profpandit

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by profpandit 9y ago
The tile of this post seems like a non-sequiter. Why would a company not do that? If you trying to project your own ideas, a part of that process is killing competing ideas
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Ask HN: Is the app model straightjacketing designers
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by profpandit 9y ago
Goa (India) ONSITE We're developing an enterprise developer tool for the Mac. We have a small house to work out of in Dona Paula, an outskirt of Panjim, located in a quiet neighborhood, very close to the ocean. We're looking for 2
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by profpandit 9y ago
Goa (India) ONSITE We're developing an enterprise developer tool for the Mac. We have a small house to work out of in Dona Paula, an outskirt of Panjim, located in a quiet neighborhood, very close to the ocean. We're looking for 2
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by profpandit 9y ago
Absolutely. Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product. It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced. So it's rock solid. IDK why they'r
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by profpandit 9y ago
Open source is associated with philanthropy and with being really smart. If you're a really smart coder, out to change thw world, you'll obviously build a library or framework to help the other, not so fortunate coders around you
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by profpandit 9y ago
Right. Early PC apps were developed by developers mostly for the developer community and PCs were used mostly by developers themselves as a cheap replacement for workstations. When they started proliferating in the end-user space and experi
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by profpandit 9y ago
This is a great question. The PC has been around for a long time now. For the most part, users/developers have been sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for the tool and app gods to rain their blessings. This ques
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by profpandit 9y ago
Exercise. Cooking. Sketching. Paying attention to grooming. Practicing ignoring people as much as possbile in public. Reducing the amount of information I process outside of programming. --> Not using a smartphone. Using public transport
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by profpandit 9y ago
Well, mental health has always been and will continue to be an issue that needs to be addressed in the workplace. This is because the workplace now is at least half composed of programming related tasks. Programming is such a mentally taski
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by profpandit 9y ago
I would state that in a much stronger way -- A programmer should only think of their programming as a tool and concentrate first and foremost on what they are building. Good habits should emerge from that bent of mind. If all you do is code
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by profpandit 9y ago
Yes, and in addition, this is a good way to choose projects. We need to "reinvent the wheel"" a lot more rather than just building on top of frameworks that we have inherited from the past. The more work we do at the lower la
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Writing a browser that does not use the mouse
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by profpandit 9y ago
Re: b) For video, the encoder contains a model of the decoder, including the amount of buffering available to the decoder. The bit-rate controller at the encoder uses this model to ensure that the decoder always has the right amount of data
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by profpandit 9y ago
Digital cinema uses a resolution that is much higher than H.265's targeted sweet spot. Their quality needs are also a lot higher. Motion compensated video cannot give them the desired quality. Hence intra frame only wavelet based compr
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by profpandit 9y ago
They started along that direction with MPEG-4. But it didn't go very far then.
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by profpandit 9y ago
That's a good research topic. Considering the time-frame involved -- 20 years you could infer that attempts at finding alternative strategies have been half hearted The way the ISO and standardisation works is the reason for this. 99 o
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by profpandit 9y ago
These are all refinements. The broad strokes of the algo haven't changed
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by profpandit 9y ago
Well, you could. But the way current schemes are structured, the motion compensation is done on a 16x16 macroblock basis Using an 8x8 DCT to clean up the 4 quadrants within a macroblock makes sense. But performing a global wavelet transform
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by profpandit 9y ago
Try the FAQ for comp.compression
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by profpandit 9y ago
The problem with Wavelet based compression was since wavelet transforms were applied globally to the whole frame at a time, while they were suitable for still image compression they couldn't really take advantage of motion compensation
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by profpandit 9y ago
Don't know, but it was associated with the ITU as opposed to the ISO before they decided to merge their efforts
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by profpandit 9y ago
It's interesting to note that the architecture of the first ISO codec MPEG (1) is almost identical to the one we have today H.265 That codec was standardised in the late 90s So this design has carried through for about 20 years. Most o
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by profpandit 9y ago
This posting was an error
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by profpandit 9y ago
2 month OSX programming contract for a pair of programmers in Sevilla, Spain We're developing a tool (an OSX app) for OSX app developers email profpandit@khitchdee.desi
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by profpandit 9y ago
I hear ya, the mind gets tricky with some of those associations
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by profpandit 9y ago
You obviously hit the proverbial nail on the head and "figuratively" broke it considering that you're right at the top of Hacker News, something that becomes many peoples' claim to fame, for technical articles of course
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by profpandit 9y ago
Well, thanks for bringing out that uncertainty in the post. Subsistence living is probably the wrong word. What I meant was, we're a start-up that's bootstrapping and so we don't really have a lot of cash, but we have equity
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by profpandit 9y ago
Khitchdee, Full time, Remote OK, a pair of programmers MS degrees as little experience as possible the pair should have worked together before we're developing a developer tool for OSX the programming is in C we'll pay you enough
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by profpandit 10y ago
I don't think you should restrict yourself to NGOs Even commercial organizations help people and community You should identify what kind of work interests you and use that to drive your decision.

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