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by iamsb 7y ago
A good model will be to start working on a new startup with a competing product as soon as google launches something. In couple of years when they shut down, provide migration paths. Swim in $$$.
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by iamsb 7y ago
Of course, that's where machines gets it from as well. Your training set is usually which candidates were shortlisted by recruiters. At least that is what I have seen people do who are built one of these AI based recruitment systems. W
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by iamsb 7y ago
Speaking of jobs and interviews. I am yet to find a job board which does not show JavaScript jobs when searching for Java jobs. Some of them claim to use AI. :)
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by iamsb 7y ago
Me too. In fact I dont usually eat without having cleaned up. I like to finish my day after dinner without having to worry about things I have to do. Post dinner is just for things I want to do.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I definitely think about the tests. I will sometimes write boundary value analysis on my notebook. But very rarely I would write tests before I write code. I just realized that Never have I ever version for programmers will be quite interes
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by iamsb 7y ago
I used to be a boss like that. I thought people are always motivated to be better at their jobs. And that they are better at regulating their feelings. I was wildly wrong on both. Even though people learn that way, it is faster to impart le
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by iamsb 7y ago
Interesting. Where I work, we have a well defined scope for a sprint. That will get divided into tasks and then are assigned to team members. So I usually know what is my pipeline for next 2 weeks and it is fairly finite. Unless of course I
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by iamsb 7y ago
Sorry, I was not completely clear in my comment. What I meant is having a 5 day work week, but having some gaps of time to focus on learning. I usually spend an hour after lunch to learn something, as that is anyways my least productive tim
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by iamsb 7y ago
Curious - if you are a knowledge worker and getting through your tasks in say 4 days, does your boss/company really care how you are spending remaining 1 day? I often use company time to learn about new things that are related to my wo
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by iamsb 7y ago
One of the suggestions I keep making to prime ministers office is to open up lateral recruitment is government much more and deploy these people with mid management experience to tackle some of the issue in government delivery. Lot of these
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by iamsb 7y ago
I really used to like Airbnb, but for the same usage - family vacations. But after couple of bad experiences, where host canceled while we were on the way, I prefer holiday homes which are professionally managed and have better contracts.
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by iamsb 7y ago
8% of 1.3 billion is ~110 million people. That is a sufficient to build great companies. Total population of Israel is 9 million and takes in funding of ~7 billion dollars and has been churning out great companies.
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by iamsb 7y ago
Given that softbank is a public company, surprised there is not more shareholder outcry over the strategy of visionfund. In a way it is public money which is bailing out WeWork. Not to mention some of the questionable investments in Indian
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by iamsb 7y ago
Here is an anecdote which might help you understand why. One of my classmates joined infy out of college. His job for the first one year was - email the list of files changed in the day to the client. This friend was called newton in the co
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by iamsb 7y ago
If you are mostly working from one location (home-office or office), I recommend building a PC with linux running on it. Far more powerful and much lesser cost. You can use any cheap laptop for computing on the go, preferably one which is S
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by iamsb 7y ago
This is where twitter screwing over third party developers comes in to play. I would have preferred if twitter main feed was sequential and then there were thriving third party alternatives to it. Twitter could have easily monetised by taki
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by iamsb 7y ago
I think the biggest reason why none of Googles social products worked out is they did not port data. I was a fairly regular user of orkut. I used buzz for a little bit of time. I really liked Wave. But every time I had to start at the begin
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by iamsb 7y ago
Some very valid points in that twitter threads. Enterprise software sucks because most companies who build them hardly have product designers. The distance between people who build those softwares and end users is quite a lot and no direct
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by iamsb 7y ago
> Maintenance doesn't provide immediate economic value Reading Taleb's Skin in the game helped me articulate it to my team and managers how tech debt is a huge risk and need to find sustainable ways to pay it off. For last few
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is quite amazing how US keeps attracting top talent in the world. Look at the born in description . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou...
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by iamsb 7y ago
You can do most of the things you have mentioned using atlassians desktop client https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
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by iamsb 7y ago
Fair enough. I could have used a different example. Though might be worth a thought experiment might be worth considering if people would in fact confirm they treated women differently in hiring process.
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by iamsb 7y ago
There rule specifies that offensive speech is something that is not allowed. I assumed that same rule will apply to all kinds of offensive speech, including the hong kong related comment. I, for one, dont want people to use platform likes t
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by iamsb 7y ago
FWIW worth, I have limited knowledge of gaming communities. Most of my concern have been with behavior of twitter when it comes to policing content, specially anti-Islam content which violates blasphemy laws in certain countries like Pakist
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by iamsb 7y ago
Would you oppose firing of James Damore as well? Look I understand that we need to have free expression and free speech. Absolutely. But a business wants to protect itself from negative political reputation. If the gamer was talking about s
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is not just that we flood regions, but that we cause large scale 2nd order events due to population migrations. Ataturk Dam in Turkey is at least partly responsible for the mess in Syria due to severe multi year droughts.
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is incredibly hard to get things done in a fully functioning democracy. Ask us Indians and we know how difficult it has been for us to build any large scale project. First time a road building project was outsourced to private contractor
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by iamsb 7y ago
The shutdown in Kashmir is mostly to stop communications coming in from outside of India, mostly terrorist outfits in countries like Pakistan. There is lot of evidence in last 30 years or so how Kashmir becomes violent and how violent &quot
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by iamsb 7y ago
You are 18 and been working professionally for 3 years. Well done. All said and done this is what matters. Real life experience over university education.
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by iamsb 7y ago
This was when I was 22, just out of college at my first job, so did not realised at the time that you can say no to requests like these. Now a days I follow a short Friday routine, get in early (7am) and leave by 1 or 2pm as after that most

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