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by ak39 9y ago
As wonderful as those things on your list are, the issue is about earning enough to pay rent. The vicious cycle doesn't end for the vast majority of us. We have to keep working to keep up with expenses.
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by ak39 9y ago
This advice is gold. But it isn’t easy to overcome the temptation of imagining that any convo with any division of mega Corp is the lucky break you always hoped for.
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by ak39 9y ago
Was it atherosclerosis? Anyone know?
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by ak39 9y ago
I work a lot with visualisation. It becomes interesting when you release a chart to end users only to get feedback such as lurcio's. At first I would simply correct and "educate" the end user how to interpret the charts. Rece
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by ak39 9y ago
:-) That's a great story. The dynamics of "power" are to be experienced everywhere. While you did not deliberately negotiate a raise, your employer on the other hand deliberately WAITED till he saw you could exercise your pow
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by ak39 9y ago
Indeed. Google "Gartner Hype Cycle" followed by the year to get a sense of the evolution of the different hype cycles. I still remember my manager getting very excited about XBRL in 2007.
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by ak39 9y ago
Even still, the point about sanity after being rejected "all over the show" is very much relevant. I couldn't agree more that keeping your head in the game when nay sayers and sometimes downright jealous or mischievous charac
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by ak39 9y ago
Can someone explain this: "But in English, a much higher percentage of Tweets have 140 characters (9%). Most Japanese Tweets are 15 characters while most English Tweets are 34" Why is 34 characters considered most tweets when the
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by ak39 9y ago
> noSQL refers to non-relational stores, not > relational stores with alternative query languages. Very well said. The concept of relational databases (based on relational/algebraic theory) is thoroughly independent of the diale
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by ak39 9y ago
> You won't become an expert over night, especially in your age (this sadly is a factor). What do you mean "especially in your age"? Are you saying it takes younger humans to become experts quicker?
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by ak39 9y ago
Are you getting quality sleep at least 7 hours a day? If not, fix this. If you are, don't think you need to be worried either. Uninspiring work can cause sustained and unhealthy stress in the best of us. And stress is known to deplete
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by ak39 9y ago
If Indian history is up your alley, I heartily recommend William Dalrymple's set of three impressively researched and written books: 1. The White Mughals 2. The Last Mughal 3. Kohinoor I began reading The Last Mughal just as I had left
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by ak39 9y ago
I'm with you on this. I can't imagine any other complex discipline where experts offer their time & creativity to the lowest bidder so quickly. Programming seems uniquely generous in this regard. Or stupid.
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by ak39 9y ago
> Why is it a shame about Apple's direction? Because it's too easy when you see a company that once dominated this space with Jobs' legacy. It's easy to be the good guy. It's morally reprehensible even to adver
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by ak39 9y ago
You misunderstood. Security and privacy should be a given. Security and privacy should never have been an easy opportunity for Apple to differentiate against its competitors. Edit: Would I expect my wife to cook me a lovely welcoming dinne
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by ak39 9y ago
This is a complete guess ... Apple "does right by users". That's ok. But I'd wager this is only because that type of positioning is now Apple's chosen market differentiating* strategy. Against Google. Apple seems to
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by ak39 9y ago
Agreed. StackOverflow could make a lovely book with these kind of high quality answers. Stuff's gold.
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by ak39 9y ago
This is interesting. Would you say that engineers and mathematicians also suffer the same embarrassment? If so, could all of this be a side-effect of being in the world of precision vs being in the world of creative trial and error (where e
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by ak39 9y ago
Forgot to list: "Tell your friends about your brilliant ideas."
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by ak39 9y ago
IMHO, the fundamental problem of these burnout open source projects is that they are "marketed" (deliberately or otherwise) to non-decision makers and people who don't control the budgets in companies that need their software
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by ak39 9y ago
What is the best answer to "We won't go with you because you are too small?"
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by ak39 9y ago
How else am I going to show off that lovely Mercedes Benz logo to my visiting guests if it isn't in the dining room?
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by ak39 9y ago
If you're looking for business opportunities, look for "dirty" jobs. They are everywhere and in every field. Find them, do them, do them well enough to know why no one wants to do them. And only then get creative about doing
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by ak39 9y ago
This is spot on. I share this worldview too. Here are my thoughts I try to live by: 1. Know the type of person you are: We are all creatives and contributors at our core. We all measure our self-worth by how much we give instead of how much
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by ak39 9y ago
Well written. Pretty much the same story of rulers, kings and emperors of 10th to 19th century India. Or China. Indian palace life and architecture,for example, were built around the availability of unending lines of concubines for the Shah
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by ak39 9y ago
You're being unfairly hard on yourself. Too harsh. :-) here is what is mostly likely the scenario: 1. You've executed many "crazy ideas" but the projects haven't really mattered much. 2. Now, with the benefit of hin
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by ak39 9y ago
I agree with the list, but I'd say the sequence is backwards: You're not solving anything if you're not executing. Start with execution based on some initial approach. When the discomfort reaches intolerable levels, find a be
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Xerox Star User Interface (1982)(youtube.com)
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by ak39 9y ago
Many folks use Bootstrap for its awesome grid system. But now that CSS Grids are finally here and are way way cleaner to use, Bootstrap's days are numbered.
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Researchers Track an Unlikely Culprit in Weight Gain(nytimes.com)
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