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by kovac 6y ago
> every paper has an angle Not really sure if this is true in general. May be true of commercial entities, but I really hope this isn't true in general. > Furthermore, ceding the technological lead and removing the business incen
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by kovac 6y ago
General proposition may be true, but how can a math publication place the department interests in a negative light? Like "Doesn't matter how hard we try, there are always undecidable facts in our own system"? :p I still have
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by kovac 6y ago
This quote might put things in perspective: "The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can’t. But pirate is
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by kovac 6y ago
Changing a system architecture twice like this, specially to go back to what it was before is a large cost to a company. In this line of thinking, they may have to move back to a microservice if they had a bigger team for the exact same app
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by kovac 6y ago
Eloquent. So... we should change application architectures as the team changes size?
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by kovac 6y ago
I can see how that can be confusing :p On Google I got the increment operator as the top result (though not specifically for C language). On DDG I got an equivalent result for fifth result. Second search result on Google which is the increm
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by kovac 6y ago
Very good list. Specially love 8, 9 and 10! I think these are practical points that one can actually try to follow. As someone mentioned in the comment section, would be nice if we could test these in interviews.
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by kovac 6y ago
I did read the article. Saying your now small team to be "careful" is not a real solution which I mentioned in my comment. What do you mean by expressing my superiority? Expressing my opinion backed by my own professional experien
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by kovac 6y ago
"Not only were the various teams all competing for the same deployment resources, it meant that every time an "Incident" was declared, several teams' code had to get rolled-back; and, no team could deploy while an incide
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by kovac 6y ago
Lots of banal sweeping statements and unqualified assertions. Unless you have lots of "worst days", people tend to remember what you do most of the time and companies tend to recognise you for the money you bring in.
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by kovac 6y ago
"We imagine the internet as a global medium where anyone can access any resource, and it’s supposed to make communication easier, especially across international borders,". It is. That doesn't mean that a democratically elect
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by kovac 6y ago
Plastic is not biodegradable. Which means once plastic has come into existence, it's gonna be around pretty much forever. Considering the fact that forever is a long time and that we continue to make more plastic anyway, I don't s
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by kovac 6y ago
You are right. It mattered when I was applying for jobs as a fresh grad. But it no longer matters. On the other hand, I still remember lots of the ideas behind theorems though I haven't done any pure math in a long time. While most of
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by kovac 6y ago
I remember when I was in college, we had this end of semester exam for stochastic processes. Our exams are usually about 2 hours long and have about 4-5 problems to solve. After this particular exam, a friend of mine was surprised that I ha
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by kovac 6y ago
You are brilliant! Is this opensource? Would love to contribute!
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by kovac 6y ago
True, most non-technical people I know don't know that a search engine and an Internet browser are two separate things. They only know internet browsing as Chrome+Google search. If they are given Microsoft Edge at work or something, th
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by kovac 6y ago
The question is whether there was any prejudice or he mistreated his employees based on their sexuality. If did he absolutely should have been fired and fired sooner. If he didn't, he seems to have kept his personal beliefs out of his
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by kovac 6y ago
Can't speak for others but I stopped using Firefox for the following reasons, pretty much in the order of priority. 1. When I learnt about the corporate structure at Mozilla. I simply don't drust any large corporation with matters
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by kovac 6y ago
What constitute legal fees usually apart from lawyer fees?
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by kovac 6y ago
For a fun demo of what they can do, check this out: https://github.com/noahlevenson/stealing-ur-feelings
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by kovac 6y ago
Requiring social science theories to have a mathematical founding might be a little too much to ask the social scientists because unlike Physicists, their command of mathematics is far from adequate to do any serious exploration. I majored
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by kovac 6y ago
I'm glad I read this article. I just did some HTML email templates and I didn't add any alt text (I'm not really frontend engineer and I didn't at all thought about a visually impaired person reading). I will add them no
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by kovac 6y ago
I think for a language to gain traction today in the mainstream, it needs to be backed by a large company. If the language is web technologies oriented, it's all the more likely. The reason is because lots of developers nowadays are wo
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by kovac 6y ago
C-suites and layers and layers of managers are a cancer in this industry. All they do is talk, virtue signal and "strategise". Firefox needs to part from Mozilla. You put 6-10 engineers and a good technical lead together, they&#x2
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by kovac 6y ago
I don't think the problem is with ads. It's with personalised ads (or more specifically how they go about showing us personalised ads). A model where a site shows you a notice asking to opt in for personalised ads (otherwise show
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by kovac 6y ago
One loophole here is that statistical/machine learning analytics tools may still be able to correlate these posts as coming from the same writer. We should probably also use a tool that just converts our posts into a generic style and
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by kovac 6y ago
Well, let me tell you how to do c++ programming with Vim. Get a Linux machine, replace the desktop with i3wm. Get a terminal emulator like urxvt and make it dark and semi transparent. Set a beautiful wallpaper. Install YouCompleteMe. Now yo
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by kovac 6y ago
Yeah it is. But what I was more interested in is what an individual lawyer might be thinking in that scenario. What I asked was a more specific question. Place where I live in, first degree murder carries death penalty. So, I was wondering
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by kovac 6y ago
I once asked a high-school acquaintance of mine who had just graduated with a law degree, if she knew someone committed a violent crime, if she would still represent that person in court. Her answer was that even a violent criminal has a ri
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by kovac 6y ago
The way I see it, only those companies that had already been using a data oriented approach to business can really reap the benefits of ML. From a company's point of view, ML/AI should be a natural evolution of an existing tool se

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