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by phakding 8y ago
I stopped playing games 20 years ago. Mostly for lack of time. I am curious though. If you are a gamer, how old are you? Do you have a spouse and kid(s)? How long is your commute? When do you typically play?
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by phakding 8y ago
I would go talk to both your team mate and your boss, in that order. I would also be very cordial and professional. Learn why the teammate took the credit or may be the boss is just mistaken. Find out the truth and then set the story straig
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by phakding 8y ago
I started working out when I was 33 and I am in better shape now than I ever was including my teens and twenties. I can run for miles, lift for hour and half and hike for 12 hours straight. It's never too late. I have read real world s
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by phakding 8y ago
No. I have lots of hobbies and I travel a lot. But I usually go to places like Norway, or Nepal for trekking. Having 4 day weekends would mean nothing to me. I could use more vacation time. Instead of 5 weeks I get now, I could use 8 weeks
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by phakding 8y ago
This looks pretty good, unfortunately it's windows only.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend me a lightweight journaling tool
5 points by phakding 8y ago|9 comments
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by phakding 8y ago
I worked for an exchange and it was not blocked there. I worked for a car automation company and it wasn't blocked there either. My following two jobs were at multinational banks. In the first one, it was blocked. In the second, I took
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by phakding 8y ago
How much experience do you have? Or are you fresh out of college? In the later case it takes a while if you need a visa. It is also possible that your resume is unreadable, or does not convey right information easily. You might need to have
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by phakding 8y ago
:) Thanks. I wish I was a better writer. I thought about writing a fiction based on my life many times, but I am not even close to being a decent writer
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by phakding 8y ago
Ha! Can't tell if you are being sarcastic.
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by phakding 8y ago
Thank you. I appreciate your sentiments. There's definitely a survivorship bias. It worked out for me with lot of hard work and few strokes of luck here and there. I know bunch of my classmates from grade school who couldn't do mu
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by phakding 8y ago
My story is not too different. I grew up in a dirt poor Asian village. We didn't have running water and for first few years of my life, not even a toilet. Parents taking active part in kids education was not common. I remember my paren
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Enigma
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by phakding 8y ago
Take a decision. If that turned out to be a good decision, think back and remember how you took that decision. If it turned out to be a bad decision, remember how you took that decision. Learn from your mistakes and soon you will be an expe
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by phakding 9y ago
There definitely was. I remember telling this to my college roommate few years ago after he gradually gained lot of weight and was diagnosed as pre-diabetic.
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by phakding 9y ago
The daily by NY Times Radiolab Real time with Bill Maher Wait wait dont tell me snap judgement Freaknomics
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by phakding 9y ago
I would disagree with the notion that degree wouldn't benefit you much. Well of course, you could go to a mediocre/lousy university and end up taking all very easy courses and then your degree will mean nothing. But if you look a
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by phakding 9y ago
Why don't you get one? You are still young and your brain is still developing. Get a degree in comp sci and be on your merry way.
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by phakding 9y ago
I don't do the meditation exactly, but I recently trekked to Mt Everest base camp and stayed in Nepal for few days. I get mentally overwhelmed with the natural beauty and that sort of creates effect similar to meditation. After coming