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by sunir 10y ago
I use textastic, a Bluetooth keyboard, Dash for documentation and I plan on using the workingcopy app for git. I tried a lot of code editors. textastic is the best. My goal was to code offline from my iphone. I was motivated from a trip to
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by sunir 11y ago
They don't need to innovate relative to our lives to be innovative overall. Kenya has its own economic system quite different enough from what we are used to. It is likely they will focus locally on tangible opportunities.
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by sunir 11y ago
I am the one in the article. I run the trade association. If you want to help build a coalition to lobby the government, let's do it. I think we need to join the conversation not just wait and pray.
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How the NSA Is Killing American Small Businesses(reason.com)
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by sunir 11y ago
Sometimes it is an individual. The scythe is if it were someone else in the role, would but for the grace of divine insight this other person be likely to make a misstep or have difficulty as well? An effective organization is, well, organi
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by sunir 11y ago
It's not a "website". It's a market. Would you say the same thing before buying stocks through eTrade?
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by sunir 11y ago
This case seems very clear but what is the more general protocol?
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by sunir 11y ago
What is the right protocol? As a conference organizer I would like advice. Getting past he said she said is a delicate problem.
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by sunir 11y ago
The headline exists so readers can judge the article before reading it. Complaining about a clickbait headline is fair.
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by sunir 11y ago
That's just semantic framing. Non-technical is a word used from the point of view of engineers, the primary audience on "Hacker" News, who naturally value technical skills the most. You could reframe the engineers as being no
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by sunir 11y ago
Sales. #1 with a bullet. At the beginning all marketing, investment, recruiting is sales.
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by sunir 11y ago
Why can't the foreign subsidiaries buy Apple stock? I am sure that isn't allowed or else they would do it but what is the regulation preventing it? Alternatively borrow money for the buybacks from their own foreign subsidiaries ei
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by sunir 11y ago
The future of libraries is confusing because libraries serve multiple purposes, not just warehouses of free books. They are archives. They are places where the public can ask for the skills of a professional researcher. They provide critica
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by sunir 11y ago
If you destroy cash the idea is to motivate people to invest their cash to get the economy moving. Punish the cash hoarders. Quantitative easing has not resulted in increasing credit, and therefore the velocity of cash in the economy. If yo
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by sunir 11y ago
In the article he argued to float the exchange rate of hard currency against electronic currency. Switching to non cash substitutes would enact this goal. That is what happened when the dollar was unmoored from gold. Then gold's cash v
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by sunir 12y ago
You can track anywhere. JIRA is good. Google Docs works too. UserVoice if you want it public. Record customer contact information at all times so you can follow up. The logout page is a good place to ask as well. Most customers get frustra
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by sunir 12y ago
For those interested, The Hyperion series has some excellent audiobook editions on audible. Particularly appealing for the first book which in in the style of the Cantebury tales.
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by sunir 12y ago
The most common argument: Pass by reference hides the implication of a side effect on the parameter. If you expect the function to manipulate the parameter, passing by pointer is clearer. Pass by reference was also only added to efficiently
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by sunir 12y ago
Shoeboxed.com is amazing. Try it.
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by sunir 12y ago
The proof of concept for space travel was NASA, the ESA, the CSA, RKA, etc. plus all science fiction plus space camps plus parabolic microgravity flights plus preselling seats. In their case there are many rapid app builders so it isn'
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by sunir 12y ago
No doubt. So, what does work? Have you been on a team that has added productivity? Note that most teams get more done by adding labour, but that is not increasing productivity. Rather, getting more or better output per labour hour. Then, ho
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by sunir 12y ago
You have heard "19 times out of 20" described in the news? That is the 0.05 restated for laypeople. 1 time out of 20 you will get a false positive, in this case that the rabbit's foot worked.
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by sunir 12y ago
Why not do both? They are orthogonal marketing tactics.
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by sunir 12y ago
What's interesting to me is not the wild west of competing analytics tools that Segment rolls up, but the shear array of not-really-analytics tools Segment feeds event tracking and identity to like Marketo, Hubspot, Customer.io, Olark,
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by sunir 12y ago
It's important to understand it's business, not personal. I strongly dislike the comments in this thread that say "Leave". That's an emotional reaction but it doesn't help you advance. In fact, you'll slid
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by sunir 12y ago
Teach your daughter to hack so she can up and down vote on her own Hacker News account.
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by sunir 12y ago
I think personally the main difference is that the matrix novels were aggressively futurephilic right from that famous opening line. The more recent novels are more tempered by demonstrating the present is a strange and wonderful place that
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by sunir 12y ago
Low churn rate is better. The longer you have a customer relationship the longer they think about you. You have an opportunity to sell them more value as you develop it and get them to refer you more customers.
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by sunir 12y ago
Or you could "Keep Calm and File > Make a copy..." of the Google Doc and share that instead of the original draft. The copy doesn't copy the version history.
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by sunir 12y ago
Actually, it is illegal to create a hostile work environment under the California labor law (and many other US states and developed countries). Race and gender are protected statuses. Companies are expected to have anti-harassment or anti-d

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