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Great idea and execution, kudos.Are there any similar resources for Node.js or C ?

Chinese companies are bad, but are American companies any better ? They have done the same with many traditional indian ayurvedic recipes. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/sep/08/wto.fair...

Great idea. Is there any way to pull in kindle data?

Currently I read all my books and articles in kindle. I think I'll use polarized to read and organize the articles I read and use kindle to read the novels.

If I could see the total usage statistics in polarized that would be awesome.

I once got caught up in one of these . I was young , poor and had failed in my engineering exams. I had no coding skills, but was hoping some company would pick me up based on my math skills and train me (that is what most MNCs in india like Infosys do). I was attending different tech job fairs, but would get screened out at the beginning itself because of my lack of degree. But then one company was fine with it and interviewded me but only after the HR round was over did they say that they were a BPO . They claimed to have tie up with a big MNC in india , and so off I went to join.

On my first day, I was given a script to learn and placed near a senior guy to listen in on his phone call to learn from him. The scam was simple, they had a website similar in name to yellowpages.com but not the real thing. They would call up small businesses (mom and pop stores) in the US and tell them their yellowpages listing was chargeable from that year, and if they don't pay 500$ , it would be removed. If someone other than the owner was attending the phone and said they don't want it , they would use scare tactics like ,"this would get your listing removed.Are you authorized to do that ?" etc. The main targets were old people and less technologically savvy ones I guess. Once someone agreed , the call was routed to another team some place else.

Long story short, I didn't go back after the first day- but my friend chose to stay back. Many of them who attended the interview did . I don't have contact with any of them , but now I wonder how many of them turned to bigger scams. None of them had joined there thinking they would be scamming people. At no point in the interview process did the company appear to be scam artists.

If anyone is wondering what I did after that, I borrowed some money, checked out the cheapest training course available near by - it turned out to be php (around 120$) and I landed a web dev role in 4 months.

Off topic - I keep hearing that WTC (Walton) is a scam . How confident are u about it ?

Thank you, I stand corrected.

Is GTD a software or philosophy? Could you please provide a link ? I could only find the link to a book .

Navy blue jeans paired with a t-shirt or shirt. A pullover if it's cold.

I prefer sandals but strangely my office has a shoe only policy.So I wear my good ol' puma running shoes.

What about whatsapp ? Didn't they outsource their product development to Russia?

My preferred mode is book, especially for hard concepts.

I uusually view videos at 1.0x . I find them hard to learn from as my mind keeps wandering. I tried with 2.0x , it still didn't work for me.

I have seen the crowd at indira canteens and they are not the clientele of the near by eateries.I think this is a much better way than food coupons to be used at private restaurants , which is ripe for correction in a country like india.

Doesn't the OPEC trade only in dollar ?

One year back, I started having back pain. I could not sit for more than 45 minutes. I had tripped over the steps some months back and I was thinking it must be because of that.I went to a Dr and took an x-ray. The diagnosis was that it had nothing to do with the fall , an everything to do with my long working hours. The doctor also advised strengthening my core . He referred me to a physiotherapist , and after 1 month of regular therapy I could now sit for around 3 hours before light pain would start.

I felt ready to start exercising and zeroed in on yoga. I started practicing with a group of people , led by an instructor. It was very intensive (hatha yoga) and most exercises involved stretching your arms and touching your feet.Other exercises like the bow pose, crow pose and head stand was also there. Sometimes, while I was sitting and touching my foot, the instructor would use his body weight to push my spine down from behind so that my stomach touched my knees. This may be the reason , but am not sure. So, after 3 months of this , I felt better and fitter than ever before and joined another yoga studio near to my home. Here, the poses were not as tough as the other place, but was done considerably faster. 1 month after joining there, I am bending down to touch my knees , and lightning strikes.I couldn't walk and was bedridden for a week. The time must have been around 7 pm. I went after work and did some warm ups as usual.

Coming to the reasons, I can think two things : the instructor exerting his force on my spine and the faster pace of the exercising. This is onle conjecture though.

Right now ,after some months of physical therapy and no other exercise, I have no pain while sitting.

I certainly plan to go back to my yoga practice. However , before I do I need to get some expert advice and some tests done.

I hope this answered all your questions!

Edit:just to be clear, the two reasons I stated are in addition to the main point I made, that some yoga poses are not safe for everyone.

I fully agree with you. I had never felt as good as I had while I was doing yoga.

The problem is , most yoga practitioners (atleast the ones I consulted in india) consider it like some sort of magical cure for everything. I was asked to do surya namaskar , despite them knowing I had back pain . I went to one of the most reputed centres here, and all I got from them were pseudo science mumbo jumbo.

I have got much more valuable info from this HN thread. Thank you for sharing for you experience. Your story has given me hope , I feel motivated to learn more about backpain and find a solution tailored for me.

I also feel this sort of information (personal stories of knowledgeable people) should be more easily accessible for people.A non profit , trust worthy website like Wikipedia, or even a github wiki.

Sharing my experience with back pain in the hope that it might benefit some one.

I am a programmer and I used to work 11 hour days frequently. After some years I started experiencing excruciating lower back pain. The pain would flare up if sit for more than 30 minutes. I went for physiotherapy and the pain lessened. The therapist told me I had no core strength and I started taking yoga lessons.

Yoga felt good and I continued for 3 months, when things got worse. I consulted a specialist and he advised against yoga and all sorts of exercise.

I haven't done any exercise in the past 6 months . And I have no pain in my back if I sit for 8 hours. Sit longer, and mild pain appears.

The point I want to stress is when doing exercise and yoga, I felt good and pain lessened, but the mild pain was there at all times when I was sitting. Now with no exercise , I can sit pain free for 8 hours easily.Consequently ,I am much more productive at work , but the lack of exercise makes me sometimes feel dull and unhealthy :( .

> I also changed how I work: no sitting, ever. Laying or standing

If you don't mind, could please tell me how do you lie down and work ?

Since I started suffering from back pain , I was thinking if something like this was possible. I was also afraid it would fuck up my eyes, have you had any problems of that sort ?

Yoga is not recommended for people with lower back pain. When I started having back pain, somebody suggested to me yoga. Everything went great for three months, the pain was still there but lesser , and I felt good and fit. Then one day, while doing surya namaskar, I felt a pain ripping through my spine and fell down, unable to move. I consulted an M.D , and he immediately asked me if I had been doing surya namaskar.

Tldr; yoga is great , but not for all.

I wouldn't be too surprised if this is true. The USA wants to ensure that all energy deals are done using their "petro" dollar.Assad could have/is threatened to trade using euro , much like Saddam did(Iraq made a windfall from that decision when euro went up) before the Iraq war.Many people say that was one of the motivations behind the Iraq war.

These uprisings "keep" happening because the Saudis and the usa provide funds to these rebel groups to oust the Shiite (alawite) regime. In Bahrain, a Sunni minority government is ruling the state.

"The US was monitoring Ugandan weapons shipments to the RPF in 1992, but instead of punishing Museveni, western donors including the US doubled aid to his government and allowed his defence spending to balloon to 48% of Uganda’s budget, compared with 13% for education and 5% for health, even as Aids was ravaging the country. In 1991, Uganda purchased 10 times more US weapons than in the preceding 40 years combined."

It's wrong on so many levels, but I want to concentrate on this.

So basically the us government gave away the tax payers money to murderers, which they used to buy weapons from U.S defense companies. How many more deaths will the greed of the companies cause.

Call histories are also up for sale, apparently. In a sensitive country like India, this sort of information loss can lead to a lot of personal pain . http://i.imgur.com/DOP0Tgf.jpg