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by ngc248 5y ago
But the spreadsheet abstraction really works like a charm, it gives the flexibility and the power to do a lot. On a humorous side note ... competitive excel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
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by ngc248 5y ago
Resources need to be spent on all things no ..... not just on the poor, but even on things which may payoff in the future. Another point is, you can never alleviate poverty by just giving the poor money
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by ngc248 5y ago
In India, you have the opposition party and then lots of regional parties which are in power in state governments. These parties would never sit silent if the numbers were like this, since they could have used it politically, or people from
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by ngc248 5y ago
BS headlines everywhere. Straight from the study: https://cgdev.org/publication/three-new-estimates-indias-all... "Estimating COVID-deaths with statistical confidence may prove elusive. But all estimates suggest t
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by ngc248 5y ago
The earlier you teach kids that "actions have consequences" or responsibilities, the better the kids and in turn society will be. "They are just kids" is ok in some cases, but the incident at hand is quite a serious one
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by ngc248 5y ago
In the article they may have used it for humorous effect, but in India, apple products are actually sold in iStores. https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2013/03/istor...
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly ... We need to be "liberal" in some things and "conservative" for others.
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All their apps are privacy nightmares. I have a MI Note 4 and MIUI is still buttery smooth after all these years. Before this I used to have Samsung's flagship phones. The UI got laggy and slow after a few years. Compared to that MIUI
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>>> The GDPR didn’t give a 6 month timeline. This ruling came out in 2018 and they were given an extension until now, 3 years is sufficient enough to implement most things
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The Chinese great firewall, even though it is primarily to not allow info flow from outside, one benefit has been that, a lot of the internet companies that operate in china have been local and they were able to develop without any competit
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by ngc248 5y ago
Never confuse "passion" and a "job". In very rare cases, your job will be your passion. You can always follow your passion on the side and make it your main thing, if it picks up. Any software developer job at least lets
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly ...multi-tasking only works for shallow/low impact work. The expectation of multi-tasking for all forms of work is simply ludicrous.
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by ngc248 5y ago
There are more like different classes of work, 1. interruptible work 2. non-interruptible work With interruptible work, you can get interrupted and get back to doing what you were doing with no/minimal disruption. With non-interruptibl
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by ngc248 5y ago
" am disturbed and concerned by the general trend that the world seems to think all heterosexual relationships are inherently abusive or something. We hear a great deal about the bad, the things gone wrong, the dark side and sometimes
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by ngc248 5y ago
This .... exactly this, You did a good thing by getting out of it. When a normie on the street starts talking about crypto, it means crypto has jumped the shark and it is a pure bubble driven mainly by people's greed.
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by ngc248 5y ago
Yeah, heinz tastes weird ... The Indian palate is more used to the Maggi ketchup/sauce taste profile
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by ngc248 5y ago
or in the loo and afterwards while washing hands :). On a serious note, chance meetings are just one way that innovation happens. Not all innovations are created equally
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Spark is still the best for stream processing use cases and if you have enough volume of data coming in something like spark is still the best for batch processing. '
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I remember a line from a manga called "Liar's game". The line goes "If you meet someone new, doubt them, question them and then you will understand them better". I think this should be the SOP of when you meet anyon
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly and document rot is a real thing. No amount of wikis, knowledge bases, notes what have you will never be enough to capture the info updates. We live in an agile world after all. Maintaining documentation/institutional knowledge
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by ngc248 5y ago
Most of the people in management would be extroverts so they are the ones clamouring for back to office and their work also by nature is mostly collaborative mostly talking to ppl etc. For us ICs, even though we also collaborate, once you h
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly, at least in WFH, the primary thing which would be evaluated is the work done. I think in the office its your exposure and image which matters more which add in to your evaluation, mostly benefiting extroverts.
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With democracies i feel its mainly a long game instead of a short term one. I also think under an authoritarian regime u can get everything done forcefully, whereas under a democracy coz u need to get everyone board which may be slow or som
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by ngc248 5y ago
Exactly just like separation of church ad state, we need to have separation of work and everything else.
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Well of course, companies aren't democracies. The CEO/board or whoever is in charge has all the power.
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by ngc248 5y ago
Well its turtles all the way isnt it, "And the readers should read this comment and the parent of proving that. Not that this comment or the parent is true.". The same standard would apply to your comment.
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by ngc248 5y ago
Any rational person would give a bit of consideration to the lab leak theory, as some one said upthread 1. Corona virus outbreak started in wuhan 2. Wuhan has the WIV which does research on coronaviruses At a minimum this should make someon
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by ngc248 5y ago
This goes a bit more into detail - https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-th...
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Mentoring is also possible when doing remote work, Why do you need to be in front of the person to do mentoring? In our company all new joinees (during covid) were paired with existing employees and we were able to onnboard and get them con
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by ngc248 5y ago
I did my engineering in Electronics and Communication, knew programming but was not that much into algorithms. When I started leetcoding for interview prep, at the start I found it hard, but now I actually find it interesting. Also was able

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