ak39

68 ms·

661.
by ak39 11y ago
Seconded. Quality comes only from quantity. And quantity can only happen if your efforts result in bruises you can tolerate.
662.
by ak39 11y ago
You mean, what was the name of the game? You can still call it Riding the Gravy Train [1]. Summary of Failure: Failed to close enterprise sales leads. (Started with the erroneous assumption that being technically able to develop an MVP w
663.
by ak39 11y ago
Ok, so now let's use this new-found wisdom we have about our D-K blind spot. How do we ensure that we don't both fall into a D-K blind spot scenario and we don't ever act (make decisions)? Is the D-K "wisdom" usefu
664.
by ak39 11y ago
After a moribund launch of my well-intentioned startup in 2012, I know understand what others meant by "you have a lot of courage" (to leave your job and take the risks). What they mostly meant really is that I had the courage to
665.
by ak39 11y ago
Indeed. If ALL we're interested in is what others /think/ of us, then by all means let's hedge our bets in that regard. If looking stupid however is a byproduct of a longer journey to achieving something, then who cares
666.
by ak39 11y ago
I vouch for this, this is true. Washing dishes is relaxing and calming if and only if washing dishes is not the source of your anxieties. But the act of moving rhythmically, the sensation and sound of water and seeing a dirty dishes turn sh
667.
by ak39 11y ago
It is indeed cultural. Take how India for example - a place where 20% of the world's population steeped neck-deep in traditional culture is jostling for 2% of the earth's habitable real estate - dodged this economic disaster by it
668.
by ak39 11y ago
We can't just count the carbon cost of incineration without comparing the carbon cost of using a cemetery in the middle of town or of moving the dead for burial further away from city centers. It's a tradeoff that has to take into
669.
by ak39 11y ago
Read his post again. There is nothing there to suggest any diseased thinking in need of curing. If anything, it is as humble in its honesty as it is hope-giving for a world beside itself with anxiety about aging.
670.
by ak39 11y ago
Well done attempting to show an example of perceived bigotry by displaying proper bigotry. But don't worry, as you age, if you are as lucky as the OP has been and as many other aging folks have for years ... nothing should change!
671.
by ak39 11y ago
No, that's "HIV does not cause AIDS".
672.
by ak39 11y ago
Not all the time. These points: 1. There are times when doctors, in order to reduce pain in their patients, accelerate their death as part of pain management. This is usually done at the end of long incurable illnesses or injuries from wh
673.
by ak39 11y ago
Do I "want" an end to elected abortion? Yes. Do I "want" to stop assisted suicide? No. Do I "want" an end to organised execution of convicted criminals? Yes. Your move.
674.
by ak39 11y ago
I have just two things to say about this sad event: 1) A quote: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." ~ Dostoyevsky 2) This link: http://brainsontrial.com/ For me, the
675.
by ak39 11y ago
No, what's insane is the collective desire, the organised process, the co-opting of doctors against their Hippocratic Oath to see the end of another human being's life. Guilty or not, the idea of "punishing" by killing
676.
by ak39 11y ago
Well said. The exercise of comparmentalising and creating atomic islands of objects that dutifully encapsulate data becomes difficult during reassembly simply because we recreate the need for declarative style of accessing data in an impera
677.
by ak39 11y ago
"The public already has a large misunderstanding regarding this point *(not to mention the difference between IT and CS)*" Is there a difference between IT and CS? (Serious question) (Maybe I misunderstood your point)
678.
by ak39 11y ago
This is probably the few projects in life where you can say you've challenged your mind just as much as you've done your body. And one can see the impact of both of these in these young and beautiful "geeks". What a pr
679.
by ak39 11y ago
Yes it was. But would it not have been braver of him to support the project by putting ego aside?
680.
by ak39 11y ago
The article is written with great humility and self-effacing humour and is a confession of Robert's battle with a condition we all suffer from: a universally human problem of procrastination. That alone makes this writing magnanimous.
681.
by ak39 11y ago
1. Tell your wife. Trust me you'll feel better afterwards. 2. Keep looking for new opps. Get your CV out to as many places. Keep your hopes up. Spend time with your kids in the mean time. Kids are great company when you are "pre
682.
by ak39 11y ago
CORBA's "failure" was the distributed part, and distribution is an essential element of the architecture. Unlike COM, where you could easily separate the OO (IDL) based aspect of the architecture from its distributed impleme
683.
by ak39 11y ago
Would the same benchmark results be evident using AdBlock and AdBlockPlus currently on Chrome? Does anyone know?
684.
by ak39 11y ago
I relate to this. I like the way you make it clear that given a choice between sanity and productivity, you choose the former. But is this not a false dichotomy, I wonder? I hope! For me, prolonged absence of close company quickly begins
685.
by ak39 11y ago
Maybe you are one of them! :-) It's truly rare to find techies who are more excited to see the end result in the hands of productive and happy end users than they are about the technology used to build said solutions. The trait is mo
686.
by ak39 11y ago
The idea of giving yourself permission to enjoy any length of time without the guilt of not being productive is definitely good for you. It's tough going if your personality is wired to ruminate though. But the idea of scheduling do
687.
by ak39 11y ago
That you need millions to make bajillions? Doubt that folks are surprised ... angry may be. That first million requires hard-toil labour often deliberately prevented from ever being obtained by the same moneyed class. The only other pract
688.
by ak39 11y ago
Meant, how do we all tell Microsoft about this? Are there public petitions etc?
689.
by ak39 11y ago
Any suggestions as to how? (Serious question)
690.
by ak39 11y ago
Selection bias is an important factor to consider why emigrant societies are seen as industrious, innovative and ultimately successful. If you survived an oppressive homeland government, escaped harsh socio-economic living conditions, boots

More ›