mvp

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by mvp 16y ago
Probably the grass is greener on the other side. I felt like you are feeling at the moment, throughout my career. I have successfully managed to move from one environment to the desired one and onto the next desired one as the current one g
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by mvp 16y ago
what do you mean? are you speaking from experience?
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by mvp 16y ago
Getting off the computer helps me to focus. I use a pencil and paper to work on any task that doesn't really need a computer. I print off long articles to help me read them with concentration.
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by mvp 16y ago
and also reading and then replying to your comment :)
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by mvp 16y ago
Writing is a practical necessity. Like every other skill it does improve with practice. So advising people who are not good at it to not do it is wrong.
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by mvp 16y ago
Spot on. Textmate 1.5 was good enough for so many people to switch to it from powerful editors like Vim and Emacs. It is a pretty difficult task to come up with an improvement that in the minds of many would be better than Vim, Emacs and Te
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by mvp 16y ago
It is definitely a legacy of the industrial revolution. It did make a lot of sense in a world where you had to be physically present at a place to get work done. It is still being practiced even in new organizations where it does not make m
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by mvp 16y ago
I'm in the UK at the moment but will in Hyderabad soon and will be frequenting Bangalore. What is the hacker scene in Bangalore? Do you attend any other conferences/meetups?
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by mvp 16y ago
Actually the keybindings can be changed to those of vim (by typing "set -o vi" on terminal). It is probably not set as default as it is confusing to new users.
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by mvp 16y ago
any in hyderabad or bangalore?
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by mvp 16y ago
glen is probably referring to the ratio of the number of successful applicants to the total number of applicants - which is about 1% ( about a decade and half ago, maybe even less now). I don't know whether it makes any sense to compare the
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by mvp 16y ago
Time boxing and pomodoro technique helps
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by mvp 16y ago
What appears normal and acceptable while you are a smoker feels pretty abnormal and unacceptable once you are free from the habit.
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by mvp 16y ago
Death - painful or not - is far off. Most smokers that I know suffer everyday with some sort of problem with the lungs or throat and which they don't admit to non-smokers.
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by mvp 16y ago
It is impossible to estimate accurately. I read somewhere which seem quite valid - "if we can't predict how much time was spent developing something even when we have the finished product at hand, what chance have we got of estimating somet
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by mvp 16y ago
that's how it looks to me on Safari, but it works on latest version of chromium.
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by mvp 16y ago
If you see a friend at a certain place by accident, you are bound to feel that your friend frequents the place more than you yourself do. I used to think that this is incorrect as there is no way to ascertain that. I may have to rethink now
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by mvp 17y ago
I am surprised to read the comments on the website. I didn't find any that even remotely disagreed with the idea that Americans have bad taste!
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by mvp 17y ago
Working hard is just being conscious of what you are doing (most of the time). If you can do the same work without being conscious of doing it, you won't feel it to be working hard. So learning any new skill, or negotiating new situations c
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by mvp 17y ago
These surveys on 'happiness' are done by asking people taking part in the survey to rate their 'happiness'. How is this information going to be more useful to me as an individual who reads the results of such a survey ? I could answer mysel
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by mvp 17y ago
One advice to anybody who hasn't spent much time thinking about these things deeply before. Don't do this alone. Have somebody with whom you can discuss (not on computer). Your mind can become like a shifting sand and you won't have any sor
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by mvp 17y ago
A comment I left on Aaron's site as well. I found the link to Pomodoro technique on some website. I was really glad I saw it. Google for ‘pomodoro technique’ if you are interested. If you liked Aaron’s post, you’ll definitely like this tech
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by mvp 18y ago
You may not like their style, but I bet they have the following they do because of a particular style of operation. If they were any different, I am pretty sure none of us would have known them as well as we all seem to do. As a company, th
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by mvp 18y ago
The following line in the post is the crucial thing. "Amazing how suddenly reasonable and transformed a person can be when they’re forced to look you in the eye" And I think a version of that is included in the guidelines for HN. The power
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by mvp 18y ago
If it is the discontent with the current job that's driving you to quit the job, it may be better to try and get another job where you think you will get a better deal and probably like the work more than you do in the current company. You