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focus2020

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    Comment #30056774

    This i fear. People who dont like the idea of immortal enforce others to be so. I am not saying the op is of this opinion, its my obsevation.

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    Comment #29986412

    From my personal observation people with responsibiltes grieve at a later time and don't like most at the the of the incicent. It takes about 3 months to grieve some cases about a …

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    Comment #29939279

    Enforcing staying at job via law enforcement is the definition of slavery. If people want to quit for higher wages let them. Market will move to equilibrium.

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    Comment #29806775

    I am quite puzzled how are you not good after solving 400 problems. I thought if you can solve about about 50 problems you can clear any faang interview.

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    Comment #28966749

    Probably this is true but how to say this without being judged as arrogant.

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    Comment #27843023

    DonKnuth comes to mind.

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    Comment #26673785

    What is the reference to "Dons"?

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    Comment #26411105

    My experience in image to text conversion softwares has not given confidence to use in production or as part of reliable workflow. What's unique or different about this tool compar…

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    Comment #25535003

    > "Religious books standing the test of the time.." Humans started to stay in one location after the invention of agriculture which is quite recent about 10000 years. The mass gath…

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    Comment #25525544

    It's annoying to see people signalling social status, but in reality that does have an effect. So keep identity small is good for the individual but not good for society.

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    Comment #25525150

    Item 14 says if -w3 is added the search result would be better. The symbol "-" isto filter out the results , but in this example whar does it mean to filter out "W3" mean ? >img ht…

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    Comment #25427073

    Give it a try, but stick to vanilla gdb tui mode. It's worth learning.

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    Comment #25247874

    HN comments on india are mostly pro caste. I believe this is due to first generation upper class Brahmins who are the majority here for now

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    Comment #25247503

    Cool. I am definitely missing this.

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    Comment #24952588

    Exactly. But I am glad that forced me to look at other options and found Emacs pdf-tools mode which is amazing

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    Comment #24951043

    The Netflix premium price rise of 1 and 2$ is in the front page of Slashdot. I could not understand why is this such a huge deal to be news worthy ? Am I missing something ?

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    Comment #24552689

    > A man who worked has worked for 20 yrs, paid taxes, provided for his family (in US and back home) ... You don't understand what you have taken for granted. In the name of hindu r…

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    Comment #24444363

    But it's not shocking in the Muslim world. They do it to themselves much worse in the name of Islam. That is different compared to non-Muslim countries.

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    Comment #24018632

    What else could have been done other than crypto scam to get away without being caught ?

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    Comment #23951740

    org-roam, pdf-tools Emacs mode, anki, org-mode.

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    Comment #23951685

    Remote work fights against ageism. That is one huge plus to me. I am in my 30's and worry about getting unemployed due to ageism. I am happy rote work is embraced.

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    Comment #23737176

    Emacs pdf-tools mode is very much underrated. Checkout the list of org-roam ecosystem emacs packages. I don't know if Emacs supports excel or word.

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    Comment #23731798

    Search can not be avoided. The alternative to search is to go through everything that has been read which is not feasible. Tagging is the only solution. The user has to remember th…

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    Comment #23730097

    Is Joelspolsky overrated ? There is no public code available to verify his competency like JohnCarmack. His writings are more about marketing and general technical knowledge. In my…