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by tchalla 6y ago
> Thankfully the Swedes are not as luddites as the Germans and adopt more easily solutions that make their lives easier Germans are not luddites, they are careful with privacy. They have more than one reason to be careful with it [0, 1].
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by tchalla 6y ago
> But ignoring that one persons warning about PhD still sounded like he had the typical arrogance contained by every person who ever did a PhD (including me). If someone says “don’t do it” and your reaction is to not even follow up with
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by tchalla 6y ago
I was offering an alternative to the novel problem on the spot. I’m glad you like this procedure better : )
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by tchalla 6y ago
> My least favourite interview technique has to be "talk me through a complex problem on a whiteboard". Let's say an interviewer reads your resume and is interested in a project. The interviewer comes to the interview prep
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by tchalla 6y ago
The abstract of a paper is an executive summary. In case, that is not enough - you can look into the press release [0]. [0] https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
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by tchalla 6y ago
Previous Discussion 8 months ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23848039
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by tchalla 6y ago
I’m not sure how people post publicly to a worldwide forum expecting everyone to know the meaning of acronyms. Thank you for posting these.
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by tchalla 6y ago
Are you willing to give up your privacy to corporates to be liberated online?
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by tchalla 6y ago
Is there another way to achieve this objective without a daily standup?
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by tchalla 6y ago
Does the face-to-face conversation need a daily standup or are there other options?
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by tchalla 6y ago
I wish Lockwise was available on other browsers too. It really is a great app.
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by tchalla 6y ago
In my case, the some of time is almost never - macOS /Safari and macOS / Firefox.
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by tchalla 6y ago
Bitwarden has one critical feature that makes it unusable. For example, one feature that has been "in the works" for last 3+ years : "auto-save newly created passwords with a prompt" [0]. I understand that it is a differ
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Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math(wired.com)
1 points by tchalla 6y ago|0 comments
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by tchalla 6y ago
> Your main priority always should be to do meaningful things, to solve real-world problems, to be the man in the arena. And if you share what you learn along the way, people will start to listen. Write when you have something meaningful
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Private contact discovery for Signal (2017)(signal.org)
54 points by tchalla 6y ago|36 comments
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by tchalla 6y ago
Does Signal share contacts the same way others like WhatsApp does? https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ > Signal clients will be able to efficiently and scalably determine whether the contacts in
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by tchalla 6y ago
The reason is pretty simple - probability of events are an important input to calculation of expected values. If the probabilities are off, expected value calculations will differ. Also, Expected Value works under the “law of large numbers”
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by tchalla 6y ago
> I am heavily against switching from WhatsApp to Signal, I'm curious - what are your arguments against the switch?
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by tchalla 6y ago
What process should be used to come up with a number? Currently, that magic number is 30% or 15% (if revenue is less than $1M per year) progressive charge decided by Apple.
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Throw Away Your Mask After Covid Vaccination?(medpagetoday.com)
5 points by tchalla 6y ago|2 comments
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What the Bubble Got Right (2004)(paulgraham.com)
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by tchalla 6y ago
> But a non-obvious related problem I've found is whether to deliver it at all. The mistake there being that people want or can benefit from the feedback you think you would've wanted, were you in their position. Too often, I s
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by tchalla 6y ago
> All of your problems are people problems, the tech parts are much easier to manage. That's just ... management. Management is mostly about people, it is mostly about the HOW instead of the WHAT. I'd go one step ahead and make
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by tchalla 6y ago
> If I knew that my contacts were being shared with a 3rd party (Signal), I would never have signed up. I think, you should read up a bit on how Signal manages contacts/address books. https://signal.org/blog/pri
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by tchalla 6y ago
> When FB bought WhatsApp and Instagram they made explicit promises to regulators not to do this in order to get permission Do you have copy of those legal binding promises?
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by tchalla 6y ago
In Germany, there's a similar title denoted as "Scheinselbststaendigkeit" or a "Pseudo False Self-Employment". https://www.freelancermap.de/blog/aktuelle-rechtslage-zur-sc...
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by tchalla 6y ago
Only if, both options exist. Option A - 100% for a dining area at a trendy location Option B - 80% w/o dining area at a trendy location There are many cases where people say it is Option B but Option A doesn't exist.
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by tchalla 6y ago
Do you have a review of methods in the book? I’d love to connect and learn more.
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by tchalla 6y ago
Here's a study from 2019 on the topic of self-driving cars and parking. > Self-driving cars will ‘cruise’ to avoid paying to park https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/self-driving-car... The solution pro

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