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by pradn 4y ago
This is why listings on Amazon are a million words long. They do an adequate job pulling important attributes into the metadata so you can filter on them, for some categories. For example, the size and type of TVs. But it's not really
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There's also the Indian cultural concept of `jugaad`, which refers to folksy hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
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Similarly, it's terrible that the default thing on TV at airports and gyms is cable news. It's especially absurd at the gym - going to be healthy and feel some nice endorphins, and then you're subjected to the worst things ha
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If you want to help teach computer science to high schoolers for two hours a week (before your day job), look into TEALS [1]. It's a rewarding way to teach the next generation of technologists/citizens/people. I've been
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Nancy Pelosi spams me from different numbers, after I tell her to stop each time. Is this the sort of thing that makes people like, trust, and vote for you? Or is it just desperation or cynicism?
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The bureaucracy to launch a project can be high. I think some of it is essential. A company really does need to ensure every project launch adheres to regulatory/branding/legal guidelines. We do have to adhere to a high a11y/
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As a Google employee, the profusion of chat apps is caused by: * a genuine interest in trying new things and trying to see if they'd stick, without the baggage of established UX & customers - Allo/Duo are like this. I don&#x27
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Gotcha, thanks for your answer :)
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This looks great, good work! One tangential question: do you worry about using "Swift", which I assume is an Apple trademark, in the name of your product?
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The Center for Fiction in downtown BK is also a great spot for author events!
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That place is fantastic as well, and just so tiny, barely like a big bedroom! It’s also amazing how zany it’s name is, but it really does have a serious collection of used books. I found some film books that studied directors with depth, bu
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The Strand is only worth going to as a tourist attraction (if you’re fully aware of its status as such), or if you need big art books (they’re unmatched in that category). In NY, I’d say take a look at Left Bank books (rare, old literature,
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I criticize not science/engineering journalism itself, but uncritical regurgitation of press releases and overly focusing on some institutions. Website space is infinite but space on the front page is not, and space on newsfeeds is not
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I like this framework. It provides the next run of benefits for a graphics library, turning it into a game library. Perhaps the hierarchy, in order of increasing complexity, is: * Drawing basic 2D primitives @ a specific frame rate, handlin
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Yes, but we've gotten quite good at blocking email spam. So much so that it's basically a solved problem for regular users using GMail or Outlook. There's no reason we can't achieve the same with text and phone call bloc
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I don't mind that MIT has a great reputation and a great PR team. It's okay to put out new ideas and inventions that may not pan out. But the breathless coverage of their work by news organizations, little more than rephrasing pre
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There has also been plenty of criticism of HONY: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/humans-of-new-yo...
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If in urban areas, the presence of street signs in different languages will help in a multi-lingual country like India. The trees and terrain can also vary quite a bit, from arid to rain-forest.
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I was randomly on Snapchat recently and it's bizarre the short of content that major brands are running their ads on. It's roughly Daily Mail-level of drivel. And they also run every few seconds, literally seconds - and are often
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What were those papers about?
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Beautiful, thank you! It’s been a while, I don’t remember the layer of her old lover dying at all. Stellar acting by doing of the best of that era.
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It's okay. :) They were known only in niche film circles because there was hardly a good print, restoration, or subtitled-version available for decades. No such Janet Traub at Google at the present. :)
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Thank you for your detailed analysis. When I saw it I think I zoned out, but that's part of it I think - the lack of anything of note that happens, the nothingness. Of the three films in the trilogy, my favorite part is the letter-read
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I do wonder if my response to La Haine has been tempered by me seeing the movies that came after it and were even more blunt and raw. It's a fantastic watch none-the-less. Thank you, I'll have to watch the other films you mentione
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A few of these (I am Cuba, The Cranes are Flying) have only recently been restored and publicized so maybe they weren't available as well back when you ran the club. :) I work in the Google NYC office, and there's even a fairly la
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It's a technical marvel, but also perhaps a rare case where a long shot matches both the physical environment (the camera floats along a street, long as the long street) and the emotion (slowness, somberness).
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A few other "greatest" scenes in cinema: * Isak's vision of his family picnicking at the end of Wild Strawberries (1957), where a man finds peace in his journey through the memories of his life * Hidetora walking out his burn
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I’m certain people know about the Mars landings at least.
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I do wonder about that question. Once people see the images, you have to ask them what percent of the federal budget they’d be willing to put up for it. I bet it would be an order or magnitude more than it actually cost. $10 billion in my m

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