majjgepolja

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by majjgepolja 4y ago
See I am not American and don't care about American culture war, Republican Democratican, or whatever you guys are using as an excuse to burn down buildings. It's plain wrong to put banner ads in third world countries like Brazil
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
the problem is some day the information will leak and the ones who know start gaming the metric.
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
I am grug. More benefit type when there's red line in editor. More benefit type system when F2 rename everywhere.
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Is there a difference between intrusive and extrusive list when the member type is a struct (value type)?
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Not same. A) I can't download book. I go see other book. B) I can download book. I download it. If B is the case, my ability to download book did not cause you any loss.
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Just look at the armchair advocate fired from Google last year.
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Not so sure about that, with a certain clickbait coverage of solarwinds story creating bad PR for Jetbrains, (perhaps among the least controversial tech companies). That's what happens when liberal arts people think they're too de
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Some technical books are too costly for students, especially in third world countries.
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
> I'd say it's more a measure of how well you can learn an arbitrary skill. Time is finite. You can learn to write better programs, or grind Leetcode. Leetcode interviews favor the one who can put enough time on the latter. A b
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
And these are the people who post on LinkedIn as if their understanding of esoteric Leetcode string DP problems is essential for scaling Amazon and Google. They may not quite understand their development or deployment environment but their
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by majjgepolja 4y ago
Show HN: I am earning 3 lakhs INR per annum side income with GPT3.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
> the university would be dominated by a minority who were simply good at tests/human calculators but lacking in the customs, morals, and values that contribute to society. Relevant excerpt from "Why nerds are unpopular" [
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
It's not as accurate or satisfactory in my experience. For example I get errors after running in python, which could be detected in statically typed languages while typing in IDE. Autocomplete is also less than optimal. As for autocomp
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
I guess the word is structural typing.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
The main advantage of typing is, for me, IDE showing errors as you type and better autocomplete, and they serve as documentation also (Of course you should read docs but types are helpful as quick reminder.) Maybe I am just more absent mind
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
Modern java is pretty nice though. I tried MLs and Haskells but was put off by not-so-mature tooling. (I know some of you do very well with it but I am used to some hand holding). With an IDE like intelliJ, modern java is pretty good. When
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
Given 90% of execs spend their entire lives doing nepotism and politics, I don't think it's as foolish as you frame it.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
That's true, but having seen (non-IIT) Indian colleges, I am not surprised if 80%+ students they see are like that. Moreover, intelligent ones less commonly opt for masters degrees because they get good offers in campus placements, esp
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
Those subjects are not there for any meaningful purpose. Imagine having a CS degree program and teaching chemistry, physics, biology and a bunch of even lesser subjects is blatant and ignorant waste of students' money.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
It's a grey area. In india, the engineering curriculum includes lot of subjects that are not useful for the students but only there because some fat belly officer thought it would be "Interdisciplinary". Can you imagine teach
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
It's also that many teachers are underproficient.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
open book exams with serious thinking questions is the answer. I had such a numerical methods exam, I had a python script ready for it. No regrets on automating something that should be automated. I understood how the method works and wrote
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
This argument 'it selects for intelligent devs' needs to die. it just selects for people who have hipster level enthusiasm about function programming. That doesn't mean proficient. Many talented developers have a life of thei
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Ask HN: Has Anyone used Google's Lit library? What's your experience with it?
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
Blackboard isn't a good example here. They are mostly discussed for their questionable business practices and shit product.
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
It's a teenager who doesn't have much CS knowledge [0] thinking he can put two features over golang and make a fortune out of it. [0] anyone with proper knowledge doesn't claim they can "avoid GC by automatically inserti
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
> What is definitional? Inheritance, encapsulation, methods. I am probably missing something, but how is inheritance essential for OOP? In my understanding, inheritance is not necessary. The point of OOP was probably encapsulation. At so
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
What's difference compared to using Chrome / Firefox with Noscript / UBO to block JS by default?
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
> The colonialism narrative of every native civilization is to demonize them. The fact that you believe it is that you have accepted the white man's burden line, hook and sinker. Every civilization does that. They write history from
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by majjgepolja 5y ago
I would not call gdb or for that matter, most GNU tools, as 'simple'.

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