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Mudras are one of the first things that you learn when you start Bharat Natyam. Most of the beginner classes start with practicing the Mudras. I like to think of them as counting numbers in Math.

I used to be part of debate clubs and made speeches in school and college so for me its not really about early exposure.

Public speaking was always difficult for me. For me the anxiety never truly goes away. That is why I really likes Martin’s post.

I am so glad to hear it’s not just me. I have recently been doing some meditation to help me with this.

I dont think its superior or inferior. Row level security is a different way to think about access control.

I think of row level security as enforced on the table which is stronger as it will apply for any reads on the table.

However, if you have authorized views then you can still create a different view of the same table without the access controls.

You can probably use both to solve the problem and in some cases authorized views maybe the right choice and in some cases row level security will work.

I have used text files, Emacs Org Mode and Evernote. Also, tried notion at one point. The closest that I have come to notes nirvana is Emacs but my left pinky started hurting and I stopped using it.

These days I use a versioned directory of markdown files which I edit using visual studio. I just organize them in standard file folders. It has been working well for the past 4 years or so.

I should mention that I also have Trello for any todos come out of those notes.

While Facebook and Twitter are definitely to blame, we should also look at the smartphone for creating this dystopia.

Today, the smartphone makes it very easy to go the internet and shout at someone just because you had a bad minute or a bad second. It also makes it very easy to produce and consume multi media.

Maybe its just me but I feel like the Internet used to be more wholesome in the pre smartphone era.

A big reason that I keep coming back to HN is that it does not allow any images and videos.

I have used a steelcase leap, a herman miller aeron, a low budget costco chair.

Nothing has worked for me. I have given up and moved to a standing desk.

I use a wooden counter height chair when I get tired. It works great for me!

There is a place for low code like system administration or application configuration. Eventually all end user software will hit boundary conditions because it’s impossible to test for all permutations the moment you go beyond the simplest applications.

Thanks so much for ripgrep!! It has become my goto for searching large code bases!!

I highly recommend HBRs “On Communication”. I always flip through it when I have to present something.

I liked SO because it was a refreshing change from the php based bulletin boards.

However, I do miss hanging out on Ubuntu forums(in fact all *nix forms for that matter).

People were always always ready to help no matter how big or small the question. Someone always came along and showed me the right way to setup the printer.

This reminds me of the duck tours of sf. I never took one but always saw these behind the ATT stadium! I just looked up and looks like they closed permanently!

I like the visual feedback with the multi select where I can select all the occurrences of a variable and then change the name at the same time without leaving the editor by just using the shortcut.

For find and replace, I have to leave the editor and go to a different tool window. Also, my regex skills are sometimes lacking when I want to find something on a deadline. I only use find and replace when I have to do the same refactor across files.

Thanks for introducing the multi select feature in text editing. There may have been other editors before which had but Sublime was where I first encountered this and where it felt natural. It has saved me countless keystrokes! I use VS Code now but it has started getting slower and it may be time to go back to sublime!

I used Qualcomm brew in grad school to create an accelerometer based app to detect falls for senior people. I remember the first time it detected a simulated fall !! I was new to such sophisticated phones and it felt like an amazing achievement. I remember talking to a Qualcomm engineer who helped me with the internal API and the whole setup. Fun times!!

The world will always be more complex than our models (irrespective of the field). Even Math is by definition incomplete. Its nice to take a step back and appreciate the complexity of the world that we live in without judging our models.

I care deeply. With a 100 percent male workforce comes a 100 percent male mindset. Say I am creating a site for maternity clothes, I am not sure if I can turn a blind eye to the trade offs all the male engineer may make even though they have the best interests at heart. They may not be significant to the male engineer but it will very much be caught by a female engineer. Unless you are selling shaving kits or male grooming kits, your customers are gonna be woman and so that perspective is much more important than getting the best software engineer.

How many woman engineers are in your team as a percent of total?

I loved the idea of using QR codes. These days everyone is coming down hard on internet and communication technologies. I remember being in India in school without any computers available to me. So, this news makes me feel optimistic about the future of technology.

PS: Modified the title from "Village Teacher" to "Teacher".

This approach of shredding data is risky if the schema is absent when we start. This is the same problem as ducktyping where we endup with variables with questionable types.

On a different note, all references are by the same author so it would have been nice to see a different point of view

This paper has some red flags and it would be great if someone who has experience with this domain provides more light.

1) The original paper is at https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/20/7594

2) The paper was written based on the findings of the software https://wittyfit.com/ The sample is not random in any sense as it looks like its based on 187 people who are using this software. Correlation != Causation.

Yeah. Exactly my thoughts. I really liked the concept of del.icio.us. where humans could bookmark and tag web sites.

dmoz looks pretty great but the categories look limiting.

Also, sometimes that third party solution will go out of business if its proprietary or it may simply stop getting code patches/updates if its an open source one. In the former case, contracts will help to some extent to mitigate the danger but you will still be stuck with using a legacy technology.

Thanks for the clarifications!

I could not find any stats or compression ratios in there. Also, the backward compatibility disclaimer makes me worried. If I use a v1 to precompress the file, then I will need to keep the v1 version alongwith the precompressed file or I risk loosing the data.

What about code reengineering and working with legacy code. It is not just maintaining old code but also knowing how to add and remove components well, without breaking downstream and/or upstream systems. And if you do have to break it, managing expectations and communicating those ahead of time.

The leap from resources to property is a slippery slope. Also, why should shareholders expect compensation for an employee who leaves as long as the he or she was doing whatever his or her function was till their employment ended.

On the same note, what is the difference between a company being acquired by Netflix vs the employee being poached by Netflix. Why is the first one a positive and the second one a negative.

Does GPT-3 understand languages other than English?

The author is talking about keeping things simple which is not a bad idea. I am genuinely interested in why etcd switched to gRPC?