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by eshvk 14y ago
Not the OP but worked out at United Barbell and they are phenomenal. I am no longer convinced that CrossFit is the right thing for me to keep doing so I stopped it and replaced it by running 5+ miles and doing the big 3, but it definitely i
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by eshvk 14y ago
> 3) Potentially being discovered and held against you by employers. Interesting, I just realized that political viewpoints is not necessarily a protected class [1]. Presumably owning a gun is sort of a political view. Can an employer t
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by eshvk 14y ago
Did you read the entire article? He is not talking about becoming uncharitable. In fact at the end, he does suggest that he didn't become some sort of 1920's Scrooge but decided to instead re-prioritize his life to focus first on his family
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by eshvk 14y ago
Also, Stock options are mostly at least in Silicon valley an excuse for a company to get away with paying less to their employees. Another excuse is to use them as a way of saying "It is your company so suck it up and do X" where X might be
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by eshvk 14y ago
The third reference was beautiful. Thank you for posting that. I am a huge fan of pushing the envelope of things I find uncomfortable and I definitely need to think about doing something like this!
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by eshvk 14y ago
I dunno. I try to consciously avoiding reframing people in the context of a certain personality template or whatever. I prefer taking people at face value and gradually forming an opinion as to who they are while consciously dissociating th
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by eshvk 14y ago
What if he is... gasp ... A person from in India who moved to the U.S. and is now looking for a job after doing all the stuff that he says he did. Is it that big a fucking deal or is that tin foil hat of yours permanently stuck?
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by eshvk 14y ago
Exactly, I used to think and practice like the OP did. You find that all your friends start transitioning into couple things and you are a workaholic who doesn't have any interests outside of work. Sure, that is fun and it will be exciting
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by eshvk 14y ago
Apple Address Book synced with Google Contacts.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I feel like if I don't know how large a position someone is purchasing, the whole intended purpose of this activity becomes rather futile: There is a distinction between a person buying 1 share of Zynga vs. 100000 shares of Zynga and that g
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am really sorry about your situation but I definitely feel that you probably came off too strong. Also, unfortunately, when a person tells you to your face that something is illegal, they probably also suspect that you know that that some
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by eshvk 14y ago
I didn't pair program with those specific people again, instead we just split up chunks of work and I learnt more faster. Upon reflection, I still believe the failure is specific to how those people think and work through solutions.
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by eshvk 14y ago
I love pair programming. However 2 out of the 3 major pair programming exercises I have had were a disaster. Both were with people who were way advanced in the craft of what we were working on, but also unfortunately had piss poor communica
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by eshvk 14y ago
I think it really depends on the company and the founders: I have seen it both ways with friends. There are folks who don't even take a single day off every year in spite of having "Unlimited vacation days" because of a poisonous culture wh
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by eshvk 14y ago
How about the Gumstix. It is tiny linux computer which has been used for robotics. You could maybe think of working with him to build drivers in order to install doom on it. :-) https://www.gumstix.com/store/packs.php
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Mathias Rust: German teenager who flew to Red Square(bbc.co.uk)
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Perhaps it could be better put as 'Why doesn't maths concern itself with readability like programming does?' Readability is a personal opinion in some ways. I guess I have grown up using mathematical symbols in Physics classes since m
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by eshvk 14y ago
> It doesn't really matter, except that if they got a Software Engineering degree from a university that offers both, they're probably a soulless cretin. Or you know they could have done a EE degree and decided after they had done enoug
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by eshvk 14y ago
Exactly. I believe the issue is that the culture in C.S. is to focus more on conferences which means a more rapid turnaround time. There are other disciplines where conferences are not as respected as journal publications which are slow as
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by eshvk 14y ago
It is not that obvious. Especially in theory, it is quite possible that you might have a thesis but not have published work anywhere or have things in the process of being published at the time of defense. I am not sure whether this is a go
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by eshvk 14y ago
Sadly enough most people and their legislators find it hard to devote money to something that is extremely long term (Decades or even centuries). I think the best we can hope for for more funding in Space is competition from China in the fo
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Moral comparisons between countries is usually ill-advised for this exact reason. This sort of baseless moral superiority bugs me - India is not nearly as far from China as OP seems to think it is, at least when it comes to online fre
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by eshvk 14y ago
> But you have to remember: India is not a homogenous country; with 15(?) official languages, 1000 different dialects, 100s of ethnic groups, etc. Maybe the solution is to have a looser confederation where states can experiment economic
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Glib and offhand attempts at humour are not much appreciated here, even though they might contain some wit, which reddit would gobble up. Slick attempts at humor don't certainly get downvoted, they may not be the top comment. I still
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by eshvk 14y ago
I presume you are talking about the recent "facebook related arrests". Just so you know, not every country outside the U.S., is a single monolithic block where just because some asswipe cop(s) decides to hassle kids, it means that the entir
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Facing a grizzly at four feet, alone in the middle of the Yukon, really does put everything else in perspective for the rest of your life. That sounds incredible! I am going to sound incredibly stupid but that would be something to ex
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by eshvk 14y ago
I am no gamer but this article is rather ridiculous: > The opportunity for either company is to be the console that gets back to being about games. While players love Netflix and other video on console, they generally don’t care about m
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by eshvk 14y ago
> India is an Asian country which was once colonized and liberated with more than enough problems which ever existed on the subcontinent. Among all other countries she tackled almost all those problems, not just for herself but for the
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by eshvk 14y ago
This really is a classic example of a false dichotomy. It is not like people can't multitask or the fact that they are working on a space program or getting faster internet means that they completely decide to drop everything else that they
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Malnourished children, as someone pointed out below, is definitely a serious problem. But I think that with better means to disperse information (better internet) people can find their way to places where they can get food, better wor

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