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by maayank 14y ago
Ah, thank you! For some reason, reading "Fully Customizable" on the site I didn't understand it as such. Is it possible to set (until chosen otherwise) uniformly to red/yellow/green? As in, to override the SmartStatus and use it as run of t
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by maayank 14y ago
I'll give you that, indeed networking (in conventions, general friends-making and so on) as resulted for me in ideas and opportunities in sectors I have no prior experience in.
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by maayank 14y ago
The problem is how to get exposure to B2B processes as a software developer. Unless you have previous work experience as a sales guy/marketing/inventory procurement/etc. or a MBA or already developing B2B tools, how can you learn about the
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by maayank 14y ago
About the product itself[1], I don't think I would be comfortable with coworkers being able to glean if I'm on an IDE or Hacker News. [1] http://www.quicklychat.com/
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Evidence of methodological pro-army submission on Reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
what number of you consider as a cutoff?
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by maayank 14y ago
"I am still friends with my colleagues and my boss at my last job, but I told them in the interview a long list of tweaks to expectations, assignments etc if they wanted to keep folks like me around." The same. Several lunchs later with him
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by maayank 14y ago
John Carmack answers comments on their kickstarter page - how cool is that? He gives more technical information: "Technical comments based on the prototype unit I have been using and conversations with Palmer: The display is a single 1280x8
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by maayank 14y ago
Label me as OCD guy, but please fix the headline (Friedly->Friendly) :-)
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by maayank 14y ago
There you go: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=792+Cornaga+Avenue,+Far+Rocka... Based on http://www.fotuva.org/online/frameload.htm?/online/house.htm
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Chartered Swedish plane drops teddy bears for freedom in Belarus(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
Am I the only one expecting a tighter and tighter Apple-Facebook integration[1], driving the stocks of both upwards? It's a great synergy against Android/G+ [1] https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=...
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by maayank 14y ago
I don't know the specifics about the NSA (or about any other agency), but the whole "don't care much about past, caring about trust and transparency" is pretty standard security model in western governmental agencies. Notice that CURRENT il
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by maayank 14y ago
From what I learned and searched for (sorry, no references), in general the important thing for a security background check for government agencies is not that you have shady business in your past - but that you're willing to be totally tra
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by maayank 14y ago
"And that cologne could burn on your hand without hurting you.*" Perhaps only as a kid with no significant hand hair: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~eggplant/feynman/6.html
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by maayank 14y ago
I found this also to be very beautiful: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/23/space-colony-art-fr...
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Reddit, are you aware how dangerous the ask-a-rapist thread is?(reddit.com)
3 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
But they could pull a better microsoft than microsoft[1] and compete on multiple fronts. Than we'd have to take the profit in all of those industries combined. [1] meaning, better quality output
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Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy(businessinsider.com)
6 points by maayank 14y ago|5 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
So how do you go learning about those industries?
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by maayank 14y ago
9th of Av is less observed in general Israeli society, compared to other occasions. Other occasions (i.e. Jom kippur, shavuot) all/most (depends on the occasion) businesses would be closed, but not on 9th of Av.
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by maayank 14y ago
In moments like that I really wish there was a comment from a throwaway account of someone working in Foursquare telling how it looks from the side of the employees.
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by maayank 14y ago
How's the internet? How's the visa situation? Congrats on the initiative. Suggestion: in the meantime, maybe a link from team to paulh.co
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by maayank 14y ago
"I'm a: * UI/UX Designer * Web Developer * Mobile Developer * Sponsor * Others - Pls specify below" Interesting there's no explicit option for other kinds of development (i.e. "Desktop development").
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by maayank 14y ago
with the wrong attitude things like that can create a poisonous environment really fast.
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by maayank 14y ago
I... I just played Civ 5 there on a whim after googling for that service and it's pretty amazing. My jaw dropped. I'm on a 20mbps download and 1.5mbps upload for whatever it's worth. Also, the app warned me of being on an high latency conne
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Facebook Posts Loss, But In Line; Slowed growth; Shares Down(rttnews.com)
2 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
You don't have to go full time into it. Just putting some hours in the week to toy with it. Doesn't have to be Linux - can be Mac[1] and Objective-C as well, just diversify yourself for learning & (maybe, future) profit.
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by maayank 14y ago
move to greener pastures. Install Linux in a VM and start to program some hobby project on it.
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by maayank 14y ago
There is a system like that in Tel Aviv. Interestingly, the #1 criticism of it is that the system doesn't recognize correctly if there are or aren't available bikes at the station. A software/hardware bug.

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