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by shiven 13y ago
Fuck this shit! Anyone who invests in this scummy bastard's company, for whatever reasons, is an implicit supporter of such heinous behavior. If you have any way of holding this bastard's feet to the fire, financially or otherwise
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by shiven 13y ago
And lack of oligarchs, who signed-off on torture, on the company board. Now that can't be a bad thing! SpaceMonkey needs to use it as a selling point.
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by shiven 13y ago
This is turning into a Soap-Opera-via-Social-Media... What happened to the good old days of people suing for damages in a court of law and moving on? Public name-and-shame has its place in the grand picture of such incidents, but the long
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by shiven 13y ago
What-the-wha? The creator of pinboard.in, an awesome bookmarking site, is banned from HN? How? Why? Link?
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by shiven 13y ago
Well written synopsis of what ails Biomedical Research in US Academia. If you are in the trenches, like me, you can immediately identify with the problems plaguing the system. Some suggestions in the article are sound, but then again, time
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by shiven 13y ago
The source for concern may have started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7598616
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by shiven 13y ago
Smaltmetrics.
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by shiven 13y ago
As far as I am concerned, they can go cry in a corner for what they have turned Gnome into. Gnome 3 and Unity can go burn in hell for all eternity (yes, words are a poor outlet for expressing my hatred towards that interface). My donation
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by shiven 13y ago
Could never view that site on my iPhone (4S/iOS7.1). Mobile Safari crashes within a few seconds! Bad design from my 'user' perspective.
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by shiven 13y ago
> How different might the World be had Gore been seated as President in 2001 after winning the election?
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by shiven 13y ago
Except in this case, the burglar is 'Robin Hood'-like or at least operating with the same intentions, the burgled houses are the 'Ivory tower' of the local clergy and the 'Rent collecting' landlord's castl
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by shiven 13y ago
And perhaps the fact that when you die, people will remember not just the billions you made but the asshole you were as well. Once you are gone, your material success won't be worth squat to you anymore. But your legacy will forever ec
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by shiven 13y ago
'Respect' is a pretty loaded word. Are you saying the guys staring at (fellow employee) girls hula-hooping in the same office should just close their eyes? What if the girls were just sitting, drinking coffee? What about jugglin
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by shiven 13y ago
Can someone please explain to me why-the-f was a non-employee granted full and free access to other company employees, each and every day, on company premises, without mutual consent? What were the other co-founders thinking? This was a dar
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by shiven 13y ago
... doing things that might be nice to look at is not an invitation to check them out doing it Then why do any of those things in a non-private setting with reasonable expectation of gawkers being present?
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by shiven 13y ago
I ♥ Ansible ... 'nuff said.
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by shiven 13y ago
If only it were that simple. PageRank is no panacea and not all cross-citations are incestuous, as you seem to be implying.
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by shiven 13y ago
Sorry to sound cynical, but having seen the glacial pace of progress with Godus, thanks, but no thanks. Kickstarted, drip-fed games, are not my cup of tea.
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by shiven 13y ago
Right after this string of replies, I was expecting Guido van Rossum would be next, saying he created Python and even he learnt something new...
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by shiven 13y ago
My slideshows from my 'talks', are always, as a matter of principle, incomprehensible without me presenting them. I have no problem with the actual presentation being recorded and provided for later (video/audio + slides), so
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by shiven 13y ago
... but every second I am not cleaning my coffee device I can be doing something else. Like, picking your nose?
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by shiven 13y ago
You may also find this real-life story inspiring ... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi One man's epic struggle against the landscape, to not let others suffer as he did.
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by shiven 13y ago
This is bound to happen in any industry where supply of talent exceeds demand AND the powers-that-be can get away with collusion (either by virtue of being 'private' or simply being powerful and thus not give a shit). So what if o
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by shiven 13y ago
Ok. Now I am genuinely curious. Could you point me to projects/code samples from this person? I have never come across a situation such as you described and I am very curious to see proof positive of someone phenomenally bad at Engli
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by shiven 13y ago
And I have bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
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by shiven 13y ago
You get an upvote for bringing up Morricone! That man is a genius!!
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by shiven 13y ago
Precisely the ideas discussed by S. Chandrasekhar (White dwarfs; Chandra X-ray telescope) in his book "Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivation in Science"[0]. The book draws a large number of examples from (astro)physicists, b
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by shiven 13y ago
You may be right and I am mis-remembering the source!!
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by shiven 13y ago
This whole sub-conversation felt eerily like the quote from Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull: "The trick to flying is to be able to throw yourself at the ground, and miss."
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by shiven 13y ago
All else being equal, would the brother turn down the money if he were given it? Would he turn it down merely and strictly due to the number of zeroes tacked after the first six digits? How would anyone in his position make a decision eithe

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