jalayir

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by jalayir 8y ago
Ordering is just a special case of categorizing.
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by jalayir 8y ago
I think part of your question is, why does every p2p app not work on all platforms equally well. This is true of pretty much 90% of apps and software - they don't work on all platforms equally well. This is because of conscious design
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by jalayir 9y ago
The decks are stacked up with containers. No room for sails
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by jalayir 9y ago
The prices of modern appliances have come down due to really intricate miniaturization of many components, which enables larger scale manufacturing and cheaper supply chains. Because of the prices being low, it's not really worth it to
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by jalayir 9y ago
Yeah that was classic Man-in-the-Middle attack.
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by jalayir 9y ago
Have your run ANALYZE? ;)
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by jalayir 9y ago
> The big Mac will constitute nearly 50% of calories in a meal The big mac in India is chicken, and a lot smaller. Edit: Also, it's called The Maharaja.
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by jalayir 9y ago
India is hardly resource rich. Especially not per-capita.
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by jalayir 9y ago
Wow looks a bit like the venerable MiG-25 foxbat
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by jalayir 9y ago
Equifax worked, the other two failed for me
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by jalayir 9y ago
You also missed out violence inflicted on colonies, in Asia and Africa.
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by jalayir 9y ago
The big assumption in David Brooks' piece is that the so-called "manifesto" was Damore's one and only "transgression". Were there other, previous internal complaints about him, and this was the straw that broke
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by jalayir 9y ago
In the article, the author clearly provides clickable references in the form of hyperlinked text. I don't think he claims "he dug the proof himself".
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by jalayir 9y ago
The first example (tree represented in Japanese) seemed a bit misleading, because the "alphabet" has not been kept as a constant. Since the Japanese alphabet is much larger, it may be argued that the number of bits actually occupi
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by jalayir 9y ago
Mr. King sounds like inspiration for some part of George Smiley's character.
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by jalayir 9y ago
Yes, in India, shops don't close in the middle of the day. But business is very slow during those few hours.
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by jalayir 9y ago
I think every story is different, and it all depends on the individual circumstances. I worked for a startup where the founder was a "family man" - with an extensive family, and he was doing great at work afaik. Wasn't sacrif
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by jalayir 9y ago
Could excess power from CA be exported to Mexico or Central America?
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by jalayir 9y ago
Yes, but they did hold a lot more of Afghanistan than the British.
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by jalayir 9y ago
> there never was one power that controlled the whole subcontinent There were several - indeed, the British had it easier because the Mughals had dissipated within living memory, and all their bureaucracies and systems were still functio
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by jalayir 9y ago
> My mentor suggested to stay at Google until I find an interesting startup idea to work on. This is a sound piece of advice. However, it looks like you're very keen on traveling. Maybe you can take a 3-month unpaid sabbatical from
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by jalayir 9y ago
Not really. You can't use just any soil for construction, it has to be a sandy/grainy variety.
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by jalayir 9y ago
> Almost everything the Soviets built The T-34. The epitome of sound, sensible, pragmatic engineering.
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by jalayir 9y ago
Do you mean the ones who are actually employed by AWS, or anyone who works as a Solutions Architect focussing on using AWS technologies?
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by jalayir 9y ago
> lowering our bar for hiring Let me guess, Amazon?
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by jalayir 9y ago
Not sure about the quality of this piece. One company, Cognizant, is obviously in some form of trouble. The others are laying off a few hundreds/thousands jobs, on a base of 100K+ employees, as part of the performance review process. T
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by jalayir 9y ago
Do a lot of these "data quality" problems go away if you were simply to use a relational DB, and related best practices, like table versioning, PKs, using a last_updated timestamp for each row, etc.?
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by jalayir 9y ago
The hackability of the GPIO pins is what keeps me going back to Raspberry Pi.
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by jalayir 9y ago
> Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western Not really. The need for maintenance occurs when a specific "Thing" has been around for long enough, and when the institutions, schools of thought that sustain that Thi
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by jalayir 9y ago
> What _are_ the "correct" use cases for NoSQL? When you need a highly available and reliable DB for your application, then you need a cluster approach for data replication. Most popular SQL DBs are single-node, with some appli

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