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No. I meant a non-amazon marketplace, not a curated guide that takes you back to Amazon for actual purchase
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It looks like there is a sizable market for curated brands, even for routine items like toilet paper, razors, baby formula etc.
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In my opinion, Duolingo tries to teach language by forcing familiarity. I for one, just cannot learn a language using that method. I like to learn starting with fundamentals - alphabet, grammar, words, sentences and so on. Are there any rec
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Let the games begin!
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Even in the USA, it is fairly trivial to attach a bidet. Being from India, I could not live without it and went on to install it in all our bathrooms. Takes less than 30 minutes to install one, and you can order one from Amazon
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Or carry a kerchief in your pocket.
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And HBase
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Indeed. Tests allow new members of the team to confidently make changes. I've seen codebases that had near zero tests and also a total mess, with one change somewhere breaking a hundred things 30 levels down the stack. We'd find t
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IFTT, stitch and segment are some companies that try to solve this problem.
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I agree. "How" is a difficult question to answer, and involves basic research. "X does Y" studies need a hypothesis, a bunch of test subjects, and some statistical wrangling. Far easier than basic research. I'm now
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Yes, Netflix is pretty bad when it comes to connecting to Chromecast
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It's funny that my south indian accent was 90% match to American and my "normal" Indian accent was split 50-50.
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Indeed, JIRA is a necessary evil. There is nothing out there with the flexibility of JIRA, and a plugin ecosystem. The user interface is driven by its fully-configurable nature and almost by definition it will suck. Now, if there was a way
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Ask HN: How does HN ranking work?
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63 points, 77 comments, and 2 hours ago. This post is relegated to 3rd page already by HN. That's an interesting algorithm
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About "indentured servants" - there is always a choice - I'm specifically talking about H1b workers and not people who are running away from their home countries for their lives. The choice is not to play this game and go bac
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Nobody is forcing anyone. It's a choice. The system is not perfect, but we still have a choice. Your choice was to stand in the line as a compromise for better life for your family. I'm standing in the same line as you are, and I
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May be I don't quite understand this - a "proper" employment based immigrant visa is one of https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat... . Which is what most H1B folks ap
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Race? What are you talking about? Black mirror is a TV series.
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Actor model seems to be a good solution - n/w transparency, ,message passing style, lightweight, and cluster-capable.
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Move back home from US to India. Build a small ginger beer plant, build a company around a half-ass data product, build a house! There is a never-ending supply of things I'm looking forward to do on any given day :)
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I'm reminded of a Black Mirror episode!
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I consider it "intuition". The real math behind this is inescapable and formal. For someone like me, any article that says zero-math equates to having some intuitive description of whats going on, which is gold. I'll eventual
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by neeleshs 9y ago
Standard deviation is a good way to measure consistency of a system. I use it in conjunction with percentiles to gauge health of our systems.
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Nissan Altima has a button on the handle and pushing that button beeps twice and that means the car is locked
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There are some interesting conflicts that architects must resolve. Technology driven design is not great, but I feel things like CQRS fundamentally alter business expectations. Think about read-after-write usecases that customers are accust
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This, I agree with. Immigration should not be stopped wholesale, but at least fixed by stopping the EB-1 games and a salary based criteria. Not foolproof , but certainly seems better than today's system
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Out of curiosity, which are these countries?
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This looks good, but I prefer my copy of Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena.
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"Meaningful" in an interview question does not have to be "correct". These questions can be used to evaluate the thought process, rather than for "ha! Wrong answer!". Questions are not inherently bad. It's

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