Ayaz

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by Ayaz 9y ago
Absolutely. I learned touch typing on my own during my O'Levels years when I bumped into a DOS-based touch typing tutor. It changed the way I looked at computers.
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by Ayaz 9y ago
Sadly, yes. Out of the 400 people that work where I work, less than 30 know how to touch type. It deeply saddens me.
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by Ayaz 9y ago
Definitely. Using a computer becomes easy when you can type fast without looking.
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by Ayaz 9y ago
I use both shift keys. Left shift key when the other key I need to press is on the right side of the keyboard, and so on. I also use both of my thumbs to press the spacebar.
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by Ayaz 9y ago
_The Book of Laughter and Forgetting_ by _Milan Kundera_. I am taking a break from reading business/self-help/startup related books to read fiction. Milan Kundera is one of my favourite authors.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Although, ICU and emergency wards at most if not all hospitals are kept cooler than other places in part to slow the rate of growth of bacteria, viruses and other similar organisms that can spread infections.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Pictures taken from the point rain began look so ghostly and chilling they give me goosebumps. Beautiful journey, beautifully narrated.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Indeed. That's the reason I liked the 'braindump' idea of WeekPlan.net[0]. http://weekplan.net/online-course-time-management/braindumps...
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by Ayaz 10y ago
No application I've ever tried has worked for me in the sense that I felt it an indispensable part of my life. In almost all instances, after a few days, I always kept forgetting to use the application. Plus, the overhead of using appl
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by Ayaz 10y ago
That is an interesting observation. For me, closely observing would translate to nagging individuals several times a day about what they are doing as well as how they are doing something. The end goal of standups, the way I understand it, i
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by Ayaz 10y ago
iOS devices sold in UAE don't have iMessage and FaceTime support. I can't remember whether I was able to use iMessage the last time I was there with an iPhone I purchased elsewhere.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Is it really micro-managing? Isn't it the point of standups in Scrum, to find out what an individual in a team has been working on and what issues they are facing in order to make more efficient use of their time and skills as well as
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by Ayaz 10y ago
I understand what you mean. However, if you personally have to ask every individual every day 1) what they did, 2) what they will do next, 3) and what impediments they have, and you can't get them to do it without your having to ask (i
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by Ayaz 10y ago
This is very cool! We use HipChat (migrating to Slack soon) and Assembla (which has a standup module). We have coded a bot which checks who has not added their standup in Assembla and reminds them on HipChat.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Standups, when done with discipline, bring in a lot of insight and prove helpful for everybody in the team. I use Assembla at work which offers a standup module, which asks the three customary questions. My problem is getting my team to reg
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by Ayaz 10y ago
I never liked nano. The only time I used it for a stretch was when for a year I used a non-GUI, X-less only environment for everything only old ThinkPad running Slackware. I was in University then. That was when I used Pine for email and
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by Ayaz 10y ago
It is beautiful, to say the least.
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by Ayaz 10y ago
Until some months ago, I had a factory unlocked iPhone 5 which I used for 2+ years. I had no reason to switch to a more recent model, other than the (at times) nagging need for the finger-print lock. Then, out of the blue, the battery on my
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by Ayaz 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I find 3D touch very helpful. But it really begs the question if you consider that unless I am consciously aware of 3D touch every time I interact with my phone, I am very likely to forget that it exists and go back
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by Ayaz 10y ago
This is breathtaking!
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by Ayaz 11y ago
I'd imagine so. I also like the approach that Amazon has taken with its recently launched AWS Certificate Manager. You can create as many SSL certificates as you like free of cost, even wild-card ones (which if I am correct Let's
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by Ayaz 11y ago
> I never realized this so clearly, but it's true. The biggest hindrance to security until LE was that certs were expensive and hard to install. I don't think it was so much the former as the latter. I'd gladly pay 10% mor
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by Ayaz 11y ago
Not only the amount of work, technology and thought that have gone into this, but also how well this has been implemented is mind-blowing.
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by Ayaz 11y ago
As recently as two days ago I finished reading Porter Erisman's "Alibaba's World" in which he described his and Alibaba's run in with both Meg Whitman and Henry Gomez, who were then working on eBay China. What I rea
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by Ayaz 11y ago
Thanks for the break-down. It looks interesting. At work, we have been testing Skyline for a number of different metrics coming in from a large distributed network. I'm interested in seeing how Banshee performs in there.
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by Ayaz 11y ago
I am interested in how it compares with Etsy's Skyline project: https://github.com/etsy/skyline
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by Ayaz 11y ago
Reading this, I could not help but feel an incredible longing for a proper threaded UseNet client, a good UseNet subscription that contained most of the important channels, refraining from top-posting, using fixed-width fonts, and in genera
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by Ayaz 11y ago
They certainly appear to have been working on it, judging from the updates being released. I feel they have a long way to go, though.
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by Ayaz 11y ago
Would you mind giving some examples of what are more useful integrations for you that Slack does not support? I am curious because we--at work--have been using HipChat for around two years and have integrated HipChat into our processes, yet

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