justlearning

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by justlearning 10y ago
the graph showing gdp is very skewed. China was not an open market in 1985. in the recent legislative elections,pro democracy voters won.it will be a tough fight for china.people here are prepared to sacrifice multiple generations for freed
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by justlearning 13y ago
quanaut, sorry if i sound pedantic. Here's my question - could you please share your experience with a mechanical keyboard to conclude on your statement "For coding, you're gonna be fine with literally any keyboard, including some $20 logit
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by justlearning 14y ago
Christian, I am going to be blunt with you. All of us giving advise is not going to help you. You are going to feel good about for a day or two - you asked for advice and that's the first step to solve problems. But you won't be taking any
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by justlearning 14y ago
"So now I have to hire a lawyer to try to figure all this out." forgive my ignorance, but isn't Arrington a lawyer?. Question - Why does a lawyer need to hire another lawyer to represent him? Although, there are several branches of law spec
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Why Do Americans Hate Android And Love Apple?(readwrite.com)
15 points by justlearning 14y ago|3 comments
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Microsoft’s Cloud-Friendly Office 365 Launches(wired.com)
1 points by justlearning 14y ago|0 comments
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by justlearning 14y ago
Working alone sucks. The learning barrier varies every day. Some days, you feel you are a superman coder doing simple stuff. Other days, you feel like a drained out rat stuck on a syntax error. So, I understand how you may have felt when yo
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by justlearning 14y ago
does anyone know why Cisco sold Linksys? As far as I recall, Cisco wanted to enter the consumer market (as opposed to their enterprise presence). Did they fail? I like the fact that Cisco is not afraid of letting go stuff they acquired. Las
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a lightweight virtual machine(oss.readytalk.com)
2 points by justlearning 14y ago|0 comments
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by justlearning 14y ago
I had an interesting thought experiment after replacing "quiet" with "privacy". While not everyone may not agree on the word replacement, I go through similar emotions (as the author describes) when someone posts a photo (that has me and ot
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by justlearning 14y ago
This post is already 14 hours behind, but here's what worked for groggy mornings. Groggy mornings are attributed to a dehydrated body. 1) Drink couple of (large) glasses of water. 2) First thing you do after waking up, is drink water. Cold
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What one line of code can teach us(h-online.com)
2 points by justlearning 14y ago|0 comments
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by justlearning 15y ago
Might I join your frustration team? (I am also not an American) Which country in the world has something called as "Federal Inspection"; it's not "immigration", it's "federal inspection". By the mere wording, it sounds like I am walking int
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Your data on Google.(google.com)
1 points by justlearning 15y ago|2 comments
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by justlearning 15y ago
might I add that if you are a techie/programmer (anything to do with the 'backend'), you are not valued. If you are an ad guy, artist, creative blah, designer blah, you are still given a smile. A programmer in the opinion of the suit coats(
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by justlearning 15y ago
I agree, although in theory. It would a different set of priorities for a single child whose parents toiled in government factories (or even to till land - often migrating across countries to work just because they were 'transferred'). The
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by justlearning 15y ago
pg, The last time you did this was using etherpad. It was interesting to see your write up( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557191 ). It was a learning experience for an amateur like me. I haven't spoken to you, but It felt like I did
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Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?
392 points by justlearning 15y ago|78 comments
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by justlearning 15y ago
another perspective as someone who frequented edison(indian food - oak tree road!) and lived near by - there's a swarm of small bodyshops, who pay bit more than market rate.My experience is that this "market rate" as per stats is what newc
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How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History(wired.com)
1 points by justlearning 15y ago|0 comments
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Time to Hang Up the Sleeping Bag (2010)(blog.redfin.com)
3 points by justlearning 15y ago|0 comments
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The Start-Up of You(nytimes.com)
1 points by justlearning 15y ago|0 comments
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A Mathematician's Lament [pdf](maa.org)
4 points by justlearning 15y ago|0 comments
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by justlearning 15y ago
" I conceived, designed and implemented a compelling prototype for it almost single-handedly, and then wrote a fair percentage of the production ......but that's pretty much as far as it goes." That's some modesty!.
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by justlearning 15y ago
Matt, What about someone who travels for most part of the year , in my case working out of asia for larger part of the year, but US being my home base. I could put my US cell phone (which is deactivated for most part of the year - like thi
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by justlearning 15y ago
Having Oracle as your db doesn't mean that you are not working on interesting problems. Every company is not a startup. Some of us work on well established products used by huge customer base who use Oracle and in turn we are forced to. Abo
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by justlearning 15y ago
".. always amazed by the little clues that are behind by otherwise proficient non-native speakers." could you elaborate?
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by justlearning 16y ago
the torrent file is at : http://code.google.com/p/khanacademy/downloads/list
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by justlearning 16y ago
I can't argue about the legal vs illegal. I sure would like to tell the bing team that they should better google in their attempts. This strategy is mere copying into- 'look, I am as good as google'. Microsoft never learns from past do they
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by justlearning 16y ago
"I've found that stopping reading the conversations has been the easiest part, but that HN's filter of interesting stories is hard to beat." (imo) the conversations/comments make HN more than the stories. When I read the comments before the

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