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by atulatul 6y ago
Dating advice: if you habitually, unironically, and without good cause use any dating format but that which is mandated by ISO 8601 we cannot be friends, let alone more. https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1205515
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by atulatul 6y ago
What are his thoughts on Erlang? (I have not finished the talk video yet.)
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Male Trees in Cities(twitter.com)
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by atulatul 6y ago
This comment is not about text blocks as such but the write up by the author. (Brian Goetz... If you are here, when do we see the next edition of the book, please?). It is not simply 'here's a new language feature'. I find it
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by atulatul 6y ago
It's like HN discussion in here :) https://seinfeldmemes.com/its-like-a-sauna-in-here/
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by atulatul 6y ago
Oh, No. I have been outed. I wasn't even in!
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by atulatul 6y ago
All movements go too far.- Bertrand Russel
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by atulatul 6y ago
>I'm not a big Seinfeld fan Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Ash HN: What long pending things are you doing during lockdown?
1 points by atulatul 7y ago|0 comments
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by atulatul 7y ago
Here's a video showing top 15 IntelliJ shortcuts by Trisha Gee. I know it's like watching top 15 Federer shots. Some of your favorites may not be there. Still it's quite good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q
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by atulatul 7y ago
maybe adventofcode?
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by atulatul 7y ago
In India, Subhash Palekar is a name you often hear these days. He was awarded fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2016. He is a proponent of Zero Budget Natural Farming- (which some agri bodies have claimed does not work as the
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Last day of the dinosaurs' reign in stunning detail(nationalgeographic.com)
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I have asked questions like: Do engineers have access to safari books? Did you sponsor any conference passes/ training? (I got answers like we have certification amount re-reimbursement policy(turns out for only pre-approved/ busi
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by atulatul 7y ago
> my usual 1-2 years A genuine question...(I am not from USA.) Is this 1-2 years period normal for many people/IT companies? Is it similar to contracting- benefits and tech/business exposure wise?
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by atulatul 7y ago
Not related to cryptography, but this reminds me of Alyssa P. Hacker from SICP.
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by atulatul 7y ago
This American Life had an interesting episode. A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production
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How the most popular social media networks have changed over time(twitter.com)
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by atulatul 7y ago
This point was also deliberated in "The Righteous Mind". May be worth a read. Plus, I like the observation from Maugham's Of Human Bondage: The submission to passion is human bondage, but the exercise of reason is human liber
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by atulatul 7y ago
Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. As one version of the quote
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by atulatul 7y ago
>but is the goal to keep trees alive as long as possible? For some trees, being 100year old means that the trees are in their late teens/twenties/thirties (source above book). With that in mind, the answer to above question bec
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by atulatul 7y ago
Not so much on their trunks.
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by atulatul 7y ago
I highly recommend reading the book "The Hidden Life Of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben There is an informative chapter/section called Street Kids about trees planted along the streets primarily in urban areas. How their health is
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by atulatul 8y ago
Somewhat similar to what I follow. Although these days I don't have a particular preference to paper books vs ebooks. And probably durable vs bestseller may be at the top of the list. > interesting/prolific readers on Goodreads
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by atulatul 8y ago
Is this a good place to quote a few lines from The Godfather? Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any other powerful man,... like a senator or a president. Kay Adams: You know how naive you sound? Michael: Why? Kay Adams: Senat
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Google Haskell training: 101 and 102(github.com)
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A few trivia items from the BBC QI elves: "Jupiter’s magnetic field has two south poles." "Roughly every 11 years, the magnetic field of the sun reverses, north becomes south, and south becomes north. The same thing happens o
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by atulatul 8y ago
Hopefully does not end up being a case of Peter Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
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I also noticed use of passive voice more than active voice. Not sure if it even has a correlation with depression or lack or control. Just noticed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_voice https://en.w
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May not pick up the other two soon but how is Antifragile? Applicability wise.

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