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Engineer Benedict Jebakumar has picked 37 kg of nails from roads(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by kamaal 3y ago|3 comments
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by kamaal 3y ago
Two options- 1. Solve the problem using a tool. 2. Solve problems that a tool has. It should not be a surprise people pick 1.
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>but there are plenty of customer service representatives who are literally just following scripts for these things anyways. I used to work at a call center here in Bangalore in 2006, and for refunds, shipments, replacements it was f
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by kamaal 3y ago
Well vscode is vscode, vim is vim. Don't get me wrong, I use vim a lot and I tend to use macros as a rudimentary text automation language. And I use it all the time on servers, because its universally installed. Mixing these things is
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>Org Mode (the best markdown alternative / journal / planner / TODO / PM software, if only more people used it...). Serious question. What does org-mode give us which Google Docs doesn't?
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by kamaal 3y ago
Nah Actually we do have very little time, its just that the upswing and downswing have different feels to it. You might have noticed this even when you are driving for a vacation. Drive to the picnic spot feels like an eternity, drive back
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by kamaal 3y ago
I don't know much about this of this of course. But it does feel like you might have a point here. If everything is moving away from each other, things must have a center some where, and thats where this new big bang is forming?
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by kamaal 3y ago
Thats interesting, what are the chances of another big bang, after our(the current one) big bang? Could it happen while this universe is here?
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by kamaal 3y ago
This is logical thought. Relationships run on emotions. For most of history marriage's sole purpose is to create social security for women. That is really a problem, because once a service is provided, there is always a scope for impro
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by kamaal 3y ago
And many many company internal tools, that won't be rewritten and just get replaced with something better(ReactJS?) over time. It would be around for long is nice, but you can't make a career using it these days. jquery, perl just
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by kamaal 3y ago
Curious. Why was a Silicon Valley company incorporated there at the first place?
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by kamaal 3y ago
Isn't taoism more on the lines of making things happen by design and not fight through things to get them done? Sure many times that means doing nothing at all, But most of the times it means working with things in a way that things ar
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by kamaal 3y ago
This reminds me of the time when coding was popular among high schoolers and people were saying coding jobs will be 0 as kids will be building mainframes in days. It turns out its one thing to do a thing for fun or small periods totally a d
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by kamaal 3y ago
This works only because a fairly no-license environment we have in software development and stock market investments. It won't work in places like Medicine or Army, where human lives are at stake. There is a progression your have to wo
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>But emacs 29 with the right flags and a tuned GC (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!) is just as snappy and has more amazing packages than VSCode. That explains my whole experience with Emacs. More time is spent in
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. I really envy people who can sense passage of time between intervals of 5 milli
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by kamaal 3y ago
First thing I did after downloading Zed was to try macros in vim mode. It doesn't have a vim mode if there is no macro support. Plain and simple.
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by kamaal 3y ago
I saw some Netflix documentary a while back where they said after their merger with McDonnel Douglas. MD people took over, moved their head quarters out of their engineering place(in Seattle). To keep the decision makers and bean counters a
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>One of the things that makes me sad about this is that Sergei and Larry seem so checked out. I think this one sentence describes everything, companies are all about the people at the top. Its these people that set the culture, pace
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>Google Docs created in 2006! Microsoft is eating their lunch. Of all the things, this. I use both Google and Microsoft office products. One thing that strikes you is just how feature rich Microsoft products are. Google doesn't
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by kamaal 3y ago
I think 'Hero' here just means somebody they look up to and aspire to be like. And a lot of people aspire to be rich. Nothing wrong in that at all.
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by kamaal 3y ago
Your parent comment argument is a flawed argument, of course. By definition everything that ever happens, happens from cause-effect conditions. So if you end up winning, everything that happened that led to it, in some way is responsible. B
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by kamaal 3y ago
Taking extreme ownership of things might make you feel very uncomfortable while starting, but its makes things a lot more easier as they go, because you are for better or worse in control. You either way in control, you just wish to not exe
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>Charlie was 29 years old when he and his wife divorced. >>But by the time he was 69 years old, he had become one of the richest 400 people in the world, been married to his second wife for 35+ years, had eight children, and co
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>These are not your average groups of H1B workers. Its strange this has to be even said. I knew doctors who got their Green cards fairly easily. Replacing these doctors is next to impossible. For starters, its just these are rarest o
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by kamaal 3y ago
You don't even have to be a $1T company. Your body shops and outsourcing firm managers buy Green cards for their pets at office all the time. Of all the things, Visas/GCs are the least of the issues here. Think of it like a joinin
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by kamaal 3y ago
Hmm, As some body who has watched the Visa thing from quite close quarters and lost, but saw others win. Let me tell you something. Getting a Green card is something your company can make it happen if they wanted to. Its just how much money
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>why would the other 3 board members be on board with that? I guess all had their reasons. This is one big reason why you don't want these non-profit kind of things. No stake, No play. Human beings don't feel about the thin
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by kamaal 3y ago
Do you have pictures of the set up? Do share for the benefit of the masses.
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by kamaal 3y ago
>>You are just at the early phase of the project. Nah. 99% of the code written out there doesn't need layers of indirection, responsibility tossing around, Code splitting across classes, design patterns, inheritance and the class

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