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by neilsharma 10y ago
Thanks for the link -- I remember spending a good 10-15 minutes before giving up on the DIY suggestions. There were a few recipes that piqued my interest, but most seemed like a chemical sludge. And since I don't live off soylent, I fi
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I always have a bottle of soylent in my backpack for emergencies, or if I'm in SF for half a day and don't want to waste $10 on a sandwich I can finish in 3 bites. That said, I'm not a big fan of its macros. I don't real
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I live in the Bay Area and never understood the coffeehouse work culture. Libraries have better internet (usually), more available desks, are quieter, often have better parking, don't have a coffee tax just to use it, and doesn't
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by neilsharma 10y ago
How do they get traffic to it? I'd imagine the vast majority of time is spent on marketing and not on content creation.
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Slight tangent, but if someone were getting started in JS today and wanted to build medium-complexity, async-heavy, web apps with decent-sized backend, what stack should he invest his time on? React, angular, node, elm, express, etc? Let&#x
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Yeah, the scope of possible questions is unreasonably vast. Have you come across any exhaustive list of CS (algorithms) and SWE knowledge needed to adequately prepare for interviews? Or better than a list, a high quality end-to-end resource
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by neilsharma 10y ago
At times struggled with all of these: 1) learning the data structures / algorithms 2) finding enough problems with quality, step-by-step answers in a language I use 3) being able to write code on a whiteboard without the help of google
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Ask HN: Hardest part about preparing for technical interviews?
7 points by neilsharma 10y ago|7 comments
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Not an expert here, but I have dabbled with both R and Python. For learning and even publication purposes, I'd consider looking at Jupyter Notebooks: http://jupyter.org/ There's still some configuration involved t
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Ask HN: Examples of great mentorship?
2 points by neilsharma 10y ago|0 comments
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I think you're on to something. Know of any ways to make a desktop experience enforce a single context? Essentially build a smartphone-like interface, except for desktops?
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by neilsharma 10y ago
What about the ipad made it so special to my dad? Better resolution than whatever monitor a 12-year-old computer could power? Portability? Easier to use? Seems like parent's seem to be responding better to mobile tech than computers.
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Was that the defacto way of communicating tech products to non-tech people within the company? Do fortune 500 companies not have training on how to use all the software they'd need to use, or is this just for in-house tech that might n
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by neilsharma 10y ago
For a moment, I thought we had the same parents. My mom doesn't know when to single vs double click, and both my parents lack the ability to visually parse through a screen's worth of buttons, links, and text quickly. Looking for
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by neilsharma 10y ago
haha oh man this is a toughie. I can't imagine the number of people who get confused about toggling wifi or data off while traveling.
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Haha I can relate. I have a post-it note on the TV on how to switch from Chromecast to cable. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how to cast things in the first place... What about hooking up an old computer to the TV instead of using a s
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by neilsharma 10y ago
One of my good friends has repeatedly said that "consistency is the most important feature." Even I, as a 20-something, struggle to be effective in any windows product with flat design and keep installing windows 7 on every new ov
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by neilsharma 10y ago
That's interesting. What do you think it is about smartphones that made it easier?
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by neilsharma 10y ago
My mom has had her own successful small fashion business for the past 25 years, and it frustrates me watching her do anything on the computer -- her business doesn't even have a website. The ironic thing is that she spends all day on i
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Ask HN: What tech problems do your parents have?
11 points by neilsharma 10y ago|26 comments
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by neilsharma 10y ago
What are some ways for technologists to address climate/environmental issues in a high-impact way? Would love to do something in the space, but the 8/10 companies that show interest in me have to do with ads or luxury services in
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Ask him for a list of concepts he doesn't understand well and post them here. Maybe the crowd can find some good blogposts online that you can print out and give it to him.
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by neilsharma 10y ago
Thanks a bunch for the resources :). Gonna play around with some of these. Modeling software is definitely something that's interesting, but also just helping these organizations not seem so unappealing. Their websites are old unusable
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by neilsharma 10y ago
This is sad. I could see this causing a lot more problem than all the fires we're getting in CA. This is a slight tangent, but are there jobs for people in tech to help fight this (or drought, logging, etc)? Wouldn't mind spending
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I live in the suburbs of south bay, and near my house used to be a Mervyns -- a clothing store that had a relatively large building but went out of business nearly 10 years ago. A few stores came and went, but for the majority of those 10 y
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I was physically most at risk after I had put on 50lbs of muscle and was routinely breaking lifting goals: Too heavy benchpress / lifting under fatigue to promote growth --> high risk of accidents. Too little stretching and lots of
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by neilsharma 10y ago
I feel like the best mentor/mentee relationships aren't based on incentives, but a friendship/concern for one another. A small handful of senior ex-colleagues who I've worked with genuinely look out for me and my career
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by neilsharma 10y ago
glad meditation has helped ya -- i think everyone gets different things about it. It helps me slow down and be more present instead of worrying about all those career things. It makes me feel a little more connected to the world. It helps m
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by neilsharma 10y ago
haha perhaps matrimony would address some of the issues (I am starting to approach THAT age). I'm just a big picture guy and over the years, I don't think that tech has helped that much in addressing some of the more fundamental l
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by neilsharma 10y ago
1) More high quality news analysis content. Think NASA Earth Observatory, The Information, or the best articles you've ever read, and put them behind a paywall. Consistently making top notch content is hard, but I suspect it can be eas

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