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by ashayh 9y ago
It's not that MIT & others lagging, but the US certainly is. The most significant research happens at the graduate level and beyond. US students are disproportionately under represented at the graduate level. https://www
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by ashayh 9y ago
Are these companies working on a Waze for self driving cars. Shouldn't these companies, the DMV and other parties involved agree on a standard for inter-car communications? Why should we wait for Lidar to tell my car about a crash 3 tu
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by ashayh 9y ago
There is a very probable & simple explanation you have missed. It is common to use a "competent" person to impersonate the actual candidate for remote and/or contract positions, especially in H1B scenarios. I used to insi
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by ashayh 9y ago
The HN description says: "users can opt to have a “Wali” present in their conversations " The site says: _Women_ can include a guardian in their conversation for extra peace of mind. Which is correct?
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by ashayh 9y ago
Ruby also has JRuby, which has true parallelism & concurrency and does not suffer from the global interpreter lock like vanilla ruby/python.
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by ashayh 9y ago
On a side note for ruby fans, it's quite popular in the embedded world in Japan via a dedicated project: https://github.com/mruby/mruby
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by ashayh 9y ago
I've had the opposite experience with DNS. Moving to this router made DNS lookups in particular perceptibly faster than before. Agree that the hardware is poorly built, the antennas dangerously loose.
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by ashayh 10y ago
And then what? Apparently, many other individuals either directly participated, or indirectly did nothing. Both are equally bad. This indicates a broken culture not just for the company, but for Silicon Valley and the industry as a whole. I
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by ashayh 10y ago
| Meritocracy is still considered a core value and a great thing. No it isn't. There is something called "Reservation" which is affirmative action designed to lift up exploited lower castes. It was also setup to reduce the d
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by ashayh 10y ago
I agree the alternative isn't hard. I'm saying even very large companies just can't seem to do a great job of it. Which is why they run to AWS/etc in droves. I've seen innards of very large DCs for more than a decad
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by ashayh 10y ago
Whether you want to run fully in the cloud, or homegrown DCs or a combination, you need talented people who bring the required savings about. When it comes to in house DCs, very few companies seem to have that top talent. For example, most
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by ashayh 10y ago
No application, especially enterprise applications can have all business logic in the DB. It is spread out over huge, _multiple_ application code bases & even shell scripts and ad-hoc jobs. So it doesn't matter how "good"
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by ashayh 10y ago
| We have over 100 committers per month, over 500 modules, and over 1,000 roles. | we were able to reduce our average Puppet runtimes on our Mesos clusters from well over 30 minutes to under 5 minutes. This isn't just tech debt .. it
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by ashayh 10y ago
I had to do 10 google queries to find "Randnya roti" as there is no canonical English spelling. https://glutlust.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/nagpurs-native-bre... There is another central Indian bread
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by ashayh 10y ago
Has Oracle given any details about their underlying technology, other than what we assume was acquired from Nimbula and others? Do they know how to build a datacenter for IAAS/PASS at the same level as Amazon, Google, MS? Amazon and ot
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by ashayh 10y ago
Do you use Ctrl+R a lot? You should give fzf a try: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf It works for both Vim & Bash.
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by ashayh 10y ago
Your statement is both right and wrong. 1> Wrong, because "something new" is often ill-defined and often not _really_ new. For example, in the area of 'DevOps' (itself ill-defined) there are numerous tools and framewo
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by ashayh 10y ago
If you use Amazon Prime, you also get unlimited AWS cloud drive storage for photos. rclone works well backing up all your photos to Prime.
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by ashayh 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by ashayh 11y ago
Because you can get ideas from other people. Then you can merge your customization with others and have the best of both worlds. I moved my bash customization to a personal oh-my-zsh theme & .zshrc and didn't look back.
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by ashayh 11y ago
There is also the ruby parallel gem, https://github.com/grosser/parallel
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by ashayh 11y ago
Even if this were true, would it be a bad thing to address some of Javas shortcomings like notorious boilerplate, 100 different ways to package & run your app, multiple seconds to boot up, and "write once, run nowhere"? Many g
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by ashayh 11y ago
Speaking of non-real problems, one interviewer asked me to draw a diamond with asterisks. This is apparently a pretty common question. I've always wondered where it would apply in the real world in my field, maybe someone can help. It&
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by ashayh 11y ago
Are engineers the target audience or PHBs? They should have put up a blog post with an overview like this one: http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/11/global-continuous-delive...
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by ashayh 11y ago
Since we are generalizing, its worth mentioning the tendency of Gujratis (or most Indians) to be extremely insular and selfish: "Trust and honesty remain essential to Gujarati-dominated industries. Mr Mehta, himself a Jain from Palanpu
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by ashayh 11y ago
You mean hiring echo chambers is an essential thing? Considering the vast majority of startups fail, maybe this is one aspect that needs rethinking.
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by ashayh 11y ago
Nagios and derivatives are a hassle in modern infrastructure. There are no good APIs (add/remove/modify hosts or services sanely). The configuration files are not easy to templatize, and hard to understand even if you are able to
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by ashayh 12y ago
Small Chinese/Indian companies come out with multiple Android models every year. Was it so hard for Nokia to do the same under Elop, and put eggs in more than one basket?
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by ashayh 12y ago
ZFS, and most* other file systems are all about _one_ computer system. While ZFS data integrity features may be useful, they don't prevent the wide variety of things that can go wrong on a _single_ computer. You still need site redunda
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by ashayh 12y ago
No matter what fancy tools you use, all configuration on *nix machines happens via files, and files in execution (called processes). Given that, _all_ current configuration tools are overly complicated.

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