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by jp0d 4y ago
I tried with phrases like "I don't like minorities." and somehow I'm still not an asshole! Now the server seems to be down.
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by jp0d 4y ago
South Africans need to be introduced to Vegemite!
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by jp0d 5y ago
How does one get access to the direct URL to such a file?
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by jp0d 5y ago
I can understand the author's reasoning. I guess one can get quite fatigued from constantly being connected! I don't do most of the things the author has listed too. I use computers for work and studies and watch stuff on youtube.
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by jp0d 5y ago
Absolutely. They were the pioneers in open sourcing so much knowledge. I'm doing a course on EDX from MIT and there are deadlines for homework assignments. It's quite hard. But one can learn the concepts from the OCW course if the
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by jp0d 5y ago
> There is very little room given for exploration you literally took words out of my mouth or keystrokes out of my fingers! > if I tried deriving my own method the person correcting it wouldn't understand and I would be penalized
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by jp0d 5y ago
It sounds like an honest conversation. I agree with you on the first point. The Indian education system is quite good to enable kids to focus on getting a job. It's a bit too focussed on how to get good grades, which ultimately results
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by jp0d 5y ago
I agree with you on generalising based on what immediate colleagues are capable of or not. Indians in general have done quite well on the world stage. To answer your question from an Australian perspective, the interview processes here gene
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by jp0d 5y ago
Anyway, my original point (which I didn't actually get to) was that SAT/ACT scores are quite important as they kind of give the person an idea whether they'll be able to handle the homework and academic rigour at an instituti
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by jp0d 5y ago
Barring the racist part, I can imagine some of the situations that might have led to such conversations. My wife was working for the Covid vaccine deployment programme for one of the Australian states as a consultant from a respected compan
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by jp0d 5y ago
The Indian education system doesn't care about learning at all. It's all about scoring good grades and getting a job at the end. It's quite important as every individual needs to be able support themselves. However, it's
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by jp0d 5y ago
I have a few quartz watches. I have a bunch of stuff from Apple as well but never could live with an Apple watch. For some weird reason I've always thought that I need to know the time reliably if I even get lost somewhere. I live in t
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by jp0d 5y ago
Fair enough. I totally understand. I'm employed full time as a data analyst and I still can't afford an Omega. But it's the engineering behind the manual movement that fascinates me. Just like the mechanical/automotive e
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by jp0d 5y ago
Yes, I know. :)
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by jp0d 5y ago
Yes, exactly my thoughts. You're right, a bunch of these appeared on Ebay the next day with 1000% mark up.
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by jp0d 5y ago
Yes, but Swatch watches are beautiful without the Omega branding. :) I own an Irony model that I bought in 2007 and it's quite beautiful just with the Swatch logo.
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by jp0d 5y ago
Omega is owned by the Swatch group.
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by jp0d 5y ago
Apparently there was a huge queue outside the Swatch store here in Melbourne and they sold out all of those "Omega" models in less than 7 minutes. As far as I can tell, this is just another Swatch with quartz movement. Does anyone
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by jp0d 5y ago
I feel so so stupid right now. I believe I've read about the Arc language in one of the essays written by Paul Graham himself! hahaha.
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by jp0d 5y ago
The exact HN like interface left me confused!
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by jp0d 5y ago
Yes, the programming languages course on Coursera! Yes, you're right, Scala is a lot more prevalent mostly because of Spark. I work on Spark occasionally but mostly use pySpark. But I'm fascinated by the world of functional progra
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by jp0d 5y ago
Thanks mate, I'll have a look.
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by jp0d 5y ago
I thought Elm was very much about web development. And Elixir is too in some ways. Both Scala and F# have a lot going on in the data space. Scala more so than F#. Standard ML is exciting because it's not big. And probably a better choi
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by jp0d 5y ago
Thanks mate. I was honestly hoping for some F# resources as I'd started learning it a bit. But would mind glancing over this. Cheers.
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by jp0d 5y ago
A lot of comments have praised SICP on this thread. I'm a data analyst but I don't have a computer science background. I somehow prefer the ML family languages to Lispy parentheses. Could anyone please suggest an SICP equivalent b
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by jp0d 5y ago
I completely agree with you. I don't miss Windows and quite despise the UI. Even the modern one. I've been using Macs since several years and the only thing that comes close to a distant second is Gnome. I'm actually quite su
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by jp0d 5y ago
I get that it's easier to run on low RAM systems. I just don't think Windows95 was the pinnacle of UI design and was minimalistic only because resources were scarce. These days it's actually a lot harder to get low RAM machin
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by jp0d 5y ago
Can anyone think of a reason why to do this? Apart from personal fun project, of course!
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by jp0d 5y ago
I don't know much about the issue. But isn't that a bit extreme? They're Canadian citizens after all, not terrorists. We've had our fair share of anti-vax protestors here in Australia. Many of them were arrested for unru
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by jp0d 5y ago
Thanks for posting this.

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