pramodliv1

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by pramodliv1 6y ago
FunTrivia - https://www.funtrivia.com/ I spent a lot of time on it in the 2000s and later found that it was started in 1995 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FunTrivia
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by pramodliv1 7y ago
I spent 3 days setting up Hasura a few weeks ago and I wish I'd known about Nhost. Do you know why Hasura don't provide a managed service themselves? Also, I wonder if Hasura will eventually move to a MongoDB-like license.
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by pramodliv1 7y ago
Listen to the SE Radio podcast episode on database evolution[0]. [0] https://www.se-radio.net/2012/06/episode-186-martin-fowler-a... Also checkout the links from the show notes: http://www.databaserefac
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog. > A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft. “Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft u
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
> And I am paranoid You should write tests when building a project in a dynamically typed language to alleviate some paranoia anyway. As long as you have decent test coverage and use a decent linter/formatter such as StandardJS[0]
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
Google Photos uses ML to tag photos and this feature released amidst much fanfare at Google I/O a couple of years ago. They don't need location data to geotag photos anymore.
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
A 10 year old I know loves http://gameaboutsquares.com
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
Basecamp is the only one I can think of - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
If we want to store the object's URL in a relational database, should the browser send another HTTP request to our service? Wouldn't we lose the object if there's a network error during the interval between the two requests?
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Prototyping Vivaldi, a simple distributed algorithm in Elixir(pramod.io)
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
I wonder what technology they use under the hood. Ceph? GlusterFS? Custom software?
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
Basecamp published an article explaining their migration to Medium https://m.signalvnoise.com/medium-has-been-great-for-us-35d9... > People often ask me why we switched to Medium. There were a variety of reasons, but on
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by pramodliv1 9y ago
> what would your suggestion to read / follow? Here's my Quora answer - https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-make-real-time-app-in-Django-...
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
Sure! The course has a slow start. The first few lectures focus on the mechanics of matrix operations instead of starting with linear transformations, and compositions of linear transformation - the core ideas behind Linear Algebra. But aft
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
> And at the start of the course, he teaches the very small subset of linear algebra required to understand his course materials. I tried doing the ML course without any prior knowledge of Linear Algebra and dropped out after the first t
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
Metacademy [1] does a good job of identifying which subtopics of each subject are relevant to ML. [1] https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
Here's my beginner-friendly article on magic methods: https://conceptcoaster.com/course/python-tutorial/magic-meth... If you have any trouble understanding it, go to the homepage: https://conceptco
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
The original paper[0] on relational databases by Edgar Codd is quite accessible. I also loved the MOOC by Prof. Jennifer Widom[1] [0] https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf [1] http:/&#x2
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
MATLAB's linsolve uses your strategy! ( http://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/linsolve.html )
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
Infosys is funding the project for PR reasons. They're pretty active in the CSR space too. In early 2010, there was a show in India on CNBC TV18 that showcased CSR activities by these companies. As a naive college student, I believed I
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
Also, since the code is open sourced ( https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia ), I guess they get the benefit of the doubt?
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
If you want a more modern and concrete example, the "Turning your database inside out" talk by Martin Kleppmann is pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0
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by pramodliv1 10y ago
>> I wonder if it could be possible to have an OO language with an automatic Erlang process per object, automatic immutable data (just don't let reassign values to variables, like Erlang), and a way to define supervisor trees. Is
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
Thanks for making KaTex. Love the ease of installation, API and performance!
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
Yes, you are absolutely right!
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
I've taken 1.5 years worth of sabbaticals since I graduated 6 years ago. Can't recommend enough especially if you want to learn, build side projects and take better care of your health!
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
Loved the article! I'm not familiar with Erlang, but I was able to follow along and finally understood why OTP is usually distributed with Erlang. If an Erlang process crashes when processing a message, and it is restarted, is the mess
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
Making the transition from pop culture to nerd culture was one of the best things that happened to me. Instead of "protect the nerds", "become a nerd" is probably better advice.
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
>> Indeed, some of the smartest people in the class/year were also often some of the most popular, at least in the UK. Same in India as well.
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by pramodliv1 11y ago
I'd also add propensity to work on intellectually challenging problems instead of people problems to the list.

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