karim

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by karim 3y ago
One year into it you knew the company was going to fail yet you stayed on for 3 more years? What happened there?
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by karim 3y ago
A single ticket in the Paris metro is €1.90 (about $2) flat for anywhere in the network, and not considering subsidies, monthly etc.
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by karim 3y ago
"Common People" by Pulp is a great example of that
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by karim 3y ago
Not all of HN is German :)
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by karim 3y ago
So, just like taxis who for some strange reason never seemed to accept credit cards, or would hold your luggage hostage if you didn't add a tip?
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by karim 3y ago
They were able to spoof tokens for a long time, access mailboxes, etc. If this isn't enough for you, there's also ChaosDB, the cross-account vulnerability Palo Alto found ( https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/azure-
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by karim 3y ago
All vendors have weaknesses, but few have Microsoft's cavalier attitude towards security. Case in point: https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key... If you bragged to me about being locked into
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by karim 3y ago
Do you think the controllers in the field are the one making the rules or are you just casually racist
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by karim 4y ago
Especially given current population trends — there are no guarantees you'll be able to sell your house for much more than you bought it in 30 years.
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by karim 4y ago
This article kinds of buries the lede here: the author is working on a fully raytraced version of Jedi Outcast! I’d be really curious to hear how easy it was to adapt the Q3 engine for this!
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by karim 5y ago
The illustrations on this landing page are beautiful!
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by karim 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to get back to me! This is super interesting!
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by karim 5y ago
Wow that’s very impressive! If you don’t mind, I’d be curious to hear more about your career transition into and out of being a paramedic.
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by karim 5y ago
Could be that Amazon sold you a counterfeit copy — it happens a lot with popular titles because of their inventory commingling.
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by karim 6y ago
Most likely they didn't have a VAX in the same building they could do that with, so they had to improvise. These things were pretty big and expensive ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX#/media/File:VAX_11-
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Feedback Loops, Momentum, and Excitement(jimmyhooker.com)
2 points by karim 6y ago|0 comments
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by karim 6y ago
One reason I think ebikes are great is because their main target isn't hardcore cyclists but everyday people who need to get from one point to another easily. Ebikes require a bit more maintenance than a regular bike for sure, but a lo
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by karim 6y ago
Absolutely. Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection. You have to remember that before that people were building line of business applications in C or C++. Java made it possible for av
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by karim 6y ago
There actually is a measure on the ballot to modify prop 13 this year: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Tax_on_Commercial_and_Ind... — as you said, this is the year for it to pass.
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by karim 6y ago
Genuinely curious, would you mind explaining why some operation can be fast in software but slow in hardware?
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by karim 7y ago
Nylas | Senior Sales Engineer | SF | ONSITE, VISA | Full-time | https://nylas.com The Nylas Cloud APIs makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications.
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by karim 7y ago
ex-H1-B employee here. I think your advice is well-meaning but far off the mark. There's two reasons for that: - first, US visas are complicated but not that complicated. Plenty of people have been in that situation before and there is
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by karim 7y ago
That's straight from their S-1, page 6: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1598674/000104746920...
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by karim 7y ago
Genuinely curious — what happens when Spreedly or TokenX are down, though?
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by karim 7y ago
Here's one way to see things – there's around 3.6M software engineers in the US. Google has 100k employees, so let's assume they have 50k engineers. Do you think the top 1% of engineers in the US all work at Google? Obviously
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Show HN: Aube, an email-based Twitter client(aube.email)
1 points by karim 7y ago|0 comments
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by karim 7y ago
Whoa, are you the Bernard Fabrot that wrote intro to Linux books in the late '90s early '00s ( https://www.amazon.com/Bernard-Fabrot/e/B004N6XBQC/ref=ntt_d... )? If yes, I have to say thank you very m
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by karim 8y ago
> I'm not saying that people don't have the right to morally object something like this project, but it's kind of baffling that many are loudly voice their concerns while looking the other way when tweet from their Chinese
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by karim 8y ago
Nylas | Staff Software Engineer | Full-time | SF, NYC or REMOTE The Nylas Cloud API makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of busines
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by karim 8y ago
This is unnecessarily harsh. Sometimes there are circumstances outside of your control. I don't think it's a good idea to judge someone's career when you don't know them.

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