kv_hrishikesh

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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
How many employees do the FAANGs have ? Must be above 100K spread over the world. Even 5K talented engineers are enough for all the (admittedly superb) software they build and sell. With those profits still up, the rest of the employees ca
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
I was hoping to find many lower level topics like caches, TLBs, locality of reference etc. but it seems the data oriented-ness implied by the author is different.
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
>Could you point to a specific year in the 20th century after WW II that no Western government was conducting an unethical experiment? Are you justifying unethical experiments on Uighurs by the chinese government ?
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
Engineers might organize a hackathon and show off solutions to climate change working day and night, in the next 72 hours. Ha !
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
Some companies are trying to grow aggressively despite an economic downturn. So what, NY Times ?
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
There is a reason why Haskell is not popular. But I don't think the impenetrable passages about Monads are the reason behind it. It is more about what you gain by adopting Haskell and powering through the impenetrable passages. If it
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
Google has at least 50K employees, spread all over the world. I guess it is quite possible to gather and recruit 50K employees who are much better developers than most others outside but I would not (rather cannot) call each one of them eli
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by kv_hrishikesh 6y ago
A congenial but mediocre developer may actually be more valuable than a rowdy and talented one because she pisses off less number of other brilliant developers.
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by kv_hrishikesh 7y ago
So there goes one more Economics Nobel for telling us that it is good to snatch from the rich and give it all to the poor. Ok, the poor will spend it surely. On beer, bread and weed probably. Thus the money ends up back to the producers of