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by ngc248 4y ago
McCain was born in the panama canal control zone and at that point the panama canal control zone was controlled by the US.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Similar to how the switch from non-renewable to renewable sources of energy can't be done in a jiffy, the switch to organic from non-organic cant be done in a matter of years. The yields are too low with organic farming. This lead them
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by ngc248 4y ago
There are no side door admissions basically. You have to write a National level entrance exam and get the best rankings to get into the best universities and departments.
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by ngc248 4y ago
lol .... by this definition all college entrance exams are pseudo meritocratic.
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by ngc248 4y ago
wow ... it makes sense ... more of a top down approach.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly ... I call that the frAgile methodology and managers seem to love that.
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by ngc248 4y ago
"If bill gates gets on a bus, on an average everyone in the bus is a billionaire". Read this somewhere and this made me understand why just the average on its own does not say anything.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly ... poor microsoft ... their name is still in the mud coz of that, while chrome is in the place IE was and Apple with its appstore ecosystem are doing worse than what MS did. Windows was more open compared to these phone OSs
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by ngc248 4y ago
yep .... they have these ridiculous designs or shapes. Particularly the slim fit tapered jeans. searching for the classic regular fit jeans is almost impossible.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> Grafana, Prometheus and Elastic Stack Those 3 have almost become the industry standard for observability. Everywhere I have worked have used the same and it is almost a no-brainer.
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by ngc248 4y ago
MicroFrontEnds (MFE) solve an actual problem, but it becomes a problem if developers do it for the sake of RDD (Resume Driven Development) or just because. My Company has a Cloud platform which is kinda like a marketplace and users can inst
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> would much rather have a few whips with a cane than losing years and years doing nothing productive. I know people who have been caned (for alochol consumption) in the mid-east who still have problems walking today, so no that
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by ngc248 4y ago
Any non-trivial OSS project has corporate sponsors on the steering committee and feature set/fixes are mostly driven by these corporate sponsors. So in the end it's all same.
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by ngc248 4y ago
I am still using brackets on the mac and I have to say very satisfied with it. I came from windows where notepad++ is unbeatable.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> My experience with Python is that a mid sized code base does not survive a full staff turnaround. So somewhere around the time the last original author is gone, the codebase becomes a haunted graveyard - scary to everyone. This
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> Stop working 80 hour weeks, stop working weekends. When the only thing you do has little/no reward, that is what causes burnout. This is a very important point. Slogging without any feeling of accomplishment/returns w
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by ngc248 4y ago
In our team, we play games like https://skribbl.io/ etc. its a lot of fun and almost everyone in our team enjoys playing.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Those days are long gone. Just working hard is not sufficient anymore.
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by ngc248 4y ago
dunno whether your comment is sarcastic or not... But it is definitely not safe to visit china. After the case of the two canadians, it is always a risk and there were some incidents before that also.
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by ngc248 4y ago
hahaha ... havent laughed this much in a long while ... That would be the next evolution of workspaces after open plan. One giant cesspool err .. watercooler where everyone can sysnergize and regurgitate err... ideate.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> Though with all the scandals emanating from Hollywood, one wonders how they hold on to that moral superiority They all seem to have their own personal Reality Distortion fields
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly, the novelty of finding something our for yourself. And lots of times the anticipation of waiting for something itself used to be so fun. As you mentioned, with everything being reviewed to the minutest detail, all of that novelty i
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> On the rare days when sunlight peeks through and I can see the sky Would moving to sunny climes be of any help?
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by ngc248 4y ago
exactly .... "rules for thee, but none for me". In an already resource constrained place like India, it will take time to switch to renewable resources. Until then the only option is fossil fuels.
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by ngc248 4y ago
And even simpler to get it wrong and get hacked/lose money irretrievably
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by ngc248 4y ago
This sums up the evolution properly, but one correction is that the component frameworks were there before jquery so 2 and 3 need to switch places. edit: ok looks like they were contemporaries
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by ngc248 4y ago
Oh i thought it was pronounced like how we pronounce lynx ... la-tuh-nks
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by ngc248 4y ago
dear would discriminate against those who are not so beloved.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> The fact that you can take out a loan or buy insurance and your counterparty is a smart contract is pretty interesting. it would be like if google is your insurance provider. If something goes wrong (it eventually will) there w
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by ngc248 5y ago
Totally agree... different people are suited for different things

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