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If that were true, the people would have renamed them back 70 years ago when India took back control, just as a symbol of regaining control. They didn't.

Failing that, local culture would refer to those cities by those reticent names somewhere. Local newspapers, pamphlets, propaganda material. No evidence of that.

I notice that once you're invested, time and effort wise, in doing something one way, and it works, the general unwillingness to learn different or newer ways of doing the same things increases rapidly. Overcoming such prejudice requires understanding and accepting the incentives for further investing time and effort to accustom with newer technology.

Use-case driven technology fit is just one incentive. There are other incentives like resume enhancement, participation in communities where there is rapid development, FOMO / fear of being a dinosaur, the reputation of being known as someone well versed with the latest technologies, monetization via online courses/tutorials. These are just a few I could think of, I'm sure there are more.

In my relatively short career, I saw this playing out with NoSql databases, microservices architecture, SPA (AngularJS), NodeJS, responsive websites, blockchain and more recently, ReactJS, data-science (AI/ML) and containerization.

Each one of these, at some point or the other, have been used in cases where the problem space was completely solvable without using said technology but was introduced for some other incentive.

Say what you will but this rapid change is what makes and keeps this space moving, interesting, inspiring and well-paying.

Yes very different but my point being, the names were changed and over time people do refer to these cities by their "new" names.

Also, in India the colonial reference was the official excuse. In my view, it was purely a show of political power.

I usually send bookmarks to my separate email account. I add excerpts and quotes from the bookmark that I find interesting, also helps with searching.

Every few weeks I conduct housekeeping on my email. This moves the good bookmarks over to my personal git wiki or deleted. This ensures that every bookmark I have gets visited at least twice. This also allows me to not overthink before adding a bookmark without ending up with incomprehensible huge lists of bookmarks that I never end up re-visiting.

I've learned over the years to keep this system simple. Understand and realize that whatever bookmark system you use will eventually go away. If its good enough, they will try to monetize, if not they will be forced to close shop. Either way it gets killed, at least for me.

Another side note: not all bookmarks are equal. Some are just references you want handy when you want to point someone to them, usually in an online argument where response time matters. Some links have golden content on the other side. You want to read, re-read, internalize and remember (spaced repetition) this. Some are work related. Some are aspirational stuff you want to get to in the future. So knowing what and why I am bookmarking something was key to keeping it real.

Well, they could take a leaf from India and just rename the city? Although, politically motivated in India, it works. Eventually Bombay became Mumbai, Bangalore is Bengaluru, Madras is now Chennai and what was known as Allahabad is now Prayagraj.

Thanks for sharing about Nucor. Learned something new today.

I understand Nucor did 3 things differently.

First it used scrap metal as input and smaller electric arc furnace for melting. Meant it could set shop near scrap source and sell to local construction market saving on shipping costs.

Second, they did away with unions with their smaller employee base and could pay them lesser than their counterparts could pay their unionized workforce.

Third, the mini mill format meant cheaper setup cost and they could pause operations at lower operational and maintenance costs which again their counterparts could not.

This makes sense for Nucor.

For Arrival however, given their target is the commercial van market, I don't see what is backing up their claim to keep the cost of the car low by setting up shop closer to the customer.

Their chief "strategy" officer promises cheap vehicles even if battery prices don’t continue to fall by setting up "microfactories".

This reminded me of a project I knew from 2016, whose pitch to management was cheaper running costs by splitting a monolithic application into microservices. That did not go well neither for the team, nor management.

I came here looking for excuses folks spending 200 odd bucks on apple headphones tell themselves... aaaand found it! Seams!

Talking about seamless, the 3.5mm jack is far more seamless and robust to me. I wonder how long before they seal that hole on the only apple product (of the ones I use) that has it yet ... the macbook.

Instead of chasing to be the best at some one skill, its more rewarding to be great at one skill and good at another semi-related skill.

I print a bunch of these (sometimes multiple calendars on a page) and stick them up on the wall. Very useful to separate events / agendas of different classes on separate calendars e.g. birthdays, travel plans, project deadlines, appointments, goal tracking, habit tracking all go on different calendars but on the same wall.

Much cleaner than putting them all on the same calendar and fight for space.

> Social media and blog posts should be passive entertainment

You sir hit the nail on the head! I analyzed over all (almost all) my bookmarks, lists, notes, posts and emails from 2018 and 6 months of 2019 only to realize this - its entertainment.

I could find 7 distinct valuable things from hours of consuming text/videos for over 18 months. That was insane and in stark contrast to why I picked up reading blogs/tweets/HN in the first place - 1. to dig deeper in what I know and 2. seek new shiny things. I now use books for the former and HN/twitter/reddit/blogs for the latter.

Whats interesting, important and valuable finds its way to my feeds/searches/conversations and has the characteristic of showing up multiple times. The signal/noise ratio is Goddamn low.

I now have sticky notes on the wall right above my desk, one per area of interest. I look for books around what interests me, have real conversations with real people, explain or try to get folks around me hooked onto something that also interests me.

Overall I like it and my favorite part : are only so many stick notes that will fit on the wall. When there are too many, I will know, unlike my twitter/HN/reddit feeds.

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Gotcha.

I recollect there was a website that did this [1]. Can't vouch for it. Not affiliated. Didn't read more than a couple startups.

[1]: https://getautopsy.wixsite.com/failed-startups

Fake resumes, fake experience, fake references; common practices among most small tech recruiters and consultancies.

> hence is not-ratio-able, or irrational

TIL !

From the same (only) page that asks for email, company, etc.

