cmonnow

Do I NEED Alexa to turn on the light? I can walk, I can do it myself.

Do I NEED NETFLIX to watch TV ? I can watch other channels.

Do I NEED a TV for entertainment ? I can enjoy nature walks.

Do I NEED nature walks to be happy ? I can meditate in peace like a monk.

The words WANT and NEED are arbitrary, subjective and interchange-able.

was conquered by the british as punishment

lol. the varna system existed when Mughals invaded too. and you think it doesn't exist now ?

if there was a way to notify multiple interested parties with one comment and multiple mentions, i would love to do that.

you only feel like it is spam cos you came to the comment section late. my audience however are people who commented earlier.

Genetic mutations and recombinations

and why do THOSE happen ?

this whole discussion seems pedantic.

whether it is a local function or a remote function, both caller and callee need to agree on the parameters (input), and returns (output).

I send you X. You send me back Y. That's it - this is the contract we both agree to.

OP is saying - the caller should NEVER do anything with Y other than display it on screen, for it to be called REST. Well - why even display it, why not just discard it ? Calling print(Y) is as good as calling businesslogic(Y). Whatever further logic a human plans to do after print(Y), a machine can do the same.

In other words, REST is just step 1 of returning data from a remote function. The moment you code any additional logic on the returned data (which is 99% of use cases), it's not REST anymore ? Sounds like an extremely limited definition /use case of REST.

this whole discussion seems pedantic.

whether it is a local function or a remote function, both caller and callee need to agree on the parameters (input), and returns (output).

I send you X. You send me back Y. That's it - this is the contract we both agree to.

OP is saying - the caller should NEVER do anything with Y other than display it on screen, for it to be called REST. Well - why even display it, why not just discard it ? Calling print(Y) is as good as calling businesslogic(Y). Whatever further logic a human plans to do after print(Y), a machine can do the same.

In other words, REST is just step 1 of returning data from a remote function. The moment you code any additional logic on the returned data (which is 99% of use cases), it's not REST anymore ? Sounds like an extremely limited definition /use case of REST.

and wife's son

holup

in order to read your reply to my comment, i had to :

- click on my user name

- click on comments

- search/scroll to this thread and see your reply

I don't get notified of comment replies like on reddit. there is no slack/email page of DMs/PMs.

i wonder what tool dang uses to see comment replies and respond ?

the ycombinator web UI does not encourage real-time or even near-time responses.

My strict rule : Never write/store documentation that is separate from underlying 0s & 1s. It always goes out of sync.

We are currently in the process of creating a data dictionary for our company.

I put down a rule that we are not ever going to create a SEPARATE WordDoc/Wiki/Evernote/GenZ-tool.

If it is code, document its meaning (english explanation for laymen) in the doc string. If it is data, document its meaning in the column's metadata (all database systems provide a property/comment/description capability at table & column level). If it requires complex diagrams, put these in whatever files (doc/image/pdf/mp3), store it as a blob in a database and create a link it in original code comments/column metadata.

All this data is then constantly pulled into some data-mart on top of which a query-able UI is created.

Every documentation must be literally "Tied" to actual systems making money for the company.

If a new code/data is created or updated, and it's missing documentation, PR is not approved. Once the basic technical setup of tying code/data with comments/metadata is done, enforcing this rule of updating documentation is the job of management/CTO culture.

also doesn't mention religions which prohibits drinking of alcohol (Hinduism, Islam) because it is considered both harmful and intoxicating, which leads a man to commit sin due to lack of judgement, and how they have lived long healthy lives.

This is basically Google (Chrome) paying Mozilla (Firefox) to kill 3rd party cookies because Google has a better way to fingerprint users without 3rd party cookies, because they have SO MUCH data about us.

This move is aimed at killing other AdTech companies which rely on 3rd party cookies to track users.

They painting this as a 'PRIVACY' move, after they have already found other ways of tracking users across websites and devices.

This is basically Google (Chrome) paying Mozilla (Firefox) to kill 3rd party cookies because Google has a better way to fingerprint users without 3rd party cookies, because they have SO MUCH data about us.

This move is aimed at killing other AdTech companies which rely on 3rd party cookies to track users.

They painting this as a 'PRIVACY' move, after they have already found other ways of tracking users across websites and devices.

Happy 2021 Bhrata!

