rburhum

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   by rburhum 9y ago

   There are literally billions of people in the world. Being professional just means that you exclude coworkers and people you do business with from romantic relationships. Pick anyone else from the billions of people - just not the ones
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   sorry dude, but that is not an acceptable answer. We live in a society - with moral and legal structures of what is acceptable. During my the life of this startup and the previous one I have gotten f'ed over royally by a small amount o
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   Finally a NewRelic competitor... Their prices are killing me at scale
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   trust me, I did that the second I hung up. I got an automated email from them telling me it is a scam and not to send them money. I replied telling them that they had been using the same phone number for months - they should investigate. No
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   yep, same script!
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   So I got a call from "the IRS" yesterday asking me to pay my taxes since according to them I had underpaid. It was clearly a call center in India, but I went along with it. When it came down to paying, they claimed I could do it
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   I had a female friend last month whose ex-bf created a fake account and proceeded to set the profile and public photos and videos of them (having sex). He then went ahead and started sending friend requests to her entire family and friends.
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   these two guys have been at the SV Computer History Museum :)
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   by rburhum 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    See my response above for links :)
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    Here is one of the sources: http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/debt You want to read about law 936 and also understand that the bonds were sold to retirement funds and individuals. 22% of the debt is by local a
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/debt There is an English transcript there and a lot of stats. The pension funds, for example, are effectively the people of PR.
13. 223.▲
    by rburhum 9y ago

    No beer sold at Garajito just yet :(
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    Nooooooooooo! Don't choose my favorite Taco spot as your sample query. The line is already too long.
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    The problem is the the holders of the bonds are largely the people of PR themselves...
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    by rburhum 9y ago

    For the Spanish speakers of HNs, NPR's Radio Ambulante has an excellent episode (called "deuda") that they did last year explaining the complexity of the situation. The short version is that a lot of the debt is held by the p
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    I worked in the mapping (GIS) pipeline for MS Flight Simulator. The amount of tools we wrote just for QA was on par with what countries use for their census (I also worked on those st ESRI). I try to be of the philosophy of love and obsess
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    Mad thank-yous to Google for this!
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    This is spot on. What if I am not running into any significant Unicode issues for the past 6 years?? (insignificant == stuff I can fix in 10 minutes). What if async/await has been achieved through other libraries (e.g. GEvent, threadpo
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    > 1. Business model / strategy is as important as the > technology. Way too many people believe that all they need > to do is build a great product (by all accounts it seems > RethinkDB did) and the rest will take care of i
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    Huh... and here I was thinking that Burning Man was ruined when they decided to run their infrastructure on Oracle and Salesforce
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    The folks at Tucows are going to get pissed off ;) https://who.is/whois/localhost.com
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    Can't say enough great things about Leaflet. I have been using it for years as a lightweight replacement of OpenLayers.
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    oh wow. That sounds horrible. I am sorry man!
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    What is crazy to me is that Lenovo is usually the brand that people recommend for Linux laptops. They are shooting themselves in the foot here. They may think that the number of people on Linux is too small, but I bet it is bigger than they
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    I dont use Swyft, so definitely have no interest in running it bare metal... but the name is brilliant. It made me click on the link. Just had to tell you that!
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    For me, it was finding a purpose to exercise. Initially, it was _weight control_ (I ended up dropping 30+ lbs. This process was not just exercise - it had to be paired with proper diet (otherwise, you don't see any lasting results or
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    I am not sure why everyone feels like they need to do a comparison with a pre-existing product. How about "Find your Car"
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    Wow, did not know that. Is there something in the TOS that prohibits importing Name, location, profile photo for that use case?
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    by rburhum 10y ago

    First, let me say something I would not have said a few years ago... a new social network to meet people interested in the other things I do... awesome! I get why there is not a web version at first. Unlike most people, I dont see that as a