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by vickychijwani 5y ago
No, the "delivers sound directly to your ears" is a direct quote from the event (I watched the whole thing). You can also find it on The Verge's live blog (they caught that silly quote too) - https://www.theverge.c
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
Yes I'm a bit confused about their motivations too. Sharing what I've pieced together so far (and trying to approach this from a good-faith perspective): My understanding so far is that they run a Postgres consulting firm [1], and
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
My understanding so far is that OP runs a Postgres consulting firm [1], and it appears they took the liberty of registering a Postgres trademark for the class of "professional services" in order to (I presume) protect fair use by
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
Folks in the HN community - there is no good reason to downvote/flag OP's comment here, it's clearly not violating any guidelines. Please do not reflex-downvote out of a sense of casual moral outrage, as it's only hurtin
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
I believe this is their HN profile, see for yourself (as indicated by comments from them in this thread): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ahachete Personally I'm interested in hearing more from them, as they don&#
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project From the article: > I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for f
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
I think Gerrit does most/all of this, like kb shortcuts, saving drafts and posting comments in a batch.
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by vickychijwani 5y ago
> If the objective of the traffic experiment had been to deliberately get a certain group of cars stuck in a traffic jam, this would absolutely be unethical. A closer analogue would be a traffic experiment designed to gauge the emotional
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by vickychijwani 6y ago
https://www.cprcertified.com/blog/what-happens-if-ribs-break... "The conventional wisdom is that about 30% of patients suffer fractures or breaks during CPR. However, a 2015 study published in Resuscitation sugges
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by vickychijwani 6y ago
https://www.cprcertified.com/blog/what-happens-if-ribs-break... "The conventional wisdom is that about 30% of patients suffer fractures or breaks during CPR. However, a 2015 study published in Resuscitation sugges
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by vickychijwani 6y ago
Sorry I might've missed it, where did you see NPCI (the payments body) mentioned? The organization mentioned repeatedly in the post is NCIIPC.
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Tata Group to unveil India's first CRISPR-based Covid-19 test(thehindu.com)
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by vickychijwani 7y ago
Yes. I guess the post-WW2 rebuilds of Germany and Japan are good examples of this.
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
> I don't trust Mozilla Well you gotta pick your poison. It's either them or Google. To be honest, "poison" is too harsh. Mozilla has done a few stupid things, but they're far more trustworthy than other Internet
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
There's a similar, though not quite as good, Chrome extension called Sidewise. Unfortunately Chrome itself is not as extensible as Firefox so there are issues in Sidewise, the most glaring being that the list of tabs appears in a separ
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
- Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088590-gene-machine ) - by the Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of the ribosome, Venki Ramakrishnan, in the sam
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
You assume that bad driving is a fixed trait. In addition, driver 'ratings' are given by other humans in the proposed system; humans are biased and sometimes even spiteful on the roads. A rating system sounds great in theory but w
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
I'm not so sure it'll be fun for everyone... that is only a couple of steps away from a Black Mirror episode (specifically S03E01, Nosedive). The risk of 'poor driver' ostracism/stigma is significant.
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
I think the question wasn't "what is dogfooding" but rather "why do you say dogfooding doesn't work at large cos?"
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
Quiet has been the one life-changing book for me. I read it at a time when I thought of myself as unsocial (because I didn't like parties) and was uncomfortable expressing myself even among a large group of friends. After reading that
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
Magit has a PR problem: most people think they need to be already using Emacs to use Magit, but that's far from the case. Indeed most Magit keybindings are single-letter like vim. I wish I could get more people to try Magit without bei
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by vickychijwani 8y ago
I don't have the stats you're looking for, but I would guess the prior probability of accidents and foul play in smaller communities is also going to be lower than it is for large urban communities, because these communities are m
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
> Instant redeploy is very nice but hardly a huge deciding factor. I think you're wrong on this one. A large number of devs care about dev experience at the expense of other important things like platform maturity, reliability, and
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
> Wordpress is a development stack that happens to have a Page/Post/Categories/Tags schema system. It is much more than a "blog." This discussion is about blogging, so IMO it's a valid comparison. While WP c
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
We're evaluating Gitlab for use at my company and I'm really struck by the overall quality of the software. I've already started contributing to the codebase. Hope to contribute at least a few medium-sized features (currently
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
How does this not violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? Unless the explanation is that the atom moves around a lot in that tiny space, so we haven't actually determined its exact position and momentum.
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
Yes, but GP never claimed they're equal - instead the claim is that seeing the animal alive and talking to its seller to get more info is a better proxy to judge those things you listed (healthy, sanitary) than Whole Foods' endo
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
I appreciate your point and I learned something new from it, but I disagree with the last part. By your GP's own admission, pesticide overuse doesn't threaten all of humanity like antibiotic overuse does. So no, they are not &quot
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
> Or is it that the problem would be greatly reduced if everyone stopped eating meat. I expect this is true but it is not going to happen. This is a classic Tragedy of the Commons. No single individual is incentivized to sacrifice for th
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by vickychijwani 9y ago
While your comment is in good faith, I don't think the OP was trying to minimise the complexity of a distributed ledger. Instead they were trying to distinguish their mentioned use-case from the currency use-case.

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