john4534243

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by john4534243 6y ago
In my experience at non-FAANG organizations managers are people who don't have the capability to code and they barely managed to survive so far.
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by john4534243 6y ago
In other words you are asking to suck managers dick irrespective of your skill set and work ethic.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Luckily software world is embracing remote work as a side effect of pandemic. This helps a lot in the fight against ageism.
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by john4534243 6y ago
emacs users check org-roam its quite nice
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by john4534243 6y ago
> If Guevara did everything the same but instead of Marxism, he was fighting to exterminate the blacks out of a genuine belief that it was a noble cause which would help people, would you still describe him in the same positive way? I do
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by john4534243 6y ago
Two years ago i created a gmail account without providing mobile number and was using it on youtube for commenting on political videos. In the past few months i noticed my comments were getting upvoted frequently and then last week gmail is
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by john4534243 6y ago
There is a documentary about the people killed who had found to be guilty and they did not find a single evidence where some one is executed wrongly. Now i will state my reasons why Che is an inspiration. First of all I am not an American o
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by john4534243 6y ago
> Political ideology is OK but not religious ideology? Right. Religious ideology is without a doubt is exploitation. Political ideology that does not involve religion is probably coming out of good intentions. > Being a 2nd in comman
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by john4534243 6y ago
Its not just about the react being opensource. Its the philosophy that drives the ecosystem. Facebook can come up with a react component for VR on the browser which work's really well only with facebook account.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> I suspect that what you really mean is Guevara fought for what you think is just. But that's a weaker statement. You might have mistaken me as a supporter of communism. I don't support communism. Osama Bin Laden exploited the
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by john4534243 6y ago
> Che Guevarra’s wife, Stalin’s wife or Pablo Escobar’s wife Comparing Che Guevarra and Pablo is totally unfair. Che was a true inspiration, born in a rich family, became a doctor and yet sacrificed his life and fought for what he though
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by john4534243 6y ago
I have invested heavily learning react and react native and i don't have(or want) facebook account. I will remind this incident in the future before investing time in any thing related to facebook.
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by john4534243 6y ago
John Carmack was following this routine and some days he would come to office in the evening when no one was there and will leave before any one arrives.
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by john4534243 6y ago
Don't underestimate smoking, especially it must be avoided at all costs as a programmer. The minute you stumble on a problem which happens all day in the life of a programmer, the brain cues to smoke which actually causes digestive pro
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by john4534243 6y ago
What better way is there other than online to find the smartest person or any group ?
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by john4534243 6y ago
Most people who are under mid 30's don't realize how cruel age bias is. With remote work there is a reasonable guarantee that it works against age bias and a huge blessing to developers who have crossed mid 30's. I lost about
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by john4534243 6y ago
Current Prime Minister Modi was in the ad of "Jio" company which was aired in national tv channels after he got elected. That company funds the BJP party to which Modi belong. By giving the money to "Jio", the money is b
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by john4534243 6y ago
> "..to create a universal basic income utilizing technology instead of financial instruments." Wow. Just mind blowing. So much power in those few words. The best quote i have come across in probably a decade.
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by john4534243 6y ago
When it comes to privacy telegram is not great. The privacy is handled by splitting the cryptographic key in to multiple segments and storing it in servers located at different countries making it harder for any single government to force t
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by john4534243 6y ago
The way i see it is Jobs ripped of Woz, without Woz Job's is nothing. On the other hand without Job's Woz would still been a successful engineer at a tech organization.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> For example, demand for Rust engineers seems to be steadily increasing The future of Rust is uncertain as Mozilla.
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by john4534243 6y ago
The future of Rust language from Mozilla is also uncertain.
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by john4534243 6y ago
There is a ton of demand for top talent and India is not going to fulfill that. India may have higher number of engineers but the ratio of decent talent at NON-FAANG companies is very low. The reason for this is in India Engineering educati
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by john4534243 6y ago
I really did not understand what the DynamicLand is about. I get that vaguely it is a place to think physically and share ideas. But how will it be implemented concretely ? For example lets say i want to learn about aerodynamics or electrom
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by john4534243 6y ago
I wanted to post the link exactly to the same essay "In praise of Idleness". Glad to see this essay resonates with other people.
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by john4534243 6y ago
This is nothing compared to Hinduism's varna system(caste system), where the entire society is split in to 4 groups and learning to read and write is banned to the bottom 3 groups. Even the skills of one group is prohibited to be learn
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by john4534243 6y ago
How about the ML stack ? Looks like porn sites has improved the recommendation systems a lot over the years.
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by john4534243 6y ago
I am a non native English speaker. Whats the difference b/w like and love ? Both seem synonymous to me. If i love a person or thing i definitely like them.
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by john4534243 6y ago
> Explain to me what language has to do with the great firewall. This is too obvious to explain. The language is spoken by 1.5 billion people who are behind the firewall and why would i have to create a content in that language when i ha
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by john4534243 6y ago
I think the op was referring to the middle managers who don't code .

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