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by smdz 7y ago
08-18 with small breaks is not unhealthy, if you have made sure that it doesn't slowly turn into 08 to 00 hours. You have been working for years and you deserve a vacation. But first answer what is making you chase the money. If you al
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by smdz 7y ago
I wonder if anyone had a similar experience with English proficiency test
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by smdz 7y ago
I do not disagree with astrology but its application. In fact, stuff like cellular automata got me curious about astrology (obviously I did not find any relation). My point of view: astrology is a way of "evaluating the environment&#x2
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by smdz 7y ago
"too many cars and it was unusual to see anyone walking" means that he is in one of the developed world part, may be suburban parts As a parent, he may be scared of letting kids out on their own because of all the abuses/crim
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by smdz 7y ago
> I don't particularly love studying You need to introspect a bit more on what part of this is really true to you. You are already doing an MSc and that shows you are good at studying. May be you do not love pointless-studying. But
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by smdz 7y ago
That is so misleading! I have been day trading profitably for the last 6+ years. It is more than enough to cover my living expenses for a family of 4. But I also work (freelance dev), because it cannot cover my home EMIs. My returns are not
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by smdz 7y ago
The title is missing the point.. It says "... to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only..." That is what most software automation attempts to do!
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by smdz 7y ago
Whenever I try something it looks like an X-ray image :|
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by smdz 7y ago
And did your manager go on to get another promotion? And may be few more team members had similar jumps in performance? A new manager we had deliberately did this to us. Few of us got marked as "under-performer" levels at random t
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by smdz 8y ago
This is amazing! I've built more than a couple of product prototypes equivalent to the size of this app and ended up with the questions "what is the USP other than cheaper pricing? what is your marketing budget?" - And was di
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by smdz 8y ago
I wonder what is more taxing - (A) Government's social media tax or (B) One's daily time spent on these social media platforms For me it is definitely (B). I keep off Facebook but once in a while I get into it because an email app
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by smdz 8y ago
The real reason to ban plastic so strictly in Mumbai is because plastic garbage chokes Mumbai's drainage systems and storm water system. And given the city's population and usage of plastic, the chokes are quite severe during the
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by smdz 8y ago
>When Angular gained popularity, we did not have an urge to switch because it felt unclear what the scope and direction of Angular actually was. I do not remember React coming in before Angular. I loved Angular1. But Angular2 made me ver
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by smdz 8y ago
The simple fact is that individuals or companies following System 1 have a much greater chance of survival in the competition. The consulting individuals or companies will simply find it hard to survive without System 1 - unless they alread
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by smdz 9y ago
Weird to know that this is not common knowledge. I have known since I was a kid that applying saliva on a fresh wound helps recover it faster
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by smdz 9y ago
Back in 2011, there were much lesser threats to Bitcoin than what we have now. Most people did not take Bitcoin seriously until now. Most people did not want to buy it because they were scared/skeptical about it (a perfect time to inve
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by smdz 9y ago
Deep reinforcement learning is interesting and has plenty of potential. But highlighting AlphaGo as an example of reinforcement learning is like undermining the concepts of reinforcement learning.
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by smdz 9y ago
> If you're doing _groundbreaking_ research in, say, AI or facial recognition or whatever, you may need people who are technical superstars. No - AI and ML stuff does not need technical superstars (i.e. from a programming perspecti
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by smdz 9y ago
Short story, the company I worked for remotely did not encourage remote-work. And was selective at who gets to work remotely. That itself creates a lot of problems with the team and with the opportunities you get. As this guy mentions &quot
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by smdz 9y ago
7 years successfully working from home (4 for my employer, 3 years being self-employed). I have only one advice - Be responsible for your work and for yourself. > 1. Be as available as possible. I would highly discourage this advice. Tha
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Managing Go dependencies in separate projects(dzbird.com)
2 points by smdz 9y ago|0 comments
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How to upgrade GoLang(dzbird.com)
2 points by smdz 9y ago|0 comments
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by smdz 9y ago
One of the huge benefits of GPs over NNs is the ease of reverse engineering a GP tree compared to NN models. Its not effortless however. Its just not mathematically complex like NNs i.e. a programmer who isn't a mathematician can analy
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by smdz 9y ago
It can produce a serious product. Startup gets in touch with one-or-two programmers. They do a POC. Startup gets the funds. Funds must be utilized. Those one-two-programmers now create a FlashOrg1. In just two months its a huge 30 people te
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by smdz 9y ago
I have used generics for quite long. When I used it I loved it. Then I moved to a different language for a few years, and lost generics. Now I have written large programs in GoLang too - and frankly I do not miss out on generics at all. Now
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by smdz 9y ago
> ...jQuery it’s still a thing... for example a grid with a subgrid that supports bootstrap and is easy to change... No way. Angular made me leave jQuery forever. React made it even simpler to create components. People should still learn
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by smdz 9y ago
Doesn't matter what I say. I am a programmer, not a political pundit. But I do know that perceiving any country's leadership just based on news is a very bad idea. To understand and perceive the reality, you have to live in India
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by smdz 9y ago
There will be costs that will surface sooner. May be they will reflect in accounts in the next quarter :) But as I said, they are replacing an old-complicated tax system with a new-complicated tax system. Indians are used to living with com
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by smdz 9y ago
This implementation is a very hasty one. Go and talk to small-biz-people and you will see the fear and confusion GST instates. Frankly, its scary to me and I have studied quite a bit of tax. Compared to the previous complicated procedures,
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Programming is terrible–Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012(youtube.com)
4 points by smdz 9y ago|0 comments

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