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xaranke

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About xaranke

Software Engineer @ Amazon

Email: k@aranke.org

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    Comment #18181521

    Without context on how this data was gathered it's mostly meaningless.

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    Comment #18171960

    Which is why getting an equally-skilled workforce in the same timezone at a fraction of the cost would be a huge selling point, would it not? Add to that less friction around growi…

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    Comment #18158445

    Maybe this is a dumb question, but it what stops Aviva from publishing new prices every minute or every second? > prices for the funds were published each Friday, and clients were …

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    Comment #18125021

    > The cities considered the global "Big Four" fashion capitals of the 21st century are Milan, London, New York and Paris. It does have fashion, but it's not the biggest by any stre…

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    Comment #18124802

    So random to bump into a fellow Terrace House fan on HN.

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    Comment #18124482

    LA is not a fashion capital: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion_capital .

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    Comment #18124042

    Looks good, but not a big fan of the autoplaying video. If I could click a button and start playing the video instead that would be great.

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    Comment #18086414

    A Map for Saturday, definitely opened my eyes to spending a gap year traveling the world. Maybe some day. Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R07DF6C/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

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    Comment #18023010

    Obama's final State of the Union is a good start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlLSBTAg0aM . More archived videos are available here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGknzyQfN…

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    Comment #18022970

    Putting the link in youtube-dl and watching offline works for me.

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    Comment #18022878

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/290376045

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    Comment #18020328

    Can you elaborate more on the "algorithms in JS" bit? What libraries/tools are they using? Why JS versus Python or JVM languages?

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    Comment #17948145

    Midwest US - Columbus Southern US - Raleigh < Atlanta = Austin

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    Comment #17938928

    Right, but without an HQ there is no anchor.

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    Comment #17938088

    I don't know if you can have a successful startup ecosystem without anchor BigCo companies that bring people to the area and eventually when these people leave they become VCs/foun…

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    Comment #17936324

    I hate talking on the phone, I'd much rather prefer an app. The fact that The Oatmeal[1] has a comic on this means that it's more than just me. [1]: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/ph…

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    Comment #17935777

    That's only part of the story, India greatly benefits from population density in urban areas.

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    Comment #17921325

    The results for ElasticSearch are from 2015, curious to see how relevant they are now especially given that the team has been working on addressing these issues in the interim.

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    Comment #17921290

    Is it just me, or does 33 pages of risk factors seem pretty high?

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    Comment #17921106

    Placeholder comment to calculate the time before Google inevitably shuts this down.

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    Comment #17915511

    This was great, thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #17914775

    You can adjust the F-keys in the preferences. That and remapping caps lock to control is something I always do.

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    Comment #17913894

    Cool, will take a look. Thanks!

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    Comment #17913745

    Until recently, MacOS was the only OS with all of the following available natively: a Unix shell, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite. The fact that they made great hardware als…