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Posted by
khrist on Sunday February 17, 2019 @01:17PM
from the self-post dept.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47264743I struggle to understand how this would make it to https://www.bbc.co.uk home page and the recent Pulwama suicide attack where 40 Indian soldiers were killed never managed to reach the frontpage. One could argue that Indian affairs are not that important for bbc uk audience but then why would the news about a failure of a recent train launch...
>> "you find yourself feeling guilty about not participating in the Slack chat at 2am." Thats me at times, though feeling more helpless than guilty
Sometimes it is non-urgent non-important communication about something which makes the poster excited, Sometimes its status of the work they were doing Mostly stuff which if required at all, could easily wait till business hours. I understand that they might not explicitly expect any responses. But the timing of the posts makes me nervy - ungodly hours - and esp coming from higher ups. Is all that innocuous?
Posted by
khrist on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.
When you have a culture originating from top about posting messages and emails late at night and on weekend how do you view this?
In my case I spend time working evenings and weekend but I take extra care to not push(commits) or post, email during non working hours. Now in my company there is growing culture of unabashedly posting non-urgent stuff middle of night which I find insensitive and...
I think this sums it up "Vyapam appears to be a vast societal swindle – one that reveals the hollowness at the heart of practically every Indian state institution: inadequate schools, a crushing shortage of meaningful jobs, a corrupt government, a cynical middle class happy to cheat the system to aid their own children, a compromised and inept police force and a judiciary incapable of enforcing its laws."
Posted by
khrist on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @05:51AM
from the msdn.microsoft.com dept.
is there any comment from amazon on this yet?
Posted by
khrist on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:07PM
from the qut.edu.au dept.
Posted by
khrist on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @02:06PM
from the techrepublic.com dept.
Posted by
khrist on Monday October 13, 2014 @07:50AM
from the mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk dept.
Posted by
khrist on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @05:56AM
from the cnet.com dept.
Posted by
khrist on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @05:46AM
from the mckinsey.com dept.
very nice, responsive. Great job. I was looking for such tool. Feature request, should allow copy paste :).
Posted by
khrist on Monday July 21, 2014 @11:03AM
from the self-post dept.
I am software developer with 9 years industry experience. I am subscribed to Communications of ACM from past 3 years which I found quite satisfying, but now I want more similar stuff what magazines would you vouch for. esp generic ones which summarize future and state of art in field of software periodically(not very frequently).
Posted by
khrist on Friday June 06, 2014 @12:35PM
from the news.stanford.edu dept.
I couldnt hang out anywhere, I wall polling HN with F5
interesting article, when I visit doctor I have similar feelings, same thing applies to law, finance and other specialized fields. But my energies permit me know only so much. So its essential we watch out for jargon abuse. Most of the times when someone is heavily using the technical bits, they are trying to hide their incompetence. If a person knows about something well and is explaining to a layman, they will do their best to explain it as plainly as possible. Gobbledegook signifies something festering underneath
Posted by
khrist on Saturday January 04, 2014 @03:37AM
from the heidelberg-laureate-forum.org dept.
I was inspired most by Ernest Shackleton's biography "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing. Finished it one night and remember moment of it. Now whenever I face a difficult circumstance in my life, I just try to remember some situations from that book and my problems look so insignificant.
I suggest taking a look at readings section of top statistics courses. one from mit ocw is
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to...edx, coursera, udacity also offer many targeted statistics courses, you can check what book they reccommend.
also Royal statistical society London reccomennds a reading list for its examinationsome of which are classics
I read Probablity & statistics by walpole and myers in my bachelors and it was also a wonderful book.
do a start up or find a more job more aligned with my goals