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by vthallam 8y ago
Well, guess this is a way to add small units to extra space people have which could then be served as Airbnb's. Overall, Airbnb experience is not the same. The prices are equivalent or in certain cases more than what Hotels charge. And
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Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?(nytimes.com)
273 points by vthallam 8y ago|305 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
> It’s not about Definers. It is about us, not them. Lol. I mean FB stopped working with them only after they were under scrutiny. Pure damage control
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American Exorcism(theatlantic.com)
1 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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Bloomberg donates record $1.8B to Johns Hopkins(cnn.com)
2 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy(bloomberg.com)
154 points by vthallam 8y ago|65 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
As the top comment says, information flow at the right time makes all the difference. When you do something nice, put something in your slack channel like "man I finally got this elastic search issues fixed. the search is faster now an
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China is winning the trade war with America for now(ft.com)
13 points by vthallam 8y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: K8S – A Curated Kubernetes Newsletter Delivered Weekly(k8s.co.in)
15 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
Why wouldn't the previous employer rehire though? Unless the employee is someone who was just sitting around and not contributing to the company.
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by vthallam 8y ago
It is over 10 years per job. That will ideally by tax by an amazon employee over 5 years. Doesn't reflect the passive economic growth and indirect jobs that gets created over the time. Also, Amazon and the new Google's expansion w
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by vthallam 8y ago
We use functions on the struct. I know it's not ideal but just works for us.
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by vthallam 8y ago
I haven't used dropwizard, but used Spring boot extensively. While it definitely helps me move faster and write less boilerplate, it's still way too verbose relative to Golang. And talk about the build size, time and the fact that
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by vthallam 8y ago
Not op, but I don't think people would want to go from Ruby to Java. I was working on Java before I was a Go dev, feel, Java is too verbose. Go is so simple to start with and you don't need "frameworks" for deploying a p
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by vthallam 8y ago
My life has come a full circle. Moved to the facebook messenger, WhatsApp, Snapchat for texting and now only prefer iMessage or text messages. The number of groups you added to in WhatsApp and the meaningless forwards make me open those ap
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by vthallam 8y ago
Sensationalist much? And that too coming from a guy who worked for a company who is bending over backwards(Zuck on board for Tsinghua Univ, asking Chinese president to name his baby etc). If not for China, there's no room for growth in
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by vthallam 8y ago
I think in the long run, it would Netflix vs Amazon Prime. The prime channels is a very unique way to keep users in a single app and access the content from other networks. I synced my HBO to Prime, so I don't have to switch apps. They
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The Myth about Golang Frameworks and External Libraries(hackernoon.com)
1 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
wait homepage is something you see on every new tab, isn't it?
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by vthallam 8y ago
Because of the cold wind. Snow is one thing, but the cold wind blowing at you is something people won't be comfortable facing while on a scooter. But yeah, 40F-60F's is completely okay for a shorter scooter rides I guess.
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Uber’s Secret Restaurant Empire(bloomberg.com)
9 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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Golang Benchmarks: Standard Libraries vs. Frameworks(medium.com)
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by vthallam 8y ago
I'd say that was the right thought process. Whether it works or not, most money making side projects start this way.
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The Myth about Golang Frameworks and External Libraries(medium.com)
3 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
that's not how things work.
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by vthallam 8y ago
This is crazy. It shows how the social graph is so brittle. My girlfriend's account was one of the affected and since then she keeps getting these random messages from profiles who look like ex military. No idea how they even find her
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Saudi journalist who disappeared recorded his final words on Apple Watch(youtube.com)
3 points by vthallam 8y ago|0 comments
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by vthallam 8y ago
How would graphql help reduce the latency of API calls between services?
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by vthallam 8y ago
Sorry to hear that. Are you still in India waiting for your visa to be processed? Know the reason for administrative processing?
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by vthallam 8y ago
Usually, jobs follow. Big companies already use Canada as a bench for foreign workers who couldn't get the H1-B through lottery. In the last couple months, I heard 2 big announcements, Microsoft establishing their Canada HQ[0] in Toron

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