legedemon

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by legedemon 6mo ago
citext doesn't solve your problem of case-insensitive search?
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by legedemon 6mo ago
Thanks for the great write-up with links to many more interesting articles and code! I have long stopped working on Linux kernel but deep dives like these are very exciting reading.
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by legedemon 9mo ago
If possible, could you please explain what your slopware does?
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by legedemon 10mo ago
Exactly my reaction. Every time I've used something from Google, it ends up dead in a few years. Life is too short to waste so many years learning something that is destined to die shortly
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by legedemon 11mo ago
Great puzzle. Do you ship internationally?
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by legedemon 2y ago
I clicked on a random open problem and found https://www.erdosproblems.com/170 . The text of the problem didn't make sense. The wikipedia article stated the problem much more nicely which was thankfully linked from the
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by legedemon 4y ago
For someone whose interaction with spatial data is very limited, I found the article to be a treasure trove of information. Also, thanks for sharing S2! It'll be nice to look at.
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by legedemon 4y ago
https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia is enough to solve problems at very large scales. There is nothing about Rails or MVC preventing someone from doing this. This is a very common design principle for all kind of E
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by legedemon 6y ago
Does someone know which are the books lying on his bookshelf? Alternatively, is there an interview with Donald Knuth where he mentions the books he studies.
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by legedemon 8y ago
Could someone suggest a good book on Geometry beyond what is taught in high school? I find co-ordinate geometry to be more algebraic than geometric and miss knowing the interesting properties of curves and shapes and bodies.
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by legedemon 9y ago
When you stop consulting stackoverflow to find answers to your queries because you know that you know more than the most people browsing and willing to answer your question on stackoverflow. Or when you start answering questions on a topic
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by legedemon 9y ago
Have to disagree a bit. If you aim to have this level and breadth of skill over a n-year period where n<5, yeah, your personal and social life would suck. But if this is built over 5+ years by reading, doing and learning from others and
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by legedemon 9y ago
Agree.
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by legedemon 9y ago
Pretty much agree with what r-s has written above.Have spent 11+ years working/consulting for mostly startups. Have used everything listed above except Salt (Nothing against it but the Salt team should look to so some PR and build thei
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by legedemon 9y ago
No, it's not that hard. It's more about getting the priorities right. The developer and production environments should be separated at a deep network level making it very very difficult for anything (rogue script, rogue admin, etc
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by legedemon 10y ago
Nope, new sorting algorithms are still cropping up all over place. Already published sorting algorithms are still being implemented. And people are still accelerating the already existing implementations on GPU, SIMD-capable and FPGA device
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by legedemon 10y ago
While agreeing to the fact that performance does always matter, I think the idea that "someone else did it better" is not always a good one. One should always understand the limitations of standard implementations and see if hand-
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by legedemon 10y ago
Nope. I happen to be a product manager for one of such internal applications with around 60 users. This can be considered as a handful of users when compared to the internet scale. Getting the product adopted even for such a small group was
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by legedemon 10y ago
Yes! We are right now testing to see if there are any issues. Will move soon afterwards hopefully.
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by legedemon 11y ago
I just checked your resume linked to from your website. To be blunt, you have mentioned too many unrelated things on your resume and it sends out the message that you are a jack of many trades. My sincere advise would be to organize it so t
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by legedemon 11y ago
Or you can start your own company and write good old code at work for profit.
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by legedemon 11y ago
This comment from antirez: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433770
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by legedemon 11y ago
You made my day! I'm booking a slot right now.
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by legedemon 11y ago
Agreed.
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by legedemon 11y ago
I am going to discuss insurance with my employer. It looks like it is a pretty big deal in the US. We've visited several countries in the past. So, cultural differences should not be a big problem but since so many people are emphasizi
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by legedemon 11y ago
Yeah, at times I like to think so but I've had so many humbling experiences that I'd wait a little longer before making that declaration. I had once worked with a senior colleague who would run process traces on the live Oracle da
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by legedemon 11y ago
Thanks Karthik! These are exactly the kind of insights I was looking for on HN.
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by legedemon 11y ago
Thanks for your inputs! Disparity indicator is a nice phrase to know. I had not considered it from the opportunity perspective but will add it to the list of pros and cons. Some of the cool start-ups I'd love to work with are definit
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by legedemon 11y ago
That's actually a little hard to describe exactly. In short, I do whatever needs to be done on the technical side of things - from front-end development to setting up the servers. There are two particular things that I think I'm g
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by legedemon 11y ago
Interesting. We haven't discussed anything about insurance. They are willing to reimburse the travel cost for me. I'll need to buy tickets for my wife though. I haven't really considered relocation costs but I think that&#x27

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