rajeshp1986

I am having so many issues with my vision. I don't have a very high prescription(+1.5 on left and +1.25 on my right) but I consulted 3 eye doctors and optometrists last year. I still don't think my prescription is correct as I get headaches and my eyes get tired after few hours. I don't know if there is any better solution around.

I think internet was way awesome before digital advertising era. There should be areas of internet which should try to replicate the early internet i.e text-only design, bring back forums and no advertising revenue.

Modern society and work makes people have less free time to form memories. Certainly, people felt time is running fast even in older times but I doubt if time ran faster at the same rate for people from say 50s as much as it is for us today?

I think common wisdom now is don't put too much effort until you validate or test the idea. How do you not invest too much time if the traction takes too long?

This is one of the major gripes I have with modern software too. It is becoming overly inefficient. I personally attribute this to two reasons:

1) Product managers have more influence and decision making in prioritizing what should be delivered. I have routinely encountered wherever I worked that any work related to improving efficiency or spending time in non-business related work is constantly de-prioritized. Controlling programmers time means certain system bugs get lower priority and junk accumulates over time and software gets bloated. There are code-path ways which are not being used anymore but no-one bothered to clean up as they have not been instructed to do so yet.

2) I find the explosion of javascript in popularity is a major reason of this inefficiency. Imagine the compute and electricity wasted globally because certain developers don't want to build multi-threaded applications and prefer dynamic typing.

Why are Japanese so adamant and self-sabotaging? What explains this behavior? Their govt simply refuse to tackle population decline. They could easily give tax breaks to families and encourage people to have children. They also seem to be adamant on not opening up immigration. Is there any deep social reasons for this?

Modern city lifestyle doesn't have much physical activity. This could be the reason why we see increased depression and anxiety. This could also be the reason why people in third world countries don't have this level of depression and anxiety in their society. They have much higher level of physical activity and movement throughout the day.

It is hard to do this once you stuck in a job which is not demanding and you have to keep this hobby yourself. I think thats where most programmers/engineers fail. Few side projects but then they lose motivation to keep going.

Started experience this around 35. Im 37 now. Its been hell since I was very productive in my 20s and now at a point I am unable to function.

There are other factors which contribute more to mental health but this is like justifying what the authors want using mental health as a reason. Making cities more walkable would be better for other reason but I doubt if mental health would significantly increase if we make cities more walkable. San Francisco is very much walkable but has highest mental health issues.

I felt something like this is missing and had the idea of building a community dedicated to Men. Think https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ but for men & fathers. There is certainly a market and community can be built. Lets chat further if you are interested. My twitter/X is pantula rajesh (without spaces)

Who will pay for the operational costs?

It made video calls more accessible. They used mobile first approach so it was more accessible to lot of people. WebEx was a pain the ass use on desktop and it still is. Eric Yuan begged Cisco to invest more in WebEx and got frustrated and left and built Zoom.

Discord's video quality is laughable. May be it depends on where in the world you are using it but it has the worst video quality in my experience.

Found some really interesting courses like this one: Introduction to Launch Vehicle Analysis and Design, IIT Bombay https://nptel.ac.in/courses/101101086

It is a mixture of MBA virus combined with Staff engineers who abandon older projects and move to newer shiny things to look good on promo packets.

I wonder if it could be Homo Naledi counting something.

Surprisingly no one talks about how much of that money is corruption and siphoned off. There is little awareness in US about how non-profits organizations can be used for corruption and money laundering.

All the leaders you mentioned have accumulated and hoarded cash which was disclosed in IT raids. There is an ongoing investigation on how they sold liquor licenses for cash. They are jailed as per court orders after investigation.

[1] - https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/policy/story/liquor-scam...

How much do you spend monthly on laundromat?

I would love to support and sponsor this personally. How do one go about funding this?

High cocaine levels might also reduce body weight and type 2 diabetes, just saying.

I was thinking the same since few days. Most founders and startups in India are having market focussed outlook and not seeing the technology outlook in the next decade and how AI will disrupt many services.

This is the best advice out of all comments. Growth at large companies will be limited at this age. You don't have the luxury to wait few years to climb each rung on the ladder. Move to a smaller company and get a title that reflects your seniority and experience(given you have the knowledge and experience to shine at this level). Many devs & engineers will advice you against this saying Staff or Principal titles, IC7 levels at large companies are the career path but they are brainwashed to believe this. You can have a very successful career at smaller companies that value your talent and skills.

Moreover, distributors probably won't bring down the price back to 2022 prices even if the production ramps up in coming months.

Very interesting. Are these classes available to regular folks or do you need to be in army or police to enroll into these kinds of courses?

The author lost me at the first few lines : > In a microservice architecture one needs to communicate between the different services. The golden hammer for such communication is REST-ish services employing JSON over HTTP.

Are people really relying on REST-ish inter-services communications? I have seen very large systems and most of the systems are async/promised based or have an underlying message-queue implementation or pub-sub like Kafka.

I was hiring for a startup 2 weeks ago but was laid off last week and looking for new jobs. Haven't received any response yet.

I have been using Developer folder since many years. Never bothered to investigate where the hardcoded icons came from.

As someone who was born in India and spent a good 30 years of my life there before moving to US, I miss the train journeys so much. Most Indians like me who grew up taking train journeys to visit grandparents in the summer or that vacation trip(generally visiting some family or relatives) is a nostalgic experience but there is something magical about train journeys where you see the life moving in front of you. After every 100 kilometeres or so the landscape completely changes and you see life in a different way.

I really like what OP said in the blog post : "Taking a train slows you down and gets you 34,000 feet closer to life on earth" While growing up, we didn't had access to air travel so the only option was life up close but I'm really joyed someone described in this way.