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by potamic 4y ago
Terrible article. Unfortunately, publishing in such a popular magazine normalizes the behaviour and makes people think this is how you have to behave in the business world. You have to treat all people with the same dignity. If you are havi
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by potamic 4y ago
For sure, a large index by itself doesn't mean anything. I was more curious about the size on disk and how you manage it on a single machine. Also curious now, why you say half a 470m URLs? :)
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by potamic 4y ago
How big is your index and how many sites do you cover?
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by potamic 4y ago
This is the real reason the British would want to give it back to India. Whether it belongs to India is highly contestable. But the British holding on to it will continue to remind them of their dark days, the manner in which they acquired
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by potamic 4y ago
> It is by far the only Drag and Drop library on the internet that manipulates the DOM instead of reconstructing it I'm not sure this is the only library doing this. It's in fact a popular approach for drag and drop on the brow
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by potamic 4y ago
> they really embody this notion that every billionaire is a policy failure. If only more people realised this. Instead we do the opposite and worship the system which make them happen. Very inspiring overall. I've always heard good
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by potamic 4y ago
Are they talking about hiking or biking?
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by potamic 4y ago
Sounds interesting, but I'm unable to picture what you're saying. Are there any videos I can watch about this technique?
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by potamic 4y ago
Ultimately somebody has to fund NPCI for the interchange infrastructure. If the banks have to absorb the cost, then smaller players will be hurt and find it difficult to compete. If RBI absorbs the cost, then we are back to the taxpayer sit
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by potamic 4y ago
Payments ultimately keep the economy running, and it's in the government's best interests to make sure there is as little friction as possible here. But I'm not sure it should be free. Because there is always a cost to things
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by potamic 4y ago
Came here to see who else likes The Thin Blue Line. But please, do not reveal the outline. I went in completely unawares and was kept on the edge throughout.
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by potamic 4y ago
Changing existing infrastructure is obviously quite expensive. But relying less on infrastructure is not. Reducing energy expenditure, consuming fewer goods, immigrating people instead of outsourcing manufacturing, reducing military footpri
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by potamic 4y ago
The people who made the lifestyle choice to have more children are long gone. We are not appealing to them. We are appealing to the people born today who are not responsible for the size of the population. It's ultimately a consequence
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by potamic 4y ago
If climate change was truly accepted to be a global endeavour, then the only reasonable metric by which to track progress is the per capita footprint. Today the per capita footprint of the first world outweighs the rest of the world by orde
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by potamic 4y ago
Webdevs are very much part of this community, I don't think anyone will say otherwise. I definitely am not trying to malign anyone, just sharing my observations. This is of course a very subjective matter and I don't deny I could
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by potamic 4y ago
Here's my hot take. I think the author is partly justified in the premise. React when it came out was really a breath of fresh air and solved a class of problems really well. Sure it had its rough edges, but you expect those to smoothe
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by potamic 4y ago
Awesome initiative! Are you accounting for unpopular products currently? I expect unpopular products might also see a lot of comments.
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by potamic 4y ago
Cat must be like, sob! how do I keep getting found out?
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by potamic 4y ago
While I'm convinced Google and Amazon are doing plenty evil, this article is just a fear mongering piece. There is nothing alarming about a cloud migration project. Just like every other agency in the world, the Israeli government has
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by potamic 4y ago
A wikipedia for food recipes? That is an awesome idea. Everyone has their own version of a dish and trying to find the original version can be challenging. A database listing canonical recipes for well known food items will be useful, if on
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by potamic 4y ago
> Son’s strategy depended on writing such large checks—to the likes of WeWork, Uber Technologies, and DoorDash—that his portfolio companies would be able to operate at a loss for years, theoretically giving them time to establish market
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by potamic 4y ago
Yes! All decisions are subjective. I do not think it is exclusive to software engineering, let engineering alone. There are two questions you can ask about any decision. 1. What should I do right now to solve this problem? 2. What will I wi
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by potamic 4y ago
What's your global setup like, if you may? Running software for government means you generally want your data isolated from everything else. Wondering where cockroach fits in.
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by potamic 4y ago
Do people really feel a flood of endorphins? Growing up in a culture full of chili, I've had to endure my fair share of extra spicy food and never enjoyed it. It leaves me with nothing but a nasty burn in my mouth and an inability to t
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by potamic 4y ago
My city banned billboard advertising once. All of them digital and non-digital. It was fabulous and finally felt like a place to live. Sadly it did not last long and their revival only reinforced how refreshing their absence was. I think we
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by potamic 4y ago
It's a slippery slope to so many other issues. An issue that is black and white today can become grey tomorrow. Sanctioning a corporation to take moral decisions is giving them too much power. I would rather corporations not have such
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by potamic 4y ago
Absolutely zero reason to say "who was terminated for ineffective leadership and poor performance". That context is not at all relevant to this matter and comes off as an attempt to distract from the subject in matter. And it does
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by potamic 4y ago
The last couple of years have seen renewed interest in the search space and a lot of new comers in the market targeting the content search vacuum left behind by Google. Looks like they are finally waking up to the threat and ramping up thei
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by potamic 4y ago
What are SOC applications like? Generally for rich web applications with a lot of interactivity, you want to do client side rendering. Interactive apps can be deceptively complex to build and you really want to hire the right people for it.
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by potamic 4y ago
This is becoming a trend on HN where top comment points calls out the criticism in a thread. I personally feel there is nothing negative about critique and one of the reasons people broadcast their work here is to receive more feedback on i

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