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Five ways to tackle burnouts and disappointments due to working from home for engineers

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Many IT Professionals are complaining about the burnout and inconveniences due to working from home these days. Ever since the lock down began in March, people who were initially enjoying working from home are now having second thoughts about it.

COVID-19 is a great teacher of compassion, cooperation and honesty to humanity

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Almost everyone in this world must be loathing and cursing Coronavirus right now but looking at it philosophically, we humans have a lot to learn from this pandemic. People already seem to know it internally and many are talking aloud that the post COVID-19 world will never be the same again.

Google is the best college and StackOverflow is the best professor

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So a guy on LinkedIn was reminiscing today about his wasted college days, how bad his professors were, college facilities were, etc. That's generally typical of a tier-3 Indian city.

Working From Home: How to declutter the chaos and start focusing on work

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Working from home is not only the new trend these days but literally the only way you can work as stringent lockdowns and social distancing have become the need of the hour in our combined fight against COVID-19.

Coronavirus beats common sense: The mystery of more viral spread of disease in western nations like Italy and France compared to developing nations like India and Bangladesh

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According to the latest statistics of the COVID-19 Outbreak Map , Italy has over 47,000 positive cases of Coronavirus disease and France has about 12,000. However, India has only 236 and Bangladesh has only 20! Mexico and South Africa have 164 and 202 respectively.

Dwindling ethics and lack of transparency are key reasons for crisis in Indian banking sector

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First PMC Bank scam occurred few months ago due to bad lending to HDIL and now Yes Bank has also been hit. RBI has placed a withdrawal limit of INR 50,000 for each depositor, so naturally, they are lining up outside the Yes Bank. These incidents clearly show that all is not well with the Indian financial sector and all the checks and balances aren't working as well as they should be.

One Richard Stallman isn't enough, we need lot more to save individual freedoms in computing

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We live in a world full of materialist and greedy capitalists who don't give a crap about individual liberties and freedoms. RMS is one rare individual who goes to such extremities like avoiding proprietary software entirely which is practically impossible for most of us individuals. Forget switching entirely to free software or even open source (FOSS), most of us aren't even prepared to adopt Linux, we are too addicted and accustomed to the comfort that Windows provides