amerkhalid

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by amerkhalid 11mo ago
Another question to ask is what you’d do when you retire. This really helped me figure out what to focus on now. Questions like “what would you do if you won the lottery” feel too unrealistic, so I would just dream about wild startup ideas.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> > I would never assume the AI answer to a consequential problem to be authoritative, unless it shows me the source and I can click on the link to verify the source and the data presented (search engine use case). > That remains t
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> Today's kids have smartphones, PCs/Macs, Video Game Consoles, and movie streaming devices and are unsupervised on the Internet. For role models, they have rap stars who sing about sex and drugs. I don’t know if there are any
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> Maybe it’s a culture thing — most C# devs use IDEs. Not sure what PHP devs use, but I suspect tools like PhpStorm will make this easy to work with somehow. Devs using no-LSP editors will likely have a different view. This is probably o
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
Same. And another issue with games is that every game is so long. Games like Tomb Raider used to be 10 hours. Now such games are more than 20 hours. It is a bigger commitment even if you like the game. That’s why I prefer to buy older games
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
Nothing beats plaintext format. I use Google Sheets but download it locally as csv every year or so.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
If company has 10 positions open for X months but their headcount is still same, then you can argue these are fake postings. We have big enough population that high bar, unless unrealistic, should not be problem.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
And try sharing a phone number. Almost every service assumes that everyone in a household has their own phone. Which is of course not true. It just makes many services such as Credit Karma unavailable to anyone but the first person to signu
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> Why in the name of all that is unholy would you ever think that? Seen it many times where engineers are making more than their managers. I had jobs where there was no real difference between my pay and my direct manager's. There w
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
Recently, I canceled a subscription for a newspaper, they make you go through chat to cancel. The agent was so nice that it was annoying. I don’t mind waiting in silence, but when they keep asking about weather, vacation plans, etc, I find
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
Read your lease carefully, there maybe a clause that restrict mining or other abuse of "free" electricity. They may not have individual power meters but they may have other means to determine if one of their tenants is using too m
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I am a gamer dad too. This is something I worry about. I have been playing Minecraft with my son but he is learning about these other games. I have been using some of similar messaging to smoking and saying things like that playing too many
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I think that would be fine, I have seen at some Pakistani/Indian restaurants where they apologized and said could not remove the ingredients or prevent cross contamination.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> just like when you take a quote from someone for home repairs. Is that considered normal? Maybe I am too polite but I always let contractors know if I am going with someone else or not proceeding with home repair.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
This reminds me of some communications training where they were saying that the most things are not worth disagreeing on and just agree with whatever. And I think I read in some parenting books too that it is not worth correcting kids over
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I bought a thermal camera as a fun toy, it is great at finding studs especially for walls that face outside. Also you can see pipes easily when hot water is running through them. But it was not cheap, cost about $300. If you just want to ju
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I would say most devs use same GitHub profile for work and personal projects. GitHub provides pretty easy way to join various organizations with same handle. It almost seems exception when a developer creates a new profile for work.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
There are a lot of rich people who lack confidence and rarely look into anyone’s eyes. And sometimes when they try to fake confidence, they simply come off as assholes or weird.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I have old Oculus Quest 2, and yes even with lower resolution, it is far superior experience than watching movies on the TV. I can only imagine what it is like with Vision Pro. I think it’s not just about picture quality but also about its
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I have been there, several times. I got real estate license as it seems to combine my love for exploring new areas, meeting people, and freedom to set your own schedule. But I could not go full-time into it as I have kids and didn't wa
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I believe it is illegal in the US to ask someone's age during interview. Only after you are hired and filling out paperwork is when they ask for your birthday. Not sure if it is same in the EU, but if it is illegal don't volunteer
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I agree, I try to be a good mentor and understand new developers have higher level of anxiety and I help them as much as I can. But I also teach them how to get help without being too disruptive, remote or local.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
That's good to know. But just because everyone is in the office, doesn't mean you will get help. In our industry, sadly, there are very few companies with good onboarding/mentoring programs. I have seen new bright engineers w
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> When our senior engineers are physically available I can put myself in their office or at their desk and demand they help me. Wow, this seems like a horrible way to manage your people. A decent engineer will not accept this kind of tre
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I remember reading somewhere that one the greenest thing you can do is have less children. I cannot find it now but iirc, if every one on the planet had one less child, climate crisis would be averted in so many years/decades. It makes
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I really enjoyed Console Wars by Blake J. Harris. It doesn't go into very deep technical details but there were some details about how some of the technical decisions were made. And it was very nostalgic read for anyone growing up with
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
The real problem with real world is that it is so boring most of the time. Well designed video games can be hard or even harder than real life but they give you constant endorphins or dopamine hits to keep you going. And you can take a brea
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> cd - git checkout - This was life changing when I first found out about it.
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
> Plus, I can't build a nice, physical library with a bunch of pdf and epub files. I moved back to physical books as I posted in my other comment. Building a nice library that I can give to my kids is one of my goals. Hopefully, the
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by amerkhalid 2y ago
I have gone from paper books to Kindle and then back to paper books. I really loved the experience of reading Kindle, especially Kindle Keyboard. It was amazing experience compared to physical books because I had all my books on it, I could

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