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Commune: A commune is a shared living group, a local government unit, or a deep mental connection.There is a park full of office blocks near Stratford that has appeared on the market. Ryon Hill is known to me as a couple of my friends were based there for work. You can read the full details...
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There is a constant reminder in questioning self-existence. The questioning becomes dictatorial when it comes from within. Our origin is no less of a miracle. Even more surprising is how we have survived this far. The constant urge to be something better, contributing something meaningful for...
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I keep reading about how AI has reshaped pricing. Now everything is shaped by output. I feel this has always been the case. We were paying for the outcome. Outcome-based pricing will make product usage more costly and more focused. A customer will know, bare-handed, what they need from the...
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We don’t take chances; we blame others for our failures. The small life we have is for doing something meaningful, not for playing the victim card. The ownership and responsibility of our lives depend on us. Most importantly, on our thoughts and actions. If you ask a successful businessman,...
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There is so much that can go wrong in life. Things can happen beyond our control: disease, accident, forgery, and the loss of loved ones. We need to see life in moments and live every second of it. Our desire to put things in the past is not fruitful. At the same time, living in fear of...
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We have forgotten to love ourselves. The desire to get wealthy and to become something is keeping us on a pedestal. The social pressure to act, react, and interact keeps us busy. We don’t have any time left for self, for idleness and for self-immersion. Every decade promises a new utopia....
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It requires a different sort of mental toughness to run an enterprise. The juggernaut of switching context is one; the uncertainty is another. It feels like sailing a rocket ship in uncharted territory. The only thing that keeps you going is the undaunted faith and confidence in your actions. ...
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We are carrying a mask: an artificial version of ourselves, pretending to act as others expect. We play roles in different settings: with peers, parents, and partners. In short, we have built a unique mental model of stimulus and response. Everyone appears to be doing great: on social media, in...
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People say hiring is a tough exercise. We’ve been lucky—we never really faced that problem. Maybe it’s because we’ve always been clear: we hire people who are genuinely willing to work with us and believe in our long-term vision at Taghash. It’s been 9 years, yet it still feels like day zero....
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love is: Inspiration Purity Nakedenss Honesty Vulnerablity Authenticity Cure Comfort Completeness Belief Truth Source Language Nucleous Everything happens if love is true without any expectations. Love is living now, in this moment, as a voyager...
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We live in a world where someone, long ago, set the rules. They defined what is good, bad, or ugly. What is considered a defect? If your profession is not part of a designated boundary, you do not exist. You are a defect. People called Van Gogh a defect. The same was true of what many thought...
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I recently watched the following speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger: It had a lot of good points, but one quote by Ted Turner really stood out for me: Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise Mr. Schwarzenegger then went on to explain the meaning of the second half of...
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Table of Contents Bad for Youtube Bad for the World Show me the Money People have Options I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a...
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Table of Contents Other Engineers Non-Engineers Business Managers End Users Conclusion My company hired a new VP of Engineering. He asked me an interesting question during our one-on-one: “What makes you a good engineer?”. I had to think about it for a second and I realized that it wasn’t...
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Few weeks ago I decided to take it easy on my Social Media use. Top 3 social media sites that I visited were Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. I miss Reddit the least. I still visit Twitter for direct mentions, but I don’t miss my general feed all that much. I really miss Facebook. Facebook is the...
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Recently I was working on a fun idea, that was going to take me longer than one week to complete. Towards the second week I found myself dreading going back to work on my “fun” project. I wasn’t sure why… Was I no longer excited about the idea? Was I just too tired? Was I getting sick? Was it...
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Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index is an attempt to estimates total energy cost of mining Bitcoin. Their methodology is based on the fact that energy needed to mine Bitcoin will increase in response to oversupply of mining resources. To quote the Bitcoin Wikipedia article: Every 2,016 blocks...
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I created a light weight RSS reader for people on poor internet connection to get latest headlines: https://alexkras.com/textnews/ I am kind of away form keyboard, but saw that Tweet from @samccone pointing out that http://lite.cnn.com/ was making users download a lot of JavaScript, … and now...
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It appears that Firefox has gone all-in with a new marketing campaign aiming at presenting Google Chrome as a big brother/browser that is watching your every step. They kicked it off with the following billboard posted somewhere in San Francisco. Firefox also appears to be a running ads...
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I was reading some articles on Hacker News about how we’ve lost the internet to big companies and how we are not doing anything about it and it got me thinking about Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) again. My story with AMP started in early 2016 when I enabled it on this site. It...
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Table of Contents Introduction Self Interest Market Share Diversification Smart Engineers Conclusion Introduction Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber. I did not think of Uber as a great place to work. People that I’ve met seemed young, smart and overworked to the point of...
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A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s recruiter reached out to me, so I figured to give it a shot. Up to this point I’ve never used Uber...
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I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s. When I was 16, my family immigrated to Israel. A year or so later, my mother won a Green-card. We moved to San Francisco in June of 2001, 2 months before 9/11. Six months after 9/11, I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, leaving for...
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I am by no means a professional writer, but I like to write. I feel like I have something meaningful to say and writing it down is my preferred means of expression. Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.Isaac Asimov Of course, as most writers, I hope that somebody would read...
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For a while now I had a theory that Software Engineers are more likely to have more boys than girls. I know it sounds like a stupid idea, but I had some strong anecdotal evidence to suggest that I might be onto something. Anecdotal Evidence Here is the list of past 3 companies where I worked...
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I am currently reading a book by a Russian author – Alexander Nikonov, titled “Upgrade of the Monkey”. I believe it’s only currently available in Russian. It reminds me a lot of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, except it’s much less politically correct. Author opens up with...