kamaal

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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I think the world is very random, practically speaking, but that probably distributions are highly mutable. I found that decisions I previously made set me up for higher likelihood of being chosen for subsequent opportunities. Indee
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Same with Biryani cooked on firewood. The difference in taste and feel between Biryani cooked on firewood and LPG cooking is night and day. You feel like a king when you eat the one cooked on firewood.
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Well for a lot of reason. Firstly they pay better. Secondly, we want more and more kids especially women and marginalised communities to participate more in STEM. Giving them early exposure to things helps. Also STEM education in general co
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Whatever rocks your boat! Feel free to not read those books! Works fine for me.
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>>It's a bit weird and doesn't teach lessons outside of the book material. Actually introducing some of these concepts in an abstract sense can help the kid appreciate subject at hand, and initiate them into more serious stu
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Wonder what's up with functional languages that leads them to do this. One way to teach dry math'y concepts is to make them fun to learn. Serious Math people mind find them irritating but for the remainder crowd it is a fu
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by kamaal 4y ago
Well I'm guessing you haven't read the book yet. Basically all throughout the book(s), they authors use food names as variable, function names etc. It is indeed a nice idea because people do tend to associate good memories with de
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It is not infantile, it is just a different way of approaching a problem. Instead of telling you what things are, they just ask you questions so that by answering them you discover the things yourself. There is a big difference between two
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The Little _________ books themselves are strange, you will either get them or you won't. So it is already a binary classification. The books don't follow a normal book like flow and its basically a giant teacher-student like 1
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by kamaal 4y ago
THIS PLACE IS RESERVED FOR JELLY BEAN STAINS . . . . . The whole The Little|Seasoned|Reasoned Schemer plus its other variants The Little ML'er|Java|Prover|Typer are some of the most mind bending books that you will ever read ever.
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Can you elaborate more on this?
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by kamaal 4y ago
And exams. Learning is one thing, being tested on facts and trivia is totally something else.
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>>Compared to R7 and Messi, Pele's records are mediocre. Not a football fan, but is it even fair to compare these people from two different eras? I'm an Indian, and cricket is very big here. The game of cricket has fundament
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by kamaal 4y ago
Whatever rocks your boat buddy. Since you already believe you can't buy a home, it might end up becoming a self full-filling prophecy.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Yeah Java people don't go the 'quite easy' way. They want some 10 indirections of builder classes to merely build the url alone. Then a factory class to create the connection etc. Then some response handlers to deal with the
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Not OP, but do you actually think those situations are analogous? This feels like either a strawman or arguing in bad faith. Yes, in fact it is as true as it gets. The thing is lots of things reduce to individual agency and responsi
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by kamaal 4y ago
If you don't have the money to buy it once, you definitely don't have it to buy twice.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>By being a land lord, you are preventing people from buying and building equity. Yeah me going to the gym, reading, and eating healthy is the reason why so many others are obese and unread. >>Instead their hard earned money go
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>Quite a lot of the anti-Java, anti-abstraction, anti-complexity crowd seem to actually just be people who are one step above a sysadmin in their mental model of programming, don't see how large-scale programming is different fr
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by kamaal 4y ago
No, it is fairly common among Java devs. In fact the culture there is that way. Most happen to come from banking sector, and other deep enterprise structures where things tend to move slowly. Design Pattern abuse is super common, and is wid
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by kamaal 4y ago
sed(100+ hours), vim(1000+ hours), perl(10,000+ hours), emacs, jq, XML::Simple(Perl library), javascript console in browser, Ctrl-R(bash command) If you know Perl you get instant access to many many powers which you otherwise have to use 10
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by kamaal 4y ago
This book: https://www.amazon.in/Heavyhands-Ultimate-Exercise-Leonard-S...
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People do like to watch flawed people win, it gives them hope about their own lives.
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>>I had a self realization and received the advice from myself during one of my "zen state pondering" that - being in the best shape of my health with improve EVERYTHING by 10x in my life. This doesn't even have to be a
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If you are happy being what you are, don't change, and just be yourself. But sometimes whatever you are happens to be something like being overweight, or unmotivated etc. That's when 'being yourself' isn't very help
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by kamaal 4y ago
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. --Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
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>>Hated by Perlers and non-Perlers alike Wrong. Perlers still cheer for it. But for some reasons it hasn't wide spread adoption yet. We hope to use it some day in production.
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Beginner question, why is it hard(not possible) to calculate the gain without actually building a reactor? Surely if you have a non-satisfactory yield you shouldn't be building it. And that should be possible to estimate before we spen
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>>With the vim solution, if you do one mistake, I believe you'd have to start over from scratch. Execution of a vim macro is atomic and can be undone with 'undo' AND you can edit a vim macro. So the Jupyter notebook sol
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>I'm a sysadmin, not a rockstar like you coding types. We are all the same :) Me started working on Solaris boxes, in fact that's how I learned to use vi well. When all you have is a man page and vi, you tend do RTFM really

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