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by srinivasan 3y ago
The number is likely larger than the article suggests, because both Visa and Mastercard will share updated payment information to merchants who had recurring charges. The paper treats this as a "possibility" (and uses a small lamb
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by srinivasan 4y ago
> there isn't much you can do against people drinking alcohol, having their phone on speaker or just urinating in the middle Yes there is. You eject them from the vehicle.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
> if you’re trading hundreds or thousands of shares at a time, you’re better off elsewhere Exactly. Any price improvement other brokerages can offer should be considered net of their fees. Because flat fees per trade are regressive, smal
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by srinivasan 8y ago
Didn't browsers take a stand a few years ago by ignoring "autocomplete=off" on password fields? I think it’s about time browsers start ignoring any onpaste events on password fields. I’m curious what Chromium folks think - ha
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by srinivasan 8y ago
I did my BS at CMU as well, though it's been around 3 years since I graduated. The Indian food options were not great in Pittsburgh; I remember one restaurant that got shut down by the Allegheny County Health Department. A service like
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by srinivasan 8y ago
This "older woman, somewhere in her 60s" probably just consumes a lot of news, as is common for people in that age group. "DNI" isn't exactly a secret acronym for Director of National intelligence; if you enter the
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by srinivasan 8y ago
> The ACLU has not published its data set, methodology, or results in detail This is my biggest gripe with how the ACLU has conducted this. I find it hard to distinguish their "test" from clickbait.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
How does working at a cafeteria provider like Bon Appetit compare to working at a restaurant? By that I mean a place where office workers are likely to get lunch daily, where the typical lunch costs <$10. Also consider that workplace caf
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by srinivasan 8y ago
I think this tourist map[1] brilliantly depicts what parts most tourists actually stick to, by shrinking the western parts of the city on the map. There are very few tourists in the vast majority of the Richmond and Sunset, except near the
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by srinivasan 8y ago
> At CMU you took no courses in operating systems? Algorithms? Computer hardware or logic? Compilers? Graphics? Databases? Web programming? Distributed systems? Networks? Parallel/HPC? Language theory? Security/crypto? The core
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by srinivasan 8y ago
That's actually what I meant, but used the wrong phrasing - I can't edit it, unfortunately.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
15-213 Introduction to Computer Systems is the one. Anyone who passed that class knows what context switching means, and what TCP is. Whether they still remember it many years down the line is a different matter :)
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by srinivasan 8y ago
“250fun”, as we ironically called it. It was intense, but the topics were covered in a very interesting way.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms, which is still required, is purely functional.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
I did my undergrad in CS at CMU, and have first-hand experience of what’s covered in the core courses, which are also requirements for this new program. Perhaps you should take a look at the curriculum again like I told you, instead of spew
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by srinivasan 8y ago
> candidates who don’t know what TCP is or what context switch means. Nope, look at the curriculum again.
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by srinivasan 8y ago
As an SF resident, I love these things and regularly use them instead of calling an Uber. Requiring helmets (as the draft regulation does) is a bad idea; it would drastically reduce usage and push people back into cars. One problem that som
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by srinivasan 9y ago
Of all the issues to be considered, this is the easiest one to fix and so should be the least important consideration at this stage. A fairly busy airport already exists in every case, so all they have to do is provide a revenue guarantee f
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by srinivasan 9y ago
The North Beach branch of the San Francisco Public Library actually uses denim as insulating material within their walls. http://sfpublicworks.org/project/north-beach-branch-library
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by srinivasan 9y ago
It also doesn't make sense domestically within the US. A 5-hour flight from coast to coast is not a particularly efficient use of the A380. The only US domestic route that may be a fit is Honolulu to somewhere in the middle of the main
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by srinivasan 9y ago
The A380's engines were developed in the early 2000's. Newer twin-engine planes (B737-MAX, A320neo, A330neo, A350, B787, the upcoming 777-X) have improvements in engine efficiency that have not been ported over to the A380. Airlin
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by srinivasan 9y ago
This is a philosophical difference, in a way - running an asset-light business vs an asset-heavy business. Hotels have mostly moved towards not owning their properties, for example. Increasingly, many new orders of aircraft are leases. Howe
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by srinivasan 9y ago
Generally - the "willful, illegal transportation of migrants into another country". If you're interested in reading more into how cartels operate, I'd highly recommend the book Narconomics by Tom Wainwright - https:&#x2
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by srinivasan 9y ago
This would make your wallet a single point of vulnerability. If someone gains access to your wallet, they would know your passwords and your 2FA tokens. While it's certainly better than no 2FA, it's not as good as having the token
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by srinivasan 10y ago
Points I would like to have seen mentioned: 1. Non-competes are enforceable in Pittsburgh, PA. Unlike in California. 2. Intellectual property rights over personal projects.
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by srinivasan 11y ago
It's a false premise that startups are currently competing against large companies like Microsoft for H-1B visas. The biggest H-1B users are offshoring/outsourcing companies (source: http://www.nytimes.com/interact
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by srinivasan 11y ago
Region-free (all-region) DVD players are a thing, and they are pretty easy to find.
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F.lux beta for iOS (Xcode 7 sideload)(justgetflux.com)
3 points by srinivasan 11y ago|1 comments
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by srinivasan 11y ago
Google, Facebook et al should not be campaigning for more H-1B's; that would simply worsen the offshoring situation. They should instead campaign for an improved program that distinguishes employees from (effectively) contract workers.
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by srinivasan 11y ago
Of course companies want their employees to work more. And I'm from the "exercise your RSU's immediately" school of thought as well. All I was pointing out is that imo, the study is flawed in its central argument. As for

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