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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Would be fun to see if the list is censored on Google docs.
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Sometime down the road legacy applications become expensive to manage, but rewrites almost always deliver zero value to the customer. It’s about balancing development efforts. Well said. What is the guarantee that the rewrite w
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   I suspect that AliExpress helps sellers manipulate ratings, else the sellers wouldn't turn a deaf ear to any queries. Moreover, I'm not even sure how does the rating system on AliExpress work. I wasn't even given an option t
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Discovering aliexpress was pretty awesome I'm sure that you got lucky. My first experience with them was terrible. I ordered a phone (it was a dual-SIM android device) which wouldn't work for either voice calls or text
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   GolangVids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz7KItbg3owOqMpB5IjI7sA
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Q: What is 2+2? Me: 4 Recruiter: Wrong. 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2.
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Did Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Etsy, Baidu, Box, and more recently Slack all succeed in spite of using PHP? Would they all have been better off expressing their application in Ruby? Erlang? Haskell? WhatsApp uses Erlang [
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   Very often the interview is a mechanism to complete a pre-defined checklist. Not only does it lead to false positives but, for the worse, false negatives. There are platforms that claim to filter candidates, but it's tough to vouch
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   by 0xmohit 10y ago

   I was referring mainly to compilers and system libraries; stuff like gcc, glibc, ...
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    All considered, I'm happy with 16.04 and I'm staying here at least until 18.04. Having moved from 14.04 to 15.x, I cannot agree more. However, many packages aren't updated in the LTS releases which prompt one to mo
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    You need not use Unity. Things are much better with Openbox; the usual problems of compiz and friends eating all the available RAM pretty much goes away.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Yes, it would be interesting to get some insight into the tech stack.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    This seems interesting. Code for building ConceptNet5 [0]. [0] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5
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    Open Product Data: a public database of product data(product.okfn.org)

    64 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|6 comments
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Is it possible to lookup all the attributes for a given value, say Trump?
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    Next generation programming platform, currently in development(unisonweb.org)

    1 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|0 comments
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12691230
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    Not being a Twitter user myself, it's hard to comment on how it is. However, a number of their open source projects [0] are really really good. [0] https://github.com/twitter/
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    So you keep your cameras devoid of the updates that the manufacturer might release? You also restrict your cameras from talking to other fellow cameras.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    I buy a gun. Lend [0] it to friend. Friend goes on a killer spree. Can I claim zero responsibility? No. [0] The friend didn't steal the gun.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    This is hilarious: My preferred solution would be for a fellow developer to get it back on the App Store, as a free app. Especially because: Open sourcing doesn’t look like a good solution at this time, as most of my users ar
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    The brighter side is that FB could now be a trustworthy source of information about corporates. Some of that information might also be useful for making informed decisions on whether to buy/sell a given security. Oh actually, the pos
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    ... so we don't lock you into a long-term contract We simply change the service terms that enable us to share your personal information with WhatsApp or anybody else that we deem appropriate!
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    One might have sudo privileges configured via /etc/sudoers (It's the default on AWS EC2 instances!)
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    then you watch the code, create a branch: git checkout -b `bugfix/nasty_one` Please remove backticks from the command. What if you called the branch `poweroff` instead and a naive reader copy/pasted the command into her
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    The submissions [0] appear to be scripted. Most of those appear to be from selected few domains. Your domain seems to have been added recently [1]. Congratulations! So whether you choose to blog about tarsnap or anything else, chances are
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    One may also do: add(x, foo(x)) Which is why anyone who has experience programming in C would use (an inline) function instead.
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    One day I'll have to work with people who learned from this (and others like it), and it will be a long painful road to help them unlearn. Quoting from the link you've mentioned: #define add(a, b) a + b I couldn
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    by 0xmohit 10y ago

    I've also seen a similar tool that claims to do a partial evaluation of candidate's code. Guess what does it do! Assume that the expected answer was 42 and your code emitted 4 it'd give you 50% marks for the