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by rajat 17y ago
Either you are too shy, and the usual prescription of go out there and overcome it isn't going to work. I was painfully shy when I was younger, and it took determined and sustained effort to overcome it. Even today, after years of this, it
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by rajat 17y ago
Either you are too shy, and the usual prescription of go out there and overcome it isn't going to work. I was painfully shy when I was younger, and it took determined and sustained effort to overcome it. Even today, after years of this, it
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by rajat 17y ago
Catastrophic insurance, with a high deductible, is what I carry. They are going to be grandfathered, but no new policies of this kind will be allowed under this law. An all encompassing health insurance, with the kind of deductible they hav
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by rajat 17y ago
Why should the average 20-30+ year old even carry insurance? The penalty is only $250 a year, rising to $750 in a few years. They can't deny you insurance based on pre-exiting issues. So why not just pay the penalty, which can be substantia
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by rajat 17y ago
Basically we just keep going until we feel foolish and give up?
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by rajat 17y ago
Misleading. Just because scientists are not using the tool correctly (that is, reading more into it than they should; misusing numbers in ways they shouldn't) doesn't mean they are shortcomings in statistics. It is what it is. You cannot re
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by rajat 17y ago
I talked to someone who trades options and stocks every day and the comment was that this is pretty well known; that the volume of calls and puts is discussed pretty widely every day. Like all such information about the market, once it's wi
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by rajat 17y ago
Good point. When eventually Microsoft has a hit sensation everyone will say, "hey they've finally figured it out" and "this came out of nowhere", when, actually, as this article points out, there is a long series of steps to get there.
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Workflow articles with DVCS
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by rajat 17y ago
Online reputation can certainly get you a job; why should it not lose you one? If you participate in an open source project, you are likely to get a boost in an interview with a knowledgeable company. It certainly does with me when I've hir
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by rajat 17y ago
No. A very small percentage of people will actually trash their employer's database. It's unethical and likely illegal. As an employer, I would stay as far away as I can from anyone who professes to have nothing against destroying one of my
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by rajat 17y ago
The one thing a company should never outsource is customer service. That's where you meet your customers directly, where you have a chance to make a customer for life, and you put it in someone else's hands? Only someone schooled in mismana
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by rajat 17y ago
We won't know if it'll catch on or not until you (and others who are wondering the same thing) offer the bounties and see what happens.
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by rajat 17y ago
I will say that I took my Subaru out yesterday intending to try and switch to neutral, this after hearing about this controversy, and it took a monumental act of will to actually do it. I was really scared that I would shift into reverse an
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'Terminator' asteroids could re-form after nuke(newscientist.com)
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by rajat 17y ago
Don't you think the lesson could be applied to startups? Do you try to work with the co-founders you have, or do you search incessantly for the perfect one (ie. Bill Gates, or Wozniak)? Do you wait for the perfect, home-run idea, or do you
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by rajat 17y ago
Don't do a startup with other founders either then. Not all compromises mean that you lose something; often it is the only way to win. Insisting on independence can become rigidity. If you aren't ready to compromise, experience with other f
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by rajat 17y ago
From the vantage point of a 20-year marriage: it's always about compromising, about settling. My wife and I had, I suppose, one of those romantic, instant connections. She's from Sweden, my parents are from India and I grew up in the Bronx.
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by rajat 17y ago
Makes it clear that it doesn't matter which one you choose, for the vast majority of us, as long as you choose to use one. If you are an independent developer, or in a small group project, choose one of these DVCS (choose CVS or SVN if you
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by rajat 17y ago
Why not just expand the number of qualified people to which we give green cards? Admit that if you qualify for a H1-B visa, you should be eligible for a green card. This eliminates H1-B visa abuses, protects the H1-B applicant from abuse, a
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by rajat 17y ago
A/B testing wouldn't be nearly fast enough iteration for something like this, I think. I don't know how many iterations it takes for the algorithm to come up with something useful, but even if it is anywhere in the 100s, A/B testing won't w
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by rajat 17y ago
I was thinking about what type of intellectual endeavor might be "safe" from this Invention Machine, and obviously anything that has an intractable evaluation function is "safe". Take, for example, user interface design. Can we build an eva
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by rajat 17y ago
What a stupid design! Clicked 5 or so links and gave up. Question: is there a reason for using Flash when it's just static content being displayed? I'm using ClickToFlash on my Mac (Flash sucks on the Mac) and that made this just that much
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by rajat 17y ago
"Their enemy is Subversion" Sigh! Perhaps the enemy is the still surprisingly high number of programmers not using any source code control at all. Perhaps we should be working on educating those who still don't feel the need to use source c
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by rajat 17y ago
On Snow Leopard and Safari, the browser doesn't crash, but the Flash player crashes.
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by rajat 17y ago
Well, not here, but he has commented on this: http://www.manyniches.com/fun-stuff/broken-tablets/
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by rajat 17y ago
This is anectodal, but I know of several developers who have had their apps approved in less time than they had expected. For two of them, who have quite a few apps each in the store (one of them over 10), the time it takes now is substant
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by rajat 17y ago
The gist of this article seems to be that some copyright infringement is fine and should be tolerated. Does this view hold for the GPL?
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by rajat 17y ago
I've switched to Chrome primarily because my MB Pro is a little short of memory (should upgrade soon), and Chrome seems to use a lot less real memory (as reported by activity manager) than Safari does. Safari seems to get upto 300 Mbytes pr
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by rajat 17y ago
Multiple ventures does not erase the luck factor. The serial entrepreneur might get better, but luck always plays a role. I got "lucky" with my first startup and didn't too great with the next two. So, I'm headed the wrong way. On the other

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