paloaltokid

10 ms·

61.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Thanks for your reply. Can you explain this one a little bit? > One more example in the context of "untouchable" and Brahmins to help you understand the point of not touching others - If lady in a Brahmin house is preparing fo
62.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I'm a very white guy living in California and I often get the impression that caste is something that Indian folks living here are aware of amongst each other, but they don't really discuss it with white people. On some level it f
63.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I was told by a colleague that most Indian folks you meet in tech in the Bay Area are the 1 percenters of India. Is that kind of what you're saying here as well?
64.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
> it is relatively easy to determine someone's general (varna) caste and specific (jati) caste from their familial name(s) and/or physical appearance. Is this because people from a specific caste tend to concentrate in a spec
65.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
They are adding graphics to the game! And it will be on Steam. It's exciting to see where they are taking it.
66.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I'll admit I'm impressed you responded to my comment! The last time I tried was a few years ago. I would have to go back to my inbox to find your response but I remember being pretty disappointed. I don't think you wrote anyt
67.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I think it's pretty sad that they don't warn you when signing up. And I think it's pretty lousy that they won't let you delete your account. I had an account that got into 4-digit karma before I realized I couldn't
68.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I consult and have encountered many people who build data intake pipelines using Lambda. The most common pattern is to have Lambdas feeding into a data lake somewhere, often Redshift. It is a very common pattern for IoT applications also an
69.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
> Northrop Grumman has been developing very sophisticated, state-of-the-art, facial recognition technology for the last 15 years. Yikes, hopefully you're not suggesting that the length of time is a virtue? This may be a stereotype
70.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
We're not talking about the same thing here. Of course it's better if the police can manage crowds and protests without anyone dying. Ideally no police person ever has to draw their service weapon and fire. What seems less defensi
71.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
> And they trot it out for peaceful protests. The police did not come equipped to protect, they came equipped to escalate and occupy. "What's the point of having all this cool shit if we never get to use it?!"
72.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
All the more reason to not give the police even more powerful tools with which to brutalize people. If the equipment is not the problem, take it away. That's one less thing to worry about.
73.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
I've never coded in C++, so I'm curious - what is the feedback loop like? My understanding is that since C++ is a compiled language, you can't "hit refresh" the same way you can in JavaScript/Ruby/etc. Is
74.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Yep, that's him.
75.
Astartes(youtube.com)
2 points by paloaltokid 6y ago|0 comments
76.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Ah, that makes sense. It sounds like he balances being academic with trying to work through things in a real-world way.
77.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
This feels like very much a YMMV situation. I think my own personal thinking is mostly the same as yours. But for the OP it may be perfect. On the blog he indicates that he's a CS professor. I could imagine that in a research environme
78.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Not my responsibility! You know how to do research. Put effort into doing that or learning how to do that instead of putting up low-value comments.
79.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Were you out walking at night? Do you have any sense of why it attacked you? (I don't know anything about owls)
80.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Is this related to Datalog also? I've watched a few presentations by Rich Hickey (creator of the Clojure programming language) and I feel like he often name-drops Datalog as a great tool.
81.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
Hey friend, please don't purposely misread the comment. It's clear that folks are contrasting two different styles of communication. Linus Torvalds can be plenty kind when he wants to be. And John Carmack has also done his time be
82.
by paloaltokid 6y ago
> Only looking back do I notice the slow change. We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet. These days, if something is NOT on the internet, it is suspect. Even if the evidence is in a well-researched book,
83.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
I would submit that Rob Mee (founder of Pivotal Labs, former CEO of Pivotal) is one of the greatest unsung heroes of Silicon Valley. So many of the biggest success stories in tech today were either advised by him or worked with Pivotal Labs
84.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
Again, we agree. But it's that word should that is the delta between how we would like it to work and how it currently actually works.
85.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
You're reminding me of the "Spanish Theory of Value" as explained in the book Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister). I highly recommend this book. From Chapter 3 of the book: "The Spanish Theory...held that only a fixed amou
86.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
It doesn’t matter if the manager was intending to be helpful. You don’t suggest to an employee that they start taking drugs, full stop. The furthest you can go is to suggest medical diagnosis.
87.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
It’s still not appropriate for a manager who is not acting in a medical capacity to make that kind of recommendation. It’s a huge huge leap to go from “I feel like your focus needs improvement” to “go get an amphetamine prescription because
88.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
Totally inappropriate for a manager to make that kind of suggestion. Most likely not legal either. Definitely get it in writing and then take it to HR. Alternatively, if you feel like this would fall on deaf ears, start looking for new empl
89.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
Thank you for bringing up the grapefruit rule. I only learned about it recently. At first it sounds kind of silly, but then when you hear the stories you realize it has to be taken seriously. If you regularly eat grapefruit, make sure your
90.
by paloaltokid 7y ago
This article made me remember that I had to reboot my 386 as a kid when I wanted to plug in my new gaming joystick. Those little things make you appreciate how much more user friendly the machines are today.

More ›