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by sudeepj 6y ago
> #pragma once Is there every a scenario where this is not needed in a header file?
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by sudeepj 6y ago
They managed to secure the crate name "windows" [1] which always is a nice touch. I clearly remember that this name was squatted. [1] https://crates.io/crates/windows
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by sudeepj 6y ago
This actually is very clever!
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by sudeepj 6y ago
The uncles & aunties referred points to an analog generation (age > 50) in India. For a lot of them WhatsApp is the first social network experience. I am in a group in WA with extended family members and there is continuous chatter o
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by sudeepj 6y ago
This actually is a plot in some movies. How about this for the plot: Witness a high profile crime & then get a witness protection just to avoid getting tracked by FAANG! :)
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by sudeepj 6y ago
How to interpret the "sentiment" axis? Higher is better?
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Compared to today, when I see Win9x & WinXP I feel a strange bit of innocence and how simple it was back then, both for individual developers & industry as a whole. (kinda difficult to articulate what I want to say) May be its not t
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by sudeepj 6y ago
List of features landing in few days: https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1348785240819466242?s=1...
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by sudeepj 6y ago
To add, it seems they had $50 million in funding in 2018 [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
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by sudeepj 6y ago
The sudden uptick should create some sense of urgency, else they will loose out to other apps. I can imagine how pumped-up the folks at signal will be (atleast I hope so) There are lot of low-hanging fruits which are quality of life improve
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by sudeepj 6y ago
The comparison will be outdated soon. With recent surge of Signal, expect some features which are most commonly asked. Signal team did an AMA in last few days [1] [Few of the Q/A] Q: Is there any plans to make user ID system, so that w
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> would throw their work over the wall to me I can relate to this. One way to look at this is that dev-team is where majority of IP is created and not in teams like support/qa/docs/PMs. Over the period of time, they are al
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> nothing about how it works is built into the language I think the state machine required to yield, async & await is baked into the language. But yes, one can implement the Future trait to take finer control.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Human history is filled with civil wars, violent revolutions, angry protests, etc much before internet & social media. Social media is a catalyst and internet is the mega-phone/amplifier which makes lot of things precipitate quickl
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by sudeepj 6y ago
You are right. I should have pointed this out. I was trying to find citation about the conjecture I mentioned. I remember reading somewhere but only found this which says that it is an assumption.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> Children will take care of their parents in old age ... Chinese Grandparents take care of children while the parents are working Indian families are also similar, but never before (at least in India) so many young people have to work a
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by sudeepj 6y ago
To add to the problem it is generally believed/conjectured that once a fertility rate drops, it does not go up [1] (barring few temporary spikes) [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822437/
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Feedback: 1. Don't make people scroll one-page to actually see the software list/cards 2. My first reaction is to find the search text box which is not easy to locate. Make it prominent, front and in centre.
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Why not merge the improvements into RocksDB itself?
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by sudeepj 6y ago
This is part of "Make in India", "Store in India" [1] launched by Niti Aayog [2] [1] https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/niti-aayog-ceo-ami... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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DigiBoxx: Dropbox Like Service for India(digiboxx.com)
2 points by sudeepj 6y ago|1 comments
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by sudeepj 6y ago
Hmm.. it is like my FileSystem telling me what content I can & cannot store.
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China’s Radical New Vision of Globalization(noemamag.com)
2 points by sudeepj 6y ago|0 comments
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by sudeepj 6y ago
For simple use-cases [1] isn't replicated Redis much better in terms of cost? With in-mem DBs, there is no dollar cost for reads + writes and the IOPS will be way better than dynamoDB. AWS has redis offering as elasticache. [1] No inde
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> Our craft is becoming arcane I would say is that a lot of hard problems (of last 20-30 yrs) are getting commoditised (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, Redis) and barrier to entry reduced. This would mean increasing the work is "glue & pipes
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> Professional Interviewers or Professional Leetcoders That sums up very nicely. This reminds me of a quote: "Passing an exam with good grades/marks only show that you are really good in passing the exam" -- By (don't
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by sudeepj 6y ago
It will take time (months) to vaccinate the bulk of the population. In the meantime, you do not want more influx of patients to the hospital. After substantial population is vaccinated there should not be any need for lockdowns & closur
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> we're talking about giving vaccines to billions of people But the same people will be affected due to economic headwinds (directly or indirectly) if vaccine is not available soon. So it is also a question of financial stability &a
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by sudeepj 6y ago
In this case it is not. This is essentially a tradeoff. The covid vaccine lifecycle has been way more short than other vaccines. Naturally the probability of some going wrong is higher. The scientists, countries and the entire world is taki
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by sudeepj 6y ago
> you have to write the whole file each time Will not write the whole file. Instead each page of the database (default = 4KB) will be separate put. The use case is: one-writer multiple readers. The readers will read an old snapshot of th

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