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by jagtesh 4y ago
Ah. It all makes sense now. It is cheaper for them to layoff with a decent 3 month severance than it is to pay high interest on the debt that is funding their salaries (interest rate will stay high > 1 year, going by Powell’s comments).
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by jagtesh 4y ago
You have to scroll down a bit to the image that describes the keyboard in great detail. It includes a mouse trackball. The keys use some kind of clicky switches. The buttons themselves are possibly hard plastic (a good thing). Colour me imp
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Reserve Bank of India encourages cardholders to tokenise their (credit) cards(m.rbi.org.in)
3 points by jagtesh 4y ago|1 comments
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Summary: Merchants store the token, instead of credit card details. Token is only valid for use between merchant and payment provider (requests very likely need to originate from the registered merchant URL). Conceptually, similar to OAuth.
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Facebook (the social app) and Google (Ads, Play Store, etc) are no different. I’ve read countless accounts from many individuals and small/independent app developers about their accounts being suspended or terminated with little to no
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by jagtesh 4y ago
One big reason for this is the tax law in US and Canada. Legally, contractors (esp. when incorporated) are considered employees if they work exclusively for one client over an extended period of time without interruption. Occasionally, I h
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by jagtesh 4y ago
What’s wrong with removing the commands and adding shell aliases instead? That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. eg. In bash, they can be expressed as: alias fgrep=grep -F alias egrep=egrep -E This sounds like a push for purity - similar t
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Clever tricks in programming are an anti-pattern. When writing code in a social/collaborative setting, it is imperative to write it in an inclusive way. Heck, I’ll coin this term here - you heard it first on HN - inclusive programming.
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Social networks, news sites, online marketplaces or retail. I would imagine the experience to not be any different from trying to use the Twitter app when you lose connectivity. The app can choose to either: 1. Degrade the experience gracef
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Also a clear lack of empathy. I mean, sure, the person did something wrong. But have they stopped being human? Where is the humanity in squeezing every penny out of someone already broken and poor ($250/day is more than what many Ameri
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Pfizer vaccine becomes DNA in liver cells(youtube.com)
7 points by jagtesh 4y ago|3 comments
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by jagtesh 4y ago
In-vitro Swedish study Would love to understand from anyone what this could mean for liver cells that undergo this RNA to DNA transformation (and absorption?) into their nucleus. Please excuse my naïveté. I am completely unfamiliar with the
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by jagtesh 4y ago
I find it quite odd that payment providers are being singled out. They aren’t going after the cloud provider, or the other services helping this company run their operations. > if I belonged to a group of people who believe that such com
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by jagtesh 4y ago
You’re both right. Snowflake as a technical slang/jargon generally refers to “flaky” or light-weight solutions that aren’t expected to withstand the test of time/scale. Snowflake, the data warehousing platform, on the other hand i
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Last thing I expected to discover on HN. This is incredibly useful for any DIYer. Thanks OP! Edit: Usually I refrain from thank you posts on HN but I had to make an exception owing to the unique nature of this post.
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by jagtesh 4y ago
I used Nim for hobby projects many years ago (when it was fresh out of being called Nimrod). Then it went through a phase of constant (breaking) changes and I couldn’t keep up. The code you shared looks beautiful - you’ve convinced me to ta
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by jagtesh 4y ago
This is very cool! Nice work OP. A lot cleaner and intuitive than even Vala (which in itself was a giant leap forward in GTK development).
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Short unambiguous answer is yes. However, the destination doesn’t have to be limited to stock/bond markets. Think property, gold or toilet paper rolls. Last one is a joke. It’s hard to accurately measure investments flowing into proper
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by jagtesh 4y ago
You’re on point except for one big difference: a block chain is distributed. I don’t think it is foolproof, as no tech really is. But the concept seems to significantly raise the cost and complexity of an attack to compromise it. The simpl
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Extending programming patterns to how executive management operates: they need a very high level language with support for generics and abstractions to communicate efficiently without getting caught in the details. That is the job of lower
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by jagtesh 4y ago
The above commentator didn’t pretend to know anything. It’s an honest question and they asked with utmost humility. Here’s the question: what’s stopping a significant adoption of blockchain technology from a _business perspective_. I have m
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by jagtesh 4y ago
People forget that at the end of the day, we are biological machines. Neural networks are so effective because they are modelled after how our brains work (albeit in the simplest sense..so far). It learned by looking at chat conversations b
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by jagtesh 4y ago
> I don't understand what it changes for vc Their portfolio companies can go bankrupt. It is a Darwinian (survival of the fittest) moment for all the companies at this time. We’re experiencing a (likely) shrinking economy, with fewe
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Skimmed through. Here’s a thought: What’s the alternative to philanthropy? If the answer is “democracy“, what does it mean in this context? To me, that means an elected body that decides through representation what is the best use of funds.
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Granted, Oculus makes fantastic products that are making VR more accessible. However, as a business, it has been investment heavy[1]. Meta continues to make 10s of billions of dollars worth of investment to build an ecosystem around it. I
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Zuck controls the board though! Majority voting rights. Still, have to give it to him. Need guts to make such a call. WA and Instagram, the Crown Jewels of Meta. Then again, nobody wins all the time ( cough oculus cough ).
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by jagtesh 4y ago
This is easy - you need to work with your legal team to come up with a pre-planned stock trading plan. The thing is, you cannot buy/sell your stock on a whim (as you are privy to material information most shareholders are not). But you
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by jagtesh 4y ago
ADHD is the result of physical differences in the brain. You could be managing as well as a neurotypical individual, but that doesn’t mean you’re no longer someone with ADHD. You are born this way. Such as someone on the ASD spectrum.
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by jagtesh 4y ago
First of all, thanks for sharing this OP! So glad to see a way to query a df using SQL without further transformation. Arrow has been truly revolutionary in this regard, providing a solid in-memory data format (with performant APIs in many
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by jagtesh 4y ago
Early April 1 prank?

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