entha_saava

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FizzBuzz in TensorFlow(joelgrus.com)
1 points by entha_saava 6y ago|0 comments
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by entha_saava 6y ago
There are alternative clients that lack some features but are very lightweight, open source and don't have ads. RedReader and Slide come to mind. Edit: that was on Android, I guess there are alternatives for iOS too, even if less likel
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Ask HN: CS related books for casual reading
2 points by entha_saava 6y ago|1 comments
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by entha_saava 6y ago
How many of us get to study in IITs?
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by entha_saava 6y ago
> I dont't really understand what point you are trying to make. That the quality of NIT and IITs are decreasing. I have seen a lot of previous generation people who studied in IITs and have stellar achievements. But I don't thi
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Yeah. Tier 1 colleges. Tell me more about NITs and IITs. I study at a so colled top college. Where highest placement is always around 50-60 LPa. That doesn't mean teaching and other things are good (sure better than average, but that&#
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by entha_saava 6y ago
As an Indian there are reasons you can point out for this. Education: Engineering syllabi are pretty outdated. And due to a work-just-enough-for-month-end-salary mindset, professors are against being up-to-date. As a result, everywhere bu
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UFCS – The feature that makes D my favorite programming language(opensource.com)
2 points by entha_saava 6y ago|0 comments
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Indian here. This piece may sound biased, but it is true. The lockdown was a good step. But poorly enforced. /people think it is against their prestige if they are home quarantined/. Not much of rationale could be seen even duri
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by entha_saava 6y ago
* people are delusional because colleges are getting away with low quality work, because of the higher barrier of entry for competition compared to something like Udemy. * People are getting delusional because of both low quality and high p
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Classes are not worth the cost of full tuition.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Yeah I know. I had even detected using about:config to render Kannada text on the phone which didn't support it - it cost more bandwidth but 20MB was too much for a day at that time.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
The other firms were worse in vision, thus Jio had an edge. When I was using internet on a J2ME phone and Opera Mini, it cost INR 4 for 20MB airtime (2G!), which lasted 1 day. A GB of data cost somewhere around INR 250, and lasted a month.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Sort of. Airtel is costlier than Jio and BSNL is worse in many areas. BSNL 3G is not only slower but doesn't have half the coverage of BSNL 2G (which is mostly used for calls and SMS not internet). Jio is slowly increasing prices but i
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Ask HN: What are lesser known / taught subfields of Computer Science?
7 points by entha_saava 6y ago|5 comments
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by entha_saava 6y ago
While not exactly a note taking method, Flash cards a la Anki come to mind.
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Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code [pdf](jjj.de)
2 points by entha_saava 6y ago|0 comments
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by entha_saava 6y ago
At what point we, as an industry, failed to mandate a level of technical education for being a manager? Almost always the non technical people who can't think beyond quarterly profits and their resumes are the biggest problem of this i
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Yes, Joel Spolsky and IIRC Jeff Atwood have written somewhat extensively about it. We are in a bubble, if we read programming blogs and think about programming in our free time, we are definitely not the kind that FizzBuzz exists to filter
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by entha_saava 6y ago
The point is, they should not actually require candidates to recall these things from memory. But there is certainly value in the non-memorization part of this knowledge and the ability to solve this kind of problems distinguish people who
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by entha_saava 6y ago
To filter out naive people that don't have proper understanding of fundamentals and just having some framework plumbing knowledge, I guess. These are considered pretty basic stuff that every programmer should know..
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by entha_saava 6y ago
As opposed to us who only use features developed by Bell labs.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
1) Non nullability can be implemented in language without generics, and for all types instead of just pointer types. That can be used to enforce null checking with pattern like: if let var_name = nullable_var { // u
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by entha_saava 6y ago
> Fast code is expensive. Indeed, because all bigtech can invest on is LLVM and C++. The research on compilers and optimizations has not been getting the attention because of LLVM monoculture and the monstrosity that is C++.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I told type system is not the bottleneck, codegen is. Even if you count the size of ode after monomorphization, I am pretty sure the Go compiler compiles it much faster. Because the compiler is not in the benchmarks rat race of adding one o
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Static checking is just a part of correctness verification (pretty large chunk but not enough). It can't catch many logic bugs, eg forgetting to update a variable's value. The type system can't help without non-straightforwar
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by entha_saava 6y ago
I'd say Go is a fair comparison here. Type checking and Parsing isn't bottleneck in Rust compilation. Code generation is. LLVM is particularly heavy and while it generates optimized code, it is quite slow. Go Authors didn't p
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by entha_saava 6y ago
In order to ensure the next rebuild on an actual code change doesn't need to compile this comment-changed file, I guess.
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Did you mean s += i; ?
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by entha_saava 6y ago
Am I the only one who dislikes all this parallelism hype? For data analysis and batch jobs on large amounts of data it would be great. Other consumer oriented applications should run on single core. It hurts when people dismiss otherwise pe

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