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by yati 11y ago
I second petke here. I was in a similar situation once (although I was much younger and came from Python), and "Accelerated C++"[1] along with Meyers' "Effective C++"[2] helped me immensely. The first couple chapter
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Taking Free Basics in Kenya for a Spin(medium.com)
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by yati 11y ago
One of the best things I've read lately. At my last job, I voiced exactly the same concerns over the clarity of icons, and was always told that the users are going to get used to it after training (it was an enterprise product). It was
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by yati 11y ago
I agree with your main idea, but if you think about it, the author isn't doing anything clever per se with Python. I mean, using numpy and associated libraries is fairly common when Python is used for numerical computing (remembering t
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by yati 11y ago
I took up a job outside India this year, and lost my India number. Now I just can't use the netbanking verification. I still haven't mailed the documents :/
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by yati 11y ago
I've never published a paper, and can't understand why we need actors like Elsevier and other paywalls for scientific research publication. What motivates scientists to use a publisher's services? Can't these be replicat
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by yati 11y ago
> ... generalization without first hand experience is not fair IMO. Totally agreed. Maybe I went a bit too far there. Of course there are some brilliant people in those companies, no doubt. I have interviewed at a bunch of them, and I do
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by yati 11y ago
Very interesting. I'm 25 and last year, I had a similar experience with two much older interviewers. I was getting pretty hostile vibes from one of them, and he at one point gave me a problem with many possible solutions, of which my w
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by yati 11y ago
> Being able to contact former co-workers is invaluable. Agreed. Maybe I never felt the need of using LinkedIn for this because I'm already well connected with most of my former colleagues via other channels, since before this, I wa
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by yati 11y ago
I have a LinkedIn profile that I've not updated for a long time. Have programmers here found it to be of any value, apart from being in the know of what your friends/colleagues are up to in their careers?
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by yati 11y ago
Oh thanks for that :) In my current scheme, malformed expressions just get a fitness of 0 (where fitness is between 0 and 1; 1 when the expression evaluates to the given target). Varying lengths are achieved by randomly picking a length for
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by yati 11y ago
Hi, author here. It could be called genetic programming, if one considers an expression to be a program. Each individual in the population is encoded as a binary string representing an infix expression, with 0...9 becoming their binary repr
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Show HN: Evolve expressions that evaluate to a target number(github.com)
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Show HN: Evolve expressions that evaluate to a target number(github.com)
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by yati 11y ago
Exactly! The only real reason I was not using Python 3 was library support, but now things have changed: https://python3wos.appspot.com/
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by yati 11y ago
I am on OS X now, but I remember using `locate` on Linux to achieve something similar to OS X `mdfind`
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by yati 11y ago
Same here, I didn't even know about most of these, except the list interpolation trick, "@{[ fncall() ]}", which is pretty common where I work.
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by yati 11y ago
As a programmer with very limited design experience, I always find such analyses of fonts fascinating. The level of detail these typographers deal with is just amazing. For example, the subtle curve in the `o`s in SF versus SF compact -- I
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by yati 11y ago
As an Indian, I'm curious. Do you have a blog with your experience in China?
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by yati 11y ago
This is great, but I do have some concerns: - The support for Modi's "Digital India" by Facebook looks like a rebranded Internet.org, which will have serious implications on net neutrality in India, affecting not only the use
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by yati 11y ago
We use BlueJeans where I work, but it is not free. http://bluejeans.com/
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by yati 11y ago
I came to Mac OS recently from Linux and while I like Menlo, I found myself quickly going back to Inconsolata[1], which is really great for long coding hours, and works especially well for me with the dark solarized color scheme. [1]: http
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Fun to Imagine – Richard Feynman [video](youtu.be)
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by yati 11y ago
Haha, making real money is indeed a good point :) But, can't it be argued that in fact if Twitter disappeared overnight, it would have some tangible effects on the earnings of many businesses that use the platform for advertising/
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by yati 11y ago
I felt the same when my previous company was stubbornly using MongoDB for its "flexibility" and we ran into all sorts of issues (following which we slowly migrated to Postgres -- having solid ORM libraries with similar interfaces
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Correlation and Convolution (2005) [pdf](cs.umd.edu)
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by yati 11y ago
While I've learned a lot from Norvig's posts, he tends to write Python code that many wouldn't consider "Pythonic" :)
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A tutorial on learning with Bayesian networks (1996) [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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by yati 11y ago
This made me wonder, how do they measure the heights of the mountains? Using data from multiple view angles?
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by yati 11y ago
That diagram brought "Von Neumann" to my mind and then in the footer, I saw this dude is called Newman :) Awesome project! I felt nostalgic when I saw the adder -- it's right out of a textbook.

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