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roopeshv··on Google boss: I'm very proud of our tax avoidance scheme
funny how the real quote is twisted, "I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate."
roopeshv··on Ask HN: Dealing with unsupportive parents - creating startup
From seeing your situation, i have some suggestions:

first thing. move closer to work, and you'd have saved 15 hrs to put into your project. from what you say, it's right in the face. trying to save few $100's in rent by wasting the time on commute is the worst trade off you are making right now. If you think spending few $100s extra on a place closer to work should be minimal compared to what you think your project is worth. If you think otherwise, i'm not sure how much important this project is to you.

second thing. don't speculate how much responsibility you might have. Don't promise on taking responsibility from your manager only to do what you don't enjoy as much; only take what you can at the current work pace. if you are not trying to climb up the corporate ladder, why take more than necessary responsibilities and make your life harder? be an mediocre employee at a corporate entity. Produce 8hrs worth of deliverables every day, be present, and contribute to the job in those 8 hrs, no more. that should work for most corporations.

roopeshv··on What is one thing you wish you had known at 21?
am i the only one who doesn't like quora questions being posted here. I'm unable to see the answers without an account.
roopeshv··on Show HN: Freaking cool JS game where you code your own bots and battle
totally uncool, sending people directly to github login page. i don't even know what to expect.
roopeshv··on Peddling Luck - video of Zed Shaw's presentation at BubbleConf 2012
fuck you, tinco.

(you are the same tinco, right?)

roopeshv··on Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
yes, org-publish. i have no clue how I managed to mispell it.
roopeshv··on Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?
emacs + org-mode + org-public
roopeshv··on Work-Life Balance Is Impossible
yes, let's move the goal post.
roopeshv··on Facebook Photo Ruins Life
mafro, stop adding your own spin to the post title.
roopeshv··on Listen up, Mitt – because I’ve got the key to the White House
flagged, politics
roopeshv··on UAW Files Charges Against Romney on His Auto Bail-out Profiteering
no politics
roopeshv··on Prediction: Google will sell Android to Samsung
before anyone starts commenting on this useless article, i want you all to know that the author of above article is the same as the one linked in this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726176.

He's bias is obvious, minus the facts. It's like seeing inarticulate sieglar; at least i respect sieglar because he knows good deal about apple and does articulate it well.

roopeshv··on Killing Sexy Halloween: The Ethical and Practical Complications
not HN material
roopeshv··on Citi analyst fired for leaking info to Eric Eldon, editor of TechCrunch
paywall
roopeshv··on An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
stop posting political issues.
roopeshv··on Zenos: Gawker was right to out reddit troll Violentacrez
blogspam
roopeshv··on Just Clojure
flagging for no context for the submission
roopeshv··on Mark Zuckerberg Personally Sent a Message to 1 Billion People.
looks like i missed the memo.
roopeshv··on Emotion based Captchas: the Civil Rights Captcha
this is the wrong way to approach the captchas. you can't just say the right emotion is that of empathy, and anything else is wrong.
roopeshv··on Vimium: Vim Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Chrome
vimium is more of a subset of pentadactyl(or vimperator). and makes it feel incomplete in comparision, if you are used to pentadactyl.
roopeshv··on The problem with Coffeescript: debugging
stop using what you can't use.
roopeshv··on Google forgets about usability with latest Chrome build
whoever this nimbUx is, he's very childish. No, google didn't forget about usability. Flagged.
roopeshv··on Why Startups Should Hire the Minimally Viable Candidate
while we are on the topic of minimally viable *, can we also write an article on minimally viable revenue. you know just enough that you won't go bankrupt today and not more than enough to keep you floating tomorrow? that would be an article i would read
roopeshv··on Ask HN: Confusing Ruby and JS syntax while programming?
Style is something you'll get with practice, and deliberate attention to the process of writing code. Syntax on the other hand, is very different in Ruby and JS. I'm not sure what exactly you are confusing specifically.

I switch between Python and Ruby for the most part, and I find Rb/Py to be very close in syntax, than Rb/JS. So between Rb/Py I mostly confuse the if/elsif statements more than anything else, and refer to python manual from time to time.

If you point to specifics, may be we can discuss more about what is confusing and how to avoid it.

roopeshv··on How to Criticize Women in Technology
tl;dr?: Don't criticize women in technology.

No I'm not being dismissive, that's the tl;dr.

roopeshv··on I'm not a "+1"
that's what the comments are for.
roopeshv··on Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds
he cut open a tape with a knife. if you have nails, you can take off the tape with it, but I bite my nails, so I had to use my keys, and it's easier to do it with cut tape along a crevice anyway.
roopeshv··on Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds
what? i pushed it from one side and the box slid from the other side. I have no idea why anyone would use a scissors to take off sleeve.

And no matter how you concentrate on getting out of box experience, people should really use common sense when it comes to opening boxes.

roopeshv··on Quick Nexus 7 Comments By Linus Torvalds
i am not sure why everyone is feeling that it is hard to open the box. there were 2 tapes on the box, which I cut with my room keys and everything was fine, it wasn't hard. Is it just me that feels everyone is just too idiotic when it comes to opening boxes?
roopeshv··on The Big Idea That Can Revolutionize Higher Education: 'MOOC'
One more buzzword. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying coursera is a bad idea; but people are going to label this all over the place.
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