txttran

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by txttran 8y ago
I'd be interested in knowing more about the limits you hit in Singapore, if you're willing to share! Singapore is a really interesting city and as someone who moved to Hong Kong a few years ago, I've always wondered what life
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by txttran 9y ago
From: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... ['1', '2', '3'].map(parseInt); // While one could expect [1, 2, 3] // The actual re
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by txttran 9y ago
I'm always interested in reading about the inner workings of gangs. It seems like these biker gangs are not particularly sophisticated nor well organized, though. The main one in the story immediately lost cohesion when their leader fl
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by txttran 9y ago
You can! And usually with only a slight pay cut. There are a lot more remote-ok and remote-only companies now.
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by txttran 9y ago
Let's say I make $60k a year now in an unrelated field and I join your school, but after graduating, I was unable to find a job in software. Would I still be on the hook to pay you 17% of my income despite not landing a programming job
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by txttran 10y ago
This is what I don't understand about offshoring. People keep going to India and China to find devs when they can get very high quality English speaking devs from the UK, Australia, and Canada for about the same price (factoring in all
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by txttran 10y ago
What constitutes a startup? Because they did have customers and revenue for the service that they offered. They had everything that is part of a business (albeit, a very slow and unprofitable one). They're missing the ability to scale
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by txttran 10y ago
It says in the article that she has >50% equity.
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by txttran 11y ago
4sq has struggled mightily with traction/retention since the big change. Yelp is ubiquitous in the US and they are making strides into other countries.
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by txttran 11y ago
They said Groupon is one of the "examples of successful Chicago based startups". So it's no longer a startup. And it IPOed recently whereas Orbitz IPO'ed in 2003 so it's not a recent startup.
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by txttran 11y ago
I disagree on this. Casual poker players will just play his hand as he's not that experienced with reading people. While you are right that there is no DFS analogy to 'playing the player,' advanced DFS players build complex m
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by txttran 11y ago
I love how he ignores the top response to his question: "If knowledge of a candidate's previous salary doesn't influence your offer, why do you ask for it and what do you do with it?"
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by txttran 11y ago
SEEKING WORK San Francisco, but remote preferred. Full-stack LAMP Web Engineer (also proficient with node.js) Five years experience in Silicon Valley at both Zynga and as engineering hire #1 at a startup working on point of sales. I lead de
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by txttran 11y ago
You could save a bookmarklet that allows you to bypass the header: https://gist.github.com/jashkenas/9a4d9e648eb11aab394e Or you could just skip the article when you see it. I don't see why we'd ban wsj.com j
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by txttran 12y ago
What a disappointing product after such hype. Seems like a desperation pivot. I'd guess that the business partnerships didn't pan out and Apple supplants their proprietary technology with Apple's ecosystem. Given how crowded
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by txttran 13y ago
What tools do you recommend for centralized logging?
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by txttran 13y ago
Probability is 1/2^63 (each match eliminates 1 team, 63 matches to leave one champ). Or 1/(9.22 x 10^18)
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by txttran 13y ago
I believe conduit produces one of those adware toolbar plugins that get installed when you install utorrent, etc. It will also attempt to change your browser home page as well. I'm assuming that very few hits to conduit.com are actuall
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by txttran 13y ago
For everyone who is poo-pooing Coin because it's not a digital wallet, please answer this question: How long from now will most merchants that accept credit cards also start accepting an e-wallet of some sort? I honestly would be stunn
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by txttran 13y ago
Most of the time, when your debt has been sold off to a collection agency, you can negotiate with agency to pay a reduced amount, since it's the easiest outcome for them.
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by txttran 13y ago
There was a reputation system on SR similar to ebay.
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by txttran 13y ago
A post-IPO, $21B company is still a startup?
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by txttran 13y ago
How does a DNS service like AdFree prevent non-subscribers from using their servers?
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by txttran 13y ago
Slightly off topic, but the website of the company being talked about in this article ( https://ooomf.com/ ) take a REALLY long time to load on my computer.
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by txttran 13y ago
Ignoring the sound-loss test, I love this app simply because it's the only free equalizer for the iPhone that works with Spotify!
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by txttran 13y ago
1/3 of Kenyans use M-Pesa, a mobile money transferring platform. M-Pesa recently added support for bitcoin. So while 1/3 of Kenyans have a bitcoin wallet, most of them may not even be aware of this fact.
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by txttran 13y ago
CostCo and Wal-Mart have pretty different business models despite being competitors. It should be noted that CostCo's retail business, without the membership fees, is actually not profitable. It's the membership fees that put them
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by txttran 13y ago
Why is this targeted at large retailers? If the DC minimum wage is insufficient for "living", shouldn't it be raised, instead of a somewhat arbitrary law forcing only retailers to raise their wages?
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by txttran 13y ago
I'm a complete noob when it comes to cryptography. I understand that having a PRNG that doesn't return numbers with even distribution across a range is bad. Extreme example would be something like http://xkcd.com/2
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by txttran 13y ago
reminds me of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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