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Ask HN: What tools do you use to understand/tune JavaScript code?
3 points by vijayr 11y ago|1 comments
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You are probably right, but most people (at least techies) just aren't comfortable with asking for more money :(
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I know people with more than a decade of experience struggling to get $75/hr (granted, they don't do PM work - just coding). It is amazing that you pulled it off in less than a year. Neat!
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This is a beautiful story! The past two weeks has been ugly, with all the news about violence against women by refugees, violence against refugees by gangs etc. This story is an example of how an immigrant can grow in a foreign land and ho
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Ask HN: Your favorite resources to improve critical thinking, imagination?
3 points by vijayr 11y ago|1 comments
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It all depends on what we as a society value most. At this point, we (most of us) are forced to work/do things that we aren't passionate about (or even interested in) just to earn a very very basic lifestyle. Imagine a huge part o
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by vijayr 11y ago
That is sad. People grow, people mature. Most of us say/do things that we regret years later - it shows that the person has matured compared to 10 years ago. If an employer rejects an applicant because of some comments they made 10 yea
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by vijayr 11y ago
It is not just the politicians - the amount of disgust among the general public for people who use drugs is unbelievable. I understand it is an insanely big problem, nobody wants drug addicts in the society. But it will happen, legalization
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by vijayr 11y ago
I think these campaigns work. Kiva started doing it last December, we've been asking them to try for a while now. I believe that was effective too.
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With religions, isn't it all relative? I can't think of a single religion which is not violent. Maybe people think highly of Buddhism because they think it is relatively less violent than other religions?
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by vijayr 11y ago
Ultimate security then - neither you nor others can read your handwriting!
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by vijayr 11y ago
There are plenty of excellent English language podcasts which don't originate from the USA. Could you please list a few?
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by vijayr 11y ago
Old codebase, not well written, no documentation. Also it is slow, so if I make a change, it takes 15 seconds to just load the page, sometimes 30-45 seconds depending on the page.
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Ask HN: Do you have any (little known) tricks to code faster?
4 points by vijayr 11y ago|6 comments
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So the idea that citizens should be monitored, but not gov’t officials, is intuitive from this point of view Shouldn't it be the other way round? If I have the power to do something that will affect others, I would want someone to
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by vijayr 11y ago
There is already "medical tourism" happening in India - there are companies that organize everything, all one has to do is go there, get surgery (or whatever treatment), then go sight seeing before returning to the US and the cost
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Do they really believe what they write? Maybe it is just plain laziness and they are okay with being wrong as long as they can fill their quota of articles?
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Is there a way to crowd source this thing? Like, is it possible to build a database of companies and their unethical contract practices? Before signing any contract, a person can simply check this database for any red flags (through a websi
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by vijayr 11y ago
I've had interviews where they told me to code on paper, with full syntax (no missing semicolons). This included drawing out db tables and their relations etc. At one place - they gave me a very old computer and their actual code base
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by vijayr 11y ago
Is it not possible for some big philanthropists like Gates, Buffett etc to buy some of these drugs and release the patent so others can manufacture cheaply? What is stopping them from doing it?
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mindlessly clicked, so my fault, but NSFW tag would be nice
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by vijayr 11y ago
Serial podcast was great. Tim Feriss is good, Dan Carlin is awesome. Any other podcast you'd recommend? Excluding the self promotional internet business types.
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by vijayr 11y ago
Most recruiters are terrible. The other day I was asked to fill a form (skills, work experience, personal details, the whole thing - in great detail) before the recruiter would even tell me the name of the company he is trying to hire for
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by vijayr 11y ago
Isn't it true in many things in life though? Shopping, buying a house etc (even dating sometimes) - most of us rarely select , we often reject and pick the one(s) that remains, isn't it? Not saying it is good or bad, just that
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One of my friends tried to adopt, it was a nightmare. It is one thing to have proper rules in place so nobody is taken advantage of, but it is totally another thing to have so much bureaucracy that the only purpose it serves is to employ th
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by vijayr 11y ago
A lot of things in life shouldn't be painful, but they are (legally speaking). Starting a business, getting divorced, moving to another country for work, becoming a citizen of another country, getting an abortion, adopting a child - al
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Why should a story be avoided just because it is politically polarizing? There will always be people who have already made up their minds and have decided not to change it one way or the other, even if strong proof is presented to them - I
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I'd like to add Scrabble to this list - it will be around in 45 years for sure, though the number of people playing is orders of magnitude smaller than Chess
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Very cool. Anyone has ideas on how this data can be used, what kind of applications can be built with this?
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I just want to spend time with good people This! Your idea is awesome. But why restrict only to tech workers? At the least, you could let all digital workers stay?

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