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by tapanjk 8y ago
> The more a workplace feels like they have to micromanage their employees like children, the more I would expect their workplace to be filled with people who act like children. This is exactly what I always thought until I ended up work
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by tapanjk 8y ago
The article can as well be “Why Pencils are XYZ” where XYZ depends on the country. Once a product is successfull, the original manufacturer and their competitors just continue to copy the attributes of the sucessful product until people can
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by tapanjk 8y ago
> How can one know if a book is interesting until one has read it; memorable until time has or has not lodged it in one’s memory; rereadable until the decades pass and one feels the need to read it again and enjoys it all the more on do
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Americans Keep Getting Smarter About Sugar(bloomberg.com)
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by tapanjk 8y ago
I second that. However, there are situations where I need a mobile computing device. For e.g., as a manager, I need to walk away from my desk to attend meetings, attend calls from a room etc. I've been using a OSX/MacOS mobile dev
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by tapanjk 8y ago
I have to agree with "a lot of filler" part of your comment. This must be a result of the expectation that publishers set for authors regarding the minimum expected length of the book. I found that I would stop reading many books
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Traceability on the Internet(cacm.acm.org)
59 points by tapanjk 8y ago|23 comments
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Ask HN: You get 30 minutes to do a phone screen. What do you ask?
1 points by tapanjk 9y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
There is merit in having the mindset to be able to repair things. It encourages one to at least attempt at fixing something that is broken before throwing it away. Also, if done by enough people, manufacturers will see the benefit of making
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by tapanjk 9y ago
I would go if there were something similar in Bangalore.
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by tapanjk 9y ago
> strangely missing is the one about population growth This. There was a time when population explosion was recognised as something to deal with. For the last decade or so, somehow this conversation has simply vanished (from the school b
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Ask HN: What’s up with HN color sceme?
9 points by tapanjk 9y ago|4 comments
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California Warns About Cell Phone Exposure and Health Risks(forbes.com)
3 points by tapanjk 9y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
Here's the complete list. Looks like this topic does capture people's imagination: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112206 https://ne
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by tapanjk 9y ago
RedMart | Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer / Front End Developer / Senior Android Developer | Full Time | Onsite | Bangalore / Singapore RedMart [1] is a tech and logistics company that does grocery retail in Singapo
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by tapanjk 9y ago
“What is Gobo?” Is buried deep in the article: To use Gobo, you link your Twitter and Facebook accounts to Gobo and choose a set of news publications that most closely resembles the news you follow online. Gobo retrieves recent posts from t
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The Reason Some States Don't Observe Daylight Saving Time(time.com)
2 points by tapanjk 9y ago|0 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
RedMart | Tech Lead / Senior Software Engineer / Front End Developer / Senior Android Developer | Full Time | Onsite | Bangalore / Singapore RedMart [1] is a tech and logistics company that does grocery retail in Singapo
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by tapanjk 9y ago
> Whether or not people (who can affect your ability to put a roof over your head) ARE NOTICING YOUR EVERY MOVE. I think what matters is whether I think I am being watched by my coworkers (superiors or otherwise). This uses up some part
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Astronaut Scott Kelly on the devastating effects of a year in space(theage.com.au)
2 points by tapanjk 9y ago|0 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
From High Sierra page on apple.com: > Automatically use Safari Reader for every web article that supports it, so you can view websites without ads, navigation, and other distractions. This will come in handy since I hit the reader mode o
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by tapanjk 9y ago
Two things that stood out for me were: the view of the starry night sky (which I have not seen in decades, since moving to a metropolitan area); and the amount of traffic at sea (barring some stretches where they seem to have no company).
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by tapanjk 9y ago
I don’t know why you are being downvoted but your note resonates with me. This I say not based on intuition but experience. Not to say experiences do not matter, but they provide more joy for someone who has found satisfaction from creativi
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Amazon, Clintons and American Heart Assoc Sell High-Sugar “Healthier” Food to Kids(therussells.crossfit.com)
10 points by tapanjk 9y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
This. After being in a managerial position in engineering for a long time, I am (at 50) reconsidering transitioning back to an individual contributor role. Ever since I picked up a "leadership" role a couple of decades ago, I have
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Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter and why?
1 points by tapanjk 9y ago|1 comments
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by tapanjk 9y ago
I agree, and want to cut out added sugar. Natural sugar in moderate quantities in fruit and vegetables is ok, but I will avoid foods high in sugar such as honey, potato, corn etc.
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by tapanjk 9y ago
This article reminds me of what I have been wanting to do for a while, but have not succeeded yet in spite of having tried this a few times. The goal is to prevent large fluctuations in energy and mood. My plan is to: - Quit caffeine - Quit
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by tapanjk 9y ago
This is an excellent post. Have you come across more recent posts that also take into consideration today's microservices and web programming based environments? Share links, please.
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In India all credit card transactions need a PIN after the card is swiped.

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