tapan_jk

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Prosus Buys Billdesk for $4.7B(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by tapan_jk 5y ago|0 comments
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Benedict Cumberbatch reading Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to the people of 2088(lithub.com)
4 points by tapan_jk 5y ago|1 comments
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by tapan_jk 5y ago
> Carolyn Shoemaker started her astronomical career in 1980, at age 51, searching for Earth-crossing asteroids and comets at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, and the Palomar Observatory, San Diego, California. Wa
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by tapan_jk 5y ago
I have lately started separating books into two categories: precious ones that I want to preserve, and others. All books are not equal; and the care (storage, protection from dust/humidity etc.) varies accordingly.
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by tapan_jk 5y ago
> As soon as lumber prices go down, my plan is to build a sealed bookshelf and line it with silica packets. I'll have to toss my books into ziplocs and freeze them before loading the shelves. What a mess. Leave a few Naphthalene bal
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by tapan_jk 5y ago
Good read! My system is similar: - Yellow (legal) pad for daily todo. Use pen on this pad because it is ok to not keep it neat because the page will be thrown away next morning. So, next morning, tear off the top leaf of yesterday, start no
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by tapan_jk 5y ago
> it's really true for many kinds of knowledge work I would argue not just knowledge work. Imagine a painter or a tattoo artist or a pilot or many others who are trying to concentrate and someone constantly interrupts them.
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by tapan_jk 6y ago
> Journaling is the act of frequently recording personal thoughts and life events perhaps. but jrnl is a tool that goes beyond journaling. one of the ways I use jrnl is to record meeting minutes. the @ annotation allows quick search base
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Concluding our 25-year Bet (2020)(kk.org)
4 points by tapan_jk 6y ago|1 comments
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by tapan_jk 6y ago
You are lucky to have someone write requirements who weights in these aspects. I have seen too many specs (this mostly happens in business software) where failures are knowingly or unknowingly ignored... because schedule. I think failures s
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by tapan_jk 6y ago
> One such trivial question is “Who's working on what?” Isn't that what the task tracker's for? Depends. Too many teams do not keep their task tracker up to date, and that leads to the necessity of asking "who's
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by tapan_jk 6y ago
0530 Wake up 0600 Jog 0645 Coffee and breakfast w/ family 0800 Cold shower and get ready for work 0900 Start work 1100-1115 Coffee and snack break 1300-1330 Lunch 1730 End work 1800 onwards: read, watch TV, dinner, family time, relax e