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by zaidf 9y ago
I’m not fan of Shrekeli but the 7 years seems to be excessive relative to other similar cases. For example, Rajaratnam got 11 years in what was dubbed as the biggest trading scandal on Wall Street. (source: https://www.reuters.co
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by zaidf 9y ago
I admire anyone who can do serious deep work from a WeWork location.
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by zaidf 9y ago
In 1999, the middle school I attended required meshed or see-through bookbags. May be more schools should put in policies like these while we wait on our politicians to do something.
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by zaidf 9y ago
As someone who is prescribed colchine for life for 3x/day, I remain blown away that a generic drug I'd taken for a better part of my life went from costing pennies to costing ~$6 per pill .
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by zaidf 9y ago
TLDR: if you notice an unauthorized ACH charge, call your bank and dispute it ASAP! Time matters. The scary thing about ACH is that your total possible exposure is not limited to the money in your account. Coinbase could do a $10,000 charge
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by zaidf 9y ago
Not to mention the shady fees. The last time I used instacart, there was a box checked called “service fee”, I clicked on it to see what it was and it said “this $10 charge is optional and helps us keep running instacart”. Meanwhile the ti
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by zaidf 9y ago
Amazon as a company is all about efficiency. The one area they have been slow to apply this (till now) is with user acquisition and retention. This is now changing. Right now amazon has hundreds of MBA Product Managers crunching data to det
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by zaidf 9y ago
ZimRide preceded UberCar. They largely targeted college campuses. Universities would pay them an annual subscription fee to enable ride sharing on their campus.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Lobbyists provide a better ROI than most lawsuits.
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by zaidf 9y ago
I keep telling myself that when someone finally takes Google down, AMP would standout as example of where Google went wrong. Basically, almost every search result I click on now requires THREE clicks: 1. click from the search page to the s
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Building an Ethereum dapp from scratch – How I built BiggestG.com(medium.com)
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by zaidf 9y ago
Those who have truly drunk the koolaid call this a feature not a bug. By that logic, I could say: "Those who have truly drunk the koolaid call the high price of gold a feature not a bug." Turns out much of the world revolves aro
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by zaidf 9y ago
Are they allowed to get salary history from data brokers like Experian?
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by zaidf 9y ago
Welcome to 1997. The ride is only starting.
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by zaidf 9y ago
What's actually stored on the ledger? Like if I make a blog post with title "Hello world" and body "1234", would those two strings be on the ledger?
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by zaidf 9y ago
There is only a handful of companies for internet search, no?
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by zaidf 9y ago
There is a difference between "a few months" and 7 years (and going).
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by zaidf 9y ago
Unrelated to Mac OS but I used to wonder all the time why iTunes connect was so shoddy. I got my answer when I learned Apple had outsourced a ton of backend work including iTunes Connect, App Store backend to Infosys in India. They’re now r
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by zaidf 9y ago
less noise, in terms of sound and visually (you see everybody passing by through the glass and have to force yourself not to look at them. For a while we had some posters up, but we had to remove them since wework’s company policy doesn’t
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by zaidf 9y ago
It wants to own the app store for enterprise services. If this is what WeWork is all about, then buying / leasing real estate worth hundreds of millions is a rather convoluted way of going about it.
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by zaidf 9y ago
Colocated hosting refers to a kind of hosting where Gitlab puts their own hardware inside of a data center. They primarily pay the data center for physical space (also called rackspace), bandwidth and power but they don't pay for the t
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by zaidf 9y ago
Hooked! Btw, I notice a bunch of subreddits have the word "porn" at the end of their name. Trimming that from the name may help you expand your audience. To give you an example, I shared a link to https://redditgrid.com
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by zaidf 9y ago
I wish someone would show how to rewrite Redux for React Native.
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by zaidf 9y ago
HN Editors should revise the headline since it seems far from established fact that the intern violated the MIT license. If it actually turns out that the intern did't violate the MIT license after all (as some seem to suggest), he sho
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by zaidf 9y ago
I've given up on pirating music but that is because I no longer need to. I can finally consume music in an easy way for a nominal fee.
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by zaidf 9y ago
I built a similar service when I was in school at UNC. Unfortunately, the IT dept blocked my server IP and asked me to shut down the service after it got press (and lots of usage.)
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by zaidf 9y ago
On a related topic, I hear the best practice is to make use of HTTP methods like PUT and DELETE. Am I in a tiny minority that wishes we could use verbs in URIs, ie http://api.blah.com/student/32/delete instead of
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by zaidf 9y ago
The point of a law is two folds: (1) to act as a deterrent (2) when violated and the violator is caught, to have an avenue to prosecute them (and provide some form of justice.) Even if you're completely right (I don't believe you
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by zaidf 9y ago
My hunch is, advance features such as those will cost a premium.
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by zaidf 10y ago
1. People want to preview the app once they have something to preview. That would probably be a more appropriate time to remind them they can see it on their phones. 2. QR codes are scary (at least for most in the American market; other cou

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