bendermon

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by bendermon 9y ago
Consider it a blessing. Apart from the few success stories, most tier1 college graduates take the safe route of unsatisfying mass recruitment, do an MBA and end up in less technical jobs. Unlike in the past since the advent of the internet,
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by bendermon 9y ago
The big question is when to use ORMs/raw SQL. SQL is the most concise and perfect fit for RDBMS. However, at the application level there are benefits of using ORM. - The application itself is usually imperative style as against the dec
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by bendermon 9y ago
Lee Kuan Yew (the late ex-Singapore PM) on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9S6bJDqRHQ
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by bendermon 9y ago
What you say is true, but as I mentioned that works only with legacy systems, which are often just cost centres. There are in general very few people who can work with or want to work with legacy systems and therefore does demand a very goo
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by bendermon 9y ago
American salaries along with low taxes are way more attractive even compared to Nordic countries which apart from high taxes also have some of the highest living costs in the world. The whole debate on suppressing incomes is quite debatable
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by bendermon 10y ago
There are plenty of cost effective traditional alternatives. Banana leaves, hand made leaf plates, machine made leaf plates, in the worst case paper plates. Plastics are just convenient and cheap, if the environmental costs are not consider
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by bendermon 10y ago
Corpses are biodegradable aren't they unless, it is that of superman. Good protein feed for the fish, birds, crocodiles. Instead of taking up real estate.
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by bendermon 10y ago
The article claims - India contributes 60% of the plastic in the ocean. From the Times of India (TOI) article that it refers to - "India is among the four largest contributor who in total contribute 60%". Which considering a journ
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by bendermon 10y ago
Even if you poop in your fancy bungalow toilet, it does end up in the rivers, along with detergent and toxic toilet cleaners. Banning disposable plastic and non biodegradable detergents would go a great way in letting microbes and plants do
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by bendermon 10y ago
Note: Thank you for down voting for pointing out a glaring 'fake statistics' and poor journalism, on a #1 trending post on HN. The first and the second quote do not mean the same thing, not even close. "A massive 60%t of the
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by bendermon 10y ago
I am neither European nor American and have been living in Copenhagen for about 3.5 years. Here are some observations. The one big difference is that at the end of the month you would have nothing left to save. And if you plan to move out a