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Thank you!

I will connect via rocket chat.

> I’ve been using it for a few years, and would be happy to contribute to your knowledge. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.

Thank you for that!

Where should I connect with you? I don't see any contact details in your profile.

Here comes Indians :)

Ah, the Y2K era!

Off topic, but is anyone interested in learning Godot? I want to learn Godot, and looking to team-up with someone.

I left a very big company because of this policy. This is deeply unethical.

I think, yes, this could be the main reason for engineers.

Sometimes problem solving needs some understanding of a domain. Otherwise it becomes difficult to solve problems in the said domain. Two domains that immediately come to mind are Security and 3D games.

I am looking to team-up with a generalist for 3D XR simulation projects who will be comfortable with NDK and Godot.

Now when I say generalist, I mean generalist in the 3D graphics/Virtual Reality/games domain. Anyone who will struggle with graphics technology, low-level optimisation will find it hard to contribute to the project.

So generalist term should be combined with domain. Otherwise it does not have much meaning.

In the UK, it is notoriously difficult to team-up with someone to build a startup. The mindset is very different. If you go to US, India or China, engineers are willing to take risk. In the UK, the conversation starts something like this:

Me: "I am looking for a tech co-founder; the startup is at an ideation stage, and I have already talked to people who have shown interest in the project. I think having a tech co-founder at this stage will help a lot."

Listener: "How much are you paying for the role?"

Me: "This is an equity-based role because the startup is at an early stage."

Listener: "So you want people to work for you for free??"

This doesn't matter if the listener is an engineer or not. In the UK, there is little understanding of how very early stage startups work. It is equity based, that concept does not go down very well with the population.

Tech co-founder for XR simulation project. I am looking for someone with 3D graphics/Virtual Reality/games experience on Android platform who will be comfortable with NDK and Godot engine.

> None of them are about what you're going to do in the near term future.

Okay, let us look again at some of the questions posted by OP:

1. How do you know people need what you're making?

2. Who might become competitors?

3. How do or will you make money? How much could you make?

These all look future tense to me.

Had the West accepted the request* of Russia to join NATO, we wouldn't have seen the emergence of cold-war again! After the disintegration of USSR, the West went into triumphalism-mode rather than showing humility.

* This request was by Putin few years before the Afghan war. Russia at that time was sharing intelligence with the US on the dangers of the Taliban to the West. In the initial phases of the invasion Russia also provided some logistical support to the Western forces.

This is like saying, if someone asks how do I say fit:

1. Wake-up in the morning

2. Do exercise

3. Stay fit

:)

America will not collapse, it will become less relevant. The multipolar world is going to be more prominent going forward. Even France's Macron is talking about making EU independent of US influence. And with emerging country like India already having a DNA of non-alignment, it looks like the US will have a say in global world order but the influence will be far more limited than what it use to be.

Having an alternative/choice is always better :)

Earlier the buyers were made light by their pocket with sub-prime loan financial engineering, now the target has moved to businesses with this new financial engineering. Sounds bit worrisome.

Sometime back I read a blog post by an early Amazon employee. I am not able to find that blog now, but the title was something on the lines of "The best decision I ever made." In that blog post the author narrated an incident at Amazon involving himself. When that incident happened the author had just joined Amazon. After a few weeks of working there, the author realised that his manager was taking credit for all the work his team members were doing without giving any credit to the team members who actually did the job. So he decided to raise this issue in the all staff meeting. At that time Amazon was a very small company. Jeff Bezos use to conduct the meetings. So when the author raised this issue(without naming the manager) in the meeting, Jeff Bezos replied that life is too short to work on or work for someone where you will not be happy. It is better to keep looking for the things that will make you happy, here or somewhere else.

The author left Amazon in a few days. Driving back home, stopped at a place not knowing what to do next. Decided to do his own startup, and after few false starts finally became a successful entrepreneurs himself.

Just thought of sharing this story here.

Well, it is not just the Pentagon and CIA, the NRA also has its share in damage, albiet internally to America itself, by eulogising and then infilterating the gun culture into the USA. The American movies have played a big part in internal damage to America itself.

So, does KnockoutJs[0] represent the "transitional applications" framework as described in the article?

[0] https://knockoutjs.com

Add to that the pronunciation of 'o', "ch" and a lot more. I went into a rabbit hole on the same issue few years ago when I was trying to understand why "ch" in "chord" and "chore" are pronounced differently.

