mallipeddi

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by mallipeddi 1y ago
Batteries are heavy. I don’t need a fat ass battery making the phone heavier just to hide the camera bump.
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by mallipeddi 6y ago
Can someone who is a domain expert comment on this statement I see being repeated often about Jio's ability to have a significantly lower cost structure by offering only 4G service with 'commodity hardware' versus the legacy
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by mallipeddi 10y ago
Few questions from reading the docs: 1) How big can all the colocated data for a single primary key get before they don't fit within a split? Can I implement a GMail-like product where all the data for a single user resides within one
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by mallipeddi 10y ago
It's simply due to the competitive hiring environment for the best software engineers in USA. The difference in pay cannot merely be explained simply by the difference in cost of living. I have personally worked in Singapore as a softw
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
I have been through this several times. There's never any advantage to you revealing your current salary. No company is ever going to reject you because you didn't tell them your current salary. So just politely tell the recruiter
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
Why won't the thieves disconnect the GPS/reader from the zipcar after they have broken in? Is that actually tamper-proof?
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
Ok so you can deduct as much as you want from any 'capital gains' you might have but only are allowed to deduct a max of $3000 per year from regular income, and the leftover capital loss just keeps on rolling over perpetually unti
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
What happens when after exercising, you sell the shares for a lot lower than the EV the year after? Can you claim a loss and deduct the loss from the taxable income the year you sold? Is your tax deduction = #S * (EV - SP)?
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
Your resume is fine (just make the GPA more obvious - convert to 4.0 scale or something). I've worked at some of the companies you mentioned and I regularly do technical interviews for internships. Here are some tips: - Try to get a re
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by mallipeddi 11y ago
Well he's pointing out EFS is not a replacement for EBS. You can run postgres on EBS volumes with PIOPS.
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by mallipeddi 12y ago
Amazon is way ahead of everyone else in the cloud space. Their closest rivals (Microsoft & Google) are pretty much copying AWS. Most of Azure's services are equally proprietary and I doubt that will ever change. This just leaves th
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by mallipeddi 12y ago
What are the size limits on a collection? Docs mention transaction support is offered only within a collection. Is a collection essentially limited to a single physical machine in the background or does it span across machines? It looks lik
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by mallipeddi 12y ago
Simple use-case: you want to maintain a counter. In Cassandra even if you tune the consistency levels (set R+W>N), there's no way to correctly implement a conditional update. To elaborate further, you could successfully increment th
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by mallipeddi 12y ago
Tuning consistency levels for your requests (R/W/N values) can only guarantee read-after-write consistency at best. It doesn't guarantee strong consistency like what HBase provides.
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by mallipeddi 13y ago
Since the emails are not encrypted, anyone in the middle who's capable of scanning this traffic can basically see all the transactions passing by?
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by mallipeddi 13y ago
I worked at AWS for a while. So a lot of times when I've been in such meetings, the 6-page document was actually full of technical details (design docs, product FAQs, post-mortem reports, etc). So taking 20-30 mins to read through the full
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by mallipeddi 14y ago
Disclosure: I work on the Redshift team. The OP's cluster is a 16-node hs1.xlarge cluster (has 3 spindles per node). There's actually a more powerful node-type hs1.8xlarge which has 24 spindles on each node. More info: http://aws.amazon.co
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by mallipeddi 14y ago
Amazon RDS is for OLTP workloads. Redshift is a distributed, column-oriented store that's designed for OLAP workloads. For more info: http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/#0110
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by mallipeddi 14y ago
You can use the COPY command to do bulk imports from S3. We also support importing from DynamoDB.
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by mallipeddi 15y ago
First of all, it's spelled career not carrier. PHP vs Ruby is not going to make a big difference. What matters is how you good you are. Listen to your parents and go to college. If you love working with computers so much, a Computer Science
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by mallipeddi 15y ago
I just went through the H-1B process and moved to USA in the beginning of this year. I'm not an American citizen obviously and I also studied in a university outside America. My answers to your questions: 1. Where to start? All major tech c
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by mallipeddi 15y ago
They generally ask for the full academic transcript (which has grades in it). Btw do not be worried if you don't have stellar grades/GPA - USCIS doesn't care about that. Your immigration lawyers just need to make a case that your education
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by mallipeddi 15y ago
Btw it's illegal to make an employee pay the USCIS H-1B visa fees (USCIS website clearly mentions that the visa fees strictly has to be borne by the employer). I'm surprised that small company made you pay the visa fees. Now if they made yo
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
As they mention on their blog, they botched a significant percentage of their supernodes because of a faulty update they pushed to these clients. If it was just a side-effect of holiday season, it should happen every year. Also it's likely
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Is there a study that indicates if ABS and airbags actually improve safety significantly on Indian roads? They're probably going to be most helpful on some of the newer high-speed freeways. But this is a small i10 city car which you're prob
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Singapore Monthly expenses - S$1600 * Rent - S$900 (this will get you a room in a nice high-rise condominium with swimming pool/gym but you've to share the flat with 2 other flatmates). * Broadband - S$70 * Mobile + Unlimited 3G p
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
I don't think they discriminate based on colleges but obviously it'll be harder for you (for instance they probably won't visit your campus for recruitment). You've to work extra hard to make a mark there. Also use innovative ways to get in
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
There are two popular options for Indian CS students: 1) Write GRE, apply to some good American CS grad schools, finish the Masters degree and start working for your dream startup in Silicon Valley or any of the top software shops. This wil
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
Sounds like you're dictating how others should behave in order to accommodate your crappy Outlook Express.
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by mallipeddi 16y ago
That's already happening: http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb2008...

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