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by iamsb 7y ago
Sadly we have all worked with John. In my first job, 15 years ago, I was preparing for a test for masters program. The test was on a Saturday at 8am in a town 4 hours away. My manager thought Friday night 7pm is a good time to schedule a me
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by iamsb 7y ago
Would be great if statuspage.io has a button when pushed publishes message similar to your suggestion.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I was hoping for a number, like say 1%. I wish there was a website which shows you exactly what are the causes of global warming and how much they contribute to it, preferably by industry and country. For example a small country like Austra
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by iamsb 7y ago
Curious - how much impact we would have on global warming if each and every car currently running is electric? Given that most of the electricity is provided by fossil fuels. Dont want to come across as a denier, this is a genuine question.
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by iamsb 7y ago
What is the fifth one?
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by iamsb 7y ago
I recommend reading this book as a supplement. https://www.amazon.in/Inglorious-Empire-What-British-India/d...
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by iamsb 7y ago
Honestly, that is not true. As someone who had to interface with these systems, the cumulative cost of keeping them running is far greater. There are number of layers which run of top of them to support modern age use cases. The problem is
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is incredible how much banking system still runs on COBOL and nightly ETL processes running on mainframes!
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by iamsb 7y ago
Yesterday another messenger was in news for going out of business due to blockchain adventures. I just recently stopped using WhatsApp (because FB is evil) and using telegram for comms. I really hope they dont go out of business as well.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I dont know if from safety point of view using voice command is far less unsafe than using buttons. Prolonged conversation on phone (handheld or free) is quite different.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I was under the impression that tesla lets you adjust most of the settings using voice command, is that incorrect?
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by iamsb 7y ago
> What's the benefit to a large corporation doing this instead of lots of small companies? (The economies of scale need to outweigh the large corporate overhead.) Same answer in case of gyms. Your advertising overhead does not scal
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by iamsb 7y ago
Thanks Joel for number of years that you have been a thought leader, nudging developer communities towards right direction. There are may be 5 people who could have started stackoverflow successfully, Joel was one of them. He had a huge, cu
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by iamsb 7y ago
The way read above comment is - If you can live with following limitations, then use lambda/serverless, works great. I have got to a point where for any internal systems used by internal users, lambda is my defacto standard. Very low c
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by iamsb 7y ago
I use jdbi.org in Java all the time because it does just that for me.
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by iamsb 7y ago
It is incredible how similar electricity utility and internet utility delivery is happening. For first 30-40 years, governments and private enterprises were competing quite a bit over who can have the monopoly in providing electricity. I re
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by iamsb 7y ago
Good site and design. My honest reservation about using drastically different resume formats is - resume parsers. Most recruiting agencies, large companies using some form resume parsing to aid in filtering out candidates. Not sure if your
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by iamsb 7y ago
This is a really silly comment.
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by iamsb 7y ago
Very true. Also, it is almost impossible to find senior engineer opportunities if you have lot of experience. Most companies I spoke to consider it almost a failure that with 15+ years of experience, I am not looking for upper management ro
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by iamsb 7y ago
I recently worked with a ex-uber engineer, hired by a ex-uber engineer manager. We were piloting use of launchdarkly, and he suggested we just build it ourselves as he has already done it few times and would take him only few months to buil
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by iamsb 7y ago
Other than food and drinks, I have not really bought anything using cash in last couple of years. Everything else it seems I have been buying using a debit card, online or offline. So I am bit a lost on how this protects privacy. Is this on
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by iamsb 7y ago
Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Singapore, NZ) Technologies: Java, Kafka, AWS, Spring, Neo4j Resume: On request Email bidwai [dot] sushrut [at] gmail Have built products from ground up to serve millions of user globall
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by iamsb 7y ago
I think wall calendar is always there. I have it in my bedroom, so I see pretty much first thing when I wake up and last thing when I sleep. App - you have to look for it and it is constantly in your face, so to say.
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by iamsb 7y ago
As some one who had lot of bad habits, using stream method really helped me. I will give you an example. Smoking - I used to smoke a pack a day since I was 21. 5 years ago I decided to quit. I started a stop watch on my wrist watch to count
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by iamsb 7y ago
I never been to silicon valley, so my knowledge about it is extremely limited. But last couple of years, I am hearing so many stories from big tech companies - from google to facebook to snapchat to uber - that I wonder if there is a big cu
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by iamsb 7y ago
To some extent, yes. But see this comment -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818621 There are plenty of examples like this. Google's problem is not that it is cracking down on bad actors. The problem is, it d
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by iamsb 7y ago
Given the speed with which youtube is demonetizing people or outright banning them, not sure how much longer it will sustain though.
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by iamsb 7y ago
I deleted my linkedin account couple of years ago. My main reason for that has been how it is used in doxxing people. After returning to employment after spending a decade being my own boss, I realized that if you have opinion on the intern
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by iamsb 7y ago
Most of the hiring is geared towards what do you know instead of how do you solve problems. I recently went to work a two big company, which is considered highly agile and progressive. I was tasked to build a pricing engine to customize pri
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by iamsb 7y ago
Great story! Couple of minor suggestions. > Before you dig in, note that while sites built in Webflow work in all modern browsers, we don’t actively support use of the Designer in Mozilla Firefox. Given all that has been said about BigTe

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