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Monks Wood Wilderness: 60 years ago, scientists let a farm field rewild(theconversation.com)
45 points by indogooner 5y ago|10 comments
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Covid-19 affects men and women differently(sciencemag.org)
3 points by indogooner 5y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 5y ago
When I start looking forward to Fridays from Monday itself. On a serious note it is when one of compensation, learning or work life balance get so bad that I start hating start of the work day. Only once it has been that these were alright
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by indogooner 5y ago
I guess a lot of this should be driven by leadership team. On the contrary I see leaders themselves staying late in office, scheduling late evening status update meetings. And the developers also contribute to this. They stay up late, send
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by indogooner 5y ago
This has been my experience as well. The places where testing was an afterthought meant the software was not testable easily. Executing multiple steps to test one feature meant QA folks kept running into one or other service issues causing
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The State We Are In: Neither Here, There, nor in Heaven(longreads.com)
2 points by indogooner 5y ago|0 comments
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FOQS: Scaling a distributed priority queue – Facebook Engineering(engineering.fb.com)
2 points by indogooner 6y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 6y ago
Anecdata: I usually dont remember my dreams unless I wake up early or at least not all the details of it. However, some times, before I sleep I imagine myself in some situation I always wanted to be. For example, a soccer player in a cup fi
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U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'(smithsonianmag.com)
156 points by indogooner 6y ago|63 comments
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by indogooner 6y ago
> Actors and musicians occasionally make comebacks, but technology companies almost never do. Microsoft had one of the greatest comeback. Just wondering if Oracle and IBM are capable of this ever.
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by indogooner 6y ago
CoRecursive : https://corecursive.com/ Freakonomics : https://freakonomics.com/ Dan Snow's HistoryHit : https://www.historyhit.com/podcast/dan-snows-history-hit/
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by indogooner 6y ago
Unpopular opinion - Java virtual machine (JVM).
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Lantana invades teak plantations and turns elephants violent(feralatlas.supdigital.org)
1 points by indogooner 6y ago|0 comments
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Some Great Books for Programmers That StackOverflow Cannot Replace(medium.com)
1 points by indogooner 6y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 6y ago
He is hated by both Hindu and Muslim extremists. I take that as a complement. His tolerance should be judged in context. One should not judge him on the basis of his early reign, when he was under influence of Bairam Khan. Remember he was b
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by indogooner 6y ago
Ideally they should have some morality to put basic human rights and safety above profits. Even from long term perspective if they continue to ignore hate speech against Islam on their platform I am sure they would lose a lot of users.
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by indogooner 6y ago
Once Upon A Time is the first Western I watched and became fan of Leone, Morricone and Bronson for life. I found it slow initially but the background score won't let me leave it. And from then on I binge watched as many Westerns as I c
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by indogooner 6y ago
Curious to know why don't researchers use Audiobooks/Videos and transcript when data is not available? Is it because these do not capture different dialects/accents?
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by indogooner 6y ago
Also add the time maintaining that code.
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by indogooner 6y ago
>> The first one is that if we overload the comma operator, we need to be extra careful to cover all cases and think about lvalues and rvalues. Otherwise we end up with buggy code. Extra careful to cover all cases is when I start look
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Metadata: Curiosity-Driven Research(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
2 points by indogooner 6y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 6y ago
Directories. Sections inside text files.
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by indogooner 6y ago
I do something similar but with a bit more ceremony. I use a gitbook and keep committing every week or so. Instead of text I use markdown instead of plain text which makes it more readable in my text editor (VSCode). Not able to write too m
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Early Coronavirus Immunity Data Fuel Promise for a Vaccine(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by indogooner 6y ago|1 comments
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by indogooner 6y ago
I don't contest that VSCode has achieved better out of the box functionality than emacs but it still needs a lot of configuration. My experience is only with C++ extension where intellisense update just goes on indefinitely. Navigation
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'How is this possible?' Researchers grapple with Covid-19's mysterious mechanism(theguardian.com)
6 points by indogooner 6y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 7y ago
> There are also the thousands of people employed full time in the autumn to pick up leaves Don't they do any other maintenance work for the city? And even if trees are not there won't grass/dust/pollen from plant flo
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Tackling Inflammation to Fight Age-Related Ailments(nytimes.com)
2 points by indogooner 7y ago|0 comments
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Metaplasm: Scala and the Visitor Pattern(meta.plasm.us)
4 points by indogooner 7y ago|0 comments
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by indogooner 7y ago
The book may seem rather shallow if you are experienced developer but I feel it is extremely good at covering breadth in data intensive applications. For practical applications I have found following Open source frameworks like Kafka, Spark

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