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Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to more new learnings on HN as before!
Posted by
parvatzar on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:12AM
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I am a software developer just like many users of the wonderful HN community and an ardent HN user myself for around 7 years . It has inspired me to pursue software Dev/Tech as a career as well as a passion beyond the office. However , today I come to HN to seek your thoughts on a non-tech related topic. My mother was diagnosed with cancer a month and half back and after two surgeries has...
MIT Open Course Ware seems to be a good reference
I started running a especially early in the morning. All this was to prepare for a 10K (6.3 miles) run. The aim was to improve my time. I went from 56 mins to 50 mins and finally achieved a Personal best of 47 minutes in the event I trained for. I learnt a lot about discipline, running technique, nutrition and fitness tips. I am now preparing for a half marathon i.e 21K (13.1 miles) and aim to achieve a sub 2 hour finish. Planning to keep up the routine , train harder and hopefully get there.
Reading the conclusion of 'Decision against the operation'
> In the end, convinced that the political risks outweighed the possible benefits, he decided against the intervention.
I understand that it's convenient to question strategic decisions such as this in hindsight. However , it would be interesting to speculate what could have been the outcome of the wars i.e. First Indochina and Vietnam , had the operation been approved by the President, having turned the tide of the battle of Dien Bien Phu.
Today I ran a 10K (10 Kms) in 50 minutes. This was my second 10K, and saw a 6 mins improvement , since the last one , around a month back. 50 mins is still an average time , but an year back I thought was certainly impossible. This has inspired me to keep training , and get to a half marathon someday. Impossible now , but surely achievable in future.
I have no regrets as such on choosing this profession, since its been a passion since the very first time I saw a computer. The regret however, is doing this for over 6 years now and not having upgraded with a post graduate degree i.e either a MS or MBA. This gradually becomes a regret when I see my colleagues from engineering having moved on to higher or better positions financially.
Posted by
parvatzar on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:23PM
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Any game devs here who started off building standard business apps? If so, would you say you became a better dev or more passionate about the craft i.e. software dev? Things learned or unlearned. Looking to know of the contrast between these two dev fields that are in my opinion a world apart. What were your challenges during this switch and your learnings? Would you ever want to go back to...
Posted by
parvatzar on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @09:16AM
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This will be a long one so bear with me and read along. I have been at my current company for around 3.5 years. Its been a good experience. But I feel i am not challenging myself enough after 6 years as a dev. To be honest challenges and tech is not the only thing that drives me to believe this. As is the case salary is indeed a dominant variable in the whole equation. I am passionate about the...
Posted by
parvatzar on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:24PM
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Ambient noise generators like mynoise and noisli have been a great help in getting dev and documentation work done amidst noisy workplaces. What about you? Is there anyone out there who doesnt need noise cancellation headphones or ambient noise generators to get focus intensive work done?
Posted by
parvatzar on Sunday July 08, 2018 @11:51PM
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Going through job descriptions of a 'Software Dev Engineer' role; I often see "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I know this has probably been asked and discussed umpteen times before here. However , I am currently applying to companies , with 6 years experience as a .NET web developer , and cannot seem to understand the level of expertise expected when this is posted as a...
Posted by
parvatzar on Sunday July 08, 2018 @02:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Going through job descriptions of a 'Software Dev Engineer' role; I often see "Strong background in data structures and algorithms". I know this has probably been asked and discussed umpteen times before here. However , I am currently applying to companies , with 6 years experience as a .NET web developer , and cannot seem to understand the level of expertise expected when this is posted as a...
Its essential in my opinion , for junior web developers to familiarize themselves with the excellent resources and forums existing on the web easily searchable via few keystrokes on google. In addition to just visiting these websites just to search for solutions, they should also try and contribute , to understand that software development requires a highly collaborative environment to solve some of the most complex problems out there. This applies to both online and offline, where crowd sourcing a problem enables us to look at it from different perspectives and get to the most optimal solutions. These skills , they need to start teaching in colleges.
Thanks for the advice!I did the same and with two minds together got this done
Appreciate your advice! I called off the demo,finally built that feature after a long week and weekend, and have scheduled to demo this week.
Appreciate if you can share your experience at the interview. Good Luck!
Posted by
parvatzar on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:31PM
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I am facing something that every developer does on a number of occassions in their careers i.e. a challenging and an insurmountable problem to solve , build and deliver a complex feature with near infinite user scenarios and edge cases. This is not the very first time in my 5 years plus career that I am facing this situation. However , this time and probably the very first time I feel paralyzed...
Posted by
parvatzar on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:50PM
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I am facing something that every developer does on a number of occassions in their careers i.e. a challenging and an insurmountable problem to solve , build and deliver a complex feature with near infinite user scenarios and edge cases. This is not the very first time in my 5 years plus career that I am facing this situation. However , this time and probably the very first time I feel paralyzed...
Posted by
parvatzar on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:56AM
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As a developer I've always despised having to spend countless hours manually drafting , formatting and getting requirements & design documents reviewed. In spite of the obvious value of maintaining a knowledge base of instructions and information for the future developers of the app, I have felt there is a way this can be improved. So all those hours of manual effort can be saved both for...
That's the spirit ...Good Luck!
I was thinking the exact same thing a few days back when I got my package delivered. With the volume of packages that get unpacked each day around the world, it is bewildering to think about the amount of waste bubble wrap and cardboard boxes that we throw away.
Learn new tech stacks , and get into Big data & ML. TO not be a generalist dev anymore, and get into either Amazon or Microsoft. May be find the right girl and get married. Lesser Netflix , more reading books and writing (blogs/Medium).Not to laze around on weekends and invest that time into building new skills and advance my career. As always lots of stuff to do and hope I can achieve the maximum possible till Jan 1 2019. Happy New Year HN !
Posted by
parvatzar on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:37AM
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Its offline for me and I suppose globally
Posted by
parvatzar on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:08PM
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I used to sleep usually on average 7 hrs when i worked the regular 10 am to 6pm shift. However , working 1 pm to 11 pm shift nowdays and tend to turn in much late than before however wake up earlier than 7 hrs to study for an exam that i am preparing for alongside. I I have observed my productivity in view of this routine to be at peak later in the day rather night when lesser to no distractions or people in office. However am trying to balance out my routine to get the magic number 7 hrs of sleep.
Have spread the word amongst ones i know. Good Luck to your friend with the study!
There is quite a popular magazine called 'Digit' here in India , which I have been following since around 2004 and it kind of made me the geek I am today and even choose the profession of software dev.
Posted by
parvatzar on Sunday September 03, 2017 @12:33AM
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In todays world of a plethora of note taking apps syncing with the cloud and available across multiple devices, we have all long moved away from having just a journal and a pen to organise our life. Do any of you maintain journals and take some moments to disconnect? Do you feel productive using a journal and what kind of stuff do you put in there? Seeking inpiration to journalling my daily...