HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

fgandiya

176 karma · joined September 1, 2015

submissionscomments
fgandiya··on Recreational marijuana is now legal in California
Seems you're right. I guess that update thing isn't super accurate since I saw "repeal" as the chosen decision.
fgandiya··on Recreational marijuana is now legal in California
Cool. I as I was furious checking the polls, I noticed that a lot of referenda were being voted on.

Besides a lot of approved tax exceMptions and administrative stuff, some referenda include

* Asking DC to look into becoming it's own state as New Columbia

* Making Alabama a right to work state and Virginia did not

* Legal weed in California, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and North Dakota

* Raised minimum wage In Arizona, Colorado and Washington

* Washington wants to limit free speech to individuals and not corporations

* Background checks for purchasing weapons in California and nevada

* No universal health care in Colorado (80% no)

* Florida voted against allowing home owners to use solar to make their own electricity

* Indiana and Kansas voted for the right to fish hunt etc.

* Minnesota removed the power for officials to set their own salary

* Missouri wants voter ID laws

* Nebraska abolishes the death penalty

* Oklahoma makes the death penalty constitutional and let's them use unconstitutional means of execution

* New Jersey disallowed gambling in two more counties

* New Mexico allows the state to deny bail for felons

* Oregon let's universities invest in equities

* South Dakota keeps minimum wage as it is

Seems like weed is legal (to some degree) in lots of states. Also, it seems like change on the national level will only happen if they ripple through.

I got these from the Google election thingy.i don't know if the US has binding referendums, so don't if the things I mentioned may or may not happen.

fgandiya··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Fair enough, bit he ran under the Rep ticket...
fgandiya··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Ah well, and his party has house and Senate too. I've been looking through his policies and I'm amazed at how he won.

I'm gonna be angry about this for an hour before I give find something else to do.

fgandiya··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Cool, how welcoming are they to non Western immigrants? And also recent graduates?
fgandiya··on Live Presidential Forecast
Any suggestions on a country to start a career in tech. I was considering the US, but now I'm changing my mind.
fgandiya··on C for Python programmers (2011)
Interesting. My college used a lot of Python for nearly all the classes except for language seminars and some parts of other classes.

I asked my professors why and they argued that Python "doesn't get in the way" (static typing, compilation etc.) allowing us to focus more on learning the algorithms and theory.

fgandiya··on C for Python programmers (2011)
While we used some C for manipulating kernel stuff, we implemented a lot of the algorithms in Python since it let us do multi threading, multi processing, signals and a couple of others and my college uses a lot of Python...A bit too much Python now that I think about it.
fgandiya··on MacBook Pro is a lie
Exactly. I work at my college's library and we lend out the top line 15" MBP complete with GPU and 16GB RAM which are almost always checked out.

Most of the patrons only use Word and Safari on them anyway.

fgandiya··on Ask HN: You've got one month, what's your challenge?
Finish this Flask web app I've been putting off. And applying for internships.
fgandiya··on Open Letter to Tim Cook
Lenovo have a bunch of laptops which support 32GB and even 64GB RAM at under $2k like the T460. Then again, some of them don't have great SSDs or displays.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/landingpage/promotions/weekly-s...

fgandiya··on HP’s new Spectre x360 is probably the best PC laptop around
Not GP, but it's seems okay except for the sound which needs a bit of work http://askubuntu.com/questions/600528/is-ubuntu-compatible-w...
fgandiya··on An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
Condolezza Rice

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/condoleezza-rice/advisory-...

fgandiya··on The world’s most liveable cities
Looks like you'll have to pay for it. The best I could find was this.

http://pages.eiu.com/rs/783-XMC-194/images/Liveability_Augus...

fgandiya··on The world’s most liveable cities
Yeah, that surprised me as well. I'm worrying what caused the increase since things aren't really looking up right now.

But as venomsnske said, it could be that we have no civil war.

fgandiya··on Poor and Uninsured in Texas
Fair enough... But I still find it strange.
fgandiya··on Poor and Uninsured in Texas
I don't quite get this view. Why shouldn't they expect the government to help them out? That's why we pay taxes and reject them isn't it?
fgandiya··on Poor and Uninsured in Texas
From my Republican friends, it'd that they believe that it's there churches/Christian's responsibility to take care of the poor, not the government.
fgandiya··on T-Mobile to give every user unlimited data
But you still get other things. Video and music streaming is unmetered and you get free roaming in many countries with text and data.
fgandiya··on T-Mobile to give every user unlimited data
Urg... I wish TMobile had better coverage where I love. I'm stuck with AT&T which just halved my data plan, but they removed overages do it kinda makes up for it...
fgandiya··on Nike Open Source Software
John Deere are pretty cool. My college is 20 minutes away and they hire a lot of interns throughout the year.
fgandiya··on Nike Open Source Software
Interesting. I don't think of Nike as being really interested in tech, besides Nike+
fgandiya··on Robert Mugabe has pardoned all female prisoners in Zimbabwe
They did something similar in 2014 because the prisons were over crowded then[0].

To be honest, I don't know what the future is for Zimbabwe. Nothing really seems to work properly and we don't have money to do anything.

They are going to introduce bond notes pretty soon to ease the liquidity crisis, but none of the citizens want to use them. The government say that there's only going to be $200 million dollars worth and they're pegged to the US dollar, but they might pull a fast one to pay off the national debt.

I guess it's time to move to another country. Any suggestions?

[0]https://www.newsday.co.zw/2014/02/17/president-pardons-2-000...

fgandiya··on From web dev to 3D: Learning 3D modeling
Wow dude, those are some great scenes. I just finished a computer graphics class where we learned about the algorithms involved in computer graphics using python, which was super hard.

I just wish I knew how to make pretty things with it...

fgandiya··on Desmos Graphing Calculator – HTML5 with LaTeX editor
You have a lot of spare time pliny. Desmos renders it well, although zoomed out, it looks like bacteria under a microscope.
fgandiya··on Desmos Graphing Calculator – HTML5 with LaTeX editor
Wow. All I can say is thanks. This really helped me in my calculus classes, especially the more advanced topics, like parametric equations. It even works well across most devices too.

What are you guys planning on doing next?

fgandiya··on Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter
Damn...I guess Tay is way smarter than I originally thought.
fgandiya··on Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
You see, we're all about those dank memes. It even sent me out of of the blue. https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712699907606360065
fgandiya··on Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot
Tay seems really creepy, asking me to DM and for my zip code out right.
fgandiya··on Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?
Besides the swastika and the other trolls on the spreadsheet, I'm really wondering how some of you guys commandeer relatively high salaries just after graduating.
← PreviousPage 4 of 5Next →