golgappi

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by golgappi 4y ago
It's basically a decentralized, censorship-resistant P2P internet. The philosophy has merit, but the performance sucks and it is currently mostly a venture capitalist funded scam.
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by golgappi 4y ago
You shouldn't believe it. Corporations are where the money is.
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by golgappi 11y ago
We had a perfectly working internal IRC system at work. For some managerial reasons, the decision was made to 'keep up with the trend and adapt to new softwares, firstly by moving on to Slack'. I am young, in my mid-twenties. I li
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by golgappi 11y ago
Not anymore. H1B lottery is useless now.
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Deconstructing K&RC Is Dead(c.learncodethehardway.org)
3 points by golgappi 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How shall I get started with theoretical physics and cosmology?
1 points by golgappi 11y ago|0 comments
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by golgappi 11y ago
The article doesn't say that information from B or C is useful. All it explains is only 2 particles can be entangled with each other. So either A is entangles with B or it is entangled with C, not both. Which means that either Anne&#x2
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by golgappi 11y ago
What's wrong with imagination, hypothesis and a simple analogy that can reach out to the masses? One might argue that your approach to science as only a set of facts based on formula is boring at best. One needs to ponder the meaning b
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FBI attacks botnet infecting 12,000 computers(usatoday.com)
1 points by golgappi 11y ago|0 comments
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by golgappi 12y ago
I work for an IT consultancy that has about 40 people and an open office. I have never had any issues. Probably because almost everyone is a developer/administrator and people mostly prefer communicating through IRC. The office space i
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by golgappi 12y ago
I work at a startup and I am 25. I have saved up some money and seriously considering retirement by the time I am 30. Not that I have a lot of money saved up. I just have a couple of thousand bucks. Nothing fancy. But to me it is a seed mon
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by golgappi 12y ago
Eh? He is not working for them.
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Is the potential of 'cyberwars' as great as some of us think it is?
1 points by golgappi 12y ago|1 comments
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by golgappi 12y ago
I understand citizens and residents of US have their own valid concerns regarding this issue. However, as a foreigner working on a temporary visa who was denied an H1B in last year's lottery, here's an alternate point of view - I
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by golgappi 12y ago
I wonder how tough it is to compete with Google Glass considering it has failed to get popular.
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by golgappi 12y ago
Am I right in understanding that the idea is to eliminate common WHERE conditions here, while decreasing the performance impact of views?
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by golgappi 12y ago
Aside from what others have said about Quanta being a layman's website, I would also like to point out that the special thing about science is everything is subject to debate and discussion, no matter however established it might be. W
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by golgappi 12y ago
We have some exoplanets 100-500 light years away that seem very earth-like. I think the first step to finding a lifeboat is to start researching on space shuttles speeds (faster than light), wormholes, teleportation etc. As far-fetched as t
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by golgappi 12y ago
Agreed that few things like pillow fighting are not at all misogynistic, but the title of the book should've been "Barbie The Game Designer" or similar. Saying that Barbie is a computer engineer and then having stuff like &qu
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How many of you use a Linux distro as your primary desktop OS?
30 points by golgappi 12y ago|66 comments
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by golgappi 12y ago
There is a problem in the author's views, but its not what you pointed out. On one hand the author feels she loses her cultural identity by trying to mingle with a while group. On the other she advocates diversity. And yes, she also f
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by golgappi 12y ago
Looks like its just one guy being a d
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by golgappi 12y ago
Aside from actual CS knowledge, I think it would benefit MBA students that do not have a background in CS to know how software development and deadlines usually work. Would be nice if you manager understands that building a bug free softwar
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by golgappi 12y ago
Seems like a product to target pseudo nerds.
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by golgappi 12y ago
This is comparing apples with oranges. The author (him/her)self acknowledges the use case is completely different, and still goes on to compare numbers. Not sure what the intent is here. Its like Reddit boasting that its user base is l
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by golgappi 12y ago
> The biggest step is admitting to yourself that you're different. I'm straight, so I probably don't get it. So I might be wrong. But it feels like that's the wrong way to go about it. I see gays and lesbians regularl
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by golgappi 12y ago
Telemetry
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by golgappi 12y ago
| If you're failing, you're doing something right. Wrong. This only goes on to emphasize the stigma associated with failures. This sentence is a cover up for the fact that someone did something wrong, or at the very least, things
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by golgappi 12y ago
my graduate advisor had studied CS from Harvard. She never mentioned it. I got to know one day when I was going through her Bio. I mentioned it in the next meeting and all she did was smile faintly. People with substance don't need to
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by golgappi 12y ago
the asshole isn't killing himself/herself.

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