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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
1. Would've interviewed with other companies - I interviewed with one startup, cleared it and joined it. Never knew that stock options carried so much detail. 2. Would've asked for a better base salary citing all the "ifs&quo
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Facebook servers will be saying, "Hold on, so you want to buy a Camera, noted down(I've recommendations for you by the way). We're good now and I can send you to your destination. All for performance reasons of course."
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
This one point alone is enough for me to reject Free Basics: "HTTPS support: We encrypt information for Free Basics wherever possible." Huh? As a service provider, why would I want YOU to encrypt traffic between my customer and me
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
I can almost guess the company from the number of stock options offered. I was in a similar situation, but I accepted the offer and these articles a bit too late :( I like the experience of working here, but now I totally realize I have los
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
1. Follow the 12 resolutions
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Actually I've had 1 unpleasant experience out of 3 so far. I wanted to buy an item at a lower cost(because it was a lot cheaper on other sites) and asked an exec about the same. He could've said something like "Just monitor t
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
You have my apologies. We often joke that anything northern than Bangalore is North India!
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
They already do. I live(rather work from home) in a remote village in Southern India. Ordered a Nikon camera recently which the local stores said will take atleast 7 days to procure, and Amazon delivered in 3 days. The item was shipped all
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Ask HN: How many of you use Windows for web development?
6 points by pinkunicorn 11y ago|9 comments
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
The last line is pretty important - "You should figure out what the relevant tradeoffs are for you." The author is just summing up his experience. Individual mileage definitely varies!
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Reminds of a rumor about the CEO of a BigCo. He wanted to buy a news paper company, so he went to them and said "Do you want to work for us or against us?"
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Reminds of the quote from "The Social Network" >> "If they had engineered a self-driving car, they would've engineered a self driving car". You are just being absurdly accusative in your comment. That guy has
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
I can't help noticing that a lot of people are from Twitter.
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
When HN turned into Reddit
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
+1 to autojump.
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
How much does it cost to own a two letter domain name...?
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Shit, I thought this was a marketing gimmick. Looks like they might actually be delivering. And it looks quite awesome to be honest. And development in Israel? Wow!
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Curious, what % of time do you spend for admin/payroll/personnel? Would something like Zenefits/Gusto reduce the time?
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Well this is amazing! I honestly think if a majority of people start using this, Click Fraud will eventual become indistinguishable from clicks made my AdNauseam and ad companies for once will worry about milking the ad-cow. But then... I k
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Ask HN: Can someone explain the tech bubble?
3 points by pinkunicorn 11y ago|3 comments
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Any support for private github repos through authentication with Github?
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Even the terms wouldn't probably make sense unless you've used them. Elastic Block Storage - I surely didn't get what it was supposed to do when I read it loud the first time. Elastic Container Service - "Why the heck is
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Haven't had a chance to try GKE, but I'll give it a whirl for my upcoming project. With Lambda, its the whole ecosystem around it which makes it better than App Engine. A file changes in S3 and you want to do something? Lambda, in
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
But what about ECS? Lambda? Role Based Authentication? EBS snapshots?
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
I don't understand why the reporters hold Google in such high regard, particularly in the cloud business. Here is a statement from the article: > "At the same time, analysts say, the company’s offerings in cloud development ser
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
Jokes on you, my TV is 15 years old and I've a Nokia 1100.
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
And I'm on cloud nine for having a 10Mbps connection. #IndianWoes
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
You're going to end up with a few more with this post
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
This also kind of makes me sad. My cousin who works for one of the service based companies got the H1B and is now in the US. I consider myself if not better talented, more knowledgeable than him. I worked my ass off in college, got multipl
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by pinkunicorn 11y ago
I was questioning the statistic of whether Amazon really filed 700H1B's or not.

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