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by sateesh 6y ago
I agree static typing is no silver bullet.But when there is a choice between looking at python code written some time ago and wondering (and at times speculating) what type the function args are v/s inferring from function args (say in
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by sateesh 6y ago
One more reason could be, prioritising the tasks to pick. In celery you can create multiple task queues and prioritise by allocating fewer resource to consume from a lower priority queue (say) and allocate more resources to consume from hig
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by sateesh 6y ago
You can also use WindMove, built into emacs ( https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove ) and use Shift, and arrow keys to move from one window to the other.
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by sateesh 6y ago
I would say yes on two counts, one for his/her own growth/benefit and other for the team's benefit. If there is more work in the pipeline it keeps the team less worried about what are the future tasks they can focus on, and t
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by sateesh 6y ago
I am not an manager, and this is something that puzzles me too. For an engineer to respect his manager, you expect the manager to be technically competent and in tune with recent technological developments. But as a manger you are most like
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by sateesh 6y ago
Seconded. Also each chapter has a comprehensive reference providing pointers to various technical topics mentioned in the chapter. The provided references serve a good starting if one wants to explore further any the area interests him&#x2F
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by sateesh 6y ago
True that. Without decent amount of testing with good coverage I don't feel any confident of the code (in Python) I write. Without decent amount of test any migration from Python2 to 3 is a cumbersome exercise.
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by sateesh 6y ago
But do remember an unknown number of them were persecuted and probably killed. We don't how better the world would have been if all those lives curtailed made their fullest contribution.
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by sateesh 6y ago
I always wonder how such an approach works towards building maintainable software whose scale is not trivial. Even assuming the code is reviewed unit tested, but still without some kind of design doc guiding the overall structure, and inter
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by sateesh 6y ago
I think that criticism that by learning perl one doesn't get any transferable concepts is bit unfair. Though I no longer program in perl, some of the things I learnt using perl has been useful later too. To list here are some of the &q
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by sateesh 6y ago
I would say "Dubliners" is a straight forward read, not lot of allusions and doesn't need lot of context to understand, and is probably the most accessible work of Joyce. I can't fathom "Ulysses". Probably one
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by sateesh 6y ago
Thanks for the link, it is an interesting read. But it is about interaction between Henry James and H.G.Wells, not between James Joyce and Wells.
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by sateesh 6y ago
> The definition of people losing faith in a "corrupt > judiciary" would be mass protests, street judgments. Absence of "mass protests" isn't gauge of things are normal. To take an example there w
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by sateesh 6y ago
The other thing I will add is that the miniseries drew heavily from Svetlana Alexievich’s master work ‘Voices of Chernobyl’, which I cannot recommend enough. I think the book's title is "Chernobyl Prayer" and may
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by sateesh 6y ago
If you have a significant python code base that is not async, then all of that need to be ported to support async model where as with gevent I can do monkey patching and move to concurrency model. If I am starting a fresh project with pytho
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by sateesh 6y ago
This might not be viable all the time, what if you have a stream of tasks being put to the queue ? The alternative would be to ensure that any change in the job contracts are backward compatible, and if any change in contract would need to
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by sateesh 7y ago
While I agree that this might have been a necessary step, I am skeptical about the optimism part in your response. There are millions of people (daily wage labourers, vegetable and fruit vendors, petty shop owners etc.) in India who just ha
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by sateesh 7y ago
My observation is from southern part of India (more specifically of Karnataka) which also ranks higher in the same cousin marriage (as per wikipedia).
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by sateesh 7y ago
* IIRC it's much less common in Hindu tradition (where the pattern was larger caste groups instead). In Hindu families too it was not that uncommon at all, though this trend has declined in the current generation marriages.
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Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker(bloomberg.com)
34 points by sateesh 7y ago|5 comments
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by sateesh 7y ago
While growing up much of my access to English was through written words (literature, newspapers, magazines etc.) so my English vocabulary grew primarily due to my readings. I do have run into a few minor troubles when I use some of the word
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by sateesh 7y ago
Old books now seem to be broken to me. You can't do anything with them except read (linearly) At times this is a plus too. While reading online many a times I get distracted by some reference and go tangential looking for
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by sateesh 7y ago
Also if you are residing in any "developing countries" (India, Brazil, Romania, etc.) ACM offers their membership at a special discounted rate.
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by sateesh 7y ago
Normal populace primarily for house construction.
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by sateesh 7y ago
Can you please add some details. What is it about Kundera that you find deplorable?
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by sateesh 7y ago
There are many places in South India where the temperature crosses 40 and above during months of Apr-May. For example see temperatures at these places in Karnataka, and AP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raichur (avg. t
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by sateesh 8y ago
"Hard-boiled Wonderland and end of the world" by Murakami. Not exactly a cybercrime novel. But I find the novel to be resonant with SF/cyberpunk subculture and an engrossing read too.
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by sateesh 8y ago
A few points about smoking in India: * Ban on smoking in public places, streets is not strictly followed at all * Cigarettes are available in every nook and cranny. There is hardly a road side tea shop that doesn't sell cigarettes * Ci
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by sateesh 8y ago
As much as I like digging,debugging and learning that comes with it, fixing things under tremendous time pressure wears me out :(
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by sateesh 8y ago
Yes you can tail oplog, but in a sharded setup with multiple clusters this becomes a pain.

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