kamaal

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by kamaal 4y ago
Spaces are really good. But I would liked an anonymous 'join to listen' feature. Random people stalking your account after they see you in the space is something I find creepy.
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by kamaal 4y ago
Top management taking Paternity leave, and returning to work as though nothing changed after a few weeks is nothing short of great privilege. I've seen normal employees take such leave, only return to find others have taken over their
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by kamaal 4y ago
The most important part of this hasn't even been mentioned yet. He is lucky to have even gotten this far. Most Indians don't. In fact, the default, like he mentions go in the 'Deportation parties'. Most Indians return, i
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by kamaal 4y ago
I don't think you can go -2x by pressing some wrong button on they keyboard. Its more like they've been making mistakes over years which seem to have culminated in one event this quarter.
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by kamaal 4y ago
>>are you trying to insinuate Tiger Global's managers were negligent/reckless with the money? From the article. =>Tiger Global’s hedge fund assets have been so hard hit that the outfit has in four months erased about two-
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by kamaal 4y ago
The worst case when you fail to get promoted is still making salary at the current levels. The worst case when you fail at a start up is years of lost time, money and health. And starting way behind others, should you(now that you are out o
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by kamaal 5y ago
There is also this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494065
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by kamaal 5y ago
I once bought a Moleskine notebook, it was so precious i never used it. I then gave it to my niece, she didn't use it either, last time I heard she gave to somebody else too. Long story short you buy these things as jewellery and not a
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>The idea that you need to be physically close to be emotionally close is just silly. Note this works with one's mom but not wife. Meaning what is the nature of relationship you are pursuing here? Deeper the stake closer you nee
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>I would argue that this says more about those people than about WFH. Not sure what your argument is, if a person eats lunch with another person on an everyday basis, or may be goes for a tea break walk, they are also likely to talk
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Then you leave and find work with someone that doesn't have the attention span of a goldfish. Which is basically every where and every one. The bad news is you now start at the bottom of your level at the new company. >>I
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by kamaal 5y ago
So many people don't realise this. You haven't seen your cousin or a friend for a while? What is your perception of them now? I am sure all that Facebook liking and commenting hasn't given you a clue of what they are now, and
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by kamaal 5y ago
There is a big reason to Work from office, apart from the merits of the case like close collaboration, productivity et al. Most important of all is being able to see your manager on a day to day basis, a lot of people don't really unde
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>I watched Richard Feynman's explanation and feel like I learned something! I don't know the link to the video on YouTube, but there was one interview where they were discussing why Math appears hard to so many people. Basi
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Sri Lanka cancels school exams over paper shortage as financial crisis bites(theguardian.com)
4 points by kamaal 5y ago|0 comments
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by kamaal 5y ago
This kind of device is what I would expect somebody would build after reading Dune.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>60 for chicken? In India going back as early as 1960s, Chicken used to be a very expensive delicacy. I think poultry farming at scale is kind of a recent phenomenon.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>You can get a haircut for 3-4$ on the street in some countries in SE Asia. You get one in Bangalore for $2.5, but it means nothing when you measure it in $ terms, people don't exactly earn in dollars in India. They earn in rupe
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India accidentally fires missile into Pakistan(bbc.com)
2 points by kamaal 5y ago|2 comments
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>I'd love to read others that diverge from this So your argument is you assume Russia wanted to take Ukraine in 100 milliseconds, and if people can't prove you wrong you win?
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by kamaal 5y ago
Im as lowest as lowest goes. Like whole family used to sleep in a small room, seen struggle for food and finished engineering with help of lots of people and scholarships. Dad started with manual labor work, and things like cutting wood in
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by kamaal 5y ago
The day the invasion started, it was like early India morning it was the scariest morning I've had in a while. The sheer rate at which they fired missiles(Cruise? Iskandr?) and the rate at which they were able to cripple anything in si
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by kamaal 5y ago
Among muslims themselves its practically non-existent. Speaking as a Muslim, the way the Indian society perceives us, we are the lowest of the lowest castes. Muslims themselves perceive our layer as fairly flat. This is mostly because most
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by kamaal 5y ago
Telecommunications industry seems to be particularly toxic, I hear there are in Santa Clara, and in Bangalore too, buildings full of 'Automation engineers'. There are like thousands and thousands of people whose whole job is to pl
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by kamaal 5y ago
Perl. Originally a single person creation. All credits to all the hard work people have put in over the years to maintain it.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>If Facebook is successful not innovating, why would they want to hire innovators? These companies have one cash cow business, and they want to hire the best people they can to keep the lights on. These people tend to go around selli
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by kamaal 5y ago
Regardless of whatever trends exist now, every programmer must spare a thought about their future. Ageism is common in this industry. No matter how great a programmer you are, you will be eventually discriminated. And this area of work is n
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by kamaal 5y ago
Perl saved a lot of projects back in those days, and was pretty much the language of choice in the early internet days. In fact going as recently as 2015, was the de facto language of choice for server-side/backend applications. Most p
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by kamaal 5y ago
The real question is in asking, what are you going to use the programming language to build? If you are going into a Math heavy domain, you are going to use a programming language to solve math problems, and hence involves learning Math. Th
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by kamaal 5y ago
I know of a doctor who gave a seminar at our workplace. His case was. The cure for most non serious illness, is mostly to wait. Not even medication. This is why most people think homeopathy works.

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