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As someone who was born in India and spent a good 30 years of my life there before moving to US, I miss the train journeys so much. Most Indians like me who grew up taking train journeys to visit grandparents in the summer or that vacation
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Best to join an early stage startup as a technical co-founder or CTO. You get best of both worlds where you get to bootstrap an app and then grow the team.
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Not yet. I recently got a puppy and I can see its becoming expensive and planning to track spending.
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Because banks have done KYC of the customers before issuing and credit card to the person. If you can do the KYC yourself and establish the identity then you don't need to use credit card as anti-fraud mechanism. SaaS companies already
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Very generic answer IMO. In practice, it gets pretty tiring and boring to talk about it after couple of meetings with manager and bringing it up in every weekly 1:1 will have your manager avoid/cancel meetings with you. I tried followi
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Life coach industry is full of scammers.
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Does anyone know if this would retro-actively applied to employees who signed the non-compete contracts?
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on the contrary, I have seen people BSing their way be more insecure about their job during layoffs. During the layoffs its mostly strategic decision taken not just by your immediate boss but by CEOs or VP levels and managing up might not s
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People started focussing on text editors again after Atom came out.
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May be they should also investigate how many animals are killed by McDonalds and KFC?
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I am not able to spend enough time on solving problems and my mind wanders away. What books/resources do you suggest to improve this?
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Breaks my hear to see the indigenous tribes and cultures dying. We will regret Deforestation & forced-modernization of these forest based tribes. In Africa & India, some of the evangelical proselytizing has destroyed very old knowle
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Not just that. Elon forgot the basic rule of modern management "Treat your workers with respect". Moreover, Engineers are knowledge workers and need to treated with respect. What's most amusing to me is Elon takes the advice
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Let me clarify some points at the risk of sounding like a Modi supporter. Modi had gone though investigations and was acquitted by the Supreme court of India. It was definitely failure of government mechanism and officials but not state spo
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The reason for this is the population is so large that absolute numbers will be still very high. There are still millions of people that need to be lifted.
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I can tell my experience. Not just me but everyone I know moved from poverty to lower-middle or middle class in just 20 years. When I was 5 years old, we were living in a village with no electricity. Having 2 square meals was a luxury only
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The biggest issue the board seats have become status ornaments. People grab these board seats and most of them don't understand the company or product are shy of taking responsibilities. You would see two kinds of people who are on the
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This is pretty awesome. One small feedback, I noticed how there are multiple tags indicating same kind of content. for ex - "Mathematics" and "math". Combining these would be useful.
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From what I hear from my personal connections at Twitter. They will be given 60 days pay so he is circumventing that California law.
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> I almost always leave with the impression that the designers did the “right thing”. I suppose this is in contrast to Java, which does the pedantic thing, Perl, which does the kludgy thing, Ruby, which has two independent implementatio
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It is surprising how no one is talking about the productivity loss due to social media & entertainment. I feel most people now spend a considerable amount of time on social media, entertainment on both personal & work time. I am not
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It is interesting how western countries want to change the metric for economic progress when they are lagging on it. They wouldn't leave GDP as metric if all was well.
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From what I remember, it was way more cool people in tech and way less management overhead and processes.
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How is this built? Is this built on d3.js? This reminded me of old flash style plugins which we don't see any more.
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Great answer. I realized this pretty recently that I have been thinking a lot of doing things and never getting to it. I joined a startup and seeing every having the "do things" mentality made me realize this.
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Leaving them out is inhumane to the rest of the society. Is the right of an individual greater than society? especially one who has been violent in the past towards other members of the society either through one's volition or not? The
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Just when Netflix & Amazon are increasing their focus on gaming market, Google is shying away. This is an epic failure on the Google management.
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They probably ran some analytics and found majority of users use the same device and for them "Remember Me" is an annoyance. I honestly want to see more companies adopt this. It is a broken experience when you open a site and it a
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what an amazing concept. Thank you for making this!
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I agree on everything except Windows phone. It was terrible compared to Android & iOS.
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