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by thisisit 8y ago
You do know Zuckerberg holds majority of the voting - Class B shares?
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by thisisit 8y ago
My experience has been that many manager want to run or at least pretend to run a tight ship. So, they would rather splurge on finding that awesome-senior-dev than train people from scratch. Though this seems odd, it tends to give hiring ma
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by thisisit 8y ago
I was in your place and slowly getting better where people actually say that they like interacting and talking with me. What really helped? 1. Meditation and specific one at that called - metta meditation. Most of the time issues lies with
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by thisisit 8y ago
I hope you got a chance to read a good HBR article posted earlier on HN: https://hbr.org/2018/11/5-ways-smart-people-sabotage-their-s... Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184593
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by thisisit 8y ago
> I just don't see banks and institutions (i.e. Nasdaq and Vanguard) building out crypto capabilities to then not use them Let me start by saying that I agree there will be a repeat. But, the assertion that companies build some capa
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by thisisit 8y ago
I bought this book recently because I was at a stumbling block - my mind going completely numb due to focus and nearly falling asleep. So, I can see why people recommend it as a meditation text. But, when I loaned my copy to a friend, he di
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by thisisit 8y ago
Any chances of adding Fast.ai courses?
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by thisisit 8y ago
It depends really. Personally, I find that explaining/reading doesn't work for me until I experience it. So, if you tell "sugar is bad", I don't get it. But then once I experience I will come back to you for advice.
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by thisisit 8y ago
Decreasing shareholder profits is not the only outcome. The incentive will also be to increase burger prices. And I think that will have its own knock on effect.
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by thisisit 8y ago
I respectfully disagree with this notion - just pay more to workers. There are many people who in this very thread talk about sustainability of businesses, especially those cannot survive without lower wage jobs. All the while ignoring the
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by thisisit 8y ago
One of the things I am noticing, at least in India, is that there are now lesser number of rides available at any given point in time. So, either the ridesharing demand has risen to match the supply or that the supply is dwindling. I think
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by thisisit 8y ago
I have recently started learning ML and trying competitions on Kaggle. And I also seeing that in many of the competitions I have tried. The biggest predictor turns out to be the feature which wont be present when the data is created.
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by thisisit 8y ago
Because he is Larry Ellison? It is the same guy who thought the first version of Oracle DB should be v2. From Wikipedia: "Note that there was no v1 of Oracle Database, as Larry Ellison, "knew no one would want to buy version 1.&qu
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by thisisit 8y ago
This is not surprising at all. For the past couple of years, Oracle's behavior has been egregious at best. You can pick up any of their product and find that MYSQL, MS-SQL etc are supported but 2001/03 release because of "inc
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by thisisit 8y ago
IMHO you got it backwards. It's less of a question on efficiency than priorities. I doubt that if the request was too complicated to implement or the feature was for a very specific task (look at opening raw images in this very thread)
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by thisisit 8y ago
The inflation in India is similarly insane. Last I calculated someone earning 200k INR in 2007 has to be earning nearly 800 k INR by 2017, just to ensure that their earnings are not eroded by inflation. And this is going by government offic
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by thisisit 8y ago
I know but given the audience this system seemed more apt.
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by thisisit 8y ago
Which number is missing a zero? 9500000 is 9,500,000
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by thisisit 8y ago
Please use commas or even quote numbers in thousands. Otherwise it is unreadable. Edit: Here's an edited version for easy readability: 2003 - 0 YOE - 200,000( 3,000 USD) - Software Engineer - One of the very popular Indian IT f
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by thisisit 8y ago
> It's a problem of business viability and long-term expectations. Agreed. But then I am surprised about the whole Wall Street para. People don't like surprises. So a company has to always set expectations correctly, to both em
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by thisisit 8y ago
In countries like India, people are asking for Whatsapp to censor content. 10-15 years ago, SMS forwarding and bulk SMS were marked as a problem. Indian government had put in laws in place where they can and do ask telecom operators to jam
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by thisisit 8y ago
> But really, 90% of the time I just have to sleep more. I agree to this but I think the bigger problem is - How much more is actually "more"? Do you any literature about how to actually find your sleep length time?
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by thisisit 8y ago
This is surprising. Estonia was oft quoted example of digital governance. Any ideas on how this will effect their blockchain projects?
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by thisisit 8y ago
I first heard about OYO through a friend who shared this livemint article: https://www.livemint.com/Companies/7CN7u5d4i3bfYgBAZLdLpM/Wi... The article paints a terrible picture of a guy who has embraced the - fake
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by thisisit 8y ago
> who otherwise had never dealt with statistics before. And why is statistics required? Let's face it most companies who need "Data Scientists" are looking for regular BI guys with fancy terms. Most of the problems are s
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by thisisit 8y ago
My favorite, probably not the best by many standards, was someone who was not versed in the tech we were working on. He listened when people talked. If there was something bothering us he got us what we needed, sometimes even spending his p
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by thisisit 8y ago
I like how tough topics in India are discussed - everything is tied back to the central government. Either you a nationalist supporting the central government or you are a self proclaimed anti-nationalist who dislikes the current government
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by thisisit 8y ago
My first reaction was reaction isn't this a dupe. But then the earlier one was about Huwaei's camera cheat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805027
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by thisisit 8y ago
This looks like a submarine article for Keencorp. The way it tries to build suspense on Fastow's answer by taking a hard turn towards "textual analysis" is a dead giveaway.
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by thisisit 8y ago
That was my life, nearly every week. We had someone who doesn't mute and his kid will be crying all through the meeting. People tried reminding him couple of times to no avail. Later, the teleconference software added a button where th

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