rburhum

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by rburhum 7y ago
you get more for less money and their commission is smaller
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by rburhum 7y ago
I do have experience as a GCP customer. I may not be a big customer of GCP, but I do spend around 3k/year in G Suite and 38k/year. It is uttermost impossible to have a phone conversation with somebody from GCP. You just can’t get
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by rburhum 7y ago
Not trying to be childish, but let's be honest, this is a horrible name if you are not a native english speaker. I just hear giggles every time somebody mentions this name...
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Joe Biden derides game dev ‘creeps’ who ‘teach you how to kill’(thenextweb.com)
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by rburhum 7y ago
Playing devil's advocate, if you are able to close a deal that is bringing more than 2.5 million a year, then you are definitely worth that amount.
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by rburhum 7y ago
With United Gold I got upgraded to business my last 7 flights in a row to south america.
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by rburhum 7y ago
Bolivia bought a communication satellite from the chinese to provide TV and Internet to the entire country - which is mostly rural areas that are difficult to reach (think the Andes). The other countries use multi-spectral and radar-based
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by rburhum 7y ago
I am very familiar with the purchasing process of satellites by LATAM countries. Basically the Chinese or the French (i.e. Airbus) come in and offer you a satellite that ranges between 180M-380M USD in price depending on what you want. The
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by rburhum 7y ago
I 100% agree that is a silly comparison. Just a reminder that you initially made the analogy, not me.
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by rburhum 7y ago
If it was a 1978 Ford Pinto (one of the most unsafe cars ever made), you bet I would not get in it. The MAX is basically a Pinto for me.
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by rburhum 7y ago
It may not filter on equipment, but they do show you what kind of plane you are flying when you are buying the ticket so you can decide right then if you want to buy something else instead.
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by rburhum 7y ago
It is not that. It is that regardless if the plane is "fixed" or not, many frequent travelers will refuse to fly on a 737 MAX from now on. Last year I took 73 flights. At least three of those were on a MAX. I profusely refuse to g
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by rburhum 7y ago
this is definitely one of the few cases where I immediately stop trusting a private company and ask for heavy regulation...
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by rburhum 7y ago
Because designers spend an entire year designing what they are going to sell as their line for the year and when they show it on the runway, Zara takes a photo and has it mass produced and sent to stores in two weeks. They do this consisten
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by rburhum 7y ago
I love stories like this and have read several books around these topics, but always love to ask for recommendations when something like this gets posted in HNs. What is your favorite book around this topic?
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by rburhum 7y ago
knowing how to do some highly advanced tech thing and building a successful sustainable business are orthogonal skills. It is very common for somebody in one camp to overlook this.
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by rburhum 7y ago
why would the section marked “Git+Github” have “collaboration” marked as ‘no’? Like that is what it actually does...
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by rburhum 7y ago
The device itself is not that interesting, but I just love the level of detail that describes the reverse engineering process. Excellent blog post!
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by rburhum 7y ago
For some privacy features are more important than for others
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by rburhum 7y ago
I don't understand why there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against the telco's complete disregard for this security flaw in porting SIM/phone numbers. Literally this morning I read about this engineer that lost 100k
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by rburhum 7y ago
This is great. The BlazingDB guys are awesome and now that the project is open source this is another good reason for my teams to experiment with different workloads and compare it against a SparkSQL approach
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by rburhum 7y ago
Well, everyone in my family thought I was crazy for constantly looking at Robinhood during Christmas to snatch good deals.
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by rburhum 7y ago
So people will do that, but why would I just not sit out and keep stocks like my Berkshire or SP500 ETFs during it? Why would I just not double down and wait a few more years during those dips? Or am I not expected to do that because I boug
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by rburhum 7y ago
Oh, and I forgot that includes my mess ups of the first three months when I was learning. Otherwise I would be outperforming an ETF of the SP500 by 3% without doing much work.
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by rburhum 7y ago
It does not. Otherwise it would be higher.
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by rburhum 7y ago
I can only speak from personal experience, but I love Robinhood. I am an amateur trader for pure hobby because of Robinhood. Many years ago, I tried to create an etrade account and it was an insanely long process (it may have changed now).
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by rburhum 7y ago
Don't you think that saying that all software that comes from these places is plain old racist? Some of the best engineers I have worked with are from Ukraine, for example.
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by rburhum 7y ago
Great advice, so I am not going to repeat this because I 100% agree with it. However additionally I would add that if you think that it is the software alone that will make or break the company, then it is obvious that this is your first ti
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by rburhum 8y ago
Out of curiosity, is the encryption salt really that quote from William Wordsworth's poem ("I wondered lonely as a cloud...") or was that a joke? Can't extract sarcasm from presentation slides :(
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by rburhum 8y ago
Although I agree that the human population will decline in the next two centuries at some point (mainly due to wars and even mandatory birth control policies), don't think for a second that the current over population is because of hum

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