farazbabar

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by farazbabar 6d ago
That's a good question, I was very high up in the leadership, couple levels below the CIOs and the biggest surprise for the team was that I could write even a single line of code. In large organizations, changing direction is not alway
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by farazbabar 6d ago
Lots of EBS volumes mounted via 25GBPs or higher network, positioned carefully onto a single rack where possible and carefully tuned network/ip/os for both clients and servers. It is not feasible in most deployments as this would
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by farazbabar 6d ago
In 2015, I was able to get to 1 million read/write queries per second on only a couple nodes and tested this with multiple databases, it required (at the time) decent network tuning and node placement inside AWS but it cost me about 10
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by farazbabar 26d ago
I see a few comments talking about the pain cassandra inflicts on ops, and that's fine, I agree with almost all of them. What the comments assume readers to know and understand is the absolute horror of foot guns, backup nightmares, da
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by farazbabar 5mo ago
chatgpt just refused to tell me the first verse from a poem when I asked it by telling it the second verse and to remind me the first one, it complained about not being able to violate copyright laws! poetry by a dead poet is not something
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by farazbabar 5mo ago
This team does not report to me, I will ensure their demise and make sure their work is never adapted by anyone within my sphere of control. It is easy to justify such behavior behind snazzy terms but I have seen this so many times that it
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by farazbabar 7mo ago
Oh this is great, any ideas on how to do this for Samsung and LG televisions?
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by farazbabar 7mo ago
I have wanted to hold back from answering comments that ask for proof of real work/productivity gains because everyone works differently, has different skill levels and frankly not everyone is working on world changing stuff. I really
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by farazbabar 9mo ago
I am good at software. It turns out that isn’t sufficient, or alternatively stated, you have to be good at a number of other things than just churning code, even good code. So to me, the combination of being good at software, understanding
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by farazbabar 9mo ago
I like it, a test so bad, it just might work! I think the trick is not the equal sign, trick is to keep it so simple and small that most qualified people will not try to short circuit it.
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by farazbabar 9mo ago
That it won't be a revenue generating tech in 10 years.
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by farazbabar 9mo ago
Us middle eastern/brown guys have been making a come back?
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by farazbabar 10mo ago
https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1yAxMpwtD66vD5PdnOyISiTS2qFAyq1... <- this is very nice, I was able to make seconds smooth with three iterations (it used svg initially which was jittery, but eventually this).
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by farazbabar 1y ago
Tax schemes are there to save taxes using legalism loopholes, these places are happy to pay the taxes on "cash" purchases to bank the proceeds. Nobody is buying 50K rugs is correct, most of the transactions are self reported for t
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by farazbabar 1y ago
This is not really Veblen situation. A lot of these are primarily money laundering outfits, the artificially high prices, are simply a means of converting cash into bank deposits. Similar schemes exist in art, sculptures, and jewelry. There
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by farazbabar 1y ago
I interviewed at yahoo during the tenure of Marissa Meyer and decided not to join after noticing a strange lack of diversity in my interviewers (I saw a similar lack of diversity at Apple Pay much more recently), anytime top level organizat
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by farazbabar 1y ago
They were trained in a large and not insignificant part on reddit content. You only need to look at the kind of advice reddit gives for any kind of relationship questions to know this is asking for trouble.
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by farazbabar 1y ago
I am a software engineer in his 50s, with stints in big tech, big bank and fintech with domain expertise in payments, risk, performance engineering, and data. In addition I have led global teams of hundreds of engineers with outcomes that
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by farazbabar 1y ago
Don't forget high speed committed writes to append only tables (the opposite of scans), postgres approach is better here as well.
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by farazbabar 1y ago
I am seeing this in my community as well, it has become nearly impossible for early career folks to find opportunities and it is due to a number of factors. In addition to economy, the fast ramp up of hiring in covid and of course AI, we no
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by farazbabar 1y ago
One of the interesting ones we encountered was in the JDBC driver of our chosen database at the time. Under load, the application core dumped. Mind you this is java, running a native jdbc driver, no JNI in sight. It took some gdb stepping t
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by farazbabar 2y ago
This is similar to an approach I use but instead of a queue, I accomplish this using a ring buffer that wraps around and overwrites entries older than window size. We maintain a global window aggregate, subtract ring buffer slot aggregate f
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by farazbabar 2y ago
I am in phoenix, it is summer right now so things are double dead but even in fall to spring months, I have tried to find tech meetups (my interests are c++, c99, java, distributed systems, data engineering and non generative AIML/infr
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by farazbabar 3y ago
Have you been around lately? There is a safeway on rural road (basically scottsdale rd in tempe).
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by farazbabar 4y ago
Agree with bokeh: This was taken with a Leica m9 using f0.95 50mm noctilux lens: https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/rennlist.com-vbulletin/2000x133...
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by farazbabar 5y ago
Oh yeah, that is what you get when you submit your diagrams and invention specifications and API to a team of lawyers :) If you search the word click, it takes you to meat and potatoes but very well said. I was quite furious with the lawyer
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by farazbabar 5y ago
Because I am excited that this idea got turned into a viable product. And what is wrong with sharing the excitement with my fellow nerds including the fact that I had this idea first? It is all about execution and kudos to stripe for taking
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by farazbabar 5y ago
I believe I patented this in 2016: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10664883
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by farazbabar 6y ago
A long time ago when I lived in Pakistan, the local franchise holder for Federal Express processed and handled visa applications to United States. The final interview if needed was still conducted by Consulate employees but everything else
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by farazbabar 6y ago
Some of these lenses are quite amazing. My favorite lens from this class is the leica noctilux at f0.95. It is tac sharp even at f0.95 (if you can nail the focus) and the images make even an amateur like me look like a photo god.

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