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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I doubt that. I grew up learning to use a C debugger and interpret core dumps right from my undergraduate school. Knowing the error and inspecting the stack were something I just had to do. In the absence of google and stackoverflow the abi
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
You missed the Theranos founder :)
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Connections and access to capital. Isn’t that why people move or get a job, etc.? And the fact that they can tolerate the ridiculously low PHD stipends.
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Those are mostly political freebies. If you have someone using the reservation to gain admission there is no way they will be able to go through with recommendation letters/writing essays/interviews, etc. Edit: In a way, the stand
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I would differ on this. It’s access to capital and connections. For the longest time access to capital in India has been limited and children are expected to support parents in their old age. Hence, the heavy move towards the cushy job at g
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
You can make the tests harder. There can be IQ testing to estimate ability to handle out of box thinking. Fwiw - anyone able to fork out $52k/year for their child is wealthy enough so that the child has had enough flexibility for out o
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
The admission departments need to be leaner - much much leaner. Coming from India I find American admission process ridiculously bloated. I mean asking an undergraduate to do an essay of what excites them. Interviewing an 18 year old about
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Normally if the README contains the restrictions on contribution and PRs right at the top I think it should catch everyone’s attention (well, hopefully…). IMHO, the ideal solution is for GitHub to allow restrictions on issues and PRs for pu
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I don’t find anything wrong with the authors approach. I just think he should make it clear that he’s not interested in issues or PRs on the project readme or contribution guide. It’s hard to have it both ways - where you say issues and PRs
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Isn't that a lot of European civilization going west and east? We don't taint all of Europe although they were responsible for some pretty bad things. I mean the Belgians did horrible things in the Congo. Churchill starved West Be
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
The pressure cooker has been an Indian cooking staple for a really long time. However, it does get noisy :). The instant pot has been an excellent improvement. We use the instant pot for everything - meat gravies/curries, beans and my
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
There are docs and then there are Docs. I think documents should be treated as source code. Go through a proper PR process so that you know what the latest and greatest is. Maintaining a wiki is one of the worst ways to document. It just cr
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Do you really have a significant idea or just frustrated with the monotony in the current job? Startups have a high failure rate. You will also have issues attracting funding in the current economy. Even is your wife didn’t know hiding this
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
How well do they work for embedded apps? I generally thought that the non real-time nature of python means you can’t do anything serious with python in the embedded world. Asking as a serious question though from a genuinely curious point o
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
It all comes down to money. If professors make the subject hard, they don’t get students. No students is less money for the University and less opportunity for the professor to scope out potential thesis candidates. There are some professor
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
What do you use telnet for today? Almost everyone uses ssh. The reason behind that was to provide TLS. Is there a reason you can’t use ssh?
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
A lot of times this is to make dividend payments and to boost financial numbers by sucking up the operating profits of the acquired company.
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
There is a lot of myth baked into the PhD along with a lot of romanticization of deep innovative work. From school that is pretty much fed to you of scholars and that you need to get a PhD to be known as one. E.g. Newton, Gauss, Kelvin, Tes
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
The auto rickshaws and two-wheelers are polluting, but I don’t think they’re a primary cause of Delhi’s smog. That’s probably industry and agriculture. The buses were heavily polluting as well. I know there was a major push to get cabs, aut
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Wasn’t bluesky what parag agrawal was working on when he was an individual contributor at twitter?
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I’ve known of folks who moved out of frisco and Plano suburbs to prospect when it was up and coming to spare their kids of the “Asian competition onslaught” in frisco and Plano schools. Not sure whether true or how it worked out. But yes, p
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
That was there. However, where I started 25 years back, they reserved Internet access for only privileged senior and staff engineers. I was a lowly code worm, No Internet, no usenet.
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
There wasn’t HN so no distraction to digress to every now and them. I second this - systems were small and most people could wrap their brains around them. Constant pressure existed and there wasn’t “google” & “so” & other blogs to
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I suspect we are definitely ‘advising’ - that’s probably the official term.
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Isn’t train ticketing online now? I know my 75 yr old dad just does it at home on his laptop. Edit- echoing a comment further down. I got an Indian visa. It was done online and was emailed to me in 24hrs.
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
I don’t like operator overloading much. I think it hides a lot of what’s happening behind the scenes. It’s good syntactic sugar but wouldn’t be a deal breaker for me. I love python. My personal complaints about it - speed, gil and static ty
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Java probably will for application development. Python should to with all that ML code. I don’t see anyone in a hurry to move it to Julia. C++ also, if you’re in the embedded space. I know Rust is coming but I don’t think c++ is going anywh
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
Get a complete panel of bloodwork done. I was feeling rather chill, unmotivated but not depressed. Also symptoms and fatigue and delayed recovery from exercise. I have lower levels of hormones and definitely low on testosterone. Disclaimer:
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
If they have chargers. I think that takes more time than filling up gas. It might still work :)
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by gautamdivgi 4y ago
What’s the difference between pyinfra and fabric? Both seem to be similar.

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