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by irahul 14y ago
> I wonder about the utility of an exam that one can ace with five minutes of googling. I won't debate the utility of the exam, but the majority of the tests I have taken can be aced with five minutes of googling.
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by irahul 14y ago
> But I did have to answer this question: why does the application crash? "Oh...that's because the developer that was pontificating yesterday about how heap operations behave asymptotically forgot to check if the database connection was
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by irahul 14y ago
> I haven't looked to see if every question is covered by these, but here's some standard textbooks I like: The good thing is @cpervica has suggested standard textbooks, as opposed to suggesting obtuse texts unreachable to a beginner.
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by irahul 14y ago
> There is another meaning: culture is what a cultivated man has. Cultivated as in "educated and refined"? And somehow who doesn't give a shit about Kant isn't educated or refined? > It is something one person gains with time by bro
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by irahul 14y ago
> gbog sounds a bit like the main character from Verne's Paris au XXe siècle, a classics scholar who is shunned for searching for timeless truth in a modernist, materialist world that focuses only on technology and business. Search for
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by irahul 14y ago
> I take your point, but there books that are hundreds or thousands of years old that still help to illuminate the human condition and that people can learn from - Shakespeare, Plutarch, Herodotus etc. I don't know what you are respondi
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by irahul 14y ago
> and the anti-culture trend I can feel on HN What do you mean by anti-culture trend? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture Of all the definitions listed here, what on earth would anti-culture mean? This is the 20th century definition:
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by irahul 14y ago
> I find it very disturbing and revealing that such a high level and respected guy did read no real book, I mean real books that will be read in 50 years, literature or philosophy, or classics like Seneque, Proust, Montaigne, Austeen. B
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by irahul 14y ago
> Is there a HN filter to weed out "rich man has opinions" type stories? Yes. The title says "rich man has opinions". Don't click the link, don't read the comments and don't post comments about how you didn't want to see this.
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by irahul 14y ago
> I don't remember where I saw it, but someone talked about using Go in contrast with Java, and the overwhelming reaction was "that's cool but I'm a Python programmer, I'm curious what Python programmers think", so I was just trying to
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by irahul 14y ago
> I don't have much to add, but pg clearly made a mistake by not cc'ing Google Ventures on the original email. Why would he do that? He is advising the startups which has sought his/firm's mentorship that taking gv's investment will irk
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by irahul 14y ago
> After being on this site for 5 years, I am still surprised to not see a blacklist solely for techcrunch submissions. This particular article is from Uncrunched, not Techcrunch.
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by irahul 14y ago
> Wow, ego issues? You are way in over your head. > You have taken this all very personally. I apologize for offering a different take on system design than what you apparently believe in very strongly? No, you haven't offered anyth
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you've got a single webserver then we're speaking a different language. That's not an insult or anything, it's just that I'm talking about techniques we use to support millions of pageviews a day. And where did I talk about single
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by irahul 14y ago
> Memcached happily removes keys when it feels so I know about memcache key eviction. For most of the applications, that is an acceptable compromise. For others, back up the sessions in the db every n seconds as mentioned in the article
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by irahul 14y ago
> Once you move from storing session data in-memory on the webserver, and add a network call, I don't move from storing session data in-memory; I never store session data in-memory. Well, I do indirectly but that's always some distribut
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by irahul 14y ago
> Even better: Don't use sessions. If there's data you're caching in a session, pre-compute it and store it in Redis (or other suitable NoSQL database). What do you mean by data you are caching in a session? Session is for maintainin
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by irahul 14y ago
> It is verbose compared to python, which would do this in about 3 lines. That can be done as a perl one liner. The C++ program is pretty reasonable as in it matches to the algorithm. 1. Read words. 2. Add words to a set. Set only has u
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by irahul 14y ago
> Because it is not as useful as other languages? C++ doesn't have web frameworks, and is big and complicated. If you aren't doing web projects, you can safely stick with a subset(with guidance of course). You mention is not being usefu
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by irahul 14y ago
> Why would a 14 year old be taught C++ and low level networking? There is an entry age for learning C++? Tell me more about it. /s > Will you teach surgery to a 14 year old? Apparently high school biology followed by 5 years of und
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by irahul 14y ago
> Having spent quite some time in sceptic forums and circles, I can assure that the article is 100% spot on. I can assure you that you and the author aren't the only skeptics around; and this article isn't 100% spot on.
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by irahul 14y ago
> Notice how you didn't manage to come up I would replace that "didn't manage to come up" with "didn't come up" - trolls, feeding etc. The whole article is full of straw-man and false generalizations. If you got anything out of it, supe
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by irahul 14y ago
> but it's not like the western cultures treat women well It doesn't make any difference - at all. If I am a wife beater, that doesn't validate your wife beating. > and if a TV show just focuses on FGM I missed the part where anyone
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by irahul 14y ago
> Simply untrue. Indeed the scientific method may be only the best we've got rather than perfect, but that still makes it the best we've got. "other sources of knowledge" - like what, mysticism? are less useful. I don't understand how p
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> Wrapping bullshit around some kernels of truth does not make it true. > I would encourage people to read this in its entirety, if only to convince yourself that the title is an attention grab, and that the contents, while pointing
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by irahul 14y ago
> you will be called out on racism, possibly with good reasons Unless you assume all races/cultures are at the epitome of human development, there has to be changes, which will be unpleasant - that's how humans develop. What would be th
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by irahul 14y ago
> Being an architect and developer for the last 14 years I should confess that I would not want my kids or anybody I love to choose software as a career. Learning to program doesn't mean you have to choose software as a career. A lot of
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by irahul 14y ago
Cue the "web2py is non-pythonic" crowd. FWIW, I liked web2py when I first saw it, then I stopped liking it and moved on to Django, Flask, Rails, Sinatra. There is nothing to be gained from bashing somebody's hard work which isn't harming yo
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by irahul 14y ago
> Do a quick search on mistaking articulation for action, it should be helpful. The first I heard it from was a diplomat, Swiss I believe. The top search result is from Sir Swan, the gent who reached both poles. So that's where it came
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Ask HN: How did you learn Scala? And are you finding it useful?
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