scorpion032
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Comment · 7 years ago
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoz_NuIvP0
I just came out watching the solution to how he actually solved it.
Comment · 9 years ago
HR department rarely has any discretion. They are the mouth piece of the management. They just put it in nicer words and polished corp speak.
Comment · 10 years ago
If I like the sheer horse power of a BMW, would it be snark to contrast it with some other car's priorities over leather seats?
There are plenty of cars (programming languages) with varied priorities. Identifying and labelling them is very useful in context to make ones own calls.
Comment · 10 years ago
The thing thats awesome about Python:
You get to learn about:
- Using Python to compute gravitational positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVBo6JJa6M
- Using Python to devise trading strategies to beat S&P 500: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1697/
- Using Python to do advance statistics: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1576/
- Using the dynamic features of Python in code real time to debug hard problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XvAVgcbmdY
And many such diverse areas, even though you might be just toiling away to store and obtain some data in a database. Opens up horizons and makes you feel empowered.
On the other hand, some other programming communities are too obsessed with their testing frameworks and task runners.
Comment · 10 years ago
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Enterprise is, well, enterprise. Fortunately, Client Side Dev is un-encumbered by the much of the baggage of these and we have been able to create an oasis of awesomeness in this space.
The work in Enterprise is also not as much as there would be in a startup and the pay would be better.
Comment · 10 years ago
Could you please share what you are smoking, that has got you this high to be so far disconnected from reality.
Here is a concise set of carefully articulated arguments: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1Yfbhrlb7a_z-pQytLPwE... which are very true in the Indian context.
Also your argument on free-market ignores, assumes the absence of a regulator. It might hold when no regulator exists. But under the given condition when a limited amount of spectrum, a natural resource is auctioned to a select number of companies and a regulator exists, how possibly can this be un-regulated?
How possibly can you hand over the power to seek rent from these content provides to these bullying telcos. What would the repercussion be to the consumers of these content.
Comment · 10 years ago
I wrote up a "let's get this straight" message earlier, may be that will appeal to you more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10932166
Comment · 10 years ago
If their motive were genuinely connectivity, as they advertised it, they can still do it. #EqualRating is allowed, so are charitable initiatives such as Free Data to everyone.
But what do they really want? The next billion internet users hooked onto their platform. That's what they paid Whatsapp a whooping $19B for.
I can't presume to know for sure. We'll both see what will they do of their Freebasics program now.
Comment · 10 years ago
Probably the most progressive regulation among anywhere in the world.
Enforcement of these #NetNeutrality principles is the literal granting of the Liberties and Equalities of opportunities, granted to individuals and as such this is a landmark order that will have far reaching repercussions.
Worth noting how this played out. A bunch of folks on the internet, organised themselves and campaigned to stop a $300B market cap corporation and a bunch of telecoms with strong lobbying capabilities. Who would have thought they would win? The situation is worth a Harvard case study or a Nate Silver book.
The future of influencing policy making is right here; and you ain't seen anything yet! Save The Internet team clearly seems to understand the virality of social networks better than Facebook does!
Comment · 10 years ago
Does anybody know of any major open source contributor that lives in SF?
I used to be active in the Python/Django community earlier and am getting involved in the JS-React-Redux community. Not only do most people live outside SF, they live in a remote place that you wouldn't have heard about.
Software, good software is creative and creativity needs serendipity. The pressure to meet the next funding round criteria or to get an Uber through the traffic hearing my next track not making eye contact with my uber-pooler isn't the best frame of mind conducive to creativity.
I'm sure a lot of top CEOs and the top guys in select areas have a great social circle - smartest people who they eat/hangout with, which is very good. But there are also a lot of me-toos, for whom just living in SF is the thing they are achieving that feed their egos.
To compare, you need to measure the attributes of the this and the compared entity.
The alternative entity compared in this case is the Existing Financial System that is handled by the Fed, Wall Street and the Bankers.
Now, there are innumerable number of comparisons and metrics that have already done this job for their preferred metrics and statistics. They all unequivocally side on the side of Bitcoin. (one example: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/)
You are free to ignore these comparisons; but you have to compare and contrast that how cryptocurrencies, if ponzi compare to the modern financial system of all it's warts and what is the net effect of Cryptocurrencies and the Financial system as it exists today; rather than simply stating Cryptocurrencies are in and of themselves Ponzi.