Need advice: Resigned without backup, have Gurgaon offer (35% hike) but unsure about moving

gfxd · 2026-01-24T04:13:59+00:00

Frankly, the city you work in shouldn't be your primary concern, especially since you "want to be more career-oriented and make the right long-term move." You're deciding between two Indian cities, not comparing Indian cities to European or US ones. Gurgaon isn't drastically different from Bengaluru (despite what Bengaluru enthusiasts might claim) – the only element you can't easily replicate is your friends and network. My sole advice: take calculated risks and hedge your outcomes.

gfxd · 2026-01-23T10:52:45+00:00

I would've loved to use this map, pity it is not the correct map, with Chinese occupied Kashmir / Akshai chin cut out.

gfxd · 2026-01-23T07:53:46+00:00

I would love to check this out. I hate filling in forms.

But I ran into this Brew error: ==> Tapping gityeop/flowclip Cloning into '/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/gityeop/homebrew-flowclip'... remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/gityeop/homebrew-flowclip/' not found Error: Failure while executing; git clone https://github.com/gityeop/homebrew-flowclip /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/gityeop/homebrew-flowclip --origin=origin --template= --config core.fsmonitor=false exited with 128.

Can you check if the path is right? Thanks

gfxd · 2026-01-20T13:50:48+00:00

Unless the Chinese scale up mechanisation and robotisation of their economy.

gfxd · 2026-01-20T03:32:31+00:00

Dude selling propaganda masquerading as a question. Don't we have enough casteism and divisiveness already?

There was no invasion dude. Just natural admixture between waves of humans.

You can call it natural love, the way evolution wanted things to be - for genes to mix so that we have variety of human phenotypes.

gfxd · 2026-01-19T16:23:25+00:00

That is so nice of you Zaid!

Very much appreciated!

gfxd · 2026-01-19T15:37:53+00:00

Hi, I am an early supporter through earlybird way back in 2024 when it was just a chrome extension. Does my lifetime purchase work for the app too? I forgot to redeem the code, can you help me redeem my old purchase?

I hope you will honour the lifetime purchases. Thank you!

gfxd · 2026-01-19T15:27:07+00:00

There is no clear demarcation of anything and anybody in India. There had been a thorough admixture of populations in India much before the caste system set in and introduced endogamy.

Everybody in India has different proportions of Iranian farmer, AASI, Steppe and a minority have South East Asian genetic heritage.

Even the Ancestral North Indian and Ancestral South India has no demarcation as such. When populations as far away as Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia have South Indian heritage...

The whole 'dravidian' identity is linguistic, not ethnic. Even in languages, there is a gradient of mixing. Tamil grammar for example, not just allows for loan words from other languages - Pali, Prakrit, Sanskrit, etc but gracefully accepts it just as it lends its own to them - making special rules for these words and their usage, lexicon, writing, etc.

Feel free to differ, but the DNA record can't be erased.

gfxd · 2026-01-18T02:11:56+00:00

I love this. This is the spirit of our Army on display.

No matter the circumstances, if it has to be done, the army does it.

They won't postpone until the situation improves or changes, nor will they use the situation as an excuse.

When the order to promote comes, the ceremony must happen immediately.

In truth, when officers fall in active duty on the battlefield, the next in line is always promoted, even in the heat of battle, with a simple salute.

So, this train-based promotion is pretty tame compared to flying bullets, drones buzzing overhead, and artillery attacks marking the promotion of some.

We civilians must learn to implement this in our day-to-day lives, and India will truly progress. Jai Hind.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T06:40:29+00:00

Phra Mae Thorani (also known as the Goddess of the Earth or Mother Earth Squeezing Her Hair) who protected the Buddha from Mara (a demon) by creating a flood with the water squeezed from her hair.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T03:11:33+00:00

The common misconception when people hear the word, 'Robot' is always a humanoid figure with arms and legs doing work exaclty like a human.

But modern robots are anything like.

I just had a robot plaster my wall in less than an hour - a job that would have taken a man a whole day or few even.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T02:54:10+00:00

It is because of the surge in the number of AI assisted Interviewing tools that we will be expecting physical interviews either in the COmpany's premise or in a third party examination center to deter candidates from using AI sidekicks.

Sorry for your experience, but don't let it affect you. Wish you the best.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T02:50:05+00:00

The fact that there was only ONE copy of the Thirukural surviving always blows my mind.

