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rjain15··on Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
>"inept managers, mind-numbing bureaucracy, forced office parties, repetitive busywork and jargon-filled memos read by none."

till date, I have to read jargon-filled memos and watch mind numbing training videos. Nothing has changed.

rjain15··on Ending our Medium integration
There is nothing wrong in making money, if you want to attract good content writers and curate content, provide additional services like digital magazine, you have to make money to pay your writers, curators and staff.

I don't write for Medium, but I think rather than trashing Medium, maybe we should help make it as a better platform for publishers. There is enough garbage out in the internet, maybe Medium can help clean it up.

rjain15··on ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks
I haven't read the book, but watched the series. I agree with some of the comments -- it's all about the love for food, watching the series makes you love the process of sourcing the ingredients, finding the right balance, and authentic insights from people who have been doing this without the recipe books. If you want the recipe, there are a million other resources in a quick google search.
rjain15··on American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East
I wonder what would have Senator John McCain thought about this program? Miss him.
rjain15··on Mistakes teams new to Chaos Engineering make
chaos testing can be part of SRE practice, its mostly around reliability of systems. I am not sure why someone in the comments is confusing it with functional testing or load testing.
rjain15··on GPUs as a service with Kubernetes Engine are now generally available
Are these GPUs on bare metal or virtualized GPUs on VMs
rjain15··on GitLab acquires Gitter
What is the use of Gitter with Gitlab, in the post-slack world?
rjain15··on React Fiber – Is it just non blocking UI Redesign?
What are the main goals for the rewrite and how is this going to impact existing - react-native and react projects?
rjain15··on GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
Does it similar query and search capabilities like Splunk or Kibana. Is it a full stack log system or just a UI?
rjain15··on Evernote Privacy Policy Update
Is there an alternative to Evernote. First the decided to allow only two devices on the free accounts. Next, they can read all my notes.
rjain15··on What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
:) what about principal developers.
rjain15··on What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
I would say if the programmer can show progression in coding, design and independently working on modules they can move up the junior, intermediate, senior ... ladder
rjain15··on Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
More exciting news coming in Chrome 56 with complete optimization.. V8 can optimize the entirety of the JavaScript language. Can't wait for Christmas presents
rjain15··on Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’
I heard on NPR that common cold viruses are also some how related to the gut.
rjain15··on We don't need a Tech Lead
Applying the raft protocol quorum on teams, the +1 can the tech lead. According to the Raft Protocol, A quorum is a majority of members from a peer set: for a set of size n, quorum requires at least (n/2)+1 members.
rjain15··on Laying the Foundation for a Data Team
Nice writeup, "Engineers shouldn't write ETL" and "Every analysis or data pull that we do, we will need to update or repeat eventually". Good stuff.
rjain15··on Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
Or I can use the same concentrated chocolate paste for other medicinal purposes. http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-812...
rjain15··on Fitbit is reportedly buying Pebble for around $40M
I would vote for a Pebble or any smart watch which can charge with Body heat?
rjain15··on AngelList acquires Product Hunt
Why AngelList? Not sure if this is right alignment It doesn't make sense at all. I use Product Hunt to find what is new and awesome product coming up?