sidcool

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by sidcool 3y ago
I am out of the loop. What's going on with Unity?
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by sidcool 3y ago
I would love to know the entire backend stack of threads. From their load balancers to Database schemas.
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by sidcool 3y ago
So homeopathy was true! /s
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by sidcool 3y ago
What were you using earlier?
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by sidcool 3y ago
I mean let's say I have to support 10000 updates per second and 100000 reads per second. Surely 500 connection pool won't suffice.
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by sidcool 3y ago
If a Database needs to support more than 500 connections at a given time (due to scale), what's the way around?
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by sidcool 3y ago
Did you just share your own tweet on HN?
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by sidcool 3y ago
The scale of UPI payments is unprecedented. Perhaps the best payment system in the world by far. My friends who come from US are always awe struck by the pervasiveness and easy of use of UPI payments. They want it so bad in the West!
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by sidcool 3y ago
Why is this a surprise any more? Except Google Cloud and Google Workspace, everything else is a risk. I know many people don't trust Google even for Cloud and Workspace, but I give them a strong benefit of doubt on those two.
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by sidcool 3y ago
Many reasons: - Easy to learn, no baggage of types. Less verbose. - New comer friendly. Newbies don't care about performance. Data scientists are usually not programmers and they loved it. - The ecosystem including IDEs, documentati
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by sidcool 3y ago
Boy that has aged like milk.
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Roark Capital to buy sandwich chain Subway for up to $9.55B – sources(reuters.com)
1 points by sidcool 3y ago|0 comments
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by sidcool 3y ago
This will inspire more Indians to go into STEM and stay in India. Golden age of India's space ambitions has arrived.
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by sidcool 3y ago
I like the sarcasm, but just wanted to put a perspective on numbers. India has a very different scale when compared to other countries.
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by sidcool 3y ago
A T20 cricket match has 21 million peak views. So still low I would say.
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by sidcool 3y ago
Same here. Packt's business model is quantity over quality. Some of the books are a copy paste of the official documentation with minimal changes. And there is no depth at all. I stay away from Packt books, but if there is a recomm
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Show HN: Blast, A Load generator for TCP servers(github.com)
3 points by sidcool 3y ago|0 comments
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by sidcool 3y ago
Is it wrong?
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by sidcool 3y ago
Congrats on launching.
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by sidcool 3y ago
George Hotz recent talk during Comma Con was pretty dope. He was pointing to a future where Comma would not be a self driving system, but a general purpose robotics one. And his confidence was great too. I know he made a mess out of his
711.
by sidcool 3y ago
The article by Alan Turing is remarkable. He was so ahead of his time!
712.
by sidcool 3y ago
Why only electron and not proton and neutron?
713.
by sidcool 3y ago
I don't know if he's a visionary or delusional
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by sidcool 3y ago
No Tesla? /s
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by sidcool 3y ago
I don't think humans have had contact with extra terrestrials yet. This is just conspiracies fuelling debates.
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by sidcool 3y ago
So far David seems to be dancing around his claims.
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by sidcool 3y ago
Rumor has it that to ensure realism without CGI, Nolan enriched his own Uranium and used it to detonate an actual fission bomb. Just like Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landings by actually shooting it on the moon for authenticity. /
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by sidcool 3y ago
Read comments at bottom and on Reddit. There are literally tens of such comments.
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by sidcool 3y ago
Congrats India. There will be people here saying "Poor country, donate money" etc, but this is necessary. It will boost the economy and inspire the nation. Some people just don't get that.
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by sidcool 3y ago
/r/OutOfTheLoop Can someone enlighten?

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