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saiprashanth93on America’s social-media addiction is getting worse

While others find it as a reasonable middle ground between banning things outright(which never works anyway) and letting everyone do whatever they want even if it harms others.

You are living in a society after all.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Is there any way an app can listen conversations secretly and show ads?

What is your source for google listening to your microphone all the time on Android?

saiprashanth93on 2018 MacBook Pro Review

which laptop is this?

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?

If you go jogging every day and follow that up with 30 minutes at the riverside thinking -nothing- your cortisol can drop dramatically in 2 weeks.

Can you provide the source for this? I would like to read up.

Any other sources of knowledge to learn about neurosciences you would like to recommend would also be helpful.

saiprashanth93on A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire

The people who are going to say "well if he had dropped out he might've been bill gates, instead of just running an RND department at IBM" are not going to change their mind if you had shown them data.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: What is the skillset required to be employable as jr dev?

Lets go through this one by one:

In addition you have to be able to program in Python, Java, JavaScript, C.

This is objectively false. To expect a junior developer to know all these is unrealistic, plain and simple. If you have working knowledge of one or two programming languages and have an appetite to learn you are good to go.

You also have to understand data structures like linked lists, queues, b-trees..., and to top it all of understand algorithm analysis to judge the efficiency of the code you write or look at.

For 99% of the work out there, this is also not true. This is the horse crap that is fed to everyone so that folks can ask questions that have little to no relation to day to day development. If you are doing web development, then some knowledge of database query optimization will come in handy. But I don't remember the last time I had to figure out how a linked list worked whenever I was doing any server side or front-end optimization.

saiprashanth93on How I got to 200 productive hours a month

I was also curious about this. Don't have enough data on how this works in real life. What is to say that you won't spend more time on entertainment now that you have a separate device for it?

saiprashanth93on Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language

Learning Vim using vimtutor is one thing for people coming from editors like Sublime/Atom, but setting up vim so that autocomplete/File Tree/FileSearch work like expected is a whole different ball game.

saiprashanth93on A New Way to Learn Economics

Is the core-econ website loading for anyone?

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: How do you pay your remote workers located in various countries?

>There is a market rate for work and that rate isn't limited by geographic location. It's your ability to sell which will get you that rate.

But for most programming jobs, developers are interchangeable and a big part of hiring a developer(remote or not) in developing countries is that you can pay a fraction of the salary you would be pay if you were hiring a dev in US/Europe. Hence this in essence is one of the major selling points.

What are the specific things would you say one can do to sell themselves at that rate keeping in mind the above mentioned point?

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: How do you pay your remote workers located in various countries?

That is quite generous of your company to pay 5000 usd per month to devs in the Philippines. If you don't mind, can you let me know what company you work for? Since there is no contact info in your pofile, If you don't want to put it here, my email is in my profile. Thanks.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Other communities like HN?

I would like an invite, if you have any. Thank you!

saiprashanth93on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]

I think the point being made is life will be just as depressing in Mars if we are running behind things in Mars like we do here.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: If you were paid to learn, 8 hours a day, what would be your routine?

The key here is if you feel good and confident about yourself. I wonder how well these kinds of schedules work for people who are not.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?

Meditation is supposed to do this to you. Remove negative thought patterns.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

Do you sponsor Visas?

saiprashanth93on Tesla and Solar City Combine

It won't be nepotism if the decision makes business sense I guess.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Pokemon GO: Do I own the virtual space of the physical space I own?

This is the kind of meta comment that really gets you thinking.

saiprashanth93on It’s cheaper to build multiple native applications than one responsive web app

Exactly this. I guess for people who have built their careers building mobile apps they couldn't care less about more rounded skills(in relation to web at least), its mostly full stack/back-end devs who know JS seem to state this. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

saiprashanth93on Ask HN: Am I expecting too much?

Peter Thiel has this funny law that states "A startup fucked at its foundation cannot be fixed". I think we can generalise that and say that a company fixed its foundation also cannot be fixed. Your post is the hallmark of a toxic work environment and no amount of work from you can fix that. Get out as soon as possible.

saiprashanth93on React Tutorial: Cloning Yelp

Are you trying to say that if you are building a simple web app you should be building a server-side rendered web app using Rails/Phoenix?

saiprashanth93on How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn Yahoo Around

The point that is trying to be made by chasing I think is that Yahoo had a better chance then your average "any" company would have to make a turn around possible.

saiprashanth93on How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn Yahoo Around

Sick parade of misfit properties should become a part of the tech folklore to describe situations like this more clearly.

saiprashanth93on Rails has won: The Elephant in the Room

It's great that you learned Python and Django instead of Rails, but it seems pretty uncalled for to call Ruby useless outside of Rails.

Programming languages take off because they show off their power by implementing a great library or by doing a better way of doing things which is what Ruby did using Rails.

The impact of Rails on frameworks/libraries in other languages is also significant since a lot of Ruby developers moved to JS/Elixir/Go and started contributing and implementing the best patterns found in Rails/Sinatra etc.

saiprashanth93on “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on sexism

Whatever you say about her, the sexism she has faced in certain situations cannot be denied.

Giving a t-shirt with your name on it to a dude friend of yours is not the same as giving a t-shirt with your name on it to the intern who has joined the company.

The first comes off as a joke, the second is just downright creepy and is the side effect of poor social skills.

saiprashanth93on Composing Programs – Python 3 in the tradition of SICP

Can you give an example of what you exactly mean by principles?

saiprashanth93on Canada’s tech startup sector wants easier access to hire top foreign talent

Same here, looking to move to Canada in the near future. Any info on how long the whole process takes and the other relevant info for web devs would be helpful.

saiprashanth93on Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense

I think the above comment should be taken in the context of doing it for the sake of learning, not for putting it to use in actual projects.

saiprashanth93on AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep

Hey, on clicking on the link it takes to the home page and nothing happens, am I missing something here?

saiprashanth93on Facebook is closing Parse

Is it an open source release of the core Parse product? I am genuinely curious, hence the question.Correct me if I am wrong, but this means that most of their product is the Parse server and whatever migration tools they used to store data for users.