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by m23khan 9y ago
beautiful, beautiful work! Well done Sir!
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by m23khan 9y ago
About time North America adapted to this new reality: Kids in Countries like Pakistan (and I reckon in China and India) as young as 3 year old are being pushed into learning reading/writing and from age of 4 onwards, they are learning
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by m23khan 9y ago
What are toys these days? VTech LED craziness or Lego-on-steroids? No kid (even Babies it seem) are interested in old fashion wooden/metal toys whereas toddlers+ are only interested in digital/musical/mechanical stuff that fe
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by m23khan 9y ago
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is probably the best place for Amazon to place its HQ. It has a huge international airport which has tons of undeveloped land, good road networks (HWYs, well-built roads), rail road connections, a harbour (Por
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by m23khan 9y ago
From what I was told by my friend who worked at Bombardier - the company would fly their Toronto-based employees (who needed to work at Montreal) everyday from Toronto to Montreal and then back at the end of day. He had to fly 5 days a week
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by m23khan 9y ago
I am a DevOps Engineer by trade and title. Here is my take on this: It is a role - not something that can be done by OPS or DEV or SEC or what have you. Allow me to explain my 2 cents worth: - With the amounts of tooling (CI/CD pipelin
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by m23khan 9y ago
Incorrect - the fertility rate for a given population in order for that population to 'not decline' is 2.1 (not 2.0). In Canada, we are not even hitting the 2.0 mark (we are at 1.6). source: https://www.cia.gov/lib
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by m23khan 9y ago
+1 for Toronto, Canada. Life is very stressful and free time is very limited. Combined that with a culture that is spend-all and very selfish (me time), voila - you come across a society where people are willing to stay single and not have
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by m23khan 9y ago
Frankly, I think the old World habits of people distancing themselves from distractions and to involve their self in deep thoughts relevant to their fields, experimenting tirelessly and then collaborating with like minded personalities are
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by m23khan 9y ago
Speaking about Urdu (among different languages, derived from Sanskrit): It is one of the languages in which every language, word can be copied into and pronounced to a surprising accuracy. For example, this very post can be written using Ur
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by m23khan 9y ago
to be honest, why not start by having cargo planes flown by AI in an unmanned aircraft? You can have an office where drone-operator style aircraft operators can log in for 8 hour shift and then 'handover' to the next shift's
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by m23khan 10y ago
For anybody who attending a community college or University for technical courses, you would have realized that overwhelming majority of your Professors (aka computer scientists) are 40+ with a large chunk being 55+ I think human beings hav
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by m23khan 10y ago
this is great news!! Along with CentOS, I find it a joy working with Ubuntu servers when it comes to administration. I wish SUSE (SLES) also had a smoother / stable performance on AWS (e.g. recurring issues with their susecloud on aws
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by m23khan 10y ago
Hi Bashtoni, will this CentOS AMI be your fork (as an individual contributor) or will this be the official CentOS AMI on AWS Marketplace?
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same thing in China as well - Chinese ladies and men are both serious in their studies. I think it has to do with the national psyche developed during the harsh years of Communism where either inherited wealth or proving academic mettle mea
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by m23khan 10y ago
Thank you AWS Team!! Can now look forward to moving ahead with python3 dev fully
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by m23khan 10y ago
Hi malanj, Can you point on some use cases this may serve? Is the intention to allow mobile app developers to create e-wallet type apps. for the bank account? Or perhaps hook it up to e-assisstant such as Alexa?
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by m23khan 10y ago
All Fortune 500 CEO's either have MBAs or surround themselves with army of smart MBAs. Best we accept the value a person gets out of such a cut-throat, aggressive top MBA school and embrace it - afterall, we IT folks are famous for emb
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by m23khan 10y ago
For some reason, our generation (GEN Y / Millennials) don't seem to care much for their pensions or retirement planning. I think personally it is because of our atttitude towards retirement planning that majority of the companies
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by m23khan 10y ago
isn't uber still cheaper than taxi in Canada despite the application of HST now?
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by m23khan 10y ago
Can't speak for whole of Canada but Toronto is definitely on track to become a city where it is impossible to buy a house and rents are so high that for a family - both husband and wife need to work and one of the spouse has to have a
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by m23khan 10y ago
I was thinking along the same lines -- for example, say if scientists do bring back a huge group of passenger pigeons. Would these passenger pigeons know which route to fly, which parts of the habitat to utilize, etc. similar to those of th
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by m23khan 10y ago
Assuming it is directed towards admission into a Graduate Mathematics / Engineering Program, it looks pretty average to me. For a student who is in-form (e.g. a fresh graduate or a mature student who has taken 2-3 advanced calculus and
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by m23khan 10y ago
This is the main reason I love being in IT - I myself have a MSc in Computer Science but whenever I come across folks in IT who don't have CS or IT-related degree (most of whom are as-smart-as or smarter then me), I look at them as m
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by m23khan 10y ago
I think the answer lies somewhere in having 2-3 years of mandatory civil service for high-school grads which rotates them in various industries: Construction, IT, Mechanical works, Tool & Die, Hospital volunteering, Office clerks, build
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by m23khan 10y ago
To me, good code not only means smart/savvy logic+architecture, but it also means that it is equally well-documented. Therefore, for starters, For scripting language such as Ruby, check out Satish Talim's Ruby tutorials (URL: htt
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by m23khan 10y ago
For those who don't know: Markhor is the national animal of Pakistan. It is a type of mountain goat.
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by m23khan 10y ago
Why not take up a better challenge...solving Pakistan's power woes in 1 year :-D
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I have a 2 hour commute to work (1 hr each way) and I am not allowed to Work From Home -- this is a blessing in disguise. Addition to this, since my Wife is from other end of the globe from where I live -- I will send her and my 1 yr old fo
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by m23khan 10y ago
> Trump and every other American politician do not talk about it because the trade deficit between India and USA is not as big as China. Also, 9 out of 15 top internet companies in India are from USA. So like China, India is not a protec

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