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by curiousfiddler 10y ago
<rant> I really like(d) Twitter. I feel it has played a huge role in democratizing public opinion, so that I don't just create my opinion based on what media houses throw at me. For me, it narrowed the gap between so called &quot
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Ask HN: Play music remotely for my Dad
4 points by curiousfiddler 10y ago|8 comments
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by curiousfiddler 10y ago
I have a design issue with AirPods. When my earphones (with wire) fall off (and it happens when you're running or doing some other similar activity), I know for sure, that me or someone else accidentally won't crush them, because
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by curiousfiddler 10y ago
This article strikes a chord for me. I also read a book sometime back, called Flow [1] by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which draws similar conclusion and is good, quick read. And then I feel sad, because all the effort to seek that personal conn
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by curiousfiddler 11y ago
I'm not sure if TensorFlow already provides that, but it would also be pretty awesome to access some of Google's data sets to train the models.
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by curiousfiddler 11y ago
I just passively started looking around for a change. My criteria is exactly what's described here: "work that requires a very long time horizon, seeks to answer very open-ended questions, or develops technology that shouldn’t be
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by curiousfiddler 11y ago
I'm quite surprised that of all the famous Silicon Valley people, and their rallying behind Jeff Bezos, no one seems to believe that some part of these many many stories could be true. Either that, or they seem to think that only incom
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by curiousfiddler 11y ago
I had an offer from Amazon after grad school. There was only one reason I did not accept it: I had heard first person stories from a couple of my friends who were working at Amazon. And it did not make any sense to me to join such a work en
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by curiousfiddler 11y ago
If I was to point out only one quality that I have seen stand out (personal experience working with similar people), it is Focus. When they are doing something, they're extremely focused and quite often that results in not just the ta
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by curiousfiddler 12y ago
I'm lucky to have worked in several places where there was no specific in/out time as long as you get the work done. As a result, I don't use an alarm. I've realized that sometimes, it's very hard to predict the amo
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by curiousfiddler 12y ago
Yahoo was initially playing around with Spark. They opted for Tez on Yarn instead: http://yahoodevelopers.tumblr.com/post/85930551108/yahoo-bet...
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by curiousfiddler 12y ago
Just have him move with you. It's a priceless experience.
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Bitcoin plunges after marketplace indefinitely halts withdrawals(reuters.com)
1 points by curiousfiddler 13y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Also: You guys contribute a lot of good work to Hadoop and related projects. Disclaimer: I contribute to some ASF projects.
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
If Microsoft open sources Windows...
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Daft Punk wins 5 grammies(theverge.com)
3 points by curiousfiddler 13y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
You might want to add Apache Tez to the list as well. Series of posts on Tez: http://hortonworks.com/hadoop/tez/
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
With so many people willing to give Linux a shot more than ever before, I think Ubuntu (or any well supported Linux dist) is really at that stage where there is a great chance for them to be commercially very successful. I really hope and w
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Makes sense, but I also feel that thinking about the regret-at-death moment is not quite an appropriate motivator - it will anyway be so shortlived.
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Personal opinion: sometimes Google is just simply awesome. I really hope every word they've written in there, reflects some of what their top management feels at a high level.
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Well, I'll probably use this thread to get some advice. So during my graduate coursework (CS), there were a couple of courses which required the class to review and present various papers. When my turn would come, I would prepare really wel
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Thanks, will use that in future. Looking back at my comment, I don't seem to like the double quotes either.
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Well yes they are, but it is regulated (in terms of educational qualification etc). What I was trying to get at, is developing and underdeveloped countries face a lot of problems. To produce worthy result in such circumstances is something
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
I'd like to take a shot at answering this: why is a low cost medical treatment effective in India? 1. For the most part, medical education is good in India. In the better hospitals you will find that doctors are generally very smart and kno
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Dear Einstein, Do Scientists Pray?(lettersofnote.com)
1 points by curiousfiddler 13y ago|0 comments
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
Shawshank Redemption: "Never ever ever ever ever give up"!
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by curiousfiddler 13y ago
I just hope that this is not how we reason about things in general. I feel very sad reading your comment especially on HN. Not because what you are saying is right or wrong. But because the conclusions you draw are based on pretty much your
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by curiousfiddler 14y ago
I know a lot of smart engineers from TCS who couldn't imagine doing an MS from the US (or for that matter even from India), because their family couldn't afford it. People who do not aspire to do an MS from Stanford certainly do not qualify
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by curiousfiddler 14y ago
Can you name a few other companies which operate at Google's scale and are less evil? I feel Google has had a big contribution in how open internet as a medium is. I'd like to believe that the people at Google's helm are generally nicer, an
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by curiousfiddler 14y ago
I have another idea. Either you can go on fighting the rejections and slowly building a brand for yourself when your past will no longer matter (I can't comment on whether your current situation is indeed that bad), or you could try graduat

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