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           Now, some managers will come to you after their time constant elapses and say "I have an idea!" and recite your idea. You have to accept this.

LOL

Yes, it was my first tool of discovery too..

Honestly, I don't see anything click-baity in it, the title actually aligned with the content.

I was going to say the same thing.. anything by JK. I started reading his books twenty years ago, stopped after a couple of years. He is a constant presence in my daily life.

I see so many recommendations to get rid of a smartphone. Here is a different view. I didn't have a smartphone till 2014, I used to think that it was a scam by phone service companies and manufacturers to make you spend more. And then I almost missed my kid's team event due to change of location and missed the messages from other parents. I would have messed months' long preparation by all these kids by my kid's absence. That was the first and last straw and got a smartphone. I also want a phone handy to take pictures. A phone is essential, I just would like android and ios to care more about distractions and develop features to limit these distractions. I am also looking forward to robust, foolproof apps like Space by Boundless etc.

I installed space recently and I use it just for Twitter. I don't have any other distractions. I think it has been useful so far. http://youjustneedspace.com/

They open source all their excellent work. Rent seeking cable providers are trying to take advantage of the net neutrality repeal to make people click ads.

BTW, he is Jeff Dean, he can be the AI chief and hands on technical at the same time :) May be they promoted him because he was bored at work.

I am sure all the people he will be leading are passionate, he may not have to deal with the run of the mill org issues. Being promoted gives him more influence/power to implement his vision.

My thoughts exactly, practicality as opposed to cynicism.

Also, what are his personal values? Who knows? Why does he bore the underground with abandon even when he acknowledges that the environmental impacts are not completely know. One study says autonomous vehicles can be as effective for congestion easing as his underground tunnels.

His transportation is the next level of dependency he is creating and we are turning a blind eye to. As these corporations' services get too essential (through lobbying), there won't be any choice to #delete_boring.

I respect him for what he has achieved, but too much celebrity worship is something we should all be watchful of.

I agree with everything. Going by that logic, I think we should all celebrate that Google Plus is not as successful as Facebook. But for all your concerns, Mr.Chollet, what assurances can you give us about Google being not involved in something similar?

I live in the U.S. I use Whatsapp to connect with family members in another country. I have a Facebook account just for my informal HOA community posts. I have zero fb friends. I hope my HOA finds another means to communicate.

I have 300$ of trial credit, but couldn't use it when I wanted to create Cloud Datalab notebooks for an ML MOOC under the pressure of deadlines. I was willing to spend more money on something that is working (Floydhub) than use these GCP credits and figure out how to use it.

Spot on, I just needed a toe fracture to rethink morals and ethics. I am all for humane treatment of animals, am an almost vegan myself, if you can just raise the cute animals in a humane way, I won't object the progress on this development.

"He was very open & clear I thought:"

It could be just to make the review feel more authentic, and also both advertisers and audience are getting smarter.

This is not a statement about this particular reviewer, just my thoughts.

Believe it or not, there are people who believe in xyz even in the U.S.

India is a land of paradoxes, just as the U.S these days seems to be.

My newly built community has Verizon only and nobody else to provide cable internet. This is a good reminder to ask my community on my HOA Facebook page to get other providers, which will involve a lot of digging up of yards and mess.

P.S: My username is anti-social wrt social networks, not wrt people. I have zero friends on FB.

I hope thought leaders start the trend of a reverse network effect or start open protocols for networking.

>The reason someone carries a DSLR today is because of the optics..

LOL, I was not sure of which usage of optics was intended here, had to read the whole sentence.

Happy to see Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi mentioned here. IMO, he and his work are underrated. I haven't read the original post by Hamming, but I have read one and a half books by Csikszentmihalyi and I am a better person for doing so.

This is where tools like RescueTime shine. It is getting better and I hope all the loop holes are closed.

Something like RescueTime baked into iOS would be Apple's greatest productivity feature.

Thanks, I forgot about the NoSQL part due to tunable consistency. I remembered Cassandra as almost similar to SQL databases with horizontal scalability.

How does this compare to Apache Cassandra?

It is not uncommon that the people seeking to be mentored are lazy to put any effort into learning. It is also not uncommon for a lazy manager to put an effort to see how much this senior programmer is mentoring other. It is also not uncommon that this senior person might have learnt all his/her skills from books/discussions forums etc. Some of these senior programmers put their personal time because they are passionate about their craft. Please don't make assumptions that anybody who is not so pleased about sharing his skills is not a team player. Oftentimes, a lazy manager pits team members against each others. You sound like that horrible manager to work with. If I were your team member, I would find another manager.

Yeah, I think he/she meant "humanely raised"

Sapiens. It has been helpful on two levels - 1. For my limited historical knowledge, it's a good crash course. 2. On a higher level, it explains why culture is a glue that keeps the wheels of any civilization spinning.

Finding Flow

At first blush, it looks like that. Once you are aware of this hiding of self, that awareness itself has deep implications.

The following is a gem - this has been my guiding star for more than a decade.

The self hides in many ways, under every stone, the self can hide in compassion, going to India and looking after poor people, because the self is attached to some idea, faith, conclusion, belief, which makes me compassionate because I love Jesus or Krishna, and I go up to heaven. The self has many masks, the mask of meditation, the mask of achieving the highest, the mask that I am enlightened, that “I know of what I speak.” All this concern about humanity is another mask. So one has to have an extraordinary, subtle, quick brain to see where it is hiding. It requires great attention, watching, watching, watching. On Mind and Thought, p 133

I am aware of all of his "scandals", but there never is any hypocrisy on his behalf. If some follower wants to put him on a pedestal, that's the follower's fault.

JK voluntarily tried to give up his fame by the Dissolution of the order of the star.

He's the boss. He despises idol worship, but if I have to name one person that has the most/best influence on my life, this is the one (for the past twenty years). I highly recommend his work.

I understand what you meant, I just wanted to get attention for my belief that we shouldn't be relying on special interest money at all to call it a democracy.