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by krn 8y ago
Sure, Oxford or Cambridge might be a better fit in this case. I would recommend St Andrews to those, who are thinking of doing a Phd in a less theoretical field of Computer Science.
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by krn 8y ago
If you already know what you want to do during your Phd, definitely go to the UK. You will be done in 3 years, and the quality of universities is world-class. Everyone is talking about Oxford and Cambridge, but the best rated Computer Scien
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by krn 8y ago
> but it just enables the behaviour of selling out your entire social circle to Zuckerburg. If that's the main reason to quit Facebook, the question should have been: "Did you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp accou
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by krn 8y ago
A Facebook account which is accessed only via web browser with third-party cookies and notifications disabled is not the worst thing. It essentially becomes just another website. What is the worst thing though, it's installing one of t
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by krn 8y ago
I take this as the best explanation why Reddit is pushing its app so hard, even though it has a one of the most visited websites in the world. It's not about user engagement with content. It's about user engagement with ads.
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Is Lithuania another Iceland banking crisis in the making?(theguardian.com)
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The 'angel' who secretly pays patients' hospital bills(bbc.com)
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The $5bn tech boss who grew up without electricity(bbc.co.uk)
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by krn 8y ago
Interestingly, 2007-2009 is exactly the period during which Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, Github, Spotify, Quora, Evernote and Kickstarter were founded.
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by krn 8y ago
> I'm not sure your "virtual BDFL" works. My point was that a "virtual BDFL" works better than the "design by committee", not that it works better than a real BDFL. It doesn't. I completely agree w
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by krn 8y ago
> It merely offloaded the problem to someone else. In other words, it has a dependency and therefore is not a complete solution. Debian isn't more dependent on RedHat than any other Linux distribution is. It has nothing to do with t
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> it does speak to potential limitations of the model The parent compared a group of volunteers with the largest open-source company in the world, which is a part S&P 500. No other Linux distribution has a comparable amount of resour
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by krn 8y ago
In my opinion, Debian has the best open-source governance model out of all the projects without a BFDL. Because it basically emulates it by appointing a single person to be responsible for the entire vision, yet making him still accountable
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by krn 8y ago
> I wouldn't want to be his friend, date him, marry him, or have him as a family member. There are people great for depending on, and there are people great for following. Even if from far away. They are still great. Just in a diffe
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by krn 8y ago
I would put it simply: Clojure was designed by a thinker , who creates when he is away from the keyboard, not in front of it. When one releases and breaks the code in his head first, very few breaking changes are left for the public releas
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Putin says rap music should be state guided(edition.cnn.com)
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by krn 8y ago
Notably, major fintech startups in Europe got their banking licenses relatively quickly: N26 (Germany), Monzo (UK), Bunq (Netherlands), Revolut (Lithuania). Also, Freetrade, a British answer to Robinhood, became a member of the London Stock
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How Italy's populists used Facebook to win power(theguardian.com)
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by krn 8y ago
I think that AMP made Google's search results feel like they were essentially just Google's own pages. Because that's exactly what the user sees in his address bar, when he visits an accelerated mobile page : google.com&#x2F
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Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%(kinsta.com)
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by krn 8y ago
True. Revolut got its banking license in Lithuania, not in the UK. That's why people in London might prefer Monzo.
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The Boy Scouts of America may file for bankruptcy because of sex abuse suits(nbcnews.com)
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> I consistently heard that Monzo's competitors like Revolut are going to be a future case study in scaling before great product/market fit. I don't know how many people have Revolut accounts, but nobody seems to be using
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by krn 8y ago
Is it possible, that Robinhood is using high interest rate checking accounts not to make any money directly from them, but to encourage people to keep all their spare money one-click away from its investment products? In that case, checking
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Travel that last mile with Google Maps and Lime(blog.google)
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In the cases as this, if you don't firmly deny everything, you basically confirm that it's true. And people responsible for issuing categorical denials might have had no awareness of any vulnerabilities, even if they actually exis
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Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless(nbcnews.com)
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by krn 8y ago
> Windows ux is better out of the box than on any Linux so far, it's really polished. Windows UX might look more polished, but I find GNOME 3 to be the most usable one. Because I feel completely in control of the entire system with
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by krn 8y ago
If the story was true, only a few people in each company would have been aware of these vulnerabilities, and they might not have been allowed to talk to anyone about them by FBI. Then, even if others were informed, they would have to preten
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by krn 8y ago
The national security adviser to the president of the United States is the one, who would have to deal with this publicly, if such information was confirmed by some of largest companies in the US. And he might as well prefer to deal with it

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