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by eshvk 11y ago
Gonna be hanging out in Sukhumvit today, let me attempt to check it out. Thanks for the tips!
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by eshvk 11y ago
> In my experience it's the elderly people who have no desire to learn something new that are the issue. I personally think there is a little bit of give and take. I grew up with Nokia phones where usability was absolutely terrible
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by eshvk 11y ago
I do wonder if the answer to this is more diversity in our engineers. Let me explain: While I have no doubt that a lot of great companies have awesome engineers, SF/SV tech is filled with white men in their early twenties. Nothing wron
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by eshvk 11y ago
> Maybe the lack of an audio prompt is why it's ignored now? Interesting. I am guilty of having missed buckling ever so often. Mainly because I have had a speed are so slow, it doesn't matter attitude. I am also new enough to t
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by eshvk 11y ago
> In Bangkok I pay a premium to use Uber, because their seatbelts always work This is a bit off-topic. Do a lot of people use Uber? I have been here for a few days, can't seem to find an Uber. The app always says not-available. Flag
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by eshvk 11y ago
> all my coworkers were nice, normal, fairly geeky engineers who really loved technology. I spent a few years living in SF. I think the geek monoculture kind of drove me away. I accidentally fell into tech via math and felt like there wa
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by eshvk 11y ago
> When I read about all of the sexism and misogyny in tech it sounds completely different from the tech scene I know and work in. I work in NYC too, after spending quite a few years in the bay area. Tech has a diversity problem in genera
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by eshvk 11y ago
nostrademons made some excellent points. I agree with him and also will emphasize that it is a wide spectrum. Very few "senior folks" are never interested in the "how" and "what". It is just that you go through
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by eshvk 11y ago
> These will give you a great refresher and are going to be your talking points. I actually make it a point not to delve too deep into a candidate's own projects. I would rather throw them an unfamiliar or (slightly unfamiliar) idea
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by eshvk 12y ago
On 1. 2. Politics is what happens in subjective situations where people are wrestling for resources. How many budget requests are absolutely objective and easy decisions to make? Truth be told, in a high functioning company, there shouldn&#
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by eshvk 12y ago
I was in Northern Europe a couple of weeks back. Yelp is empty, the only ones who rate things are American tourists. Then, I found out that everyone uses Foursquare. Too bad, it required a sign-up. Oh, well, maybe next time.
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by eshvk 12y ago
This is truly magnificent. If you haven't already, I would recommend reading the Harvard Grant Study. A longitudinal study of young Harvard grads over the course of several decades. Most of what they said is falls in line what the gene
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by eshvk 12y ago
Since a lot of people are commenting on what you said saying that being born to such parents is a form of luck, let me give a similar but very different situation. My father was a brilliant alcoholic who died when I was 17. I moved to his h
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by eshvk 12y ago
I don't have a C.S. degree. I had an Electrical Engineering degree which meant that I knew how to think logically and construct scripts of things. This means that I knew fuck all about data structures or modularization of code. However
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by eshvk 12y ago
I work in a company with a transatlantic workforce. We do a really really good job of communicating on IRC, going on Hangouts and such. But it is really hard. If you have clear, concise problems that need to be solved, it becomes easy. But
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by eshvk 12y ago
This was truly phenomenal. I grew up in some of the poorest places, went through a lot of shit before things got better. It is really really hard to go through all that and come out with optimism and hope for the world, or even think you ca
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The surprising secret of happier, more productive organizations: conflict(qz.com)
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by eshvk 12y ago
This is rather confusing. IIRC both Arial and Times New Roman let you express all 26 alphabets. Now if Naskh has Nastaleeq have differing number of characters, is this a mere font issue or is there something more fundamental differing betwe
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by eshvk 12y ago
> USA’s visas are a very difficult topic. To work you need the right visa. I think that it’s not so easy to get an internship with a student visa. Well, not quite. Getting an internship is actually pretty easy if you are on an F1 visa to
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by eshvk 12y ago
This is very detailed. Pretty similar to what I have seen in industry. A few comments from a guy who has been involved in several ML teams for the past few years. 1. Hire depending on your team. There are candidates who are amazing data sci
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by eshvk 12y ago
Programming interviews are a game. It is not a reflection on your GPA or your school or how intelligent you are. It is simply a collection of parlor tricks because we as an industry have no fucking idea how to evaluate someone who is relati
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Try getting a job at Google without a degree from MIT/Stanford. I know a lot of people working at Google who don't even have degrees. There are over 5,000 Engineers in Google's American HQ. Thinking that everyone of them
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by eshvk 12y ago
Also, what if you are a data scientist? Yes, you could encrypt User IDs. However, when even publicly anonymized datasets can be reverse engineered, surely, a person in charge of feature selection and access to company datasets could wreak h
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Always have the ping come from a non-recruiter. I had the complete opposite thing happen. There is a dude I went to school with, I know him personally. We are connections on linkedin. He started a company a few years back. I get an em
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by eshvk 12y ago
Kalustyan's ( http://www.kalustyans.com/ ).
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by eshvk 12y ago
It is not really just about the restaurants. For example, there is this grocery store in midtown NYC. There are spices there that you cannot fucking literally find in Austin or even San Francisco. Ground fucking mango powder? Boom. Moroccan
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by eshvk 12y ago
> The culture part really rings true for me. I was born in Asia, immigrated to Canada at a very young age, and now I'm in the US. I find it difficult and oftentimes annoying to live in places without this sort of diversity. I'v
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by eshvk 12y ago
I know that someday I will be moving to a small city. However, there are huge pros and cons. I have lived for the past few years in San Francisco and New York. Both are massive cities; San Francisco is a huge tech echo-chamber. It can get n
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by eshvk 12y ago
There is no easy answer to this; it all depends on playing the cards that you have got and trying to mitigate the things that make you not outgoing. A lot of things make for being outgoing. In my case, I realized very early on that people h
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by eshvk 12y ago
> If you're a true introvert, your biggest enemy is yourself. It's your desire to be alone. It's your preference for living by yourself, for quiet moments away from others, for nights spent at home, watching Netflix or pla

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