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For the longest time now, I have been thinking about this fact: Mine, and the entire Humanity's survival depends upon a mere handful of men. I sometimes think about how a madman could launch a nu…

That making friends bit is proving to be a bit difficult for me at the moment.

There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another me…

Bugs are a part of life and I think it's safe to say that we don't intentionally put Bugs on our code. Therefore, while your guilt is justified, I don't think you should let yourself be…

Really? I've always pronounced it car ( kar ) because it's short for character which is pronounced karakter in the first place.

Can you even get that without a prescription?

I'd like to expand on that large bit. I really used to have elevated heart rates / anxiety while sleeping. I used to get up with a startle and be unable to sleep afterwards. What I found wor…

I think this highlights the necessity of patience and compassion in everyday interactions. Sure I might be more experienced than my junior devs and sure, often times I have access to the broader pictu…

Oh this brings a lot of memories. I remember writing a DSL for visualization of logs that we collected when we were working in a hyper local geographical search engine. I was fresh out of college and …

I mean, the entire premise of Squid Games is just this.

I think that the point I'm trying to make is a bit different. If you do make a movie that's not a documentary and follows the traditional recipe of good vs evil, then there must be some evil…

At the very end of this sentiment is the fact that all movies depicting invasion should only be made if it's Alien invasion. In that way, no one's sentiment would be hurt and no one would be…

No. If the code they write works for them, then they have done their job. People only realized that it was a bad practice once they found that the code was NOT doing their job (i.e. it was difficult t…

A general advice that I have found useful in life is that if you see something that requires a change (in organization, business process, lifestyle or just about anything that has humans as a componen…

I think that you shouldn't call other profession lazy/ignorant in general. People only tend to maximize their profits and minimize efforts, and this is natural. This, in no way, means that f…

> Imagine you have bought two non-refundable tickets to different trips, one much more costly. You are then told that you must cancel one of them. In this case, many people will cancel the cheaper …

Interesting. I'm curious as to what you use instead of "whitelist" and "greylist"?

Happy New Year everyone!

Reminds me of the House MD episode where the guy takes drugs to make himself "stupid" enough to live with his wife.

> "There's no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They'll certainly be better off. Also no human will then su…

You have written such a thoughtful reply that it honestly makes me sad. Why can't something so basic, that each of us feel within us does not occur to or resonate with hundreds of qualified (I im…

Is there any comprehensive article that covers what log4j is and just what happened that is so critical that seems to have set the entire world on fire? Disclaimer: I have never heard of or used log4j…

I wouldn't be surprised if COBOL were still around by that time. Lots of tech came and went but FORTRAN and COBOL were stubborn enough to survive!

Years ago I had an idea. A game of magic battles. The witches and wizards would search the vicinity (very much like Pokemon go) to find other witches and wizards, challenge them to a duel and fight it…

I think all these negative responses come from those who can afford a private school for their kids.

I know that it would be a pretty biased response but do Corporates not make large decisions only when they think that it'll make them more money? Removing dislike metrics sounds like a supremely …

Your disrespect for other jobs (than tech) is appalling to me. Have you ever stopped and considered that if everyone started doing tech, there'd be no one making food, clothes, laptops, buildings…

Maybe someone somewhere will come up with a NLP based solution which will cluster people with similar ideas (by means of their blogs) so that you may find people who share your interests within the …

I have always wondered about this question i.e. is it always necessary to model our systems "exactly" on the natural physiology? Case in point, men, inspired from the flights of the bird in …

> "Never again will a terrorist be able to breach the cockpit simply with a box cutter or a knife. The cockpit doors have been reinforced, and passengers, flight crews and air marshals would i…