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by deepGem 4y ago
I keep singing all the time. In office, while walking, while driving and especially on long flights, in a very low tone. It is super relaxing. Am not sure about all the benefits but a couple of our friends get together for drinking and we s
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by deepGem 4y ago
The fraud protection aspect is spot on, but I think most people are not risky buyers. Like most of my purchases happen on Amazon or other high trust merchants. I have never ever raised a dispute and the only time I did it was when I acciden
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by deepGem 4y ago
The main impediment for this approach is still the battery pack. Unless you can reduce the cost/kwh of batteries the corolla of the ev world won't happen. Battery costs per Kwh are on a downward trend. Tesla is probably around 100
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by deepGem 4y ago
The principles behind the auto industry are primarily driven by the last motive. To pump up the price for some shitty upgrade that not many really want. It's the same core, with a few upgrades that are super cheap to manufacture. Like
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by deepGem 4y ago
I see this sentiment everywhere outside the tech first ecosystem. In the generalization of 'workers'/'engineers' v/s 'supervisors'/'managers', programmers are often seen as just workers
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by deepGem 4y ago
Wish more people understood this. We spend a lot of time changing tools and it's as bad or worse than context switching. Every tool has a learning curve and if you keep switching tools, you are always stuck in the initial part of the l
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by deepGem 4y ago
I don't use TikTok but even in my mid 40s fell victim to Instagram reels. What's astonishing to me is that I have a level of self control that's way more than the average individual (for instance I have taken cold showers for
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by deepGem 4y ago
I was just having a chat with my buddy today about how Apple, Microsoft and to a large extent Google are largely the best positioned to profit from any upstream applications. While the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok fight for viewe
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by deepGem 4y ago
To understand how difficult distributed computing is, at the container level of abstraction, one has to try Docker swarm.
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by deepGem 4y ago
My first interview out of college in 1999-2000 was something like this. A full day interview about designing the components of a TCP-IP stack interspersed with some personality/behaviour interviews. End of the day, you either knew you
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by deepGem 4y ago
I must have clarified, what I mean by strong consistency is that you have transactional support (2 phase commit). MongoDb is atomic, meaning every single document is strongly consistent. However, I stand corrected. They have introduced tran
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by deepGem 4y ago
What I mean is that the data model in the NoSQL world is tightly coupled with the query pattern. So you define the query pattern and then tailor the data model to that query pattern. In the relational world, you typically choose the index b
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by deepGem 4y ago
True. Spanner and the likes of Spanner, CockroachDB, YugaByte all are strongly consistent and scalable dbs. The greatest advantage IMO is the ability to just use SQL without having to worry about carefully designing a data model. What bothe
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by deepGem 4y ago
15”/13” MBPro with the Touch Bar and that horrendous keyboard.
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by deepGem 4y ago
You don't have to bend to every VCs demand. WhatsApp ran very lean and perhaps had 50 engineers tops. Every big tech company ran very lean until they hit scale Series D or so. So the headcount growth is not just a function of VC, but a
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by deepGem 4y ago
This is what beats the heck outta me. A company that is sitting on nearly 150B in cash somehow feels the need to pinch 30% commissions from developers till date. I understand this as an initial business model. I mean a 15% reduction in app
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by deepGem 4y ago
I donno. I keep thinking about this all the time. I might also be blinded by the intricacies of where I live, Bangalore. Cancellations by Uber drivers are rampant here and it's very hard to find the black equivalent. The UberXL service
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by deepGem 4y ago
There are those who pay for business and first class though. It’s a matter of figuring out the price per km and commission dynamics. With the appropriate incentives and commissions supply should ease out. Obviously am trivialising this appr
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by deepGem 4y ago
I think the market is ripe for a real Uber Black. A super premium service that guarantees a cab no matter where you are within a minute. No cancellations. Your own personal on demand limousine. People are so tired of cancellations and not f
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by deepGem 4y ago
I usually don't catch satire that easily but somehow this headline screams satire and the first line was a dead giveaway.
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by deepGem 4y ago
It may not be preparation for that particular interview or task but there is preparation elsewhere that's paying off here in the interviews. Perhaps even sub conscious preparation. One such preparation happens at school when you prep f
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by deepGem 4y ago
Even better luck debugging in the enterprise without logging. You won’t even know which machine your code is running on and in which machine Splunk is spitting out the logs. Without printing time stamps and debug worthy information to the l
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by deepGem 4y ago
Different time. They did this mostly because they knew they wouldn’t be able to sustain the demand as storage was still expensive back then. GMail was also in beta for a really long time like > 2 years.
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by deepGem 4y ago
Another side effect is that you have to now think of separating the expensive parts of the code from the non expensive parts because that code has to be offloaded from the blockchain itself into side chains or something else. Security is an
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by deepGem 4y ago
There was a major hue and cry by founders, esp in Bangalore about how ungrateful the prospective employees were, when they ghosted the founders after accepting offers. These founders never really tried to understand the simple market dynami
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by deepGem 4y ago
This is exactly how I approached Leetcode. TBH the grind has had satisfactory effects even though the immediate practical impact is just for interviewing. I don’t use it as a tool for interviewing, just as a tool of list of things to get do
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by deepGem 4y ago
The moment you have to work on a large code base either in Java or C++ you almost never have enough resources. 64GB RAM is fair, 32GB bare minimum to work on such codebases. Otherwise everything slows down, IntelliJ will take 2 seconds to o
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by deepGem 4y ago
"Self-belief alone is not sufficient—you also have to be able to convince other people of what you believe." This is the true test of self belief. In the corporate world this is why many ideas don't take off or take off in a
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by deepGem 4y ago
I lived through the 2008 meltdown. The goddamn crisis was more than real. In front of my eyes, people lost their jobs including my own colleagues. No one had money. Even those with jobs came to work fearing it was their last day. I just hop
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by deepGem 4y ago
Borrowing shovelware. This is gold Jerry!

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