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I came across David Beazley's https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html. Are there more courses like this out there, especially any online ones?

>>>I used to snore like crazy, probably had sleep apnea but was too afraid to go get tested since my grandmother died from becoming dependent on the machine and her lungs failed I …

"This feels like a particular awful thing to ask someone to do, but I believe if everyone truly were able to imagine the sudden death of the folks they love, it would change how th…

I wouldn't say it changed my life. But "Deep Work" resonated very deeply with me.

An anecdote and a poll. I grew up in India in middle class family where education was considered important. A recurring nightmare (autual dream I see during sleep) I see even in my…

I decided to comment after seeing a number of negative comments here. I went through the process a it was a positive experience for me. I ended up interviewing at 5-6 places and di…

To clarify parent's point further, Hindi is not even "the" official language, it is just one out of 22 official languages.

Have you ruled out sleep apnea?

It was a known bug in the some go library. It was recently fixed. But at the time it caused concourse to stop working until restarted.

I evaluated concourse CI and I was impressed by the concept. Pros - Setup was really easy.(I didn't use bosh). - Both server and build pipeline configuration (Yaml file) are easy t…

I worked on OpenVMS at the start of my career. I heard that the customer didn't want to port away from OpenVMS and this prevented HP from killing it off. One famous story in VMS fo…

As an Indian who has lived in 7 apartment/homes in the US, I have yet to see a place which good ventilation in the kitchen. Usually the fan (if any) in the kitchen just circulates …

"(I refuse to get an HMO for moral reasons)" Can you elaborate on this?

>>>>I'm probably gonna kill myself soon If you are having such thoughts, please seek help. National Suicide prevention hotline Call 1-800-273-8255

There was a amnesty window open a few months back. I recall seeing an ad for a no questions asked amnesty with 50% and so tax rate.

Yes. This is going to affect tax evaders on a lower spectrum of wealth. Those who aren't wealthy enough to have offshore accounts. Even that is a step forward.

500 and 1000 Ruppee note cease to be legal tender as of today midnight. Everyone who has them can get it exchanged for 100 ruppee notes in banks,post offices etc until Dec 31. You …

How much of a $$$ is trinet? We had it in a earlier startup (20 - 30 ppl) and we got a significantly better health plan

You said "prepare for interview". I was doing it a few months back and I didn't enjoy it. One reason was I was thinking in the back of my mind about all the interesting (for me) th…

1)I get up early in the morning on weekends (relatively early like 7). I have sleep at a sane time on the night before to do this, instead of staying up and watching netflix till 3…

They can, but it is significantly complicated and expensive than for a non H1B

I can see the pictures on the webpage. But if I click on them ,I get a adult content page in flickr.

I used this and found it to satisfactory, assuming you use a monitor and a keyboard. http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... If you arrange the cables right…