rrdharan

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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   > From what I've observed leetcode screens are problematic enough that they are causing market inefficiency. Totally agreed, I know of many similar situations like this.. however at the same time the question is whether there’s any
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   Looks like that ship has sailed.
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/marijuana/20... > Under state law, that first day for adult sales at licensed dispensaries is supposed to come next month. The enabling marijuana l
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   > Google AdWords and Facebook both use(d) MySQL a lot and I assume they knew about Oracle and Postgres at the time they were built… Why would you assume that? Both of the companies were tiny and full of children when these decisions were
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   I think you’re mistaking a book tour for a media crusade.
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   “Everything everywhere is securities fraud” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   “What it’s really like inside ‘Club Fed’ prisons”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2015/...
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   She didn’t personally clear or keep anything close to a billion dollars. It’s true that she was able to live a somewhat lavish, albeit clearly stressful, lifestyle for a while though…
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   by rrdharan 5y ago

   Great / prescient comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349808
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Same reason flat earthers are so irksome - because they cloak themselves in the language of science (physics and optics for flat earthers; signal theory and electrical engineering for audiophile quacks).
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    See also https://github.com/ranmocy/gmail-automata for a more generalized variant.
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Thank you for clarifying - and now I am depressed about the clear degradation of my reading comprehension skills.
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Where in that statement are you getting that interpretation? Is it buried in the comments or something? I just read and reread the Boz words and don’t see how any of it translates into “no Meta (Facebook) account needed”?
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    “Secondhand Smoke isn’t as bad as we thought” https://slate.com/technology/2017/02/secondhand-smoke-isnt-a...
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Sundar stayed and it worked out reasonably well for him and for Google: https://allthingsd.com/20110108/twitter-courts-googles-sunda...
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    > Most people's phone numbers change fairly frequently. Citation? I think it’s just as easy to claim (and I certainly would bet that) most people’s phone numbers do not change frequently - I’d wager on something like 70% remain
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Also pretty sure customers using hosted Redis / Memcached offerings like Google Cloud Memorystore or AWS Elasticache etc. get sub-1ms times for service-to-VM responses. Those aren’t over HTTP of course… so perhaps they don’t count as “
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    > Hmm.. There is no web service that returns response in <5ms, unless you are sitting at the very terminal of the hardware producing the output. Typical Google Cloud Bigtable P(50) is <= 4ms to a GCE VM in the same region. Source:
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    TideLift is the one I know of, I believe there have been others…
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    > hard to mess up I was under the impression it was in fact not that hard at all to mess up. Though in fact, seems like other methods are indeed likely “worse” in terms of achieving the intended outcome: https://www.medpagetod
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Also this free book on the Anthropic Principle is great: https://www.anthropic-principle.com/q=book/table_of_contents...
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Well not exactly, you get 12 months of work on an F1 student visa (meaning you don’t have to already “hold” the degree).
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    At the risk of inciting an OT debate, might it make more sense to post the https:// link ( https://thomasridings.com/goodbye-wordpress-hello-jamstack/ ), which does also work? And relatedly for the author sin
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Here’s the rub.. his job also goes away when those companies go away. I still agree with you for a different reason though - if you believe that it’s a poorly governed place, at some point it becomes immoral or at least unwise to continue t
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    You’re downvoted but I have a similar point / question.. there are many ways to share personal videos privately (text message, cloud photo sharing service etc.); YouTube is a terrible choice for this (despite some forays into that worl
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Google One, and Google Workspaces both offer paid support plans that cover Google Drive.
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    > headcount at Google NYC has always been tight, I think you mean desk space at NYC has always been tight? Assuming so, yes can confirm.
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Also https://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/08/introducing-rep.html which is IMO the most technically impressive variant, though sadly long gone..
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    Isn’t that VMware’s entire pitch for continued relevance?
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    by rrdharan 5y ago

    I consider it an extremely visible advantage.