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by yanilkr 11y ago
A Basic Income from Govt comes at a huge price of loss of individual liberty. If someone gives you free stuff, they will expect controls like where you are allowed to spend your money and time. This model of taking from the productive sourc
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Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel(breitbart.com)
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by yanilkr 11y ago
I agree that looking it this way comes as un-caring, in-sensitive and negative but thats what it is.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
I am a math minded person I don't see how this adds up. Let me explain myself in a different way. Money, wealth, currency and value are all related but they are not the same. They are tied to each other via currency. Just imagine a cla
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by yanilkr 11y ago
It would truly cost liberty. Do you think an entity that gives you free money is going to let you be free? It is going to tell you what you can/cannot spend on, where you can and cannot go. The system would enslave you to the state. It
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by yanilkr 11y ago
When you compare that to Detroit trouble, you will see that bubble is not that bad after all. All those overrated engineers will have connections and confidence.
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by yanilkr 11y ago
The best way I learned to deal with technical debt is to package it into securitized collateral debt obligations and find a product manager who can structure them into traunches and then find a QA manager who can rate these traunches and se
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by yanilkr 11y ago
In many cases, if you are a new person, other people are still testing boundaries. I had a similar experience before. I sarcastically asked a co-worker if he has been an asshole all his life or just today because of the weather. That set th
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by yanilkr 11y ago
This looks like an opportunity. There should be an app like facebook where you enter all your data and an app store for forms. Want insurance or DMV or immigration? download the relevant form and it tells you what's missing so you can
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by yanilkr 11y ago
A job is a contract between two parties for a period of time. If you remove all kinds of unspoken expectations from employment, it would be a productive arrangement for the two parties. In a scarcity world me being an employee expects the e
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A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just one is online(washingtonpost.com)
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by yanilkr 11y ago
How to grow professionally? I have no clue. I made some observations of my own. If you work at a company, you would expect the hierarchy to notice your ambition and guide you to next level. In practice this does not happen or happens to onl
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by yanilkr 11y ago
All Hiring/Interviewing blogs should have a disclaimer like this. Hiring/interviewing is like judging a medicine by its packaging. It is error prone and there is little you can do to avoid making bad decisions. Many people get goo
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by yanilkr 11y ago
After being a consultant, engineer, manager and again starting as allinone on a small project, I believe organizational hierarchy is just an OK solution. If I put on a career planner hat, I find so many career paths which are in big hierarc
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by yanilkr 11y ago
Jerks and culture misfits need jobs too. If you deny them, one day we might all end up working for them. Misfits and jerks found the industry. Myers Briggs personality test, which was a standard practice once is now irrelevant in the tech i
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by yanilkr 13y ago
The talk about tech interviews reminds me of this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXRi28W-ENY
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by yanilkr 14y ago
There is a new skillset called "Interview Engineering". 4 years of computersciece/ real world experience may not get you a job but a month long "Interview Engineering" research will crack a process like this. Good Engineers/Tech leaders dev
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by yanilkr 15y ago
From an individual perspective, if you were to put a price on all the uncertainty involved and dealing with things out of your control 100k seems to be a reasonable price to pay. If you are an entrepreneur, this helps you to get over a big
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by yanilkr 15y ago
This is like Dale Carnegie's advice to remember friend's birthdays. Its a good advice, it may even work for you but there is something mundane about it that I don't like it. Moms always teach their kids to be a good boy/girl. That only make
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by yanilkr 16y ago
If a person can teach himself/herself something non-trivial like programming, I am sure (s)he can easily learn what is academically taught. The learning for self learned-programmers is mostly driven by need, unlike in a college setting. The
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by yanilkr 16y ago
Knowing something and doing something with what you know are two different skill sets. Small companies realize this soon. Google is driven by numbers, If they see enough people who are very informed and smart but actually they gamed the sys
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by yanilkr 16y ago
Goal of CS should be to make students who build next Google. What if Google changes its interview game and asks people to actually show what they actually built?. CS goal could be greater than a factory producing employees for big corporati
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by yanilkr 16y ago
spending time to Build some thing useful > (far greater than) spending time to prepare for some thing so complex that only few people can crack.
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by yanilkr 16y ago
also, do not give a million dollar bonus to executives in the same year. Before I got laid off, someone in my friend circle asked me a question, would you quit your job if your employer gave you a 2 1/2 month pay just for quitting? I though
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by yanilkr 16y ago
Many things in software world are built on abstraction. It's not really possible to know it all and many times it is counter productive to get into any project with a mind set of I have to understand everything here.
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by yanilkr 16y ago
A Lot of people feel a need to say something and many feel a need to be heard. Twitter was a good solution, because it limited how much one can say. I doubt it was planned, But it seemed to have satisfied some psychological needs.
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by yanilkr 16y ago
"disrupting" will replace "ninja" in recruiting job ads for Software Engineers.
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by yanilkr 16y ago
we had the same problem in my current work environment. The director(who also codes) being a very experienced person in getting things done from china and India outsourced teams, set up a 1hr everyday code review session. In about a month w
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by yanilkr 16y ago
Over analysis. That might be part of authors line of work, but this reminds me of something my humanities professor talked to some of us, engineers about some time back. Three doctors, a general doctor, an orthopedic doctor and a neuro surg
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by yanilkr 16y ago
As much as "the game" advice is fascinating and very convincing, the many followers of this are the ones that repel me the most. Everyone I met associated with this system, so far have been someone trying to make money off of it, or a misg

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