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by jdnc 9y ago
FWIW, as someone who grew up in western India (but not Mumbai, another city/state), my personal experience is very similar to what the author described in the article.
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Tau manifesto(tauday.com)
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by jdnc 9y ago
Any data to support your claim? From my anecdotal experience, having lived in both the India and the US, I haven't ever felt that there was anything lacking in terms of receiving world class healthcare in India.
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by jdnc 9y ago
I think here the main issue was that the company hired programmers without any kind of actual technical screening. It kind of seems quite likely that in this case they would end up hiring developers, that they would come to regret later. Q
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It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea (2015) [James Mickens](vimeo.com)
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by jdnc 10y ago
Never really knew about Fermat's library. From skimming it looks like a really great idea, especially for reading papers in areas you may not be that familiar with.
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by jdnc 10y ago
Yes, its one of my favorite papers. Thanks for the pointers, very useful.
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Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984) [pdf](ece.cmu.edu)
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by jdnc 10y ago
- 13" 2015 Macbook pro with 2 external monitors (34" and 24") mostly used to ssh to a powerful 16 core ec2 instance (amazon linux), which is where I do all my development - iterm2 with tmux and oh-my-zsh - mostly vim / c
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How I fixed Unix atime with 10 lines of code and feminism [video 2016](youtube.com)
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Michael Stonebraker: The Land Sharks Are on the Squawk Box (2016)(cacm.acm.org)
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How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters (2007) [video](youtube.com)
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Dijkstra: My Recollections of Operating System Design (2001) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
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Ask HN: What are things a programmer should do at least once?
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by jdnc 10y ago
Often some stuff is sold by third party dealers and shipped by Amazon. I suspect that is probably the case for the Macbook. Amazon typically has much lesser control over such sales, and would need to adhere to the dealer's policies.