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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>Perl died because other languages starting having an equivalent to CPAN Last time I checked apart from npm, no other language has anything similar to CPAN.
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by kamaal 10mo ago
>>I'm having to pick up some perl now, and while I don't interact with the community, it surely _feels_ like it was written by wizards, for wizards. Those days were different. You could say what people are doing in months to
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>In tech a customer with an annual contact value of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars will get a dedicated team of sales reps In many Indian outsourcing firms, they permanently place a 'program manager' at big client&
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Looks like the complaining and protesting on Twitter helped, even if was serious, and some just memes. Somethings to note- 1. Most Indian bureaucracy is clueless about tech things, and just goes by whatever somebody who sounds like techy en
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by kamaal 11mo ago
That and of course- If you are using a tool to solve a problem. Your focus should be on the problem. If you are spending more time fixing or inventing the tool, than spending time solving the problem, then you are better off using a paid to
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>apps without maintenance This is perhaps what most non-dev people don't get. Maintenance is a far more harder thing than building something. So you want to go slow when building things, not fast. Either way building things fast
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Literally the worst job you can find as a programmer today (if you lower you standards and particularly, stay away from cryptocurrency jobs) is 10x better than the non-programmer jobs you can find. A lot of non-programmer jobs have
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>As a CTO of a number of small startups, I am still struggling to understand what exactly AWS and other cloud providers give you to justify the markup. If you are having a company that warrants building a data center, then AWS does n
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Between 1951 and 1992, the United States conducted 928 atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Just how nuclear waste polluted is Nevada? Surely ~1000 tests in one place can&#
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Why are women considered to be people who "wont contribute anything back"? Not women in specific, but India has a huge informal economy sector, where payments, salaries, spending are done outside of the tax system. Most pe
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by kamaal 11mo ago
You want us(Indians) and Chinese to go to war. We stubbornly refuse to. Both countries, have now have growing economies with stable politics, and social direction. Things can only get better from here, and will. Whatever issues exist, we re
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Speaking as an Indian. Most of these are just diplomatic flexing of muscles which mostly reduce to literally nothing. There is not going to a be a war in the modern context. Secondly, only one war has happened between China and India, in wh
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Bangalore(+State of Karnataka) is currently having free transit, but only for women. Which seems to have drawn anger from Meninist circles. People who support this say, it gives more mobility to women from poor and lower middle class househ
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>conveyor belt And keeping the conveyor belt running seamlessly for years, requires showing up for years too. There are no replacements for sticking to one thing for long.
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by kamaal 11mo ago
More like Dave has been pushing up sacks of really valuable things up a hill, for years. Jack who just arrived and pushed ONE sack up slightly faster than Dave, in the first week, thinks he must be promoted above Dave right then and there.
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>The real cause of our dysfunctional system is the debris of nehruvian socialism (he was a covert communist masking himself as a Fabian socialist). It has been 50 years since his time. And most of what he did now has largely faded ou
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>You're a high performer, one year into the role. A colleague, who's been around longer but struggled, gets promoted not necessarily on merit, but on their ability to manage up. Its honestly mostly like a queue, you can&#x2
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by kamaal 11mo ago
In India loyalties run deep. It can come along the lines of religion, region, caste, family, color, class etc. Many times novices to this game, work mad hours, only to realise a year or two down the lane, some guy who practically did no wor
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by kamaal 11mo ago
The deal about India is this. Its a brutal zero/negative sum game, at a country level, but plays out in every individual's life, and at a punishing pace, intensity and frequency. Anybody who doesn't prioritise their self inte
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>the manager is not politely savvy enough to ensure their team is being recognized for work that grows or is valuable to the business. Actually in most companies, no ones watching whats happening, no ones watching who performs, who s
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>While Ruby is more alive than Perl it's nowhere near as popular as Python. Haven't seen anybody start a Ruby project in more than a decade. Whereas Perl still has held its fort i.e Automation/Glue work on Unix systems
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Nothing forced anyone to abandon Perl 5 code, and I suspect most Perl 5 wasn't abandoned for its own sake; Perl, Lisp, Haskell, Prolog etc. I was there when Perl ruled the world, I used it myself to rule the world. The scene wa
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>Is that really something you can go to school and study? School can teach you a lot about how not to make big mistakes, that given, its up to you to figure out how to go up from there.
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Its in the nature of men to work and provide. That's how men seek fulfilment in life. But if you dial up the pain in the process men will bail. This shouldn't be surprising. Perhaps the most primal biological set up of all, the ve
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Well that's the point, men are refusing to suffer. There is little incentive to walking in a contract, where you are working all the time, no appreciation, love, gratitude or even a thank you. All the time being made to feel like you a
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Actually it is- s" rabbithole" .s" forth" .s" into" .s" deep" .s" too" .s" go" .s" not" .s" must" .
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>He is 87 and doesn't think recoding a super niche' software tool is the best use of what very well may be his last few years of life. Know quite a few elderly men, were moving mountains until retirement, then at one age th
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by kamaal 11mo ago
Large metropolitan cities in India are purely for job reasons. I do believe buying expensive real estate in a city like Bangalore is pointless. You can put the same money in a good mutual fund, and buy a home in a Tier 2 city around Bangalo
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by kamaal 11mo ago
>>If you’re really finding yourself getting bored by not constantly interacting with the shiny new thing, then maybe the impediment of modern life is the problem. The real question of modern life, or may be all life. How much wasted e
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by kamaal 11mo ago
This keeps coming up in the context of India as well. The Urban centers are so people dense you yearn to escape this life and live somewhere you can enjoy Mountain perspectives, lakes and tall trees. But here is the catch, I go motorcycling

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