ivenkys

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by ivenkys 17y ago
This and a thousand times this. If you don't want to code - you are wasting your time being a CS major.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I have experience with something similar. Working with Freelancers is not a bad idea, yes you might get it at a better cost - but if your business is based on being technically better or if you are trying to solve a hard problem - then this
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Absolutely , there has to be more to the story. Where is the other side of the story ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
A good data point but very limited. Indian Government bureaucracy is not the same as private enterprises. The inefficiency and feudalism of Government bureaucracy is very well known and does not bear repeating. Private enterprises,( not the
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by ivenkys 17y ago
It depends on the level of proficiency you want to gain in Clojure and Scala. At this point in time,to make the most of either language and to develop a "real" application you should know Java and not just Java but the tool, library and the
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I don't think the author has completely thought this through. Yes a "new" way of publishing i.e. self-publishing on electronic media is now possible but extrapolating that and making the leap to say that the Printed Book is itself becoming
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I disagree with this. Again, it depends on the area you are working in - software does not evolve glacially on a Trading Platform. Its in fact quite the opposite. Anytime you are directly working with Traders or Front-Office Quants this is
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by ivenkys 17y ago
That's a lot of oversimplification. Yes, there are niches in banks that would probably fit that profile but then do so many other companies. Another point to note is that Investment banks are very heavy users of technology and have varied n
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by ivenkys 17y ago
It all boils to discipline. Easier said than done.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"become" garbage , i would like to know a time when it was not.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
OLPC - only better and completely free.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
As always, the clarion call on the internet remains - Caveat Emptor - Buyer beware.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Best business by far, High-End Finance, of course depends on which angle you look at it from. But, when you get to a point where no-one really no-one can agree on what you are selling and if you are selling it at a good price or not. Well,
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I have worked on Financial Apps where we have ended up blowing away the 64-bit threshold.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Platform specific does effect the ability to be a "killer app". Ms Windows being a killer app was in a completely different time period. Any app that has to have game changing ability has to be cross-platform or perhaps run on the web. Anyt
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I am sorry i don't get it , how can a new "Killer App" be Windows only ? The installer only works on Windows , what happens to the rest of us.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Tor has well known issues with the Bit Torrent protocol, tangentially there was a well known exploit where someone running a Tor exit node ended up capturing all to and fro traffic.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Ah well , TPB tracker has been irrelevant for a while anyway, this just makes it formal. What would really be news is - completely anonymous torrenting.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Why is this on here ? An example of scratch my back and i scratch yours.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
This is the third Twitter related, content-lite and nothing new being said, story within the last week on HN and in this case the poster doesn't even know how to "use" twitter. Surely, there are more important stories out there.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Pitiful excuse of an article no depth, no proper examples and to top it all bad rendering on FF. Icing on the cake - ad infested top,bottom and the sides.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
A very poor article , taking a few outliers and extrapolating that to make it sound like "India"/Bangalore is the next Silicon Valley is just non-sensical.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
You are in your twenties and you are working for others !! Reality check : if you are really as good as you think you are, work for yourself. Work for someone else and they will take advantage of you, it doesn't matter which "employee" frie
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I did read the inflammatory headline and the complete article and that was my takeaway from it. You of course are welcome to your opinion.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Welcome to the bimonthly "Is Java dead ? Can it be saved ? Using Java, brain-dead ?" ad-infinitum . The reality is quite prosaic , does Java work for you ? This can also be re-phrased as Are you looking for a stable,robust language with ton
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by ivenkys 17y ago
So there is some use for Twitter after all, isn't this just the "old media" attempting to get cool and "with it" by jumping onto what is a bona-fide internet hit ? Well good on you Justin.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"which makes online games, like FarmVille, that have become incredibly popular on Facebook among people who are missing parts of their brains." As an aside no mainstream media would actually use those words , though they be true.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Incorrect headline , the author never says what Twitter is good for. He does indeed say what it is not good for , but then as someone else so succinctly said , pointless comes to mind.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"Two weeks ago, I wrote here about how the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. " Amen, it doesn't matter if you are a top-level celebrity or happen to be at the location of a major incident , i don't want to know you
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Why is this even on HN , i would have thought HN is simply not the right audience for that particular piece.

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