> She and I agree that everything past a senior engineer is political. She is much better and handling the complex social dynamics of the management class. It's kinda a game of finding the least common denominator that works best by not pissing off people and making everyone maximally happy. That often means the decisions you make you know are not the most optimal, but the most politically optimal.

A colleague of mine at previous company once described all this in two words "managing expectations" :)

My hypothesis is that this might be indirectly related to the drug. Because sex increases blood circulation to the whole body, including the brain, this circulation helps the brain cells. Taking Viagra regularly for sexual pleasure has this positive side-effect of regular blood flow to the brain, thus reducing the chances of damage to the cells.

> introversion

It is not a skill-set :) You cannot develop introvertedness. It is a natural thing; it is the nature of the person. You could try to change it but it is very difficult.

> ...learn interesting thinks about other peoples careers.

This is a very good approach.

> Honestly that sounds more like social anxiety than introversion.

For intoverts, social anxiety stems from the fact that they do not fit into the very nature of "social events". Otherwise introverts are very good in other aspects e.g. put them in a "slow-paced social gathering" and they will be perfectly fine, infact they will enjoy it. But social events are fast-pased, this is where it is a mismatch for the intoverts.

> introvert means you find social situations incredibly tiring > If you find social situations difficult then you're probably just anti-social.

No, that is not entirely true. The way I differentiate between intoverts and extroverts is this "introverts think a lot before talking" where as extrovers "talk and then may be think". You mentioned that intoverts find social events tiring is because of this, they always have to play catch-up with non-introverts during discussions. Hence introverts try to be in(and flourish in) an environment that promotes deep thinking. Social events are anything but deep thinking venues.

Introverts are exactly opposite to what you have described; they are uncomfortable at social events.

I have the exact opposite problem to what you have described. I am uncomfortable at social gatherings, but somewhat okayish at online discussions. It takes me a lot of mental preparation to attend any event so that I don't stand in a corner or outside the event venue during the event. It is not that I don't mingle with other participants, but it takes me extra efforts to do so and it just seems like I have to fake it. And it shows and the conversations don't seem natural(I think this happens to you when you are online).

It starts with being happy, and then turning into a feeling of guilt and despair once you realise that you have spent hours reading the posts, comments and following the links posted by others.

> My team is looking for people...

What location? What company? Please could you provide some details?

When I was a kid, one day my dad took me to the nearby "meat shop" where they use to slaughter goats in a nearby room of the shop. My dad's aim was to prepare me to go to the meat shop on my own in the near future. What I saw had a very deep impact on me and I decided to not eat meat and fish after that. It took me one and a half years to stop eating meat and fish. What I saw in that shop that day was chilling. Two goat kids were slaughtered in front of their mother(the goat). The goat kids had by now realised that going inside the room meant death, so when the shop owner tried to take the first goat kid into the room the goat kid refused to enter the room and the owner kept pushing and forcing the goat kid inside the room. Seeing this the customers gathered around the shop started laughing. And the goat(the mother of the goat kid) couldn't look at her kid being taken to the slaughter room and was crying for help looking at the laughing customers(I had never heard a goat make such loud and chilling noises)! The same repeated for here second kid. And finally the goat herself was slaughtered after sometime.

Experiencing this horror, I decided there and then that I will not eat meat and fish again to satisfy my tastebuds. It has been years since I left eating meat and fish. But even now when I see non-vegetarian dishes(at home or other places) I have urge to eat non-veg. It is very difficult to leave eating non-veg; it is like addiction. But everytime I have that urge to eat non-veg, that scene from the meat shop plays in front of my eyes. It is very painful.

Another scene that I regularly see in my local area every morning is when cattles are transported in a truck to a near-by mass slaughter house. The trucks are enclosed from all sides with just a slit open for the cattles to look outside so that they do not panic in the metal enclosure. Looking at their eyes one can easily see that they are trying to understand where they are and what is happening. And everytime I see that I say to myself, these unsuspecting defenceless animals are going to face a gruesome death within an hour just to satisfy the appetite of some humans!

> I 99% believe that you think these things are real;

Again, go read the last sentence of my original post.

> There is evidence that there's no evidence: we've been digging holes....very recently, in the Indian subcontinent.

Hmmm.