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Dara, the new CEO has said they are targeting a 2-3 year time frame for IPO.

Isn't it simply theft and punishment. Not sure how newsworthy are 5000 year old thefts.

Can always learn, what not to do.

Overhead didn't reduce black money, it just changed hands. From merchants to bankers and launderers.

That's too broad / vague. I understand that if my actions/words are making/will make other person uncomfortable, I should stop. But if a coworker changed her hair style and I compl…

Seems plot for reboot of Matrix, where Zion population is infested with nanobots.

Seems the AIs have taken personality of the developer and also their liking to create new language and frameworks.

Are people really concerned of privacy, or just witch hunt against some companies? Bigger privacy threats I see are always tracking, always listening device we keep in pocket, whic…

After using it in couple of projects, we see it as making complex tasks really intuitive. Maybe you are using it for some wrong problem.

Any such book for distributed systems?

Communism would't work, without some benevolent AI running it. People incharge of managing the system will have reason in billions to be corrupt. Such useful info, will always be m…

Acually, for safety, do NOT try to short the battery. Just youtube it.

if it is accrued over years, they'll have to pay some percentage as penalty over the regular tax rate.

India's population is a problem we have created ourselves. If you look at forest cover, US has 2x forest cover of India's. So yes for once I agree Indian's should stop looking outs…

What about IntelliJ or Chrome or any IDE for that matter.

either you don't use macbook or not interested enough to look for how to change that behavior. It is a single flag in preferences that allow you to use the keys as function keys an…

You can change Fn keys behaviour from prefs and I believed all developers would have defaulted to Function keys but seems not so. Chrome, IntelliJ, VSC all use Fn keys for debuggin…

They way this term is thrown around, curious if the posters ever understood the strategy or even read the linked wiki page.

They are two competing open source databases, knowing strength/weakness of each is always good. So unless the answer is `we rock, you suck`, it would be a useful info. for lots of …

Strategic View is simple I believe, they want developers back in there fold. MS sells Windows and most devs have no problem with its UI but want to use linux CLI, also some new too…

MSFT, if we ignore Windows10 :(

free time which now you are spending discussing about FB.

Its funny how every post about FB on HN, brings out users claiming not to use FB and so now they have so much free time now, which they can use to discuss FB :D