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by vinayms 8y ago
For me, laziness is a symptom of burnout, and burnout indicates that I have been over indulging in my work, which, to me, happens only when I am really into it. So, over the years, whenever I encounter an interesting idea to pursue, instead
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by vinayms 8y ago
First check if its one of these things. (a) Did you always want to start a company, and has the success of acqui-hire made you feel accomplished and thus burnt out motivation to code? (b) Is this your first experience with customers and are
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by vinayms 8y ago
As an experiment I created a framework called JEEP. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/vinayms2017/JEEP2018
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by vinayms 8y ago
Your problem seems that you are relying on someone else to employ you. Why not create products by yourself and become a potential employer? Unless the society itself crashes due to large scale wars or natural catastrophes, people will alway
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by vinayms 8y ago
This might be against the grain here but I prefer simply to practice remembering things well, like humans did before writing was invented. Its hard but worth attempting. I usually engage in the thought for a while, thoroughly milk it by let
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by vinayms 8y ago
Tangential. I have always been a very imaginative and creative person, even as far back as my single digit years. Over the years many of the ideas that I mused privately have become reality a few years after. In my late teens I was convince
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by vinayms 8y ago
Thanks for the wishes, and I hope you do it soon as well :) I am one of those people who don't trust people easily. And given the increasing amount of white collared crimes being exposed, I am completely disillusioned with these profes
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by vinayms 8y ago
Not quite book, but I would like to read all laws and regulations related to business, finance and taxation such as the Companies Act etc as applicable to India. I will be transitioning to becoming a businessman in 2019 and its pertinent th
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by vinayms 8y ago
To trust the doctor and never do private research on internet before or after the diagnosis, and don't take the before research too seriously. Also don't compare conditions with others who had been through similar thing. Related t
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by vinayms 8y ago
Probability.
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by vinayms 8y ago
meta: what is the meaning of this post getting 2724 points (as of this writing)? just a mechanism to bring it to first page?
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by vinayms 8y ago
> Too many doctors have resigned that they have nothing to add in a world of advanced technology. They thoughtlessly order tests and thoughtlessly obey the results. Thoughtlessly obeying is undoubtedly a sign of incompetence; a doctor mu
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by vinayms 8y ago
Even if the technology is perfected and proven superior on several counts, the adoption has to overcome the psychological barrier. The places that don't have a culture of wooden buildings, especially the floor, will need some convincin
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by vinayms 8y ago
The idealism of a bunch of engineers won't make the slightest difference, except may be appease their own sense of morality, as long as there are enough engineers willing to be tech-whores. In this regard, the supply exceeds the demand
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by vinayms 8y ago
I was looking for y combinator, of the lambda calculus, and google showed me a link to this site and I clicked. In google's defense, I hadn't used the words "lambda" or "calculus".
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by vinayms 8y ago
To become a manager, or at least a tech leader with a juicy title like Principal Systems Architect . I am not sure if you are Indian or person of Indian heritage, and if you are working in India or abroad, but within Indian context, being
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by vinayms 8y ago
I think its fruitful to view philosophy as something that evolves rather than progresses. At its core, philosophy is nothing more than a disciplined approach to acquire knowledge about anything that the human mind is curious. The approach i
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by vinayms 8y ago
I haven't achieved mastery, but was able to play songs on the guitar by ear fairly well, though slowly, both songs that I heard and the ones that I composed in my head. I am rusty now. Its a simple process with two parts to it. 1. iden
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by vinayms 8y ago
As a speaker of Kannada, a Dravidian language, grammatically, I find Indo European languages strange in general, with all kinds of rules, and all kinds of exceptions to those rules. Eg: verb conjugation and noun genders. I have dabbled with
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by vinayms 8y ago
I hypothesize that its one or a combination of these three things. 1. these people have run out of research ideas. 2. they want a series on the Discovery network. 3. they are scamming gullible billionaires into funding the "research&qu
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by vinayms 8y ago
> Sans Forgetica is more difficult to read than most typefaces – and that’s by design. The 'desirable difficulty' you experience when reading information formatted in Sans Forgetica prompts your brain to engage in deeper proces
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by vinayms 8y ago
I am new here but from what I understand the top stories are top because they were up voted by the members. This means the "problem" is not with the act of posting itself but with the act of up voting, which is reflective of the p
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by vinayms 8y ago
> “A cloud-based brain-to-brain interface server could direct information transmission between any set of devices on the brain-to-brain interface network and make it globally operable through the Internet, thereby allowing cloud-based in
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by vinayms 8y ago
I guess this is an English only tool. Does it account for non native speakers, like an Indian and Ukranian corresponding in English? Either way, while I can see that developing tools like this is fun and engaging, I won't trust the re
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by vinayms 8y ago
Build something useful with it, if not remarkable, and show that . Take the top down approach. Don't leave it to the readers to figure out a use case because not only it shows the technology in bad light, since it appears that it was
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by vinayms 8y ago
> On point 2, I think it's very possible to write clever, readable code. Of course its possible. People can shift gears in manual transmission without clutch by revv matching, but its not for everyday use.
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by vinayms 8y ago
> You're reading way too much into a domain-specific term. "Training" is just when you have a regimented exercise schedule and routine to improve your body. On the same lines, one can rationalize the empty words such as &q
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by vinayms 8y ago
1. Don't blindly follow advice of "experts" you read. 2. Don't write clever code, write readable code. Participate in code golf or obfuscation contests to scratch the itch if you have one, but keep it out of production c
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by vinayms 8y ago
I really like the spirit of the article, and I sympathize with it. One visible example of this phenomenon is wrt fitness. We often hear gym goers doing "training" rather than "exercising". That usage in itself shows a se
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by vinayms 8y ago
I tried to guess the meaning of the curves in your medium article, and I failed with all. Either I am more stupid than I know or the graphs need to be augmented with word descriptions to help the interpretation. If its the latter, why need

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