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by faizshah 7y ago
Could not agree more with The Idea Factory, his talks are also great. I also came away feeling inspired, nostalgic and the book is very fun. They are some real characters. There’s some good picks in the similar books I’ve been looking at:
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by faizshah 7y ago
For me one of the main positives of dat is there isn’t an attached cryptocurrency.
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by faizshah 7y ago
Any recommendations for handwriting recognition for Apple Pencil w/ swift?
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by faizshah 7y ago
Web 2.0 already looks insanely dated, I think we're turning another corner right now as well with Material. It's pretty fun to click through bootstrap 1-4 and see some changes like the buttons slowly lose their gradient then their
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by faizshah 7y ago
The problem is that there isn't a straight answer to this, see this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22180559 It kind of comes down to how well you can defend yourself from it being called a DOS atta
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by faizshah 7y ago
And the main advantage is you don’t need to authenticate and you aren’t rate limited.
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by faizshah 7y ago
Dataclass is not immutable, for some cases typing.namedtuple should be preferred over dataclass if typing is needed. Deep dive here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51671699/data-classes-vs...
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Ask HN: Patterns for limiting the scope of your work? (as a junior dev)
1 points by faizshah 7y ago|0 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
Anyone remember Google Allo? I think it had video? If they made it a discord kind of thing it might have worked but instead they chose to compete with their own products.
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by faizshah 7y ago
The euphemism of “Life expectancy of the whole population” is disguising that you’re saying 200k-1.7 million deaths is worth you not having to stay home for 4 months. This isn’t even factoring in the millions who will suffer severe cases ne
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Hack Covid-19: Pandemic Response Hackathon (3/27-3/29)(datavant.com)
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by faizshah 7y ago
Ha, now I’m imagining a 4U server getting the window seat.
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What BERT Is Not: Lessons from a New Suite of Psycholinguistic Diagnostics (2019)(arxiv.org)
1 points by faizshah 7y ago|0 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
This is a really cool recommendation, thanks! Very inspirational for side projects. It would be cool to see something like this for data science projects. Like a recommender system in 500 lines or less.
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by faizshah 7y ago
So if we are interested in helping the DNC improve their software what do you think we should do? Is there a route for something like 18F for the DNC?
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by faizshah 7y ago
Check out the Dask Bag it’s my favorite feature, it helps you deal with non tabular data that also might not be structured consistently: https://examples.dask.org/bag.html Everybody I show it to likes it even more than work
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by faizshah 7y ago
The two I reach for first: Dask and SparkSQL Dask is super easy and quick to learn provides similar features to spark but can be somewhat easier for the Pandas crowd. There's also Modin/Ray for this but I haven't tried it yet
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by faizshah 7y ago
There was a post earlier on using command line tools instead of Hadoop for quick data processing. This shows a non-trivial example of how you could implement a complex data pipeline and an overview of some of the commands you could learn if
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How to build a search engine with common Unix tools (2018) [pdf](iaria.org)
197 points by faizshah 7y ago|26 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
This theory doesn't pass the smell test. Virtually every university library has quiet areas and collaborative areas now. Most of my peers go to the library to concentrate (work in solitude) and visit the loud area of the library when t
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by faizshah 7y ago
So I’m on the fence I like the social aspects of open offices but I find them highly disruptive to work. But one observation I have made is that open offices force me to bring work home. I can sometimes accomplish more coding in one night a
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by faizshah 7y ago
Great comment! Respectful of GP and constructively critical. The other thing I would mention is that SQLite can operate totally in memory which makes it useful without even using it to persist data (say you have a language with a slow dataf
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by faizshah 7y ago
> It also doesn't leave much to the imagination. I never thought of it this way, thanks! Last year I went with a short resume without the coursework and I got 2 interviews from 30 apps with a cover letter. I managed to get feedback
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by faizshah 7y ago
Thanks for the advice. Last time I went with with a shorter resume and from like 20 or 30 applications (with cover letters) I got 2 interviews. So this time I went with a different approach I added every significant project to my resume (in
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Ask HN: What's Wrong with My Resume?
4 points by faizshah 7y ago|4 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
My resume has a few items with Google Cloud and BigQuery mentioned including “Best Use of Google Cloud” at a hackathon. I was thinking that since it’s all internship experience though, that I should get a Google Cloud Data Engineer cert to
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Ask HN: Are the potential upsides worth working at poor work/life startup?
1 points by faizshah 7y ago|2 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
One of the important parts of learning at a university is meeting fellow students, exchanging ideas, and building relationships. It seems for 36k USD you’re really overpaying for losing this face to face time with other students, imo video
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Ask HN: For a Personal Blog in 2020, Medium, GitHub Pages or Dev.to?
12 points by faizshah 7y ago|18 comments
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by faizshah 7y ago
I think if they add some color coding to the resource groups in the diagram like google cloud style infrastructure diagrams it would make the diagrams much more readable and approachable.

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