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by farhanhubble 2y ago
With Emacs and Vim-like software that have a higher level of abstraction than simple key bindings, the answer is NO, and for good.
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
I worked for Samsung electronics in both mobile dev and R&D divisions. The culture in the Indian-Korean mix workforce was horrible. People stayed late hours but there was no hard work at all. It was a big mess with people solving one pr
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
One of the fake names "Jigar Kumar" is Indian (Hindi/Urdu)
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
Great work! You have seen the levels of abstraction that most programmers won't throughout their careers.
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
Fair move. The world runs on FoSS and most of us contribute nothing. Software should be open-source and free but not at the expense of exploiting the few who actually contribute.
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
Programming is indeed thinking but thinking through coding. Think -> Code -> Evaluate. If you remove the thinking you have a code monkey. If you remove the coding you have analysis paralysis.
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
Since the wave function of an electron is unbounded in space, can't the wave functions of all electrons in the universe be seen as one giant wave function?
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by farhanhubble 2y ago
The piece hardly says anything concrete. Yes most real world problems can't be solved or optimized computationally. Most of the smart cities is just PR for tech conglomerates but I do feel there's so so much you could achieve by m
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
It was a reported carjacking. From police's perspective it made sense to try not to give any time to react.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Ah! So the government created artificial scarcity just as they do in housing.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
But Uber wasn't and still isn't a taxi company. It's just an aggregator as they call it.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Does someone know the real story? How can a company be fined for disrupting an existing business?
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Despite all the criticism, there are plenty of good takeaways and a 30-member tech team for the scale of the operations, and the size of the organization is impressive.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
And why are the cushions so freaking soft? Sure you don't want your back to perch on lumber but you don't want to sag inside like an embryo, either.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
I joined Udacity when the mission was "Double the world's GDP" and the best engineers and researchers flocked there to create great content. I loved the culture and the people. It was family in the truest sense. When I left t
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Wow! Is there a link to read up more on this?
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
What's the benefit of using ternary encoding over just a binary representation? And if we have come so far is there potential for a more efficient algorithm than gradient descent?
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Definitely. Like so many other things it's the spirit and intent that matter.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
This is exactly what happens at many software companies. People,sometimes under pressure to meet deadlines, apply totally crazy fixes to stop one problem and create new problems.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
True of any metric when it becomes the goal in itself.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
I love how much is possible with the Observable framework and support for libraries like d3.js. However many data apps cannot precompute their outputs. For example, a pipeline that extracts text from documents based on what a user queries,
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Authoring 1.5M PDFs from CSVs doesn't seem like a monstrous job. The article does not talk about what led to a rewrite of the Python parts in Go. The pipeline described seems quite amenable to Python multiprocessing too.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
The two-month delay aside, which is stupid but quite common, the likely reason for asking for a private GitHub repo is to not leak your solution to other candidates. You can always add a LICENSE.md to your repo with two lines saying that th
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
If a human can discern the scents so well can animals like dogs be trained to do the same and maybe much more?
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
As history has taught us sometimes the impossible happens in an instant and sometimes the "should be easy" takes millennia to solve. The "AI" we have today is definitely usable in very narrow use cases versus the just pa
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
The real testimonials are here: https://github.com/bloomberg/memray/discussions/226
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Next the govt. might ban shipping to these regions.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Since when did thieves start caring about not using banned devices? Governments everywhere already pass the buck in dealing with car theft and break-ins to insurance companies.
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
Ultimately it is yet another optimization problem. You have fixed dev time, a budget and some deadlines. If possible, try rewriting a component and measure the effort and benefits. We had PoC with deep rooted data issues. We knew throwing i
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by farhanhubble 3y ago
That's micro-shortsightedness. Lots of tools even OS utilities are being rewritten in a "better" language. It could be quite beneficial from a business perspective too if you're spending more time fixing issues than addr

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