sun_n_surf

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Came here to say this. What fantasy world are these guys living in? Most people I know barely get weekends to themselves, what with work being pushed passive aggressively through WhatsApp. And no, it is not a choice. For every person who decides to Eat, Pray, Love, there is a hungry guy waiting to work 10 hours a week more to get that job. It is brutal out there.

Comment · 7 years ago

What do you mean available here? I can't see a link to the book?

Comment · 7 years ago

Of all the things that I thought I would never see on HN. However, this is a technical review, and needs an advanced formal economics education to appreciate.

Comment · 7 years ago

Hey man, I am like 35 and alone all the time.

Comment · 7 years ago

I actually have a different problem -- not sure it is one that I can legally solve.

I have 10 years of lovingly curated YouTube videos playlists, which, now when I look into the older ones, are a barren wasteland of "Video removed" or "Video not available". It is heartbreaking. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening?

Comment · 8 years ago

Open roles for Azure & GCP might remain open for longer because of lower supply and poorer matching, not because of higher positions being searched for. The AWS talent market probably clears more easily given that it has existed longer.

Comment · 8 years ago

Not more of this pearl-clutching sensationalist reporting. India has shown no signs (any more than before) of the Hindu nationalism that was supposed to sweep the nation once Modi came to power. He is no more Hindu nationalist than Shashi "Why I am a Hindu" Tharoor (one can't give it away, the other can't pay for it).

Modi will fall, oh sure, Modi will fall. But mostly because he did not deliver on all his promises of economic miracles, which really, being a pragmatic people, is mostly what Indians care about. Indians are either too smart or too busy (or both) to care about the nuances of history as written in text books for children (which they only read before the exams to regurgiate).

Comment · 9 years ago

Ba dum tiss

Comment · 9 years ago

Least squares, gradient descent and linear regression separately? I get that he wants to point out the profundity and universality of the ideas encompassed in those techniques (& models; least squares and gradient descent are rightly thought of as (numerical) techniques, whereas the linear regression models is a, well, model) but that is like saying that arithmetic is fundamental to deep learning. Essentially, this "history" only takes you to 1947 and Minsky.
Comment · 9 years ago

This is not as bad as it sounds. You need to consider the absolute numbers than the relative percentages for languages like C++.
Programming is more accessible than ever before, more jobs require some element of programming than ever before, and more things are getting created using code. This means that people who have never written code before are writing code as a job of work, and are writing it in simpler-to-learn languages.
Newer, simpler programming jobs are acquiring programmers in other languages, not necessarily that C++'s complexity is driving people away from it into the arms of other languages or that C++ is not acquiring newer programmers at the same rates (on existing base) as before.
Comment · 10 years ago

Lol, it's a trap. I get an untrusted certificate.
Comment · 10 years ago

Netflix is now basically an OTT TV channel. This puts to rest the content aggregation platform model for video which, unlike music, is highly differentiated with higher cost, which rules out commoditization.
This basically reduces online video to two categories: user-generated content platforms and commissioned, curated content platforms. In my view there is only room for one player in the former (YT), but in the latter category, it is basically business as usual for the traditional TV networks.
Comment · 10 years ago

`C CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA`
I laughed way harder at this that it warranted.