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by harikb 7y ago
This works so long as entire build is your own code. Once you get to libraries written by someone else who happens to have a different “wish list”, I would guess this flags idea wouldn’t work well.
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by harikb 7y ago
It is like the persitence method for weather prediction - you can predict tomorrow's weather is same as today and you would be right a good number of times :P
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by harikb 7y ago
> still has to pay Apple a reported $8 billion a year to be the default search engine for iOS. That is not the way to think about it - Imagine if Android didn't exist or faltered like Symbian, RIM, Windows Mobile etc. Google would h
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by harikb 7y ago
May I ask anyone posting stats on "millions per day" please indicate how many nodes/cpus the entire system uses. For example "8.6 million per day" is only "100 per second". If that takes 100 cpus.... folks
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by harikb 7y ago
I thought Go did use DWARF for debugging info. Your remark sound as if some easy optimization was ignored. Can you please elaborate?
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by harikb 7y ago
When I was looking for my first car in early 90s, I knew nothing about cars or brands. One thing I noticed was that all the TV ads for most of the cars would say "more room than a Camry". I knew what I needed to buy. If Go doesn&#
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by harikb 7y ago
> The US will be able to enforce space trade law, customs law, private property in space will be made possible. This will enable companies like SpaceX to have a proper legal framework within which to operate. Even if you don’t believe cu
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by harikb 7y ago
While I understand the "fork everything you use" policy, github should make this process easier. Even though it is "free", it pollutes one's account/profile with hundreds of packages that are not really 'f
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by harikb 7y ago
“ Apple says it will add a 50 percent bonus on top of the standard payout for bugs found in beta software, which allows the company to nix the issue before the OS version goes public. It is also offering the same bonus for so-called "r
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by harikb 7y ago
Considering these bug bounty programs are the most economical way to hire white hat talent, what took them so long? Why isn’t every company doing it? The only reason I can think of is that they haven’t done a decent QA of their own system a
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by harikb 7y ago
While terms limits solve one problem, it creates a far bigger one. Most well meaning “good people” have to sacrifice their career in order to serve in Politics. Yes, it is a career. But what is wrong with it? What do you think they should d
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by harikb 7y ago
Edit: See jlmorton's correction below. Creation was indeed accidental. Leaving my comment unchanged. When 401k-s originally started, it was considered ground-breaking in that it was a way for employers to use their purchasing power (or
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by harikb 7y ago
> Especially I have seen this on HN, earlier when I commented on Amazon Just curious - how do you "see" this? What exactly are you seeing? I am not really sure if you have some magical HN karma level to see any special activity
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by harikb 7y ago
The most famous s3 outage has been operator error from a well-meaning privileged user. The fact that it hasn’t happened for Lambda is just betting on luck. Shit happens, we can’t go designing ever more complicated solutions. May be our serv
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by harikb 7y ago
These days I explicitly order items with a later delivery date (usually an amazon suggested 'amazon delivery day'). The good thing about this that I get to claim/reserve a limited-sale item, but at the same time have the luxu
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by harikb 7y ago
Amazon needs to add a "Deliver next week, given them a break" instead of the $1 it offers me which I never use anyways.
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Considering the domain is amazonaws.com, it is only fair they keep it with themselves. They can't be in the business of providing arbitrary subdomains under their parent domain just to have it point to some other external IP.
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by harikb 7y ago
This is an excellent point. There must also be some right and/or control for the owner generating this data, so that they can access it independently, at least in some raw form. I wonder if this qualifies under GDPR like law. If my coo
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How does Apple get away with this UI?(twitter.com)
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Based on this summary, it may not even be worth your time to signup > our interviews with executives, reveals that purpose is only one contributing factor; the level and quality of interpersonal collaboration actually has the greatest im
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by harikb 7y ago
They say "nearly-unique" - I get an odds of '1 in 50,000'. Granted, that may be enough combined with IP or some other factor as a transient/session cookie. However the hash might change as soon as a plugin or some d
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by harikb 7y ago
A gem > Dawson’s first law of computing: O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there
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O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation(randomascii.wordpress.com)
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There is a good chance she used an explicit statement like that to get herself dismissed from the jury pool.
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It appears people who help design these formulas don’t know about mean vs median.
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> Tech companies have faced challenges when trying to work with the Pentagon. Last year a defense program, named Project Maven, set off a revolt here inside Google The word _here_ made me think it was an employee writing about Google. Tu
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by harikb 7y ago
Can you explain what TSP is? The link goes to a login page.
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by harikb 7y ago
From a sample size of one - My Python and Go code tend to be fewer lines per file compared to Java, for projects that are similar in complexity. This is not about the terseness/dense nature of the language, but the sheer simplicity i
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by harikb 7y ago
> Then there's the obscenely large amounts spent by big tech on lobbying in washington and PR in the media and in places like right here. Any data here? I would have thought compared to other industries, tech hasn’t spend nearly eno
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by harikb 7y ago
I think fix seems to update the regular expression to handle next 81 years. Isn't there a better way to handle date parsing?

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