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by vjust 3y ago
true. Posture is all important in gym activity.
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by vjust 3y ago
You made great points. Data Engineering cannot claim to support test-driven development to half the extent of the rest of software engineering. Frequently DE projects have no concept of Dev, Test, Staging and then Prod. Quite often its dev
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by vjust 3y ago
Well put.
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by vjust 3y ago
Lets apply some frameworks to it. Pick some "low hanging fruit". Apply a "cloud native approach" and engage in Agile ceremonies. Just kidding, couldn't agree more with your observation. Not a Phone in sight.
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by vjust 3y ago
This seems like “choose the straight line from point A to point B”. A lot of things in life and work are uncertain. In reality, we often lose our way, and learn valuable things in the process. The personal trainer type to me sounds a bit l
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by vjust 3y ago
Framework-itis is a widespread disease. Developers and technologists weaponize frameworks to win arguments and feel vindicated that they are setting professional standards
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by vjust 3y ago
recently saw a demo app built on top of GPT3. Used a rest API for prompts. The backend was hooked to a corpus of PDFs and a SQL Database with financial data. What changed was the queries were English/natural language. The query languag
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by vjust 3y ago
I checked out MathB.in. Neat stuff!! I've started and stopped with the Lisp/Schema family several times. When other languages frustrate me, I go back to lisp for some therapy.
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by vjust 3y ago
There was a CNN article about India’s time-bomb of unemployment. Job creation is not able to keep up with number of applicants. The net effect is a further intensification of competition : be it for college or school admissions or jobs. The
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by vjust 3y ago
Its unfortunate because, common people of Pakistan are reeling under high inflation and lack of jobs and opportunities. There are the political parties involved - corruption run amok. The army profits in cash, whichever party is in power.
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by vjust 3y ago
AKA "best practices" or "you'll never be fired for buying a Microsoft product"
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by vjust 4y ago
agreed
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by vjust 4y ago
Most Indians (that I have met) - have not grown up in their thinking. The more they mingle with their own, the more the old ways of thinking get re-inforced.
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by vjust 4y ago
I am an upper caste (meat eating) American Indian. This stigma attached to caste, eating meat, is real among upper class Indians, especially Brahmins (me), and this needs to be put up as an issue, to hold a mirror to this community. Many m
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by vjust 4y ago
What did Elon invent? - just curious
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by vjust 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha#Death He rubbed shoulders with giants of Theoretical Physics, and was on the verge of taking India into the nuclear club, in 1966. Its speculated (including an ex-CIA anecdo
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by vjust 4y ago
TIL that a brilliant physicist nearly failed his physics exam (sort of). What is revealing is the broad-based knowledge that was expected of any student of those times. Unlike the super-specialities of today. A career in such fields (rath
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by vjust 4y ago
I like CoPilot and paid for it out of pocket. I think its worth it. Its sometimes like having a smart programmer pairing with you.
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by vjust 4y ago
Call me biased because I hate java. Oddly if a person hates Java, they should love intelliJ. I hated PyCharm because of its Java-centric heritage. I am a CLI guy. The closest I've come to loving an IDE is VSCode.
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by vjust 4y ago
Or the Emacs book.
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by vjust 4y ago
Grokking that 'why' can take non-trivial mental effort by a non-author, even when well coded/documented. Worse, if the code is needlessly complex, or trying to be smart or over-engineered, any amount of commenting wont help.
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by vjust 4y ago
100% agree, I had the same experience
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by vjust 4y ago
I worked at a startup, in India's silicon valley, before the word startup ever existed. 1 PC, with 640Kb of Ram, 20Mb hard-disk, the owner took a loan to buy that thing. We were 4 programmers sharing that 1 PC. We each had 2 hour time
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by vjust 4y ago
The terminal improvements are worth their weight. "Recent folders" is going to be very useful. So is command history. The other thing worth the love is "disable notifications", and the merge conflict tool.
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by vjust 4y ago
Agree wholeheartedly , especially in Web development and JavaScript.
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by vjust 4y ago
Supporting jr engineers comes with some specific needs IMO, regardless of remote or onsite : 1. Senior engineer time is the main constraint, in the sense, more experienced engineers need to be available to mentor them and break down tasks,
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by vjust 4y ago
Its like you can't be fired for buying Microsoft (as an IT purchase decision). You can't be fired for buying JIRA. JIRA makes everything, the most broken or dodgy processes look respectable. It keeps Managers and scrum masters bu
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by vjust 4y ago
The earth's soil, oceans are living things - anything we can do to avoid dumping plastic ( a non-living thing) with benefit us... to put it mildly.
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by vjust 4y ago
Driver behavior on the road can be totally unpredictable. Intent versus observed motion can have divergence.. I wonder if its the algorithms or the sensors.
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by vjust 4y ago
I went thru 4 rounds recently with a startup, and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. In fact, I liked it since it gave me lots of info. I am by no means a hardened interview taker.. but I've had my fair share of interview

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