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by enitihas 7y ago
Yes yes. I remember the book by the name Showstoppers only, as the word somehow has got stuck in my brain.
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Ask HN: What are more books like “Masters of Doom” or “Showstoppers”?
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think most companies do not even have IC roles analogous to SVP. Google has two Senior fellows, and those are two guys who are far too famous and responsible for too much of the Google backbone infrastructure.
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by enitihas 7y ago
Curiously, even though this story has far too many points and comments, and is even very fresh, it has been booted from the front page and is right now at number 48. Stats on the story: Points: 622, Comments: 489, Time: 16 hours ago The fro
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by enitihas 7y ago
I thought uber ran their own data centres, and Lyft was the one running on AWS.
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by enitihas 7y ago
We are highly lucky to be in a time where it is very easy to switch among high paying jobs across various companies. If you are able to get by with 10% of your mental capacity, I am sure you would be able to land up a lot of jobs. I would r
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by enitihas 7y ago
Is there any book which has more than a passing mention of BERT?
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by enitihas 7y ago
These sound more like predictions for the century than predictions for the decade.
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by enitihas 7y ago
1. Big Tech will get more stronger, and no tech company incorporated in this decade will reach 200B USD in value by 2030. 2. China will remain as authoritarian if not more, and Xi Jinping or someone handpicked by him will be leading China i
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by enitihas 7y ago
Finder is such a bad file manager that you sometimes start doubting your intelligence, thinking that something so trivial it should be possible, and you are the one not being able to figure out it. For example, it is the only file manager I
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by enitihas 7y ago
Yup. I think Google needs to hire the PR people from Microsoft and pay them rockstar salaries. Microsoft does far worse things than Google yet they manage to hide from the public eye much better. Bing works and censors in China. Microsoft d
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by enitihas 7y ago
It is like the tragedy of the commons. Even if AWS decided they will not serve oil companies, those companies will simply take their business elsewhere, e.g to Microsoft, or even worse, to Oracle. This will simply have the effect of hurting
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by enitihas 7y ago
Ironically, there is no difference in size now, as they both have almost identical market caps.
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by enitihas 7y ago
If your java application needs a lot of small collections, it may make sense to use guava immutable collections. They have specialised overloads for lots of sizes, and small collections will not take any more memory than a hardcoded minimal
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by enitihas 7y ago
And which monopolies were replaced with a good competitive landscape. Nobody is saying innovation can't replace monopolies, just that they are more likely to be replaced by another innovative monopoly rather than several competitive bu
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by enitihas 7y ago
Off-course not. However, the economy would change a lot if we were to take that view, and we will have other problems.
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by enitihas 7y ago
Was huawei ever banned, or only threatened?
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by enitihas 7y ago
How does that work well in a global economy? What if China doesn't break their big companies, but rather encourages them?
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by enitihas 7y ago
At which big company do you think senior executives care about human rights? I am not saying Google shouldn't strive to do better than others, but just curious.
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think Google have pushed themselves into a corner, where it would be difficult for them to win. Companies like Microsoft and Apple which don't care about Employee unrest would continue to wrestle contracts like JEDI and Chinese marke
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by enitihas 7y ago
Even if you could sell ads as well as YouTube, you will neither have Google's scale or technological advantages, nor will you be able to survive on the same margin as YouTube. But off course, any YouTube competitor will most likely rec
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by enitihas 7y ago
The bigger question is how do you plan to foot the bill for serving videos at that scale.
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by enitihas 7y ago
Off course, that's why they keep having security issue after security issue (macOS root exploit to iPhone issue reported by project zero).
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by enitihas 7y ago
I use Dropbox only because of Linux Support. In India, All of Office 365 is stil cheaper than Dropbox, but no linux support stops me from using it.
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by enitihas 7y ago
This is an over simplification, but since the np hard problems are reducible to each other, finding polynomial time solution for one problem will give us polynomial time solutions for all np hard problems.
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by enitihas 7y ago
I have written a lot of SQL over the years, and consider myself to be reasonably well versed with SQL and relational databases. SQL doesn't allow you to act on your data while seeing it. The interaction modes are totally different. I
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by enitihas 7y ago
Excel allows you to do interactive analysis though, which SQL simply comes no where near close. For example, after creating an Excel table, you add a filter, see the changed data. You can Ctrl-Z for undo. Add another filter and see changed
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by enitihas 7y ago
Just tried this, and I think this will be my number 1 recommended shortcut to every Excel user. Thanks
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by enitihas 7y ago
This is the best Excel tutorial I have ever found. Even if you don't remember much about Excel, the following from this video allows me to basically get started with any data very quickly: 1. Ctrl A : Select all the data 2. Insert tabl
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think you meant HP. Wozniak didn't work at Xerox.

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