> Due to requirements of the U.S. government, export compliance is now mandatory when downloading our software. Complete the form to proceed with your download.

That's totally fine by me.

I think the content is there, but you could keep the structure without making it too explicit.

Something like this should set the tone up for an interview -

Hi I'm ... studied business informatics because I'm interested in the intersection between business world and the computer world. Upon graduation I realized I wanted to understand human psychology better so took that up formally. This eventually led me to game studies. I'd say that makes me come across as a curious person which I identify with.

Over the past 8 years I became a teaching assistant, a coach for teaching assistants, a bootcamp instructor and a programmer/web developer. In total I have about 2.5 years of work experience including 1.5 on teaching development to others.

P.S. Based on my experience, "applied to any job that didn't feel like work" is something better left out from an introduction for a job interview.

I like this webpage. There are no ads, no popups, did not ask for my email, did not try to send me notifications, did not ask me to register, did not autoplay a video, did not hijack my scroll behavior, on parallax BS, no images of an open office in the background. In short NO NON-SENSE. It loaded in under 1s (for me), has all the important stuff right there at the top.

I do not want any product page to do anything more than this. Please.

Rent a bike from embarcadero. Ride it through golden gate stop by at fisherman's wharf for some clam chowder and Ghirardelis for some dessert. Its a great way to spend a day there.

I'm relieved (no really) to know you too find Anki/flashcards being ineffective when the content is not, to steal your word, "atomic". I felt as I was using Anki all wrong. Actually, that's what led me to search all over and found most uses were for language learning.

You're right its my job to find solution to problems.

I meant to say 'Just Ask' and 'Problems to solve are easiest to find in the world' are very misleading things for a beginner.

Just asking won't lead you to a solution and identifying solvable problems are incredibly hard.

I think so too. From their terms [1]

> You agree that you will not:

> Copy, modify or create derivative works of the Service or any Content;

> Copy, manipulate or aggregate any Content (including data) for the purpose of making it available to any third party; Trade, sell, rent, loan, lease or license any Content or access to the Service, whether commercially or free of charge;

> Use or introduce to the Service any data mining, crawling, "scraping", robot or similar automated or data gathering or extraction method, or manually access, acquire, monitor or copy any portion of the Service, or download or store Content (unless expressly authorized by CMC).

[1]: https://coinmarketcap.com/terms/

I had to read through your comment twice to get it. My experience leads me to agree with your idea of letting people talk through their own code. That category of conversations has usually been very rich and telling, much better than one over imaginary binary tree rotation algorithms or a "design a url shortener"-ish question. My favorite part is where a skillful candidate can lead the interviewer to interesting and real problems and solutions, demonstrate ability and both get to enjoy the conversation.

My conversation about owning a similar "utility" store with SO came to grinding halt at "We'll talk once you find someone who's actually done this".

Well, now I do! Thank you !

Would you please share some details; how you started, what it took time and money wise, what to avoid, what really matters.

It may seem silly to you but I really need this. I'm willing to communicate offline/in-person/chat/phone whatever works for you. You will not believe how hard it is to find someone who's done what you have.

The "just ask" approach is very tricky. It does not emphasize a critical element : Most people love to rant and complain about things that annoy or bother them. People rarely if ever get to ideas to solve problems or even to describing the underlying problem.

It would be awesome to have a reference list of examples to demonstrate how twisted headlines from major sources really are. Any come to mind?

TLDR; [ email + git(markdown + wiki) + google calendar ]

Tried and failed :

* emacs(org-mode)

* plain text files

* markdown files

* tiddlywiki/ mediawiki/bunch of other wikis

* google keep

* one note

* notational velocity

* anki

* evernote

What "works for me (TM)":

I use a separate email just for this. Every new thought, todo, bookmarks, quotes, images of doodles, event, information about people becomes a new email.

Updates are email replies on last email on that subject. Todos are right there in my inbox reminding me each time I open up my email (many times a day). Once/twice a month I go though my email history. Any email with enough content or insight to a "WIP" wiki page in my git repo.

Whenever I find time or feel like the need to research some concept that I left mid way, I go through my queue (my WIP page) of pending items.

If there’s enough content/files/code, it gets its own markdown file and/or directory. Common patterns, get linked via their respective wiki pages. Related topics are back linked and cross referenced.

This setup has worked well for me for almost a year now.

I do not worry about email / git becoming obsolete. Or how I would move my email/git data when I need to switch vendors. I can access it via any device I own or use someone else’s with just a browser. There are backups of my git repo in almost every laptop/desktop I have access to. There's no shortage of client applications for any of these to choose from. And above all... like I said, this system "works for me (TM)".

Something that was not obvious at the start but I do now, is to keep my wiki relatively small. Because the purpose of the wiki is to supplement and complement my brain and its finite resources. I try to keep the gist in mind and offload details and references to this non-degradable store for when I need it. I've deleted/merged more content than I have added. I routinely see stuff added to my queue and deleted because its a rehash of a concept camouflaged as something new. No other system I used did this for me.

I've posted this comment before [1] reposting as I still find it relevant.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007108

I actually learned something today about pathfinding by (re) reading that post for 15 mins. The papers linked make no sense to me. Maybe the paper authors need make abstracts and summaries more approachable.

Yes the notion of swappable battery comes from small form factors like phones and toys.

For cars, the way to go is wider charger network and scaling the battery capacity (horizontally or vertically).

Well there are ways to make a battery trade work but in this case Yes I agree, A wider network of L1/L2 chargers seems economically profitable over time and realistic.

But unless a reliable charger is at walking distance from my apartment, no electric car is going to work out for me.