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by suthakamal 6y ago
One set of anecdotes after another. Easy to understand why PG acolytes might enjoy this piece.
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by suthakamal 6y ago
Gross. The lack of empathy or recognition of the terrible conditions warehouse workers have complained of (and have been well documented by journalists) is pretty striking.
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by suthakamal 6y ago
Lots (most) people of colour are below their threshold of "VDI" (vitamin D insufficiency) and perfectly healthy. The fact that the study doesn't talk about base rates for ethnicities is pretty "striking" (to use a w
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by suthakamal 6y ago
The mechanisation of war changed the very nature of war. In the first world war, row upon row upon row of men got off of landing boats, to be mowed down, row after row, by machine gun fire. It's not comparable to hundreds of soldiers g
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by suthakamal 7y ago
What's the actual evidence presented here? He explains the problem space and technology, but that's not the same as evidence that we're certain a vaccine will work for SARS-CoV-2
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by suthakamal 7y ago
You speak as though corporations and democratic governments are the same thing. The government is (at least notionally) the will of the people. A corporation is unaccountable to anyone but it’s shareholders. It is folly to treat EU legislat
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by suthakamal 12y ago
What a disgusting, morally bankrupt society that permits the state to take a life. And then to censor statements? Damn. Nobody is claiming these were good human beings, but disgust isn't nearly strong enough a word.
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by suthakamal 12y ago
Not sure why Safe forcibly disables hibernation on Mac's with FileVault2: it encrypts the hibernated (is that a word) version of memory stored to disk.
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Future of wearable UI's, sensors and digital fitness(medium.com)
1 points by suthakamal 13y ago|0 comments
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Wearables don't need displays, and other contrarian thoughts(medium.com)
1 points by suthakamal 13y ago|0 comments
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Looking Inward: How Silicon Valley can decompress and reflect(medium.com)
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by suthakamal 14y ago
One tip to make life easier after obtaining a visa to work in the US : Apply for Nexus as soon as you can.
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by suthakamal 14y ago
(I wrote the original article.) These frameworks typically just allow you to wrap native methods with JavaScript... so you're not really writing to a single cross-platform code base. Morever, if you can build your app entirely in the HTML/J
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by suthakamal 14y ago
(I wrote the original article.) You're absolutely right about open platforms and protocols being about lots of people taking risks and building hugely valuable things. My point was that when the core OS is innovating like mad, you need to b
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by suthakamal 14y ago
(I wrote the original blog post.) You're right that things like PhoneGap give access to native features. However, the Native-API-implementations in these frameworks are 1) typically significantly behind the native OS (release date) 2) tend
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Go native, HTML will lag for a while(blog.suthakamal.com)
4 points by suthakamal 14y ago|1 comments
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3D long-exposure light painting with an iPad(fastcodesign.com)
1 points by suthakamal 16y ago|0 comments
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by suthakamal 16y ago
UI: MeeGo is their first UI that doesn't have massive echo's of Symbian in it... and while it looks clean-ish, it's not necessarily any improvement over Android, which already has years of improvements, and 3rd party UI goodness (i.e. HTC S
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by suthakamal 16y ago
Nokia's problem is that they don't understand: - Developer platforms - User experience - Levers to create an app ecosystem Picking the guy who ran MSFT's business prodcuts division might help them compete with RIM in the enterprise, but it
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The making of Winston Churchill : The New Yorker(newyorker.com)
3 points by suthakamal 16y ago|1 comments
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Academic inflation: Higher education(economist.com)
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by suthakamal 16y ago
If you overstay your visa, then you're absolutely right, you're in for a world of trouble. However, ONCE you have entered the US on a B2, you can file an I-539 to permit you to extend your stay and apply to change your status to another cla
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by suthakamal 16y ago
If you enter the US on a B2 business visitor visa, after being in the country for 60 days you can petition in writing for an Adjustment of Status to change your visa to another type. You can remain in the US under the terms of the B2 until
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by suthakamal 16y ago
Um, Google might hire the occasional star w/o a degree, but you know that you're talking about a company who wants to see your transcripts in the interview process, right? So, Google's clearly not an example of the kind of company that does
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by suthakamal 16y ago
My wife and I took 4 months off to travel around southeast asia (Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand), and had a great time. Managing to stay just connected enough to read and keep up with goings-on back home, and disconnected enough t
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by suthakamal 16y ago
Lots of great insight on building teams, getting everyone to have a shared understanding/training/framework. Commanders intent and mission goals are useful thoughts on delegating / focusing a team, etc. Thoughts on using tempo, strategy and
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Tactile keyboard for iPhone(mobilemechatronics.com)
1 points by suthakamal 17y ago|2 comments