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by samirahmed 13y ago
It appears that Teton County Wyoming is the county that pays the most on average at 67k. Does anybody have any insight into why that is? For the most part i understand that high taxes in the more populous and economically prosperous zones b
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by samirahmed 13y ago
Just to clarify, I agree with you that any company that is funded by the military is technically a military contracter. But the term has deeply negative connotation. Anybody who is involved with DARPA funded research. In this case it might
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by samirahmed 13y ago
Yea i wonder how he made those gifs. It would be interested in a js gif gallery library like that
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by samirahmed 13y ago
this is exactly what i do too. Another great person to follow is Ilya Grigorik ... https://github.com/igrigorik He spents a lot of time following repos, and literally built the github archive just to keep up with this.
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by samirahmed 13y ago
Honestly, the idea of a facebook subscription is not a new idea, nor is it a feasible idea. It is something people have discussed on HN about for years now. Not to mention $10 a month is unrealistic in every developing country where roughl
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The Bing Experiment - Observations After 100 Days(blog.samirism.com)
6 points by samirahmed 13y ago|0 comments
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by samirahmed 13y ago
Interestingly amazon is in the backseat here and it will be interesting to see how they succeed. From my understanding http://www.flipkart.com/ is the dominant player in the online shopping marketing in India
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by samirahmed 13y ago
As a seattle resident who lived here a year ago and moved back again. I have a few things to add to this ... 1. Amazon Fresh prices one year ago were pretty high, they have driven costs down on everything except produce. 2. I live close to
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by samirahmed 13y ago
I find this response almost shocking. Most of HN criticizes microsoft for slow releases cycles, slow change but the Visual Studio has clearly made progress for the better by addressing UserVoice requests, integrating Git etc. If your emplo
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by samirahmed 13y ago
any chance you will opensource the code? or is it already up somewhere (github)
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by samirahmed 13y ago
for those who need clarification of what counts as STEM for immigration purposes http://www.ice.gov/sevis/stemlist.htm http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf
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by samirahmed 13y ago
good question, its probably much broader than you would expect... I think quant would fall under 27.0305 financial math see the official list here http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/stem-list.pdf
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by samirahmed 13y ago
About 1 month ago I switched from google to bing. There different queries that use the to measure 'better'. For simple queries 'strncmp', 'giraffe', 'sound transit schedule' ... Google, Bing and Samuru perform pretty well. But Samuru is
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by samirahmed 14y ago
Here are a few I can think of, not all are necessarily things that I miss, but people do miss it. - Gmail old style compose/reply dialog - Windows 7 had a search everything feature, now windows 8 has search by App/Files/Settings - Github us
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by samirahmed 14y ago
At a glance, this is a very creative way to fuse the best of digital prototyping with the spontaneity of hand drawn prototyping. However I believe that digital linking and editing stages would be easier if it were on a browser than an iphon
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by samirahmed 14y ago
But there is insufficient demand to warrant a change? But it would be technologically too demanding? But we don't think its a problem to wait 6+ seconds? But we will address this later as its not a priority? Its great that you are aware
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by samirahmed 14y ago
I somewhat agree. Choosing a programming language involves only a part of the factors listed here (speed, memory, paradigm) but also community, resources, development time and available framework, tooling and libraries. It is hard to quant
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by samirahmed 14y ago
C# does fit many needs and molds and could be used as general purpose language of instruction. However decisions are seldom made on how 'good' a language is. Java, C++ have plenty of free, multi-platform tooling and resources. C# requires
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by samirahmed 14y ago
out of curiosity - how did you contribute to these, through your work? open-source contribution? consulting.
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by samirahmed 14y ago
It would be nice to have a github org for dashing and all its ports. That could take some of the burden of all the ports off of you. I know its part of shopify organization now, but there is a lot of interest I know I would love to contrib
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by samirahmed 14y ago
I think this is strategically a good move, as free and Open source alternatives like Kandan would be more attractive to teams of under 5 users than a paid (even though very affordable) solution like Hipchat.
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Show HN: Easier gitignores, weekend hack(github.com)
1 points by samirahmed 14y ago|0 comments
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by samirahmed 14y ago
was anybody else put off by the fact that it asked for money before showing you the numbers you could choose from? Offering a proxy number like GV, means that you want to be able to choose the number you want (area code, easy to remember, s
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by samirahmed 14y ago
In case your intention is to contribute zip codes, please go through the github repository https://github.com/crowell/zippopotamus
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by samirahmed 14y ago
We do support reverse city+state to zip lookup and lookup nearby zips for USA aswell
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by samirahmed 14y ago
Not every website wants to go through the effort of collecting zip codes. We used geonames as our primary seed and its a great source but it isn't free.
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by samirahmed 14y ago
> "How can we trust you're not going away any time soon?" We are hosted on DotCloud(YCS10) - and thanks to generous agreement with them, we have a very large free plan and until we have issues managing demand, we don't plan to ask for d
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by samirahmed 14y ago
I partially agree, I don't see how one would not find this obvious after reading the mongo docs which explicitly say > Indexes enhance query performance, often dramatically ...
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by samirahmed 14y ago
The real time information is neat! FYI, This feature is available (in non-real time manner) in Google Docs and Microsoft Word, which are powered by Google Search and Bing respectively to research terms, images and relevant content.
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by samirahmed 14y ago
I would like to a mattress on that bed frame, how does the mattress not fall over all the time

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