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by ark15 10y ago
Haven't read the article yet (I usually read HN comments first before reading the original) but your comment caught my attention. If you are really curious to see how well you could do in solitary confinement, maybe one of the ways to
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by ark15 10y ago
>Can you explain why archaeologists, astronomers and professors have the highest life expectancy and athletes and body builders have that among the lowest? That's a pretty serious statement hidden as a question. Can you point to you
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by ark15 11y ago
>> Clients who push hard for zero dollar pricing don't value the relationship. Long term B2B relationships are built around mutual success and the value of working with the same people on future projects. >> Essentially no
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by ark15 11y ago
Or to walk away, you could use one of the 17 Mindy Kaling Inspired One-Liners For Escaping A Conversation - http://www.slideshare.net/sidekick/17-mindy-kaling-inspired-...
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by ark15 11y ago
Yes. My workflow is similar to yours. Also, I have noticed I bookmark the HN item, not the actual story link. For some reason, reading the articles seem like a waste of time in a way that reading the comments on the article on HN does not.
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by ark15 12y ago
This. Is what I do, exactly! most of the times, I work _with_ the client's in house dev teams so that they can take over when we are done. I _love_ this model as everybody wins. Key is to staff with the right people offshore.
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by ark15 12y ago
I use Keepass + $cloudsyncprovider so that my KDB file is available where ever I need it.
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by ark15 12y ago
Will work for now but you are still following a pretty straightforward 'pattern' that the algorithms can easily catch up with if algorithm authors wanted them to. (i.e. if too many people start doing this) I guess using random@do
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by ark15 12y ago
I am an Android phone user, past iPhone user and current iPad user and my experience has been the exact opposite. Google Now always understands me better than Siri. When Siri fails for me, I sometimes ask my 7 year old to talk the same thin
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by ark15 12y ago
I have run into 2, 3, 4, 5 as well. And in general, I often feel like the tool is not telling me what it is doing (especially while handling large repos when operations some time take considerably longer) I have since switched to SourceTre
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by ark15 12y ago
I don't have much to add but just wanted to say that IMHO, this is an example of hacker mindset at its best. Great Job. Congratulations!
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The Ultimate Startup Guide To Outbound Sales by Steli Efti(gumroad.com)
1 points by ark15 12y ago|0 comments
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by ark15 12y ago
Can you elaborate with a few examples? I am curious.
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by ark15 12y ago
Just bought. Haven't yet read it yet but if I go by the table of contents, it seems to be well thought of and rich in content. Thanks for the promo code. Also, thanks for all your writing on the topic that I have consumed for free. (Gl
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by ark15 12y ago
I do not mind reading about this every year, even if it is the same news and 'nothing new to see here' Just being reminded about Voyager and the vastness and other miracles of space helps put that daily to-do list in perspective.
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by ark15 12y ago
I second your JavaFX Webview recommendation. And if you are using JavaFX, you can always use its built-in native packaging tool http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/self-contained-pa... Not to say every
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by ark15 12y ago
Two issues with your landing page 1. major - Breaks back button 2. minor(nitpick) - If I click on the green "notify me" button and then "cancel" on the prompt dialog instead of "OK", it still shows me the green
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by ark15 12y ago
Background - I have been using ExtJS in production systems since before they started charging for it (remember yui-ext?) I have worked with all of their major releases and am now dabbling in ExtJS 5. It is obvious that OP has great deal o
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by ark15 12y ago
I don't have any words of wisdom since there are too many people here who are smarter than I am that you should be listening to. But for whatever it is worth - I signed up to freelanceinbox to show my support. Not sure how useful it wo
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by ark15 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based in TX) I am originally a full stack enterprise software engineer with focus on building web/backend applications on HTML5 & JAVA stack. -- I have realized that my ability to communicate equally effectiv
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by ark15 12y ago
===Frontend=== - Sencha products (ExtJS 4.x, Touch) - jQuery ===Backend=== - Java 7 - Jersey (for Restful Services) - Sometimes springramework ===Deploy=== Glassfish or Tomcat fronted by Nginx and hosted on corporate servers OR aws stack OR
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by ark15 12y ago
Just wanted to say that the time, effort and thought you have put in this project is a very apparent once you spend a few minutes poking through the UI. Excellent execution. I like how as a new user, you get to start 'simply' (no
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by ark15 12y ago
Any good/bad experience using prebuilt VM images that contractors can just download and start working in ? (Struggling with kind of the same issue) I also tried Amazon Workspaces the day it was released but it looks like the RDP connec
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by ark15 12y ago
I second that. I sometimes wonder why FogBugz+Kiln combination has not 'caught on' as much as other offerings like github, atlassian products, etc. My only (but major) gripe I have with FogBugz is that it is stupidly hard to inser
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by ark15 13y ago
H1B Transfers don't count against the H1B quota. If you still have time left on your H1B (i.e. approved I797 petiton) and have not violated the 'leave immediately if out of job' rule, it is possible to have a new employer fil
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by ark15 13y ago
I use evernote (wish there was a better alternative) for notes I create but I use http://diigo.com extensively for online content that I consume. Why I like diigo - 1. Available everywhere - they have good, working extensions fo
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Previously unrecognized class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed(phys.org)
1 points by ark15 13y ago|0 comments
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by ark15 14y ago
Have you tried Zoho? http://www.zoho.com/mail/
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Netflix adopts poison pill to fend off Icahn(money.cnn.com)
8 points by ark15 14y ago|0 comments
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by ark15 14y ago
Switch your sim card over to Nexus 4. If you buy Nexus 4 unlocked, it can probably do out-of-the-box WiFi tethering (My Nexus One could but not sure if 4.2 stock android still has that feature preserved). To use your iPhone 5, connect it

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