gopalv

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by gopalv 9y ago
> The British press essentially doxed him, stripping him of his anonymity and privacy. Good news and bad news ...
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Most traditional SQL databases are I/O-bound, meaning that the cost of pulling index pages from disk into memory overwhelms everything else, and adding more CPU doesn't do much good. A traditional database is somewhat tied to
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by gopalv 9y ago
> Can you give some examples where you hid road blocks because of your lack of education? Not a veteran, but I've noticed something very odd about entry level jobs - they're not challenging. And that is no accident someone hiri
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by gopalv 9y ago
> I have no idea if HotSpot optimises the specific loop Gil posted, I'm actually curious to see what the output assembly of LLVM is for that loop, because JDK8 does not optimize a branch in a loop. But the JVM does do a pretty decen
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by gopalv 10y ago
> At least now the code that "seems to work" usually does, and is memory-safe now, so yes, it's an improvement. The most significant part of that statement comes from accepting contributions into your project. Java has mad
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by gopalv 10y ago
> The bidding may go high, but it will only go as high as how much it would cost to hire an American instead. If someone made a "tech H-1B" bucket that would work, because the training lag is short(er). Speciality professions h
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by gopalv 10y ago
Esper[1] was the go-to solution for these problems, in the last generation - the reason there are alternatives is primarily because that was GPLv2. And even from the same stable as Kafka, there's Samza[2] [1] - http://www.es
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by gopalv 10y ago
> I don't think legally a company can fire you just because you are looking for a job, that too without giving a notice I wish - not where I work (California). There are protections by law [1], but none that protects an H1B employee
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by gopalv 10y ago
> The employee can change companies without too much trouble. Am I mis-informed? This rule changed so recently that it hasn't trickled into the job market yet. https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis
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by gopalv 10y ago
> using immigrants with H1-B Visas I think that's the problem here - those on H1-B visas aren't immigrants. It is a dual intent visa and most outsourcing firms keep it strictly in the non-immigrant category. Until they get a Do
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by gopalv 10y ago
Section 2. That's what matters if you're an Indian with an I-140 dated 2009, afraid to change his H1B job, despite salary or personnel issues. (Also, ask me about why I'm not starting up). That one section prevents this &quot
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Some systems (like Cassandra) has upserts and can do writes without reading. That forces the latest-version resolution into a read-side problem - systems like that cannot handle any sort of complete table-scans but can only really work
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by gopalv 10y ago
There are probably some Indians who are celebrating this ... a minimum 100k wage + a cost of living adjustment every 3 years. If this is like the 2015 bill, that also includes the requirement to sign them up for stock options, similar to a
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by gopalv 10y ago
> For example, even though the bitpacking from the post achieves fast good compression, it is unable to compress floats in general; merely 1.0 and 0.0. Fewer bits does not always mean better compression, particularly if the data has oth
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by gopalv 10y ago
> it absolutely does not make sense to consider the shares granted to be worthless That is very true. The specific situation of a Unicorn is somewhat value growth (+ dilution) without direct market corrections for an extended period of
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by gopalv 10y ago
> A shame the presidential candidates don't seem (as far as I'm aware) There was a fair bit of that (particularly NH primary, I think), though a lot of it was lost in the noise of emails, FBI & the leaks. http://
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by gopalv 10y ago
> it's okay to violate regulations because your engineers want to see their work in their city? Other than the pointless flaunting of privilege in this ... I think keeping engineers very close to the project is usually a sign that n
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by gopalv 10y ago
> 4- If this "database" checks for first and second degree connections, then the entire country would be flagged. And some people would like that - which is sort of the problem with Xenophobia-with-added-statistics. The trouble
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by gopalv 10y ago
> It’s about the company’s most valuable asset – its employees. There are often two ways to look at that statement. Employees aren't fungible and how that cuts both ways. The longer someone works in an established company the more
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Is uttapam just an appam variant? Nope - the word, AFAIK means "cooked food" in this case, a pancake. Appam is made from fermented rice and no lentils in the mix. Also it is cooked crispy on the edges in a deep wok[1] like co
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by gopalv 10y ago
It's a much better notation because NOT(MAYBE) = MAYBE. That's hard to explain when you work with binary booleans.
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by gopalv 10y ago
> the campaign has said nothing since learning of it last Thursday, should give you pause That's not surprising at all - anything less than an outright win fails to give Hillary anything positive & that ship has sailed. If the
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by gopalv 10y ago
> One of the nice things about Silicon Valley, is, you all have worked next to an idiot who has gone off and been successful That sort of under-cuts the meritocracy message by a lot. I think success is a product of more things than talen
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Wealthier people will care less about a chance to win $100 This might not be the only factor - altruism for status is a consistent trend on those who do not suffer the lack of food or other resources - Happiness by giving, is still an
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by gopalv 10y ago
MemSQL is a transactional database (system of record). Spark is a way of processing data, ideally stored in a system of record (Hive/HDFS/S3/MemSQL etc). They're not the same.
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by gopalv 10y ago
> I can't believe he skipped over the real elephant in the offshoring room - the time difference. That was the reason off-shoring of BPO/call-centers happened in the first place - follow-the-sun.
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by gopalv 10y ago
> The suburban house people complain that it costs them 1-2k Euro to pay for the fibre, but they pay for it. I think that's the difference - the costs are upfront, not paid by capital/loan with the subscriber having to pay for
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by gopalv 10y ago
> It's a garbage language, and you know it. But it allows you to get something up and running, so dang quick. PHP didn't succeed because of the "language" part. It succeeded because it was limited and focussed to just
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by gopalv 10y ago
The project that affected my thinking the most was a bytecode interpreter[1]. I've had use for that knowledge, nearly fifteen years later - most of the interesting learnings about building one has been about the inner loop. The way you
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by gopalv 10y ago
> For example you might just be using hadoop for data replication. Good point. The reason someone who holds data for 7+ years uses hadoop is not because it is faster. The processing aspect of the system is only tangential to the failure

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