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Smirnoff

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About Smirnoff

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #24675383

    Telegram messenger is encrypted? That's news to me.

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    Comment #20993666

    That’s called negative profits or earnings before taxes/depreciation/etc . By definition revenue can’t be negative.

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    Comment #20241150

    Thanks. I think Terminal on a Mac needs somewhat a different command since the above-mentioned command won't execute.

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    Comment #20241117

    This command does work but doesn't lead to any meaningful results (at least in my case when I don't remember the exact file name)

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    Comment #20241102

    I assume you're suggesting to bring up a Finder, which really doesn't fix the problem after I search in the Finder.

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    How do I search files on a Mac?

    I know this question might sound dumb but what happened to regular search on Mac? I have an mp4 file called "8 min Abs workout" in my Videos folder and the finder just doesn't show…

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    Comment #19868036

    His argument wasn't about protecting himself from Paypal's erroneous withdrawals. It's about not letting paypal to freeze his funds at Paypal

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    Comment #19336679

    "Intense trek through the mountains" is more like a vacation when you go through real stress while building your company.

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    Comment #19297078

    From what I understand the reason why YC is offering this Advisor Edition classes is to get these non-YC alum advisers ready for the regular version of the YC Startup school. Last …

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    Comment #18267238

    Our Android developer silently inserted cryptocurrency mining code into the new release, pushed the clean version to github, but submitted the infected version to Google Play. Afte…

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    Comment #18115096

    Duke won’t admit without 10 years of experience? That’s a lie. Please cite sources because their admission stats beg to differ.

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    Comment #17732038

    I believe HN takes a holistic approach and takes other criteria into consideration. My downvote button was activated after my karma reached 500.

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    Comment #17666781

    Ok, I agree that some MBAs can be full of it but can we already stop this MBA hate on HN? I feel like lots of people here think that if you build something then customers will sure…

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    Comment #16706045

    Lots of local services in Central Asia depend on it for communication and operations via telegram bots. We just lost hundreds of orders during lunch rush hour. Users couldn't place…

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    Comment #14201622

    Hi Jon. Any plans to extract interactions as code from modern prototyping tools (e.g. Principle) to Xcode? AirBnB recently released Lottie that requires After Effects but when comp…

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    Comment #13469876

    So true. I used to work closely with investigations department during my tenure at Western Union. There have been so many heartbreaking stories of people emptying their retirement …

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    Comment #13443296

    Please see the posted video above. It's very clear how Quora forwards me to sign up page right after I open the link on Google. I never tapped on anything after I got to that page.…

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    Comment #13442854

    Here, I quickly recorded the above-mentioned situation and posted it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOMwRwXLcg

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    Comment #13442729

    I could make lots of guesses why you don't experience Quora the same way I do. None of that would change the fact that I can't see the information I am being promised to see on Goo…

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    Comment #13442518

    Let's take a look at Quora's case. Please do the following: 1. Open your mobile browser. 2. Ask a question on Google and add "quora" so you get some results. 3. Open Quora's result…

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    Comment #13442472

    I really would like to see Google penalize websites that force you to login after google showed these websites in the results. 1. Take Linkedin for example: you search for a person…

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    Comment #13212326

    What will that intro lead to? Someone getting a job or someone not getting a job and pissing off the investor?

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    Comment #13062554

    Like someone below said bots are more complicated than just clicking on what brings them money. In order to be not detected as bots, they need to behave like humans. Hence, they li…

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    Comment #12810043

    I really wish there was a prototyping tool that could serve as a learning tool to jump from being a designer to a programmer. The problem with tools like Origami (and Framer.js) is…