AkshatM

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by AkshatM 7y ago
I think this comment assumes corporate greed and consumer hoodwinking from the outset, when instead the economics for this arise organically. You wish to buy an asset, but don't have the funds to do it. At that point, your only options
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I would imagine you don't get to keep lease payments, since my understanding is it's effectively treated as rent. So, yeah, you could still get kicked out and then never see a dime of the money you paid back. However, I'm not
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by AkshatM 7y ago
After reading more closely, it looks like it's not a full-fledged subscription model. Your "subscription" is your monthly rent, which goes from 1k to 10k per month. I don't understand if these "rents" are negot
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is not only not new, but is the standard model for how home loans work in Islamic finance. Since Islam forbids collecting interest, Sharia-compliant banks and lending institutions instead buy the asset (in this case, a house), and le
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I recently decided to tackle this exact problem, and ended up using Salt in masterless mode to do this. I have the most experience with Salt, and follow a few best practices to ensure my states are idempotent. Here's my local laptop co
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by AkshatM 7y ago
> It is no coincidence that the cities that actually provide the most support and resources for the homeless actually have the worst homeless problems. Reading this reminded me of the story of the emperor who, on learning that the most p
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I think the core difference of opinion here seems to stem from a different interpretation of "meaningless". You're arguing an academic definition of meaningful: can you design an AI that solves a hard problem? gambler (and I
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by AkshatM 8y ago
I'm a prospective H1B applicant also without a US master's degree, and I think, while this does hurt people in our situation, the argument that the H1B must preferentially select talented people is flawed. The O1 visa category (fo
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by AkshatM 8y ago
Mainstream consensus is that his 'proof' didn't do anything besides introducing an analytic function called the Todd function that doesn't appear to satisfy his claims.
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by AkshatM 8y ago
Do you have an example of 'an unchecked algorithm at scale'?
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by AkshatM 8y ago
I feel that many of these objections already have solutions within Slack. If you don't want to be disturbed by notifications, there is the Do Not Disturb option to snooze notifications. If you don't want to lose context, use Slack
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Ask HN: What does good technical management look like?
4 points by AkshatM 8y ago|0 comments
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by AkshatM 8y ago
I think the point being made is about incurring unwanted technical debt, rather than about the skills of programmers. A macro enthusiast can leave behind a codebase that requires substantial expertise or siloed knowledge to work with. It&#x
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by AkshatM 8y ago
While each individual project may have a core group of committers, are they the same people each time? This conclusion was not clear to me from the article, though the Hacker News title implies it. If that is the case, it goes against my ex
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by AkshatM 9y ago
Nearly all of these features are appropriate to a cloud-based IDE with sync capabilities, not a distributed version control system. The author even acknowledges he's thinking of such an IDE by referencing Cider. A DVCS does one thing a
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Adapting tools and lessons from distributed systems for merely concurrent code(akshatm.svbtle.com)
1 points by AkshatM 9y ago|0 comments
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by AkshatM 9y ago
I looked at the source code. Under the hood, it's just a thin wrapper around `subprocess`.
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by AkshatM 10y ago
This has been fixed. Thanks!
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Useful Unix Commands for Debugging Production Systems(akshatm.svbtle.com)
2 points by AkshatM 10y ago|0 comments
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by AkshatM 10y ago
> "In this post, I have chosen to implement it as a binary search tree. There are a few reasons, most prominently because I wanted to eschew using anything more sophisticated than basic Python, and using a sorted list efficiently wo
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by AkshatM 10y ago
Thank you!
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by AkshatM 10y ago
Perhaps the title is misleading - I meant to say I was trying to explain it at a level high-schoolers might understand, not that this was material high schoolers would be expected to understand. Perhaps I should add a clarification in the p
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by AkshatM 10y ago
As the author: Thank you! That was my intention. :)
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by AkshatM 10y ago
As the author: thank you! The reason why I built it bottom-up is because I understand novitiates learn to reason bottom-up, not yet having had familiarity with the forest to appreciate the trees, whereas experts (those brave woodland explor
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by AkshatM 10y ago
Thank you! Re rendezvous hashing: I would have to understand it better first, and write out an implementation. :) But, yes, maybe in a followup post.
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by AkshatM 10y ago
That's a pity. What would you suggest could be improved?
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by AkshatM 10y ago
Thank you! And all true, but I wanted to be able to motivate why we generate a hash at all for a hashtable. Disambiguating the purpose of hashing outside of its narrow use case here fell outside the scope of my writeup, and would have invol
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Consistent Hashing Explained for High Schoolers(akshatm.svbtle.com)
114 points by AkshatM 10y ago|29 comments
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Show HN: A utility to find and fix wildcard imports in Python 2.7 automatically(github.com)
2 points by AkshatM 10y ago|0 comments