maayank

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by maayank 16y ago
I just want to single out the ')' at the end of the post, a classic Cheshire Cat smile where you only see immediately his smile but not his face/eyes (i.e. compare with ":)"). If this is a coincidence and you done it by mistake (i.e. mistak
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by maayank 16y ago
You have now culture, law, education, and much more conditioning than 50000/100000/1000000 years ago. I would argue that much have changed regarding how other humans react to what we do.
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by maayank 16y ago
Career-wise, a "won an international search algorithm contest by MS Research" line in your CV is worth much more than 10K.
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by maayank 16y ago
"They have been honed by many, many iterations." For an environment and time that we no longer live in. Evolution honed our instincts for a reason, but this reasoning was good for jungles and savannas, not urban sprawls and concrete jungles
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by maayank 16y ago
This is a general programming issue, not a system programming issue. Not so long ago at work, I had to implement a regex search over a Lucene document store. Now, the thing is that we used the latest version (at the time) of Lucene, 3.0. Al
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by maayank 16y ago
I think the real sting of such a belief is the fact you don't have the security that comes with the belief "I have that inherent ability, no matter what happens"
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by maayank 16y ago
'You should admit that you really don't care enough to find out how your body would respond to six months of an hour of daily training aimed at dunking a basketball, and you should consider whether your attitude towards dunking a basketball