gopalv

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by gopalv 10y ago
> All of those things are great, but you're assuming your manager and peers will value you them. The crucial transition is turning yourself into a senior engineer - someone who acts as a force multiplier in your organization (a poss
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by gopalv 10y ago
> which potentially means huge volumes of data moving into this physical processing layer You get to cheat at that, because the naive implementation loads too much data, while most of it is going to drop off at the filter level. The ide
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by gopalv 10y ago
> I regularly write static methods and test them with JUnit Implementing mock objects which return "unexpected" results is impossible with static methods. The standard 1 interface + 1 impl pattern in Java is just so that the Pr
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by gopalv 10y ago
> With a large enough sample pool, we'd be able to correlate features with obscure genes, wouldn't we? Am I missing something fundamental? Nature vs Nurture. You'd find a huge sampling error because of epigenetics. The sam
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by gopalv 10y ago
> People in India are surely learning the same thing. Flipkart from circa 2012 had that. The story should probably more about how they lost that trust. I used to order things on Flipkart regularly (during my WFH years in Bangalore) becau
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by gopalv 10y ago
The "Tit for Tat" in the Axelrod experiment winning out is probably the clearest example of a global-winning strategy that's still susceptible to a single-hit psychopath (worse, multiple hits by a sociopath). The core idea is
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Being a "jerk" is a defense mechanism. Being an uncommunicative jerk is considered a more forgivable trait than actually pushing back on the work put on your plate. In my first job ever, I spent about six months helping anyon
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by gopalv 10y ago
> It's utterly painful to use - I hope the situation has gotten better for users there. I bought the bright orange ZTE Open C fxos phone to try it out. Haven't done much more with it that travel around with it, mostly using it
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by gopalv 10y ago
> What you really need to explain is why Python is inefficient. Python is extremely dynamic and this makes things hard for someone who wants to build a JIT. The powerful bits of python metaprogramming makes it really impossible for a JIT
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by gopalv 10y ago
Might be out of fashion, but I'm wearing one of those right now. I did end up buying an iPod shuffle to go along with it and then just struggled for months trying to put music on it with a linux box, because plugging it into a friend&#
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by gopalv 10y ago
> If the FSF believes this to be a real threat, any group of users anywhere relying on the GPL should take the same view. The issue with GNU license assignment (at least in the years I worked on) was the "defense of infringement&quo
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by gopalv 10y ago
The big picture is that there's a few compression algorithms. Run Length Encoding Huffman Encoding Lempel Ziv (LZ77) Burrows Wheeler Transform The interesting part of all these specific implementations is their own specialized way of e
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by gopalv 10y ago
This looked interesting at first sight (considering I work on ORC & Hive) - the single machine configuration with TinyLog and the aggregate indexes look good[1]. But the more I look into the distributed storage section, the more corners
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Do you have a database of walking styles? Does anybody? I nearly always walk around with a 3-d accelerometer which can indeed "phone" home. Here's the ML extraction mechanism as explained by a Samsung engineer - http:&#
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by gopalv 10y ago
> Adversity is what gives life meaning, improves us as people, and (paradoxically) creates happiness And one must imagine sisyphus to be happy? I suspect, the attacks is what gets boring. Attacks that you need to fend off which have only
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by gopalv 11y ago
Is this a single node solution? I might still have per-city sharding for most bogey-in-motion, but would that be practical?
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by gopalv 11y ago
> I always thought the don't column was a learned skill Perhaps it is one of those things that happen only for your first language? Whenever I read English, I don't - I read through skipping syllables. But, I read/write tw
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by gopalv 11y ago
> It seems the Justice Department admits that Apple's reputation for privacy and security is of great value to the company. in China. Can you imagine what a reputation for standing upto governments (in a democracy, but with most o
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by gopalv 11y ago
I wrote something similar for FB API access while I was at my last job, but with zero caching. This combined Varnish+Stunnel so that the varnish would redo keep-alives & stunnel could put it back over SSL. So there was a web-app (PHP) -
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by gopalv 11y ago
> that's of the main points of columnar data formats such as Parquet and ORC, I'm not sure that I understand the main point of in-memory columnar data formats. ORC has had its own in-memory columnar data-format for the last co
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by gopalv 11y ago
Even ignoring Godel - take the stuff that's been legal in the past & not anymore. Slavery? Restricted Suffrage? Genocide? Witch trials? Heroin? Or stuff that's been illegal before Inter-racial marriage? Hemp? Gay marriage? Due
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by gopalv 11y ago
You can't astro-turf a groundswell - I think that's the whole reason TRAI is ticked off. I applaud them catching onto this, because that the indian "license raj" has its downsides as well as upsides. This the first time
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by gopalv 11y ago
The cstore model seems to be very similar to how ORC handles metadata for ACID as well. ORC handles the ACID insert problem very similarly with metadata files suffixed with "_flush_length", which is the virtual footer location of
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by gopalv 11y ago
> my standpoint is that startups should not shy away from hiring employees who are in H-1B status simply because they are startups. This does solve the hiring manager's problem, but will raise red flags with the outsourced employee&
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by gopalv 11y ago
I assume that he'd be talking about the IRC DCC sub-protocol. CTCP and then SEND bots?
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by gopalv 11y ago
> I haven't found a fundamental reason why one would not base their batch processing on S3 (or your object store of choice) Naming Consistency for things like list after create. I had to debug through data loss issues with an object
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by gopalv 11y ago
> My instinct tells me that the smart ones leave, the "loyal" ones pay a price for their loyalty that they don't expect. The opportunities that come up for a "smart" person is many-fold for the ones who're n
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by gopalv 11y ago
> Either system could support the other aggregation mechanism, and the only challenge would be in choosing which one to use. Hive implements something similar to the paper mentioned. Partial aggregation on mappers & the reducer does
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by gopalv 11y ago
> get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then? There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. Except, here's a situation that doubles up the tragedy. You start off
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by gopalv 11y ago
Magnets & ferro fluids, excellent. Because of the video, I can literally see through the box into the 7 segment magnet chunks moving with the servos when the time ticks over. I like the simplicity & the way the tick flows into shape

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