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by kamaal 5y ago
In India it used to be common for elderly to live of interests from fixed deposits, or other instruments of this kind. From a few years Mutual funds have been quite famous, but inflation is so high, nothing really works. Here in India only
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>That includes a rise in wages. That's not how it works either. When the price of fuel increases, the cost to send a worker from point A to point B increases. However the worker salaries don't change all that much, or at-le
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Ratings as Incentives(geekincentives.substack.com)
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Is this true even for Product companies and captives? Yes, even more true in Product than Services companies. And for a very simple reason. Shelf life of most projects is small, and it resembles to be quite honest 'throw away w
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Now a days loads of ppl quit so openings are high and companies have to give better salary. Has always been that way. The easiest way to replace people is to hire freshers who are looking for a break. That way they don't have t
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by kamaal 5y ago
>> 3. Start copying the relevant part of the book or the lecture notes to a (paper) note-pad by hand. When I started learning to code. I remember people would buy the famous books and do an intellectual dive into them. As for me I bou
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by kamaal 5y ago
Inflation in India is close to 15%(every thing added). If you are a rich person sitting on a fortune you have to invest and spend it. If you are worth 3 digit crores, you are losing 2 digit crores an year, if you are 4 digit crores you are
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by kamaal 5y ago
It was always like that, people used to continue interviewing even after notice period. It was always known to be a counter productive thing for companies. HR departments work differently so they still ain't got the news yet.
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>And I get paid nearly (not 100%, but close) of US salaries. 99% of Indians who work on outsourced projects, don't make any where close to that money. In fact the very reason outsourcing exists is because of price arbitrage. FAN
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Many of us went over to PHP which is vibrant, keeps getting faster and better and is as practical as Perl was and hasn’t stalled. Who uses php these days? I haven't heard any one start a new php project in years. Ruby seems to
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* or physics isn't finished yet and methods exist outside these paradigms.
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Nearly 100% of the countries on this very earth are unreachable to most poor humans within their lifetime. And for a sizeable chunk of humans even reaching the very neighbourhood of their country, geography involves putting their lives on r
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>when all my employer really expected was just for the damn thing to work. Working for glory never really makes sense in any field of work. This mostly due to Ozymandias factor. But for most people the Ozymandias age is a pretty smal
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Later in life they will regret not having a family and a life when they were young and healthy. And for what? To write code that 5 years from now will just rot unused in some Git repo. Not starting a family(something that you will b
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by kamaal 5y ago
This is probably the most important thing. Plus the whole idea that money earned is a function of hours worked itself is wrong. It sure is some times, but most of the times it isn't. You also burnout, age quickly, catch diseases like h
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by kamaal 5y ago
People have macro use cases more often than they think. I work in devops these days and almost every week I have a situation where I have to generate repeated patterns of code using the language in which Im writing code(Python/Shell&#x
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by kamaal 5y ago
Same thing. India will be old by the end of this decade, and we are not even as rich as China.
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by kamaal 5y ago
China is a lot more open this time around. Their silk/belt-road initiatives, span across continents. What you are describing actually applies more to USA than China. Its USA which is a closed country and shutting out anyone it has a mi
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>water shortages and unstable power grids In Bangalore the tech parks most of the time run on diesel generators. And the water is kind of de-facto supplied through tankers. There is a fair bit of rain water harvesting but they are no
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by kamaal 5y ago
Python feature and library bloat is at late 1990s and early 2000s levels Perl these days. This has made Python very accessible and useful to Perl refugees. This explains the pervasive use of Python to "Automate the boring stuff".
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Living with other people, even with one's spouse or children really doesn't mean they want to seeing each other every minute of their lives. There needs to be an healthy amount of time that is both enjoyable, which is not too much
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>One thing (financial) retirement sometimes does, is removing the hunger/drive for becoming better. Put in other way humans need to score a win every now and then to keep moving forward, else you don't have anything to look
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>>For the most part they just boss around their families, driving them nuts. Not exactly a business exec or even a rich man. I know an uncle in my extended family who retired in late 40s-ish. We are in India, he used to work abroad in
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>cache that is very slow to expire... People have been WFH/Remote working for a while now. Like 1.5+ years. Besides when everything runs fine it all feels magic. You discover how things can break in a situation like this. Im pre
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>In Silicon Valley hopping companies can be like $100k/year or more gross pay difference. That has limits too. Its not like you can hop 20 companies in 10 years and end up making like $2+ million an year. Eventually you will max
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Pretty much any upper body of a serious organisation would work that way. A tad bit of detachment needs to exist between doing things, and making decisions about doing things, and making policies about doing things, and judging if things we
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by kamaal 5y ago
Here in Bangalore where stray cats are fairly common, you don't see squirrels all that often. Because they mostly get converted to cat food. A while back I used to feed pigeons at our home roof top. One day I saw while the pigeons were
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Or strictly obsessive coders who do nothing but code all day and don't have families and don't need PTO? Unfortunate, but true. If you look at the life profiles of 'rockstar coders' going around FANG like compani
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>>but most companies don’t actually want to lose valuable employees. The word 'valuable' is just a marketing term. Just like the work 'rockstar developer'. Unless you are like the top 1 - 2 people relevant to a ver
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by kamaal 5y ago
>>Mind you, this is nothing compared to what happens if even a mere pebble hits a neutron star! What would happen if a pebble hit a neutron star? I'd like to imagine the pebble would vaporize at contact or even before it(temperat

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