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by neil_s 12y ago
The Indian goodies subscription service might be a great startup idea (a la Graze, Pact Coffee, Dollar Shave Club...), but its hardly a passive income? Its a high involvement logistics business with a small technology involvement.
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by neil_s 12y ago
Seems like the SFO Kronos has been taken offline since this disclosure.
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by neil_s 12y ago
You can get an SSN as a non resident alien. I did, when I working there for a summer on a J1 visa.
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by neil_s 12y ago
My biggest question as I browsed this site was: why is this useful. The first 3-4 pages I browsed, and the video I watched, didn't answer this question.
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by neil_s 12y ago
Along the same lines, once I finished Part 1 of Tactics, I didn't see the 'Continue Course' button, which is the only correct Call To Action above the fold. I thought I was done with Tactics, and went back to the main screen
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by neil_s 12y ago
Turns out I couldn't buy because my Bank of America card currently has a UK address attached to it. Let people use international billing addresses for digital goods like Amazon gift cards? (Also, better aesthetics (like removing the st
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by neil_s 12y ago
Really cool concept! I want to try it out, just for the game theory aspects of it. Has anyone successfully received the items they ordered off of this?
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by neil_s 12y ago
Damn that was bad design. I clicked the massive green "Try it now" call to action, fully expecting that to be the demo. Since that comes before the tiny "See it in action" link, and it moves me to a new page, I didn&#x27
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by neil_s 12y ago
On a tangent: are they ad-blocking, on the NY Times screenshot?
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by neil_s 12y ago
I am actually blown away by the hateful and bigoted nature of the comments on a site like Bloomberg.com! Didn't expect it to attract those kinds of readers.
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by neil_s 12y ago
What are your typical users and use cases like? I'm from Bombay originally, and can't think of why people would want to rent a bike. Is it people who don't have vehicles and need one temporarily for long journeys? Or is it fo
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by neil_s 12y ago
Are you actually based near Old Street? Would love to meet you for lunch some time, I'm at Google Campus every Friday.
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by neil_s 12y ago
In India, traffic cops don't usually use tickets, they accept fines or bribes on the spot in a traffic stop.
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by neil_s 12y ago
Summary: No sympathy for the blog author, but its still terrifying how broad Google's ban-hammer can be if you run afoul of them.
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by neil_s 12y ago
I have thought about this solution previously too. The main issue is, how do you solve the chicken and egg problem of getting critical mass for it to be useful? Sidenote: Why did you pick the .ms sub-domain? It made me think of Microsoft, w
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by neil_s 12y ago
What app are you using for this? Or are you talking about the stock Android contacts list?
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by neil_s 12y ago
My guess for why it made it into Windows 8 isn't that it was randomly suddenly worthwhile, its because a multi-monitor setup becomes more important in the new workstation/tablet hybrid tool that Microsoft is creating. I carry my S
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by neil_s 12y ago
Is that a fixed recording of someone reading out 5 random job descriptions, or are you dynamically getting 5 fresh descriptions and using text-to-voice? Its probably the former, but if not, that is amazing text-to-voice, and I'd love t
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by neil_s 12y ago
I suspect the threat to him isn't from mindless mobs unwilling to change their beliefs, but the holy men who stand to lose out on their posh lifestyles if their bullshit is exposed. Case in point: http://www.odditycentral.co
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by neil_s 12y ago
Nice! How much of this optimization can be ported back to CPython, keeping compatibility but improving memory usage and speed?
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by neil_s 12y ago
This is awesome, both features that I wish would be available in all video players. The questions that naturally arise: 1) How does one expose all these features without UI overload? You need a widget for the playback speed, and a widget to
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by neil_s 12y ago
I agree with @patio11, this seems like an amazing service that I can't wait to use now that I have discovered it, but similar to those running open proxies on the net and thus creating negative externalities for the rest of the web, yo
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by neil_s 12y ago
I don't know why there's so much hate here, but I actually find the redesign much easier to comprehend quickly, without constant head-turning to read axis labels. The rephrasing of charts labels to, eg "Number of companies fi
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by neil_s 12y ago
Level 4 has a bug. Entering a string in the text box for the timer solves the problem, but putting that string directly as the get parameter in the URL doesn't. Anyone know how to report this?
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Android apps can take photos without you knowing(snacksforyourmind.blogspot.co.uk)
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by neil_s 12y ago
Since everyone is pitching their own solutions, how about I post mine. Let's take the example of Netflix and Comcast. Instead of no deal with Comcast, and thus giving Comcast Netflix users really slow or no service, Netflix should make
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by neil_s 12y ago
So still nothing on the homepage or anywhere else explaining why this is something useful compared to existing apps? I can't think of a single USP.
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by neil_s 12y ago
Finally an analogy-based explanation of cryptocurrencies/blockchains that I read all the way through! Two questions: Currently, bitcoin transactions don't have any transaction fees. In this case, where are these 'mined'
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by neil_s 12y ago
The design is nice, but I still don't find the results relevant (from the small sample size that I tested). For example, I searched for 'alternatives to minimum wage' because of a recent debate, and got Yahoo Answers as the f
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by neil_s 12y ago
Wish this was available on the Web. I need this to make me actually finish a Udacity/Coursera course rather than keeping on dropping them halfway through.

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