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by sabj 16y ago
That's good; a reminder in general: it's a serious crime in the USA to bribe foreign officials: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
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by sabj 16y ago
If by hacking project, you mean, "writing my senior thesis," then yes! And if by "writing my senior thesis," you mean, going onto HN instead, then double-yes!
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by sabj 16y ago
It would not seem prudent whatsoever for someone - especially with no local knowledge (or language ability?) to go to Shenzhen and attempt to bribe anyone, much less government officials, to solve this problem. Guanxi aside, even if you thi
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by sabj 16y ago
You might find this thread I started a few months ago to be valuable, it discussed a variety of different online backup tools at length: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946416 + Other options, taken from there or elsewhere: Carbonite
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by sabj 16y ago
Dear AT&T customers, All the great things you hear about Verizon are lies. Please, don't come over to this network - it's really horrible, I swear! That's why I'm a lifetime Verizon customer. I mean, er... Signed, A VZW Subscriber Panic
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by sabj 16y ago
This isn't really a fair comparison, as has been noted elsewhere here. Heathrow is an exceptionally poor example of airport construction and operation. There were fewer constraints at hand in the construction of the new Beijing terminal as
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by sabj 16y ago
Service industries in China can't be expected to be superior based on their personnel numbers alone. Cultural paradigms can produce good and bad results - as when poorly paid workers with no expectations of tips and customers accustomed to
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by sabj 16y ago
Pro-tip: If you're in China, and a Bank of America customer, you can withrdraw money fee-free at the China Construction Bank. Cash may be less convenient than a Bank of China account, but, just saying.
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by sabj 16y ago
Better response: more often than I should.
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by sabj 16y ago
Nice, but the link from your name misdirects, and the image there is also labeled as http://twitranking.me/twitter.com/images/getrank.png , so it doesn't seem to work properly (because of the extra twitter.com in there). It also doesn't de
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by sabj 16y ago
First, ask what the purpose of GA is: ultimately, it's bottom-line justification is that it helps prove to advertisers just how effective their ad spend is on Google. Use AdWords / AdSense, see how much money you are making per conversion e
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by sabj 16y ago
I think this is an important point to raise, and it brings us back to the matter of how important it is to "define your objective." Is your objective to be your own boss? To pursue a dream? To try to make it rich? Etc... While the "jackpot"
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by sabj 16y ago
You can do useful mental exercises for Google interviews, or other interviews, by working through "puzzle questions" and similar problems. But if a world of limited time, this might not be the best use of your prep time. A good source for t
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by sabj 16y ago
Great to hear Miguel, sorry we never got to really catch a proper meal together last summer... (can you guess who this is? ;) ) Let me know if you are out NYC / Boston way. To chime on on this subject: Several internships at Google have off
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by sabj 16y ago
The other category to consider are those domainers who hold websites which are _not_ typically covered in ads; they might just have a notice on them saying "contact firm X for details." In many cases, I have even written such outfits saying
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by sabj 16y ago
Wow, this looks great - a game that can really make use of fingers if ever there was one. Super helpful for the World of MOM levels, I bet. I'd definitely get it if I had an iPad... and didn't have the PC version. :) Keep it up, 2dboy!
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by sabj 16y ago
FYI, Thomas searches time out after 30 min; can you give a direct cite to the congressional record or a permalink? (Click Share/Save, e.g., " http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.111hr4259 ) Good news, but yeah, would love to see e
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by sabj 16y ago
There was this, too... I was saying to myself, OK, time to learn Python so I can try to make something cool with Django. What Python to learn? Oh, wait... I wasn't sure why I would write the code in Python 2 and then convert it to Python 3,
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Ask HN: Help me understand Python 2.x vs 3.x
6 points by sabj 16y ago|4 comments
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by sabj 16y ago
Yeah - I think the advice is great if you happen to have a few tens of thousands of dollars, though at that point it isn't especially profound. For a startup with little to no capital, 5-10k is a lot of money. Certainly I wish that I had so
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by sabj 16y ago
I know what I want for christmas now! I have seen and made Stirling engines before, but none that are so beautiful and efficiently low-temperature differential. Does anyone know of some other good kit vendors? Something cheaper than ~$134 w
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by sabj 16y ago
HN has a certain bias towards entrepreneurship and start-ups, so let me try to offer at least a few morsels of support for working at Google or Facebook, though I definitely advocate for start-up or small companies too. At Google or Facbeoo
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by sabj 16y ago
I got the quote, appreciated the reference. Unfortunately for the purposes of this argument, am male. I would say that I'm OK with the quote for artistic purposes, perhaps vary the call to action in other contexts to avoid arousing any prob
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by sabj 16y ago
Ah, I understand: my grammar was unclear. I just saw the first page, where it said "free," and I was confused about what the economics of the plan were. I don't care if it is free, and in fact that free factor was a concern, since I was won
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by sabj 16y ago
As soon as I am a gazillionaire, I will do this. It will be my opportunity to test out all the theories I have learned in my political science studies.
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by sabj 16y ago
If I wanted to store everything, 100 GB would be too small.
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by sabj 16y ago
I like this, but... how is it free?
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by sabj 16y ago
I like it! I used to use some various commercial products to this end, but found them rather unpleasant. I like the aesthetic here and might put this to use even for some side projects. Thanks!
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by sabj 16y ago
Anything I was uploading to the interwebs for serious storage would already be lovingly encrypted in a TrueCrypt container... usually.
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by sabj 16y ago
It seemed like it would be relatively more complex to set up / run, and more expensive to store large bunches of files. Good middle-range option. I like to dual-boot sometimes, which might mean hairier fixes, but more than that I don't want

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