vmarsy

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by vmarsy 9y ago
> It is useful background knowledge here that American professionals culturally expect less vacation total than European professionals do (the norm is ~2 weeks) and expect it to be largely non-contiguous with the exception of the end-of-
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Do you think it's free for YouTube or Netflix to upload their content? Is bandwidth free for you when you host a VM on AWS? If you read about the economics of the internet backbone [1], while slightly old (2004), you can get a more inf
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I don't think your comparison is correct. > Assuming you have 10mbit internet access for $N/month: > * Paying +$20/m for 100mbit internet: OK > * Paying +$20/m for 100mbit access to "Top 100 websites":
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Snap shares fall nearly 9% after downgrade by Morgan Stanley(cnbc.com)
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> Can you elaborate specifically on the rules of the USA startup visa that didn't make sense? As someone pointed out a couple weeks ago [1]: > From the article: > "To qualify for the rule, entrepreneurs would have to meet
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by vmarsy 9y ago
What about 500k ? Because that's what the Seattle city council tax says [1]. So no, a family earning 200-250k will definitely not feel this tax Even if the limit was 250k, how would a family earning less than 250k feel the tax? It woul
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As discussed previously [1], this is good given how unattractive the visa rules were in the first place : > From the article: > "To qualify for the rule, entrepreneurs would have to meet high standards. A foreigner must demonstra
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Powershell is available on Linux these days, it was in 'alpha' version for a long time, apparently it's now 'beta' https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
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I don't know, but the reddit blog post says: > One of the worries we had with Flow was that it was built to solve specific needs at Facebook and that its future would be determined by that scope. if you replace [Flow/Facebook]
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There is a quality aspect regarding the "loudness war" : http://www.soundmattersblog.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness-... Making Vinyl sometimes better than CDs
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Like food business must deal with the cold-chain, Clothes businesses have distinctive features other retail areas don't have, there's a reason fitting rooms exists in clothing brick & mortar stores. How do you replicate the fi
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Interesting concept, however assuming you become popular enough, then you could be victim of lawyers trying to game the metrics. What happens if a lawyer choose to only defend a lot of easy to win cases to bump up their track record close t
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In the links you provide, you compare the F1 score for snips with other major competitors on 70 queries. Then you show the F1 score for snips on 2000 queries. Obviously you see improvements and that's good. What I don't understan
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Our comments are not incompatible, I'd say, given Google's and other companies recruiting standards, the difficulty of the immigration process, there must be a huge foreign engineers survivorship bias. Despite a not-as-good-as-t
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top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 fatest supercomputers in the world also has more details on this [1] > The PathForward program [...] address the four key challenges: parallelism, memory and storage, reliability and energy
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> But I also learned management (how to hold a meeting, how to manage conflict) and project management (Gantt-diagram, Agile and Scrum) and some basis of ITIL > And even more related to the entrepreneur-ship world I had lessons about
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I can see those cuts in corporate tax being good to increase startup competition. Some of the other big remaining issues to see highly successful startups are salaries and lack of tech talent. We could argue that startup salaries aren&#x27
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A quick estimation [1] shows that a $130000 salary in the US is equivalent to around $105k / 139k CAD. There are some of the top companies in the SV who pays this as base salary, is is there 139k CAD companies in Montreal? What's
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by vmarsy 9y ago
In France a retailer similar to BestBuy has a "Lab"[1] that usually has objective reviews, using a set of standards to compare items of the same category. Here's an example: [2], you can scroll to the conclusion to see the gr
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by vmarsy 9y ago
How much is it exactly? I thought you can't beat Free's prices in France with 2€/mo for 1h phone and unlimited text, and 20€/mo for everything unlimited : phone/text/4G. Since they showed up all other telcos in
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Most important part of the article is that the offender is a recruiter: > Jane Doe alleged that a recruitment conversation on LinkedIn took a turn for the inappropriate when she received sexual messages from a banker—using his corporate
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It's a well known subject in Accounting : Depreciation [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depreciation
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by vmarsy 9y ago
You can find papers more easily one "Google scholar", I found it there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528514
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Whither Software Engineering [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
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What position was this for? Maybe they have a quota of new undergrad from a specific school per year (If they assume that every school they go to has at least X% of candidates) or an overall quota. "no longer hiring fresh undergraduate
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Visual Studio Code 1.13(code.visualstudio.com)
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Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life(npr.org)
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WA state has strong protections and environmental standards, but I wouldn't consider it high tax (no income tax for instance). Is it an outlier?
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> I wish dearly that I could just enter my own order on the POS system when I am in such places Visit France. Not only the burger quality is much better there, but also you can order yourself on self serve POS systems for almost a decade
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> Yet France’s trains cost much less. Decades of expertise might be a reason here, France has the longest amount of (high speed rail miles / country area), and the non high-speed network is also huge. It's also possible that th

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