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by kkarakk 8y ago
so you can offset server costs to the client which usually means bloated laggy apps until someone comes along and figures out an optimised way of doing things, for eg react.js vs phonegap's comparative shitshow
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by kkarakk 8y ago
shape makes sense if you think of arrays in terms of linear algebra concepts(which you should if you're working with ML concepts imo)
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by kkarakk 8y ago
because you distrust microsoft fundamentally enough to avoid .net core?
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by kkarakk 8y ago
i think it's important to note when people talk about machines vs people they always think about ideal machine vs ideal person - a rigorously educated athletic genius that can infer links between things with a couple of hours of study
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>I stopped playing once I understood what I'd have to do to get good. This is mostly why people stop doing any activity for leisure - when the ideal path to success is a path that feels time consuming and wasteful to pursue. it&#x27
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by kkarakk 8y ago
All of snapchat's changes felt like a game transitioning from paid to free to play. similar levels of confusion and forum visits required to navigate the UX changes and how i would now "pay" by viewing ads to view the content
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by kkarakk 8y ago
well i guess the point the parent commenter was making is that it's middle class fuck you money. once you enter the rarefied space of say, new york's upper west side it's probably chump change
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by kkarakk 8y ago
the amazon comment section for any technical books are littered with comments like yours(and i have declined to purchase books based on these comments).
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by kkarakk 8y ago
in our minds and hearts
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>but I've never once known any ISP act upon them what happens when ISPs do start acting on them? they do in india.court ordered blocks on whole ranges of IPs
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by kkarakk 8y ago
can you link the dongle? i've been looking for something like this
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by kkarakk 8y ago
Sourceforge actively DID block interaction with countries under sanction by the US. even though they're garbage malware distributers now it is a data point https://www.computerworld.com/article/2467444/open-so
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by kkarakk 8y ago
>This is another good reason to choose Zulipchat and other self-hostable platforms instead of proprietary SaaS solutions until someone targets your host and gets it shut down.
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by kkarakk 8y ago
sometimes you just want a simple vb ubuntu vm. however virtualbox locks copy paste from host to vm support behind extensions which are free only for personal use(which you are using but good luck proving that in court)
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by kkarakk 8y ago
people in china don't get a say. many are already irritated by the new points system but are afraid to speak out. china spins every further towards implosion

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