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by richajak 6y ago
agree, but we are not their audience. They want to signal to their fellow successful friends that they are humble. For mortals like us, we have to be smart, work hard, persevere, etc. Life is a journey that I must do to my best ability.
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by richajak 6y ago
Several years ago I used to read pg old articles (also Joel S, pgreenspun) without realizing who he was or know what YC was. It clicked with my nerds mindset. I had an impression that he was a champion for the underdog, nerds like me who is
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by richajak 6y ago
Aargh, should we suggest them to use Signal or Telegram then? I can't say much further, need to make friends and money with both countries. We are the world....We are the children... The world has changed a lot. I miss those innocent d
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by richajak 6y ago
Thanks, it slipped my mind :-)
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by richajak 6y ago
In addition to RRSP, you can reduce tax by contributing to TFSA. Just focus on Ontario and BC, these will be sufficient for most tech immigrants.
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by richajak 6y ago
I think we should not outsource things that we should do by ourselves to government or insurance companies. If the problem is too big, these entities can fail. We should start by taking those responsibility personally.
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by richajak 6y ago
I still use my 11 year old Thinkpad together with my newer Thinkpad. I use both laptops alternately. My productivity does not increase when i use the newer one. That's said my extra 20 inch monitor helps me to visualize.
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by richajak 6y ago
For me, minimalism means living with basic things, not the northern europe interior style. It is about functionality and frugality, not about color harmony or hiding complexity inside a shelf. We should not use visual minimalism as a virtue
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by richajak 6y ago
At least, that's we can do. Most of us in HN are blessed with brain, not muscle. We should not help governments or entities who oppress the weak ones, discriminate the minorities, bully one another. However, we should not help the riot
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by richajak 6y ago
My car can get best fuel efficiency when I drive between 40-60km/hour with constant cruising speed and no sudden acceleration. I am wasting a lot of gasoline in downtown traffic jam, speed below 20km/hour.
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by richajak 7y ago
not sure about giving him $1 per surgical mask is a right thing to do. The big component is the material, which need to be refined and coated. The material needs to be processed with expensive machine. According to article from NPR, even ma
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by richajak 7y ago
Totally agree, that's said most people cannot get surgical masks anymore, not to mention N95 masks. If we can learn the lesson from outbreak happened before modern tech invented, world would be a better place. We cannot produce or easi
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by richajak 7y ago
Found answer for my question if anyone is interested to do DIY at home page 393-394 This consists of two layers of gauze enclosing a flat oblong piece of absorbent cotton 6 inches by 4 inches. It can beeasily made by cutting the usual surgi
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by richajak 7y ago
His analysis documented on this book A treatise on pneumonic plague, by Wu Lien-Teh https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b19164415#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0... His mask sounds simpler than N95 masks, only replaced by t
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by richajak 7y ago
Most of the us think that we know "things". We belittle other people's point of view. Doctors and politicians kept emphasizing flaw statistics, while they did not actually understand the whole problem. There's a saying &
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by richajak 7y ago
We were brainwashed that sharing economy (uber, wework, airbnb) was going to be our savior. We were renting because assets were too high to own, better to do short rent; cheaper and less commitment. Looks like those sharing economy model ca
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by richajak 7y ago
I agree on the context issue as I have been surviving on my simple typing skills for drafting business reports and writing codes. One trick that I use to speed up is by using muscle memory, in the sense that I will estimate exact position a
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by richajak 7y ago
I would suggest to get another Thinkpad as other brands may not not be tweaked to Thinkpad loyal customers. For me, I always find my Thinkpad is quiet and cool during heavy workload. As for Ryzen, I just bought their budget laptop, E485 (wi
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by richajak 7y ago
I understand that most of successful startups can grow big as they manage to exploit weak human nature, e.g addiction, FOMO, etc. It is used by those giants in SV. However, it is disheartening that they rebranded payday loan as fintech solu
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by richajak 7y ago
Thanks for the info, I have just followed all those twitter accounts. Should we be objective about the facts presented? Do not shoot the messenger. We may be doing injustice to him if we dismiss every thing that he said. I do not know him b
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by richajak 7y ago
I did this too, with the date and single keyword for future reference. That's said, I have difficulty to recall the topic if I reuse the same keyword.
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by richajak 7y ago
For this specific example, I would use event listener to sync the content. All done manually in DOM, no shortcut, some codes duplicated. I think that's what SPA frameworks and its components try to promote, single point of update. Pers
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by richajak 7y ago
I am curious about your approach as I also write my web app in vanilla JS. Where do you store the state or save the data? For me, I use either localstorage for simple update or network fetch for every thing else. For data format, I use Json
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by richajak 7y ago
I also noticed the article several days ago. Just wondering if there is any basic tutorial in python to analyze this type of data.
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Ask HN: YC W2020 Site Contains GoogleMap API?
4 points by richajak 7y ago|1 comments
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by richajak 7y ago
Recently I read a similar example on CS50 course, to do fast search. It is simply a json request everytime a keyboard event is activated. For storage, either store it in memory for instant lookup table or use redis. https://cs50.
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by richajak 7y ago
Some ideas -Which consumer product companies still use a lot of plastic packaging vs those already use bio-degradable packaging? -Which heavy-industry manufacturing companies use coal or diesel as the main source of energy in their factorie
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by richajak 7y ago
Why do we believe this concept? It's a business or political decision to delete something after X days/years, not a technical limitation. It's similar to government policy about data retention policy for X years. This concept
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by richajak 7y ago
I think the trend of software startup companies to use 3rd-party services to run their business is similar to the JIT (Just-In-Time) practice in manufacturing industry. When something happens in the supply chain, it will affect the whole ec
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by richajak 7y ago
At least government should mandate all the manufacturers to disable all the default passwords. It's simply a good practice, we're not even talking about security loopholes on the device itself.

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