gopalv

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by gopalv 8y ago
> I opened a few of them and found out why. They sucked. It could be worse - they could be fascinating, but entirely irrelevant to the modern world view. My dad had a cache of books from a friend of his - that was collected from the pre-
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by gopalv 8y ago
> used the legendary Fujifilm's Fujichrome Velvia 50 film Velvia was the reason I found a Fuji developer studio in the first place - all cameras would take 35mm, but find a location which would develop it was a challenge of its own
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by gopalv 8y ago
> Are the countries these workers coming from so much more unsafe than the US or Canada? Perhaps - but other than gun violence, if I went back home several things would be unsafe. Money can buy a lot of things, but it takes more money to
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by gopalv 8y ago
> is there a reason to learn Julia? JuMP is why I learned whatever I did of Julia and that was mostly because it allowed me to express some things better (not necessarily faster or in parallel). A good example would be this random proble
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by gopalv 8y ago
Hard-disks aren't slouches when it comes to sequential throughput, but building around disks has some serious non-future-proof consequences. Building things for spinning disks is a cul-de-sac, which has no exit over onto the faster cha
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by gopalv 8y ago
Yes, in the context of algorithms - https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/ However, at this point, I end up looking up that particular website instead of trying to remember anything about this book at all.
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by gopalv 8y ago
> wouldn't byte compilation become redundant? Bitcode is still useful, even with a JIT (just like in Java) - the JIT needs to do the heavy parsing, semantic analysis etc everytime it starts. However, the JIT means it can execute the
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by gopalv 8y ago
That's quite a blast from the past. Good on Aleksey for picking it up and modernizing libjit to this point. And for everyone who thinks of LLVM in this context, here's a thread with some "primary sources" [1]. [1] - htt
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by gopalv 8y ago
> Yes, as a Westerner I hadn't even heard of this massive invalidation of 86% of India's cash currency. Happened on 8th Nov 2016 - the western news cycle was laser focussed around a certain historic election. This wouldn't
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by gopalv 8y ago
This is such a ridiculous idea that would work very well, because we're talking about addicts (and ignoring the possible moral hazard - government giving a drug out). No intervention is going to motivate a dope-sick zombie to get to a
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by gopalv 8y ago
> new ones that will be partial functions that cause an error on under/overflow and division by zero. A "strict" mode is usually always an afterthought once we have errors & people run it in strict mode and facepalm. O
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by gopalv 8y ago
> (the graduates I've been interviewing in SF) ... can't practically design a system on their own, and if ever confronted with a graph theory problem, can't do much more than name-drop algorithms, and fall far short of be
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Traditional programming languages and imperative thinking don't lend themselves to writing state machines That's probably not the problem - imperative development can start off from a level of complexity where state machines
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by gopalv 9y ago
This might be a random anecdote, but I park head in and I hate it, because I'm more often heading out in a hurry than coming home in one. Yet, I do that simply because I have to grab the stroller out of the back, once I park and there&
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Depending on your data some databases may be better than others and that should be easy to measure. And the performance difference could be an accidental feature of the design and completely unintentional. Postgres for instance has a n
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong but haven't most scientific studies of our evolutionary process revealed the opposite of this? "Human beings evolved to eat X" sounds wrong to me from the get go, because people all across th
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by gopalv 9y ago
> As far as I know no container format has implemented Zstandard yet. ORC has a reserved future enum for ZSTD [1] (my guess is that FB already uses it). The original headache was the patent licensing scheme[2] for the actual codebase, bu
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by gopalv 9y ago
> inadvertently built using steel laced with radioactive elements. > Statistical analysis on them showed lower affinity for cancer Radiation Hormesis might be real (I hope so), but if it gets through drywall, it would be a different
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by gopalv 9y ago
> In other words, black defendants actually are more dangerous to release and there is no magic algorithm that bypasses this fact. You are right, but that's not the problem with the algorithm. A critical assumption with large-scale
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by gopalv 9y ago
> I would apply zlib at maximum compression to N consecutive blocks, and then apply no compression to 100-N consecutive blocks Zlib is actually highly configurable - it has a huge number of tweaks beyond just that one flag of size. DEFAU
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by gopalv 9y ago
> 200ml of hot (not boiling) milk If you're lactose intolerant, you can do this with yoghurt with a little water & salt instead. Since this usually happens when I do have a cold, my laziness translates into a coffee cup of yoghu
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by gopalv 9y ago
> was born and brought up in south India and my grandma used to make me drink turmeric + ground black pepper milk every night I grew up in a part of South India with a fairly high natural background radiation (thorium, mostly) and I did
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by gopalv 9y ago
This is not the "Do Not Track", this is a block list from disconnect.me. If someone used a single pixel beacon, only mined referrers, that wouldn't be the case, but the additional javascript does cause performance issues.
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Someone one a big endian machine, would have to do a lot more legwork to get the thing working. But given that there aren't many of those around, it was deemed an acceptable tradeoff. Even PowerPC64 has a little-endian mode - PPC6
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by gopalv 9y ago
> a violation of the First Amendment If write-ins were removed, I'd agree that it violates free speech. People voted for Harambe.
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Do they carry their own with them and take the time to install it and uninstall it? Yeah, it is possible to do this without much effort, if the car-seat has a seatbelt strap in the base and the stroller can carry the car-seat around in
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by gopalv 9y ago
I mostly break-down leadership tasks into 4 groups 1. delegation 2. negotiation 3. vision 4. inspiration A typical EM only needs to do two of those well, same with higher up the ladder, though not the same two through the ranks - in my expe
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by gopalv 9y ago
The biggest bit I miss from messing with proxies in the past has been "stop, hold, upgrade" game that web-servers could play with proxies. This means that you can have your proxy "hold requests" for a few seconds while y
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Also, we chose to completely scrap whiteboard coding and assigned homework instead. For an entry level engineer, this removes a bunch of variance and also because it gets you another scenario which happens way often in actual work. You
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by gopalv 9y ago
> a way of merging multiple HyperLogLogs together and still have a reasonable cardinality estimate? HLLs can be merged together with the same sort of result as if you ran the whole set over the same HLL. The merge can't do better t

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