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by vijayr 11y ago
wow, $1000 for an outfit? Mine costs less than 100$, including shoes and a jacket for the cold. What "accessories" are we talking about? Unless it is an iPhone, one can very comfortably dress in 100$ (and much less in summer)
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I know I am not supposed to, but I laughed at this one :p One of my former colleagues used to put weird error messages (made up words mostly, but really funny to pronounce). One of these messages escaped QA and went to a customer - but this
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The most important takeaway from the article is this I stopped equating dislike for big shitty companies with dislike for their foot soldiers. I wish more people felt the same. Developers have more job options in general than people in ot
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Safely or not, what is the reasoning behind releasing this data to the public at all? What can we build with this data that is useful without violating anyone's privacy?
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It doesn't make much sense in today's world, both practically and theoretically. We share more today than ever (food, music, culture, products, software, ideas and so on). There is no way a country can survive on it's own - p
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genuine question - why should anyone feel patriotic at all? shouldn't we love/like the whole planet? what is the point in getting attached to a place just because we were born there?
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non profit tech consultant Could you explain what type of tasks you do? How does one get a job like yours?
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similarly, there should be a law that prevents the legalese fonts from being microscopic - there should be some minimum font size for these, regardless of where they appear (tv, print, online whatever)
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by vijayr 11y ago
I still can't wrap my head around renting dresses - some kind of specialized costume I can understand (like spiderman or predator), but dress? They seem to be doing some revenue so it does look like a workable idea. What happens to R
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Pinterest crowd, the sort of people who read Cosmopolitan, watch reality shows That crowd is way bigger than the crowd that hangs out at places like HN. So it would make sense for G+ to go after them, no? This is a numbers game.
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I am also in the same boat. One thing that worked for me (unintentionally) is volunteering - I met some great people, even formed a handful of friendships. Another interesting habit (again unintentionally) that worked for me is talking to o
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I guess non-profits that work with homeless people, at risk youth, domestic abuse victims, war zones etc will find creative uses for this. Another example would be Syrian refugees arriving in Europe.
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It would be nice to have a review blog that exclusively reviews lower end stuff from China
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Silence, food etc are easy. But ten hours of meditation everyday for 10 days sounds scary. Could you talk more about your experience?
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Their wiki page seems broken http://uplift.aero/wiki
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There is an Indian restaurant near my home and a bookshop - I really like both of them but I've been going there less and less. The restaurant added more tables, so during the buffet, it is impossible to walk 10 steps to your table. Pe
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How do you find clients to give you work in technology that you haven't worked in before?
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Ask HN: How do you find time to learn new things?
23 points by vijayr 11y ago|22 comments
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True. It is definitely not easy. Another problem is the waiting periods these days is frustratingly long - so if you made a small mistake then it adds anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to remedy it, to an already lengthy process. Th
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Same with kids too. Men are already scared to enter professions like teaching, hesitant to help when they find a kid lost in a shopping mall etc. Some airlines have a "policy" of not allowing single men to sit next to kids in thei
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by vijayr 11y ago
"Jeff Dean's resume lists the things he hasn't done; it's shorter that way."
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How will this work practically? Let's say we want to try this just for a month. Make a list of such companies and try not to spend our money with them. First of all, making this list itself isn't that simple, because of confusing
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Is it better to have one big project in the portfolio or multiple smaller ones?
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IMHO, an individual's life and freedom is worth way more than any dollar amount, but that is just my opinion. That said: DNA tests are far more reliable than eyewitness accounts. Innocent people confess to crimes all the time.
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Almost all cheating happened within groups with cultural ties. I did not even want to think of being in my office behind closed doors with a female undergraduate student who is crying loudly. More than 45 hours in completely unproducti
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by vijayr 11y ago
It is better to spend that 1500 and make sure to send the right person to jail (even if it is redundant) than take a chance with eyewitness testimony. 1,500$ is nothing compared to the life and freedom of someone.
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Xiaomi's Mi Band Pulse is a $15 fitness tracker with a heart rate sensor(androidcentral.com)
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It is amazing that so many societies in the world are able to function well, considering the pathetic nature of their legal systems.
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Anyone know of a software like Rescuetime, but installed locally and not send data to a third party?
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Hansard Corpus: British Parliament, 1803-2005(hansard-corpus.org)
21 points by vijayr 11y ago|1 comments

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