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Coders Balk at Making Apps Searchable(bloomberg.com)
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by somberi 11y ago
I am no knife expert but these knives look lovely. If anyone is interested in Knifes, here is a fascinating article from New Yorker (2008): http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/11/24/sharper I got one
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by somberi 11y ago
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi Also a commonly cited zen story: Eager Student asked: “How long will it take me to be enlightened?” “Ten years” said the master. “What if I work twice as hard?” “
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by somberi 11y ago
I have had the apple watch for a week, and I am indifferent to having or not having it. This I think is its problem. It is probably the first Apple Device that has been released without a sharp use case. I mean it is cool that I can answer
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by somberi 11y ago
This hit a chord with me: "Be it tulips, land, housing, derivatives or shares, they find that the consequences of a bursting bubble depend less on the type of asset than on how it is financed. High leverage is the telltale sign of trou
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by somberi 11y ago
Benjamin Harrison said this circa 1890s: I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process. My sincere question is - Why not just make them employees
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Uber drivers are freelancers rules NYC(crainsnewyork.com)
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by somberi 11y ago
I got this from one of the many forwards but I think it explains bad-debt painted as good-debt cycle well, even though it is a tad superficial. This is not applicable only to the Greek tragedy, but also to Sub-prime and startups burning VC
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by somberi 11y ago
From the last issue of The Economist (Edited by me): "..a company called Wibotic that plans to recharge drones (and also earthbound robots) without them having to establish an awkward physical connection with a plug.... LaserMotive, an
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by somberi 11y ago
A father, who is a banker shows his son "This is our Yacht and those are our brokers''". Son asks "Dad, where are the customers' yachts?". A book, written in 1930s, based on this quip still remains one of
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by somberi 11y ago
A meta critique after reading 139 comments: I too had the same question as the parent and from the ensuing conversations, I assume that either Docker is so thin-layered (not in a bad way) that it is open to so many interpretations or it is
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Should Mapcodes replace GPS?(newyorker.com)
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India roughly accounts for 15% of road traffic deaths worldwide, although it has just 1% of the world's motor vehicles. In 2011, the country witnessed 440,123 accidents that left 136,834 people dead, according to the National Crime Rec
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by somberi 11y ago
Similar post here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817209
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by somberi 11y ago
Quoting a recent article in The Economist (Edited by me) " The Swiss will soon vote on a proposal for a basic income of 2,500 francs ($2,700) per month, following the success of a national petition.... Turning it into a substitute for
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by somberi 11y ago
Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. This is my third monthly post and have hired a couple of great guys from the past posts. Expanding the scope to include Analytics, Data Warehouse, DevOps and App developers. Please read on. I ha
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One of my favorite questions to Math Candidates, that are potential employees: In Fourier transform, what is being transformed to what? What is wrong with how it is that it needs to be transformed? I am amused at the variety of answers this
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by somberi 11y ago
I am married and one thing I hear from many of single Male friends is that, dating is expensive. I am talking from a narrow PoV of Manhattan, NYC. A significant majority of dates end up by the man picking up the tab for a dinner / dr
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by somberi 11y ago
Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business. It is a
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by somberi 11y ago
It helps to think of these "vessels" that conduit black money not as Houses in the strict sense. From a policy planning perspective it helps to remove the errant variable (in this case excess of homes).
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In California, the salary of its state employees are publicly available here: http://transparentcalifornia.com/
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If I learnt, only moderately, that moderation is the key to success, did I succeed?
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If obtained with consent, I for one will find this service valuable and will be willing to pay for it. All the best.
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by somberi 11y ago
I hear you and you raise a valid point, especially for the Internet generation. NYtimes stated this elegantly - Algorithms lead us to anagrams. My suggestion is go to a library. Even after 15 years of living in the US, I am surprised at how
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I live between NYC and Bangalore, India. I have used Uber and its closest competitors (Lyft and Ola respectively), in both cities. I have a mental questionnaire I go through with 90% of the drivers and here is what I have learnt: Uber vs Ly
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@bjelkman - please email if you like to know more. Email is in the main thread.
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Thanks. And the answer to the thread above - Not Novopay. But bigger and more fundamental.
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I live in NYC and the startup I had found before had an office in L.A. In fact the first time I had ever been to L.A was to get that office / team running. Here are my 2cents: 1. At about 50% of NYC's economy, LA is the second lar
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Bangalore, India. Many Positions. Full time. I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India. It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business. It is a
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by somberi 11y ago
Adding my 2 cents to the chatter about becoming a parent and the changes in the brain. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/what-happe...

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