guru4consulting

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by guru4consulting 3y ago
I consider HN users to be smarter and rational than average internet crowd. Surprised to see folks here comparing the Google Apple store to other business models like Starbucks, Donut shops, Restaurants? does not make sense to me. Consumers
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
I guess dual SIM is different from having eSIM+physical SIM. Dual SIM typically allows both SIMs/phone-numbers to be active and when you receive a call, you will know which number is being called. With eSIM+physical SIM card, only one
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
I guess it DOES cost company something.. goes directly to their profit/lost statement (of course if they are sincere to follow GAAP standards). And I do not understand the rationale when people say salary alone matters and stock compen
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
Often, it's best practice to store time in both epoch (UTC) format and the actual time zone when the transaction/event occurred. Epoch time can be the universal truth, used for business rules and it can be displayed in whatever ti
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
Similar approach seems to have worked well for Java. There are long term releases like versions 8,11,17 and everything in between are kind of catch up releases with short term support cycle. Enterprises typically adopt LTS releases while en
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
won't that be a problem for high-traffic topics? Kafka latency is usually in single digit milliseconds. For a topic with high throughput, a typical java client instance can send thousands of messages per second. When the acknowledgemen
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
Agreed. Stock markets are very similar to prediction markets. They are priced based on future projections, technical feasibility and probability of achieving certain milestone, ability to reach market first, internal and external factors, e
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by guru4consulting 3y ago
just can't resist. here we go: https://web3isgoinggreat.com :)
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
>>Java as a language is still is playing catchup here. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
this is the best one-line explanation I have come across.
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned about Google's Project Ara. A modular smartphone with reusable components that can be plugged/replaced as needed. I was really excited to see a big company like Google committing to such a green
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
If there are extensive test cases with static dataset, this may help with query modifications (optimize query, fine-tune, etc.) Of course, this may not feasible for new queries as you can't have test script until the query is ready.
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
If a group has 49% share, and there are 10 other groups that each have 5% share, will you still call the first group with 49% as a minority group? does n't make sense to me. As per your definition, then every group will be defined as a
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
Women are generally under represented in IT. And usually there is a high level of hesitation, fear-of-unknown-foreign-land among young women when they travel alone from home country to any other country. Things are changing fast though.
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
cultural oppression - that might have been a valid reason many decades ago but not these days. Most of the men on H1B visa get married and their spouses arrive on dependent H4 visa. They cannot work with H4 visa (they can work with EAD thes
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
May be Google can have trusted contacts to help the account recovery. If I set-up 5 trusted contacts, all of them would receive different temp passwords and the temp passwords from at least 3 would be necessary to recover. The only risk is
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by guru4consulting 4y ago
USPS is operationally profitable for a long time. They have this requirement to save large amounts for future pension obligations that keeps them in red.
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
When working outdoors in middle-eastern countries and the temperature goes above certain range (like 45C/110F range), sirens/alarms are raised to halt the work and give a cool-off period for the workers. My friend worked as an ins
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
I guess there's always a trade-off and fine balance between suggesting older good quality videos vs giving chance to the new ones. YT algorithm is probably skewed towards quantity than quality.. that means often favoring someone who re
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
Long ago, I had volunteered for 5thPillar, the NGO that made these zero-rupee notes. There were so many weird rules to follow when you make a fake currency. Can't be same size, can't have both sides resemble real currency, should
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
Technologies like JSF/Vaadin/GWT are obsolete now. They require sticky sessions, server-side state (gobbles huge memory), cumbersome and complex code for client side rendering (JSF is the worst offender here). The tech world has m
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
I guess NFTs are being used mostly for money laundering. No one in their sane mind would buy NFTs with their hard-earned money. Not sure if regulatory authorities get bribed secretly with bitcoins to keep quite and not do their job.
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
seems almost impossible even now.. awesome and inspiring work. Kudos to all of you
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
I strongly believe in simplicity and maintainability of the applications, even at the cost of some flexibility. I like the simplicity of REST when compared to the GQL. Yeah, you have write some extra lines of code, but in return I get relia
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
Good developers are often average designers. And the UI changes are often isolated independent from backend changes. To me, a clean API layer with a static SPA style frontend makes it much easier to iterate both UI and backend changes in pa
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
One of the big issues that I have with Pixel phones is the large file size for the videos. Even a 5 minute video runs into 300MB-400MB file. I disabled HDR, reduced resolution but nothing helps. Has anyone else seen this issue and found a w
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
30s is probably an edge case. Did this use Java/JVM runtime without AOT/GraalVM? I cannot imagine any other runtime that would cause 30s cold start. Care to share more details on this?
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
Long ago, I had worked at EPA OPP division, the office of pesticide protection. In general, the regulations are not enough. I won't be able to share all the details, but I can say that these kinds of regulations sometime help the pesti
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
Imagine doing this at a large scale for the whole industry.. TVs, mobile phones, dishwashers, microwaves.. helps consumers and our planet environment too
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by guru4consulting 5y ago
In short term, how about using a AI generated face for her online profile picture, and let google assume that's her real picture? It's not the solution, but okay for time-being. In long term, I guess she could reach out to EFF or

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