parvatzar

Wishing Everyone a very Happy New Year 2024. Looking forward to more new learnings on HN as before!

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.

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.