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by vivegi 4y ago
I live in the southern part of India and a city by the sea. Summer temps here routinely cross 40°C each year for several days or weeks. There are other parts of India that get 1-1.5°C higher temps. I am surprised by the destruction caused b
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by vivegi 4y ago
1. If the number of choices is small i.e., in the order of 10 to 20, write them in slips of paper and throw them in a bowl, mix them and pull one out. 2. If the number of choices is medium i.e., in the order of 100s, write them down in Exce
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by vivegi 4y ago
A Merkle-tree data structure + an append only log with checkpoints + a command processor would provide a basic foundation. Your data can be represented in a Merkle-tree. You provide operations add-node, delete-node, move-node etc., on the M
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by vivegi 4y ago
Would a class-action lawsuit brought by content creators/owners who have been unfairly impacted by YT's poor enforcement of copyright strikes have a chance against the Alphabet/Google rent-seeking advertising juggernaut? It i
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by vivegi 4y ago
Hmm.. I think I just realized that I had fallen for the "lights out" hoax for the longest time. I heard about it first in an email around 1998. I believed it to be true until I read this Faxlore wikipedia link today. Wow! To clari
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by vivegi 4y ago
If you do want to retain the deleted records for any purpose (audit, compliance etc.,) it is better to design a DELETED table to maintain the history (just as suggested in the article towards the end). Once your main tables start getting to
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by vivegi 4y ago
For an average static website, we are likely to have the number of HTML pages much greater than the number of CSS files. So, it is far more likely to have a common set of styles coded in a separate CSS file be practically more efficient tha
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by vivegi 4y ago
Someone please build a version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine using this.
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by vivegi 4y ago
True that. I found it a better bet to use Infra-as-Code and defining everything from the ground up (in the AWS ecosystem, AWS-CDK works well for IaC). It takes some time, but at least we know fully well what constructs are explicitly instan
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by vivegi 4y ago
(Comment based on experience from an earlier version) I tried it a while ago (more than 1yr ago) and was taken aback by the number of AWS constructs it uses. I wasn't sure what all it was creating on the backend and what the impact of
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by vivegi 4y ago
The public key by definition is public. For eg: the recipient needs to know that public key to validate a signature made with that public key. The issue is if you are emailing a counterparty with whom you have no trust established yet, ther
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by vivegi 4y ago
Key generation is trivial. Key management and distribution have its own issues and challenges. At some level you start requiring certificate authorities (central trust). The DID-core W3C proposal seems to be putting down some of the pieces
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by vivegi 4y ago
Thanks. Interesting paper. > THEOREM 2. There is a partially correct consensus protocol in which all nonfaulty processes always reach a decision, provided no processes die during its execution and a strict majority of the processes are a
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Ask HN: Peer-to-peer consensus protocols / algorithms
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by vivegi 4y ago
I mostly use Bootstrap for prototypes. For most of my use cases, I just use card styled divs. There is basic support for different types of container divs in bootstrap. There's card-group, card-deck and even card-columns. Never had to
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by vivegi 4y ago
I started off like you on the backend development. When I had to build small webapps, I looked at the various frameworks and then settled on KnockoutJS. KnockoutJS is a very small and simple JS library. This is several years ago and at that
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by vivegi 4y ago
Yes, it could. In product teams, this could be feature requests whatever the source of that is. Ultimately, there is someone who is responsible for flagging that the arrival rate of tickets/PRs is higher than what the system can handle
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by vivegi 4y ago
In the long-run, queueing systems tend to follow Little's law given by L = λW where L is the long-term average number of customers waiting (in a stationary system), λ is the long-term average arrival rate of customers and W is t
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by vivegi 4y ago
These two sound like good defaults for all iPhones. > Messages: Most message attachment types other than images are blocked. Some features, like link previews, are disabled. > Apple services: Incoming invitations and service requests,
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by vivegi 4y ago
A few routine billing concepts that skews line item amounts in raw claim dumps or price lists derived from claim dumps: - CPT modifiers (The service or procedure has both professional and technical components OR More than one provider perfo
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by vivegi 4y ago
1. Lets say I already have a payment service provider I have negotiated with for my app. In India, for example, we have Unified Payment Interface that has zero fees for upto ~$1500 (USD) per transaction. Why should I be forced to use Apple&
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by vivegi 4y ago
I love this just for these three rules: > Allow users to install apps from third-party app stores and sideload directly from the internet. > Allow developers to offer third-party payment systems in apps and promote offers outside the
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by vivegi 4y ago
(Citing this from my personal experience of dealing with contracts and service issues). Read your contract's clauses for the following: 1. SERVICE levels. If you have agreed service levels and the vendor is in breach of those, you have
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by vivegi 4y ago
Really‽
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by vivegi 4y ago
FFMPEG is a phenomenal tool. If you are open to building your own, I would recommend a workflow using FFMPEG for transcoding your raw MP4 files to HLS or MPEG-DASH. You can then maintain simple movie metadata (pull info from open movie data
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by vivegi 4y ago
Have three or four thoughtful questions (not necessarily technical) that you would like to ask the interviewer(s) at the end of your interview. In most interviews they would give the candidate an opportunity to ask questions or clarificatio
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by vivegi 4y ago
At least in the Indian film industry, we have songs and lyricists. Popular music may call them songwriters. Many lyricists are published poets and identify their vocation as a poet/writer.
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by vivegi 4y ago
I used to wear a handwound mechanical watch for the most of '80s and '90s and quartz watches in the '00s. Never liked smartwatches. Stopped wearing watches the past 8 years or so. The smartphone killed the watch for me althou
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by vivegi 4y ago
Play. I remember playing with my father who passed away a few years ago simple word games. We called that Word-building, a game where one player says a word and the next one has to say to word starting with the last letter of the previous w
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by vivegi 4y ago
My first son is 21 yrs and younger is 19 yrs now. One purchase from that time that I felt was absolutely worth it was the Playtex Diaper Genie. Also, invest in a good quality infant car seat. Don't forget to enjoy this time.

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