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by vaidhy 4y ago
Because it does not cost a lot of money if you want to live a hand-to-mouth existence. It is like asking how do subsistence living work. You make to do with what you have, what you can gather and do something to earn you occasional cash. Th
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by vaidhy 4y ago
So, who are "real" friends? Only people who you interact in face to face? Does the same thing also extend to family? If I move countries and can only meet my extended family over the web, they become "not my real" family
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by vaidhy 4y ago
What about people in US on H1-B visas?
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by vaidhy 4y ago
So, everyone has to play to lose and who loses first wins? If I leave my king open to checkmate, the best move from AI would be to take that.. but the opponent cannot do that. So, I get to leave my key pieces open and the opponent tries to
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by vaidhy 4y ago
1. Living with someone else is all about compromises. 2. If you do not have shared experiences, you do not have shared life. Take the time to experience shared time.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
If you want to prevent foreign investments, then say so. Why say non-citizens and permanent residents? In a multi-cultural society like US, non-citizens and permanent residents do form a significant portion of the population and they also n
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by vaidhy 4y ago
>I am against residential housing being sold to non citizens/permanent residents. How to say xenophobic without saying it.. Any tax payer should be treated equally..
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I have similar experiences as the top-comment. Moved to US in 2017, bought a house in suburbs of Seattle.. have great relationship with neighbors.. meet new people through kids' school. I went to houston for a short period and met some
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by vaidhy 4y ago
> For every technology we use today, there was a time it was laughably inadequate as a replacement for what came before. That is just success bias. How many times did people try out perpetual motion machines? The rest of the article trie
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I forgot where I read this.. but there is a key difference between people who hack a v0 of a product and people who maintain and manage v1+. My reading is that Geohotz is a v0 kind of hacker. He can build things fast and without him, there
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I do not understand what you mean by "cowboy" coder. Can you also talk a bit about what tech stacks are you familiar with and where you want to specialize? That would help getting a more useful path.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Would this answer suffice? No, people are people, no, maybe, maybe? In my mind, this would be a stupid answer to a question that requires introspection and maybe also take time to explain why I think what I think and potentially, other beli
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by vaidhy 4y ago
There is shit-ton of work to be done :)
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by vaidhy 4y ago
If it were so obvious, I am wondering why you need to worry about doing it wrong. You talk about trade-offs as if they are fixed in time. That is not the case at all in anything but toy systems. Maybe you need to find someone who can desig
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Is this state dependent or neighborhood-dependent? Interestingly, my son is 12 and he rides his bike absolutely everywhere. The only ask we have is that he should let us know where he is going and ping us once he reaches there, but he was o
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by vaidhy 4y ago
There is no bad vs good micro-service architecture. It is just that micro-service architecture imposes a different kind of penalty on co-ordination and debugging. Instead of intra-component dependency, it moves it to inter-service dependenc
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I recently came across Aswath Damodaran's youtube and I like his characterization of CEOs compatible with company maturity better. A visionary CEO is a wrong fit for a mature, stable-state company.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I did not say it is bad. I just wanted to point out that N^2 communications are a big hit (of course we know them for long time) and people under-estimate the co-ordination effort and the fact that already running systems impose constraints
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by vaidhy 4y ago
You can be asked to dig holes and close them up again - a completely useless work and you can be given an ever increasing quota to do it with the threat that one of the holes you dig might have your body in it (extremely stressful and ruthl
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by vaidhy 4y ago
TLDR; Any decision you take will be criticized and will be pointed out as the reason things went bad :). I think it is a question of trade-off and what works well within your company culture. You can do what you suggested, but your core tea
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by vaidhy 4y ago
More than half of this thread sounds like we are all just sociopaths and the scary thing is that I see myself 10 years ago in the answers. I would like to correct 2 perceptions that I see as common threads: 1. It is management's job to
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by vaidhy 4y ago
By the time you come to a size where you would consider SAP or PeopleSoft, you are already a mid to large size company. You have developed internal process and workflows. You would have policies put in place that are crazy, contradicting ea
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Everyone should rise to the political occasion. Why is that the engineers should not rise? Politics is how we solve problems without resorting to fists.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Coming from India, we do not talk like that in our native language. I am guessing it is because we have been repeatedly told that is how americans talk (reinforced by movies and TV shows). Now, I start with just a greeting and jump to the i
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I was wondering why this answer was rubbing me the wrong way and I realized it is because your answer shows a complete lack of empathy for "the other side". I have worked on warehouses and it is complicated. >This says volumes
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I am wondering if that was Amazon. It was the reason I left.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
The point here is not some much as moving back as it is in loss of income (and potentially status/face). That is a much harder sell than saying we will move back for a better life.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
Reading though the comments, it seems like another form of exceptionalism where US folks think if not for Russia, there would be no extremism. I feel Russia is trolling here and it is flying above some people's head.
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by vaidhy 4y ago
You made a sarcastic comment implying that this is a bigger deal that FB buying giffy. I think the person you replied took you literally and added data saying why MS buying activision is actually big deal. You can be a bit generous and thin
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by vaidhy 4y ago
I have a few friends who did that!! I am still trying to see if I can make conservation photography as my primary job (which obviously pays zilch). Kudos for even thinking about this. I come from a small town and I credit my entire life tra

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