kchoudhu

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by kchoudhu 10y ago
That might puncture the brand-management force field.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I have a pretty relaxed attitude towards sick kids: if they're in real distress they'll yell and wake me up. My wife thinks I'm a monster.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Yes for the increased overhead, but I find that the fact that they're tuples underneath results in odd semantics (I think the comment above mine[1] does a decent job pointing out why I am leary of using them. Tradeoffs, I guess. [1] h
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Classes work for this as well, I've found. I use a lot of classes. It feels like Java sometimes, but it does make debugging easier...
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Two counters: 1) These are bit players in the world economy, with nothing like the clout that the US derives from manipulating the world economy via seigniorage, reserve currency status, monetary policy and the ability to lock other countri
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Coinbase is welcome to fight the breadth of the request, but they will lose -- if not this time, then the next. The government has every interest in regulating BTC out of existence: the ability to transact value with no government intermedi
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
When you put it like that, Lifelock sounds like a perfect fit for Symantec, no?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm sure the potential for a first sale doctrine smackdown in the courts had nothing to do with this.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I guess the cost of allowing these accounts is greater than the ad revenue they bring in now that election season is over.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We have multiple standby servers to prevent the SPOF issue. One problem we HAVE seen is a reduction in maximum bandwidth. Since we're CPU limited, however, it hasn't really been an issue.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
My family did a long road trip around Rajasthan back in the early 2000s -- there is gorgeous architecture and art strewn all over the landscape, completely unlike what you will find elsewhere in the world. As a brown guy raised in the West
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
We've found OpenVPN to be our friend here: create an overlay network that doesn't really care if nodes are bare metal or "cloud".
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
...Am using ezjail on a mix of 10.3 and 11 now. Works flawlessly.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I ran across quite a few of them while working tech at an investment bank. Never anything that resulted in direct losses, but implied missed revenue -- definitely.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Do the newer systems assume network connectivity to a backend processing facility? Personally, I view each additional layer (network, someone else's data center, machine learning) to be something that can fail and put people in danger.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Same for us -- speed was not a consideration at all. We figured that if we could keep going and finish, we'd be one of the top 3 teams. As it turned out, our mechanical engineering was great. What got us was software: we failed to free
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Aww yeah -- another Challenger! What team were you on?
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
My favorite quote for this election was along the lines of "This is what happens when the majority votes as a minority identity block."
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Stereo adds just another layer of data to merge, yeah. I should add a disclaimer: I'm waaaaay out of date. The last time I worked on this stuff was back in 2005 during the DARPA Grand Challenge. And while I'm fairly confident tha
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Depth map extraction from vision in real time depends on accurate algorithmic merging of past frames, color gradients and motion vector extraction to come up with a 3D map of what's around the vehicle. Contrast this with LIDAR, which c
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
It's not just journalists. I've had multiple, extended conversation with Ivy League educated, highly compensated, otherwise rational people about how burning it all down now for sure is preferable to potentially burning part of
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I find UML state diagrams useful for specific, localized bits of projects where it is not necessarily possible to hold the entire state machine in my mind while developing/interpreting the code. It acts as a spec to guide writing tes
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I hear you man. We're in Qatar, and one set of grandparents is in LA, and the other is in Bangladesh. I am fortunate in that I can take time off to meet our grandparent obligations, but damn it would be easier (and CHEAPER) if everyone
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
It is never too late to get started on building relationships with grandparents, even if your kids are now a little older. My wife and I have resolved to devote a month of vacation every year to making sure that our kids get to see their gr
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
The one thing we learned with the first one is that it takes a tribe to deal with a newborn: I simply don't understand America's desire to go it alone with newborns. I've got a list of grandparents, siblings and other assort
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Sure. But adding ballistic re-entry to your manufacturing process seems a little scary.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I'm taking a year out to stay at home with my new kid. I'm terrified -- my wife did most of the heavy lifting during the day while I worked last time 'round. She didn't have too many complimentary things to say about the
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Why bother bringing it home at all? Set up orbital factories as well, and ship the finished goods back to Earth via space elevator. Get rid of mining and dirty manufacturing on earth once and for all.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
Don't live in NZ, but somewhere similarly distant to the US West Coast. Server management is a pain in the ass -- all I can say is that deploying from colocated (i.e. close to app servers) jumphosts makes life infinitely less painful.
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by kchoudhu 10y ago
I don't object to the respondent: it's true, SpaceX has broken out of earth orbit -- but that's still a far cry from deploying to Mars. My point stands: SpaceX needs to get to Mars once before we can start calling them seriou

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