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by nvarsj 6y ago
> Most surgery is not like that, it involves some objective condition. Are you sure about that? My impression in the US is that most surgeries are of the subjective nature. And surgeons are far too eager to perform surgery. That was my o
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Thanks for the first hand perspective! My comment was based on watching this talk: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu... . Kris Nova quotes Joe Beda saying they "rewrote Brendan&
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Actually, k8s was written in Java originally. Then basically verbatim copied to golang. That’s why you have this ObjectMeta stuff - it was trying to implement an OO system in golang. Lots of weirdness can be traced back to the Java origin.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Ah of course - thanks for pointing it out!
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by nvarsj 6y ago
OMSCS has a similar course, https://omscs.gatech.edu/cs-6457-video-game-design . It's a semester long project based class where you build a game in Unreal Engine with a small team. It's a pretty awesome class.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Bleh. It was hard enough to convince my family and friends to swap to Whatsapp many years ago. Remember also when Whatsapp promised complete end to end encryption and privacy? I feel like it's the curse of popularity. As soon as one of
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I mostly agree with this. I'd say compared to my undergrad, the teaching quality is overall better. Which makes sense, since pedagogy is much more of a deliberate focus for OMSCS. I think this is a big advantage to online programs actu
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by nvarsj 6y ago
5-10% for top schools typically is where I got my number from. MIT, Stanford, Caltech, UCLA, UCB all are around this range for CS. Slightly more accepting schools jump up to 10-20% range. But all these schools are rejecting huge swaths of q
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by nvarsj 6y ago
It seems like a common trend with M1 articles on HN lately.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Apple had no problem recording Siri conversations until The Guardian called them out on it.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
What do you use as an alternative to Dropbox? I haven't found anything that works as well across multiple platforms. I really hate all the feature bloat in it, which I never use, and weird decisions like dropping non-ext4. But still, f
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Have you heard of OMSCS? The online revolution is already happening. Many schools are moving to copy the model. I've been in OMSCS for almost 5 years now. I can assuredly say that remote university education works incredibly well. Even
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I agree with what you're saying. It probably took me about 2 weeks to build my first NixOS desktop about a year ago. Now I manage everything in a single repo, including all my dotfiles, all via nix. It works great. But there was a very
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Dark mode browser extension is a wonderful thing.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Exactly. direnv/lorri basically solves the per-language virtualenv nonsense, but universally for anything. I use chezmoi to manage my shell.nix for various directories. That way every project can manage its system libraries independent
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Oh definitely. The whole concept of immutable OS management - this stuff all comes from NixOS's influence. You see it in Silverblue for example, and other mainstream distros. They are a pale imitation but the influence is there.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
> it's just slightly too rigid for my own personal use. I get what you're saying, but the reality is the opposite. Nix is _far_ more powerful and flexible than anything you can do in Arch. It sounds to me like you just wanted
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by nvarsj 6y ago
NixOS and the nix package manager are revolutionary OS tools, hampered by a convoluted, undocumented language and library (itself called Nix). Despite this, I think it's totally worth going through the pain of learning Nix to use NixOS
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Haskell has plenty of legitimate criticisms for use as a production language. However this article isn't it. Please don't read this and repeat the opinions posted here. A lot of what the author says is just plain wrong and shows a
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Yeah of course it is! Don't you know how the Cult of Apple works? We proclaim it is, so it is. Edit: Whoops, I broke the first rule of the Cult... Here come the downvotes.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I know it’s pedantic but I despise the semicolons in Rust. They make the language ugly and constantly burden the programmer unnecessarily. It’s a bizarre choice for such a modern language.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Take a look at some of the android watch faces people have made. They make Apple Watch faces look amateur in comparison. I also don’t understand why Apple has closed that ecosystem. It means I’m stuck with the mediocre watch faces of the 3
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by nvarsj 6y ago
To be honest, I appreciated the honesty. Lots of companies would not ask such a question because they would be afraid of scaring people off. Blizzard can afford to be very picky about their candidates, and they were surprisingly blunt about
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I interviewed for Blizzard many years ago. One of the first questions they asked is how many all-nighters I had done. Yeah, that was the end for me.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
That’s a ridiculous equivalency. You can provide high quality education to all without USSR style communism. In fact I’d argue the long term success of a capitalist system relies on it.
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by nvarsj 6y ago
My wife is British, and my kids are thoroughly integrated with the local community. So that's what keeps me here. If I was single I'd definitely go back at this point, it's too much of a headache, and my earning potential wou
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by nvarsj 6y ago
I think you have a very narrow view of an expats life. If you live in a country for 10+ years, it is impractical to not have a local bank account. You can't even get a rental contract easily without a bank account. Buying property expo
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by nvarsj 6y ago
The taxes are the least of it. The expense and time it consumes to file the various forms is a huge pain. Anyone who has investments, a business, or property abroad will suffer from this. My net taxes were very low, but I have spent thousan
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by nvarsj 6y ago
So you're saying it's all okay as long as you remain a permanent employee your entire life with a company owned pension plan? Is that a joke? What if you want to buy property, invest in a business, open up a private retirement fun
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by nvarsj 6y ago
Being an American expat is a complete nightmare. The retroactive GILTI/transition taxes enacted by Trump and the republican Congress put a massive strain on my family and finances. Imagine getting a bill for a significant portion of yo

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