kamaal

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901.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>San Francisco is a city for the rich. Whole Bay Area, is also a kind of poverty filter, or at least in a way luck filter To make it here you need to pass through a long filter of luck, hard work and lottery to eventually make it.
902.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>I use a custom CSS skin to make the text legible and accessible How do you do this?
903.
by kamaal 5y ago
oh, how i hope we had means to tweak other colors too :)
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by kamaal 5y ago
Well, yeah, tough luck. There are people out there who keep complaining about talent shortage, and not finding people to do anything at all. But you go through their hiring process and it's all about 10 rounds of questions on OJ sites
905.
by kamaal 5y ago
This strategy too has some limits, its not like you can keep interviewing forever. Most companies will flag you eventually if all you've done in your career is write a 100 line bash script and leave every six months, in fact if they ar
906.
by kamaal 5y ago
The parent post to yours is actually true, being born in US indeed does wonders to ones access to opportunities, infrastructure, culture, soceity etc. The USA really makes it easy for people to win. It can be hard to notice it if you'v
907.
by kamaal 5y ago
How else would you store images if you did it on a text file? Links to your hard drive? Notice at some point you are just making a wiki. And of course now you have the added effort budget of maintaining the wiki on top of your regular work.
908.
by kamaal 5y ago
Most work related knowledge should go on work place infrastructure online document store, at the same time its a total waste of time to re invent a clone of stack overflow. Any general knowledge information I'd want to look up, is alre
909.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>A commonly stated benefit of the text file is that it's searchable and easy to backup. Not all data is same. Personal Knowledge Database is not the same as metadata things like todo lists, often todo lists don't need searc
910.
by kamaal 5y ago
This, several times this. My favorite system for knowledge management is Google Docs(due to obvious advantages- online drive, WYSIWYG etc), and for metadata/task-management tasks(GTD, working things out, mind maps, todo lists, solving
911.
by kamaal 5y ago
Snakes too. The general belief here in India is if you are hurting a snake, might as well kill it, and then burn it, just to be sure.
912.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>Resident Welfare Associations are now legally obligated to feed and look after stray dogs in their neighborhoods. The best way to stop stray dog menace, just stop throwing food/organic waste on the streets. Stray dogs quite lit
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by kamaal 5y ago
Printing money really isn't that big a problem if you know how to take it back from the public(aka taxes). In fact if you have a strong enough tax collection system, printing is actually good because it cleans up debt by inflating it,
914.
by kamaal 5y ago
People who are obese enough to not take take stairs but elevators cant fight revolutions by definition. That is why they have elections, and one way or other democracy fixes most of these problems. Even if the fix is not perfect, or entirel
915.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>As someone who does OK, but lives in reality (not the bay area), I feel a revolution coming. As some one who lives in India, where inflation is perennially high. I can assure you revolution is not coming, in fact not even a protest
916.
by kamaal 5y ago
I hope some one wrote a book on developing this kind of technique.
917.
by kamaal 5y ago
There is also the concept of ownership, that you are really in total ownership of any situation. I think the 5 why's should arrive to what part in your circle of ownership does the issue lie.
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by kamaal 5y ago
Yeah, you need to be powerful enough to persuade, thats the point.
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by kamaal 5y ago
Use what you can to get work done. Either way other people using a tool or not using a tool shouldn't effect you doing the same.
920.
by kamaal 5y ago
Emacs really is an automation tool for text buffers/palette, the fact that code is text too is just incidental. Other wise the kind of tasks emacs is better suited for is changing text programmatically. While Emacs doesn't have in
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by kamaal 5y ago
Use the pen to design a better sword(missiles, f-35s etc), that's the point, not writing novels and reddit threads with a pen.
922.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>It used to be affordable earlier. It wasn't affordable earlier. In fact internet/data plans were fairly expensive before the 4G days. It's a lot saner now. >>Companies collapsed and merged and now the duopoly is
923.
by kamaal 5y ago
Well fortunately in most cities here in Karnataka, even more so in Bangalore almost every area has these small-medium large buildings where you can set up these stores, and these are reachable through two wheelers. You need to understand wh
924.
by kamaal 5y ago
Depends on the target buyers, if you are a big township/apartment resident, who works a 9 - 9 job, and don't like walking to the nearest kirana for stuff, you will be happy paying for it. But the vast majority of the buyers, inclu
925.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>by working with them for order fulfilment. Actually most people's time is cheap, so eventually people won't be ok with paying delivery fees, but just walking up to the local super market and buying things from there, so th
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge consolidation of sales and then you can expect the prices to jump. Luddites have been pushing this narrative for anti-modernism for ages now, but it just doesn't come
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>It's difficult to have sympathy for the middle-men skimming 5-10% in this story, especially with excerpts like these. The middle men nexus is so deep in the Indian society it can be hard for westerners to even conceive just how
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by kamaal 5y ago
yup any repeated interruption is indistinguishable from noise, and after a while you are just used to neglecting it.
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by kamaal 5y ago
Things can get complicated when checklists have if-else-branches and loops. Anything that has a list of lists, and if-else-branches can be really hard to get right. You walk into one wrong branch due to human error, mistakes just multiply f
930.
by kamaal 5y ago
>>I thought aviation is THE industry that runs on procedures and checklists you need to tick before and after each flight to make sure the even if you're a complete klutz, nothing like this can ever happen. Did that go out the wi

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