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by tushar-r 10y ago
I love this and the azure version. Refer to them from time to time. Thank you for taking to effort,don't worry about the detractors!
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>How do they disperse the free seats if they _do_ want to give them away? Normally on airlines like Etihad, people either just take the seat by themselves, or ask the crew and move into the seats.
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>I was told by the person I was visiting in Hyderabad that those who didn't go along with the strike were attacked. That is common in any strike in India. Previously, when auto drivers went on strike for any reason, if one of them b
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>A few days ago I was unable to get an Uber out of Hyderabad airport because of a "strike". "Strike" might be the euphemism of the year - it refers to angry taxi drivers/autowales striking Uber drivers who contin
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>After the attendants closed the doors, we got the go ahead to just move to sensible seats of the exact same size and amenities, but that they'd have wanted us to pay extra for. Well, you're lucky you were not on Air Asia. They
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by tushar-r 10y ago
Entice.
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by tushar-r 10y ago
But will HR change anything about this process due to this escalation?
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>What do you tell people when you don't use Facebook? Never needed to say more than "I just don't". People in my circle seem to understand. Note: My account is only deactivated, because I have commitment issues, but o
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by tushar-r 10y ago
Not really. Conversion to cash is limited to Rs.4000. Rest goes into your account. If you convert more than 2 Lakhs, that is notified to the IT authorities. You can't withdraw more than Rs.20000 per week or some such limit. Trickling d
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by tushar-r 10y ago
I wish we could get reasonably priced and spec'd Thinkpads in India. Had to move on to an MBP last year after almost 8 years with a T60 and T410.
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The Surface Dial is a crazy puck that controls Microsoft's new PC(theverge.com)
3 points by tushar-r 10y ago|0 comments
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>The "you're over limit" is probably not sent at the exact femtosecond you go over it? What if the phone is shutting the data off automatically? Like the Data Usage settings on Android?
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by tushar-r 10y ago
IIRC there was anther company doing this a few years back. Think they got shutdown by apple, but I cant remember the name. I think the company name started with P and was based in South America.
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Travis Kalanick on Uber's bet on self-driving cars: 'I can't be wrong.'(businessinsider.in)
1 points by tushar-r 10y ago|0 comments
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>. why would you want to run it on a non-csco/vanilla x86 boxes ? AWS, for instance, with the CRS1000V. Though, I think that is IOS-XE and Linux based. IIRC, they are moving to IOS-XE/XR which is more Linux based and can be run
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by tushar-r 10y ago
> those who have worked there in the past constantly raved about how little they actually have to work and how empty the office is on Fridays among other aspects that give the impression that much isn't expected from their engineers
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by tushar-r 10y ago
> wish companies, if possible, throttled layoffs a bit more The uncertainty will cause a lot of stress. As a red badge at Cisco some years back, layoff talks used to cause me serious anxiety, even though my parent company would just move
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>The median tenure is 1 year at Amazon. Lots of people cycle through there. Though plenty of people stay for a while. They pay alright and it's not too difficult to get hired. Curious - does this take into account their warehouse em
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by tushar-r 10y ago
What you said about the PM and Dept. Manager, reminded me of this article by Rands: http://randsinrepose.com/archives/entropy-crushers/ == A good project manager is one who elegantly and deftly handles information
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by tushar-r 10y ago
>Blogspot, for reasons that defy logic, redirects visitors to "localized" domains (I assume via Geo-IP). OP is probably from Malaysia. Because a whole bunch of countries keep wanting to block stuff. So: https://suppo
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by tushar-r 10y ago
Temporary work around - get a TSA compliant laptop bag. Yes, it means doing something different to accommodate them, but in the longer term it saves you this pain. And convince the TSA to do what we do at Indian airports: plinkplonk 9 minut
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by tushar-r 10y ago
> Contracts are not allowed in India. They are allowed, they used to exist. Very few people are willing to use the contracts. It never made much sense because people use prepaid and don't want to be stuck to one carrier.
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by tushar-r 10y ago
It still is, We don't drink tap water in Bangalore either. Very very rare to see folks drinking water straight out of the tap - the water supply isn't potable. Most urban households have some kind of filtration system in place. Th
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by tushar-r 10y ago
> Do they need to fund the background checks? Are they too expensive? I've been getting a $1 safe ride fee when using Uber in the US. So they do pass on the background check cost to the customer. There is some other reason for this.
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by tushar-r 11y ago
>It isn't really, but since most terminals are wired and installed at the checkout counter, Customers aren't invited to enter the PIN over at the other end of the venue and aren't keen to, frankly. It is upper class who us
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by tushar-r 11y ago
Why not talk to customer support and see if they'll let you exchange it by paying the difference?
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by tushar-r 11y ago
One thing you should remember, is that if Infosys and the like are paying $74K to a person, they are charging about 1.5-2x that from the client.
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by tushar-r 11y ago
His autobiography, "Wings on my Sleeve" is a very good read.
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by tushar-r 11y ago
|Plus I have many issues with Linux drivers. Which is unfortunate, since Thinkpads used to have the best support for Linux in earlier generations :-(
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by tushar-r 11y ago
On my machine it is only cask.

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