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by bitwiseand 9y ago
Please don't discourage people without having the full view. There are many good low-level teams with software first people. At least in the bay area there are many exciting projects for people with this skill set. Self driving cars (W
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by bitwiseand 9y ago
If a system performance is profiled as being dominated by 80% A , 19% B and 1 % C. I'd focus on working on A first to get maximum gains. Amdahl's law gives you the backing as to why you should do this. As a real world example, if
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by bitwiseand 9y ago
I fully agree with you. It's not just infrastructure but also devices and the surrounding ecosystem. I work in this space and let me assure you there are many jobs with GREAT pay. I"ll go on and make another bold claim. Focusing o
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by bitwiseand 9y ago
Writing and designing code that is mindful of latencies (Amdahl's law). Temporal / Spatial locality, avoiding needless copies etc.. This approach needs to start from design and also follow into implementing the code. Moreover, th
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by bitwiseand 9y ago
A self-driving car, as proposed by Waymo and many others, in no way relies just on GPS. These beasts have fusion of many sensors with built in redundancy. Technology improves and evolves. If it didn't you wouldn't be so reliant on
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by bitwiseand 9y ago
"There are only two hard problems in CS : 1. Naming things. 2. Cache invalidation. "
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
- Allow an unambiguous, never "played with", chronological timeline. Have a separate view that's your ML playground. I disagree. The alternate to a vision you may not agree with is not having two visions. Use data to support
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Amazing seperation of 104 satellites from PSLV – Onboard camera(youtube.com)
2 points by bitwiseand 10y ago|0 comments
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
Thanks :)
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
Edit: I also wrote my comment because the article is beginner friendly. A lot of beginners will get the right idea about CAP once they go through comments and then back again to your article.
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
No need to be sorry. I liked the rest of the article. Thanks for that.
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
I liked the article but I feel the CAP theorem is again misquoted; it often leads to misunderstanding. From the article - "but they would still confront the reality of the CAP theorem: your system can be consistent, available, or parti
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
This is essentially same as processes sharing (via Page Table mapping) one .so file AKA Dynamic Linking :).
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
AFAIK, this is how docker CoW works. Your read-only parts i.e. base OS / starting point of the image is always shared. As you make changes a per-container R/W layer records those changes. This link explains it well - https:/
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
The 90 reforms were by the same person you are criticizing.
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
Do you really think people will install and use PayTm apps overnight in villages ?. Was there any research done on mobile literacy or making things easier in rural areas ? Also, you wish to ignore facts and reasoning posted by economists al
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
"Should we call transportation a failure and put a halt to every mode of transportation (be it autos, cars, buses, trains, planes etc) just because of this statistic or should we work towards improving the system?" Are you actuall
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
"Seriously? In a populace of a billion the death of 100 people for such a huge economic move is close to nothing." This might be a stat for you but if it was your kin maybe you won't feel the same way.
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
Google works with a subsidiary of the Railways called RailTel. A lot of the infrastructure / backbone was supplied by RailTel which allowed the project to move fast.
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by bitwiseand 10y ago
I took 213 at CMU. Can't recommend it highly enough. A lot of other intro systems courses are based off that. It is a prerequisite for most classes moving forward at CMU. The textbook is also available online as a pdf (Google it). Firs
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India's menstrual waste conundrum(offprint.in)
13 points by bitwiseand 11y ago|0 comments