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by eshvk 13y ago
Also, there is some (not much) calorie burning in running 10K vs walking.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Not the OP but that is not really how you start running 10K/day. You gradually build up endurance starting from a mile a day or so, till your lungs can deal with that. I run 5 miles on the days I don't weight lift. It is not exhau
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by eshvk 13y ago
I will buy your argument when 1 billion people across south asia start hoarding bitcoins instead of gold jewelry with the hope that their daughter can be covered with it when she gets married.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Sure. Learning from data (caltech) is a good course. But all I got from the course was to go pick up the book and learn this stuff by working through the problem set. And I have a pretty decent linear algebra and probability background. Ima
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by eshvk 13y ago
My comment was to point that that a lot of companies (big and small) in the tech space use these "benefits" as a way of getting you to stay at work for as long as possible while doing HR selling of these as "benefits". I
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by eshvk 13y ago
Online courses are cute. The stanford machine learning course is a watered down travesty that doesn't compare to Andrew's original material out there. There is a reason for that too. The harder the courses get, the more it is nice
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by eshvk 13y ago
Hey, at least he is being honest. Not talking about xboxes/playstations at work and how there is free lunch, dinner at work .
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by eshvk 13y ago
Ah, gotcha. Apologies for using that phrase then. I merely meant living in NYC vs say living in New Jersey and making the commute (I knew a lot of people who did that.).
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by eshvk 13y ago
Ehh...I think that can go both ways. I know folks who live a pretty isolated existence in NYC and others who have an active dating life in SF. The problem is that if you get stuck in a tech bubble of friends, you are going to find yourself
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by eshvk 13y ago
> First, there are more medium-awesome areas to choose from close to town (head to Astoria or East Williamsburg and you might shave $500-1000 off that studio, but you can still catch the N train to get to work and the neighborhood'
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by eshvk 13y ago
So I don't know enough about NYC to define what a expensive neighborhood is. However, $2300 is about mid range SF neighborhoods. Not highly desirable ones like the better of the mission, Pac Heights etc but something on the intersectio
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am assuming I am missing the sarcasm or you don't live in San Francisco. We have barely a month of continuous sunshine and most of it is not during summer time. It is fog, fog and more fog. Edit: nvm, I didn't know what Silicon
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by eshvk 13y ago
I am surprised that the rent is lower if you are living in NYC proper. I have one sample point for a friend who lives I think in the East Village. He pays $2300 for a studio. That seems about SF standard. (Well, not in the nicer parts of SF
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by eshvk 13y ago
Interesting that you fail to mention the other side of SF, the people who have lived here from before we started coming in. The New York Times had an article on them today [1]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25
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by eshvk 13y ago
I don't know about NYC much but SF has culture. The suburbia is exactly what it is: suburbia. I remember living in Mountain View for three months, they have one fucking street which is "downtown". I got stir crazy after a whi
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by eshvk 13y ago
How are salaries/living expenses in tech different in SF and NYC? Assuming you are living in SF or NYC, of course. Are they higher in NYC or lower or vice versa?
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by eshvk 13y ago
The stack exchange comment was amazing. You can't get a better raison d'etre for why studying algorithms is important.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Imagine the level of access you have if you have the balls to actually utilize it. Ugg. The thing I want the least is to chit chat with you about random bullshit, beer or overhear you talk about your christmas, your hanukkah or your pu
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by eshvk 13y ago
And you think those non jewish Israelis (mostly Arab) are treated as anything but second class citizens. Sorry, I am not the greatest critic of Israel and probably at some level think that they are pretty damn effective at what they do. How
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by eshvk 13y ago
You are being pedantic here. Yes, I am aware of the fact that Jewish people vary and have a wide spectrum of physical appearances. Going by their definition that they are a race, the fact that people who either by virtue of having the wrong
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by eshvk 13y ago
> From what I've read, the Israelis make border checks less problematic. It is hard to scale their solutions to US? The Israelis are clear that what they do is racial profiling. Kind of hard to pay lip service to equality and all th
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by eshvk 13y ago
I see a lot of comments about Russians being inherently miserable creatures, the climate not being conducive to smiling and even bad dental work as reasons. Let me give an example from another culture where smiling is risky: India. When I f
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by eshvk 13y ago
True, but I still believe my observation about $x is valid. Like I said, a few simple search queries will yield lots of results. Where $x can be an element of the following set: { America is a gun crazy violent nation where the streets are
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by eshvk 13y ago
Good god, this is a stupid article. 1. The American programmers who stereotype an entire fucking country based on cheap shitty code bought from a stupid offshore center should be forced to take a statistics class. I have seen ten year old P
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Inputs? rolls eyes . You provide a bunch of anecdotal evidence about a country of 1 billion people and then ask people for inputs. I lived there for eight years; there are smart people and there are stupid people. The bell curve appli
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by eshvk 13y ago
The problem is that a lot of people in Industry think they are hiring for analytical skill but they are really hiring for knowledge. Seriously, let us take questions in anything from graph theory to dynamic programming. All that proves is t
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by eshvk 13y ago
Maybe it is not about him being disqualified, maybe it is about the fact that the other people they interviewed were able to jump through their hoops and do all the tricks and were equally as qualified?
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by eshvk 13y ago
Yes because that is exactly what I am saying. Yup, it is not like before the financial crisis every person who spent X years in school was immediately employable. By the way, nice strawman.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> By your definition the large majority of the world population is stupid. Which kind of renders the term meaningless, and makes you sound like a bit of a prick. Nope. I merely pointed out that thoughtlessness exists everywhere. Never sa
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by eshvk 13y ago
Why are there inherent assumptions in your statement that starting a company is a) what they want to do. (albeit the fact that beggars can't be choosers) b) a high risk activity that is the best choice for them in the situation?

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