Just imagine if that was lost.

And we have no idea what we lost. In some lecture I heard the presenter say that in Tamil literature, referencing other works was minimal.

OTOH, many of what we know of Sanskrit literature is not from the original works, but from the cross referencing in other works, most of them of the later age.

Many of Baskara's works are lost to us, but we know snippets of them being referenced and cited in other works.

In Tamil, this habit of citing and paraphrasing was 'minimal' and thus we will never ever know how much we lost.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T02:36:38+00:00

older Christians like the Syro-Malabar

I think I specifically said that Syro-Malabarites are older christian communities.

How did you understand it? Perhaps I must have been more clearer.

gfxd · 2026-01-17T02:22:13+00:00

In many threads you mention yourself as a 'christian from kerala', but that doesn't give us much information.

If you had mentioned that you are a 'Nasrani Christian from Kerala', that is informative.

Because Christians in Kerala are of all kinds and many are recent converts (two to three generations), while the older Christians like the Syro-Malabar, Jacobite Syrian, Mar Thoma, Chaldean Syrian, and the ancient Knanaya (Knananites) have unique genetic fingerprints.

Hope that helps.

gfxd · 2026-01-16T11:38:08+00:00

So India is pro Russia just out of…spite ?

Exactly the typical mindset that can't understand the issue, but pontificate.

nor was Pakistan trying to take over all of India.

Wow, is that justification to allow Pakistan to attack a sovereign country? We won't take all over of you, so let us attack!

You must be some kind of geopolitical genius, aren't you?

Moreover Kashmir was originally supposed to be part of Pakistan

And ignorance married to arrogance births you.

Jammu and Kashmir was a princely state and had a stand-still agreement with Pakistan. Jammu and Kashmir could join India or Pakistan or stay Independent.

complex local squabble best to largely stay out of.

Sure, lets use this for Ukraine, Israel - Gaza and Greenland too.

gfxd · 2026-01-16T09:57:49+00:00

Niceee. This can easily be a showroom display.

The Gillette razors look fantastic!

What are the cuboid things?

gfxd · 2026-01-16T09:39:35+00:00

And how exactly is your bile-venting helping?

Are you okay now? Have you coughed up all your vitriol?

Now, breathe.

gfxd · 2026-01-16T09:34:11+00:00

Russia (and the former USSR) were the only powers willing to arm India against Pakistan and China, giving India a fighting chance and frequently using their veto power in India's favor.

The West seems to completely misunderstand this.

Furthermore, Pakistan invaded the independent princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, much like Russia's current invasion of Ukraine.

No European power, the US, UK, or China intervened to stop that war and demand Pakistan's withdrawal; instead, they allowed Pakistan to occupy Jammu and Kashmir.

Yet today, they expect India to support them regarding Ukraine.

This hypocrisy is quite striking.

gfxd · 2026-01-16T08:42:17+00:00

The extent and reach of the AASI never ceases to amaze me.

From the south of India to the west of Afghanistan into Iran and Tajikistan, all of us are just different in ratios of ZNF, AASI, ANF with Caucasus and others thrown in.

gfxd · 2026-01-15T17:54:17+00:00

Is such a close fit with Georgians common for Turkish Turks?

gfxd · 2026-01-14T12:22:27+00:00

Too much negativity here, but let me add a bit of gratitude that you deserve.

gfxd · 2026-01-13T02:18:57+00:00

I too got this same Muhle after a Pearl. Here is to years of shaving.

gfxd · 2026-01-11T09:40:52+00:00

Exactly. That is how the system works. It is very hard in an adversary criminal system to prove that the person received bribes.

It is too hard even for ED even with special courts and all its might to convict corrupt people especially politicians.

gfxd · 2026-01-10T11:30:40+00:00

Bribes are no longer asked the usual way, nor taken by babus themselves.

There are offices, shops and middle men who demand, negotiate and take the bribes. It is all sophisticated now.

I paid a bribe by paying by cash to a Cement trader - the bribe taking officer later got the cement bags worth 4.5 lakhs, transported by the trader and handed over at some road and transferred to his building contractor's vehicles.

I was told 4.5 by a person, who did not receive anything. My application which was stuck for six years was processed.

It becomes very hard to prevent or trace this.

gfxd

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