eshvk

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by eshvk 12y ago
> The US (and many English-speaking countries) tend to be incredibly US-centric and euro-centric in their worldview and news coverage. For example, right now, the world's largest democracy is holding the largest democratic election
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by eshvk 12y ago
> While I personally prefer Gradle’s nice DSL and the ability to use imperative code for non-common build operations, I can understand the preference for the fully declarative Maven, even if it requires lots of plugins. The modern Java d
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by eshvk 12y ago
> motivated cs students who want to learn more than what their typical operating system courses has to offer. When I studied at UT, the OS course lets you build an OS. It was brutal. 80 hour per week brutal. But what I took away from the
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by eshvk 12y ago
Yes.
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> One way to see if someone is an engineer is to ping GitHub directly. This strikes me as slightly creepy. If I give you my email as a customer, I am not sure I want that information to be mined for this purpose.
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by eshvk 12y ago
Not really, no. I haven't tested the examples in this specific article but I work with d3. Haven't had issues with FF and d3 to be specific.
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Ask HN: An open source clone of Evernote?
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by eshvk 12y ago
That is alright, though. This is the nature of things. For everyone, really.
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by eshvk 12y ago
There could be several future problems that you could optimize around. Speed, usability of API, NLP aspects of the problem, integrating with off the shelf solutions and so on. It really depends on what you want. If you want to learn a langu
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by eshvk 12y ago
Use the language that lets you build things fastest. Especially since you keep using the word prototype. Once you prove it is working, you can make it beautiful, use fancy languages or throw money at the problem.
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Constraint for time and money: Ramen Contraint for time: Scalability. Buy chopped vegetables. Buy ground meat. Buy a lot of Pyrex ware. Buy a slow cooker and a food processor. Use evernote to organize recipes. Plan it out so that all the cu
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by eshvk 12y ago
You have to keep appearances everywhere. I have worked in tech for three years across two different cities now. An old grad school habit of mine that has carried over is waking up insanely early, getting to work and getting my shit done and
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by eshvk 12y ago
> since I am obviously not of that type, I am curious why the late start? I have always been of the sort to start early and finish early. There is so much wonderful time to spend outdoors and with friends, especially in summer hours. I t
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by eshvk 12y ago
> The green card wait list is actually really only for citizens of China and India. Minor nitpick. America defines country of origin by the country you were born in and not the country whose passport you hold. You could be a caucasian gu
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by eshvk 12y ago
> Sometimes it's not a good idea to give too much feedback, if any at all. Sure. But a form letter from the HR person saying you are not a good fit is way better than your application has been rejected blah blah blah. Tech, especial
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by eshvk 12y ago
> But what really bothers me is that you got a reply from a no-reply address. What the actual fuck. You were there for an on-site interview, this is not the situation where you send people automated no-reply-click-this-link mails. Yah. T
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by eshvk 13y ago
Why is this going to be different from r/mfa or StyleForum or the hundreds of other books on fashion that exist? In other words, what do you have to bring to the table so that I would buy your book to learn about fashion? What is your
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by eshvk 13y ago
Sure. The way the H1B works is that it is tied to your employer. The employer knows this. You know it. This creates leverage on the part of the employer. How? Two ways: One, you get fired, you are out of status immediately, you have to leav
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by eshvk 13y ago
There is no "per country employment based limit". It doesn't matter if you were born in France or Tuvalu, everyone gets an equal shot at the H1B. The "per country limit" is for a more permanent status. I see no prob
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by eshvk 13y ago
The same reason we have diversity in work places and that American workplaces are not all filled with straight, white men. You can't comprise of 90% of any population and whine about discrimination. That is not how society works.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I think what the parent implies by "work visa" is a visa that is not tied to the employer. The H1B as it stands now is just a proxy for indentured labor.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> India and China are vast countries, the diversity should also take into account population/area of the country on which limits are enforced. It is not clear to me how having a diverse country that is not dominated by immigrants fr
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I'd hope they remove country based discrimination in EB visas. And better yet pass immigration reform sooner rather than later. What country based discrimination? The quotas are to prevent two countries from flooding the immigrati
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by eshvk 13y ago
This is something I am trying to change in myself. Especially because the amount of time I spend being sarcastic online has started making this behavior spill over into real life. It is a toxic, toxic behavior that is justified only by peop
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by eshvk 13y ago
I don't want to get into the pattern of assuming that all people who are certain are stupid. :) Especially since my career involves working with enough people who are non tech but bring so much value to the table that I would be foolis
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Ah, confidence. I tend to do the opposite: I hedge too much. I never had a formal computer science education and I also tend to do that.I took enough Math, CS and Electrical Engineering courses to be utterly frightened by what I don&#x
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is still not clear how you wish to help people. Maybe, posting your story in reddit/r/loseit would help? Otherwise, write a blog or go on a tour and talk about what you did. P.S: Congrats on the weight loss. It is a hard long p
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by eshvk 13y ago
> We are basically learning stuff like XML I find this hilarious because before I can go further into hacking into fancy cutting edge deep learning models, I have to process years and years of XML data from an external party. As someone
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by eshvk 13y ago
> great culture There is no objective measure of great culture or interesting work. I mean, what is "great culture" to you may not be the same to me. For me, I would rather work in an environment where there is a good measure o
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by eshvk 13y ago
Please don't go by the echo chamber that is the Bay Area based Hacker News. A Github profile is nice, contributing to OSS projects is nice, yet those aren't the only things that matter to acquiring a job. Unless you are targeting

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