Ugadi (Kannada/Karnataka New Year) falls on April 13 2021 as per Panchang (traditional Hindu almanac followed in India).

BTW, using Panchang, a Vedic pundit in a village can accurately predict solar/lunar eclipse start/end times (among many other predictions) without any scientific instrument whatsoever.

I never understood the fascination people have with self-referential 'paradoxes' like : "This statement is False".

Pronouns do not have an independent existence. Until the pronoun 'This' resolves to an actual statement which has a valid true/false property, it is a recurrence without termination i.e. a infinite loop, that has no meaning.

Suppose I say: 1. Sky is blue. 2. Previous statement is True. 3. Previous statement is True.

And ask you 'Is Statement 3 is True or False?'. You would say 'First I need to know what 'previous' refers to', so you would do pronoun substitution for the word 'Previous' in Statement 3:

3. 'Previous statement is True' is True.

Since this statement has an unresolved pronoun, you would do pronoun substitution for the word 'Previous' in Statement 2:

3. ''Sky is blue' statement is True' is True.

Since there are no more unresolved pronouns, you would evaluate the statement 'Sky is blue', and then the next Statement 2, and finally Statement 3, and say 'Yes, Statement 3 is True'. So far, so good ?

Now, suppose I say:

1. This statement is False.

And ask you 'Is Statement 1 True or False?'. You would say 'First I need to know what 'This' refers to', so you would do pronoun substitution for the word 'This' in Statement 1:

1. 'This statement is False' statement is False.

Since this statement has an unresolved pronoun ('This'), you would do pronoun substitution again.

- ''This statement is False' statement is False' statement is False.

Since this statement has an unresolved pronoun ('This'), you would do pronoun substitution once more.

- '''This statement is False' statement is False' statement is False' statement is False'

And you will keep doing pronoun substitutions forever since statements with unresolved pronouns cannot have a True/False property.

I find this teenage-girl-at-a-rock-concert-feigned-fascination with self-referential 'paradoxes' silly.

Where did India get into the picture here ? The only protests going in India are those which are against government initiatives to help minorities.

Interestingly, you didn't mention Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc. where minorities are actually being killed, raped or converted.

Charity in Hinduism falls under 3 modes, as with pretty much everything else in Hinduism - Tamas, Rajas & Sattva

Tamas - given at wrong place/time, to wrong (unworthy) person, without respect/decency, with contempt.

Rajas - given with reluctance, expecting return (either from recipient, or praise)

Sattva - given at right time/place, to right (worthy) person, with humility, without expectation of return.

Note that while others religions mainly dwell on not expecting return and anonymity, Hinduism stresses not expecting return but does not stress anonymity as much as it stresses finding the right patra (bowl) i.e. right recipient.

Donating $100 to a poor person, who also happens to be wicked, and/or will definitely spend it on vices, is actually a bad donation, because it causes more harm to the recipient and society, than good.

Also, timing - a litre of blood donated to a save a life in urgent time, is worth more than a litre of blood spilled in war to gain territory.

Also, place - a donation done in holy land or temple is worth more than a donation from a local philanthropy club.

Also, the reward for donation is gaining goodwill in the heart of Bhagavan (God). And He dishes out goodwill proportional to the 'effort' rather than 'amount' - a $100 wage earner donating $10 is judged the same as $100 million donated by a billionaire.

Source : Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, verses 20,21,22

In other news, blacks willingly choose not to be slaves to white masters.

For example, western companies choose not to operate in the Chinese market

In other news, blacks choose not to be slaves to white masters.

it's called bias vs. variance tradeoff, or over-fitting, in stats/machine learning lingo.

fine, then come to a middle-ground:

search bar (on the top) for window-shoppers

selection boxes (on the left) for focus-shoppers

If I select 1440p under Resolution, I do not want non-1440p monitors in search results.

Bar-raiser program didn't have a feedback loop to track its effectiveness

Which itself is a Bar-lowerer.

supply vs. demand.

as long as 9 other candidates are willing to run the LC gauntlet, the 10th doesn't stand out.

At 15 minutes a pop you can do 100+ leetcode questions a week.

By that logic, most people would have completed all 1500 LC's in 4 months.

Numbers say otherwise. Each medium difficulty problem takes an hour to solve, assuming you can come up with a non-brute-force solution. Most of them force you to lookup, understand and implement other people's ideas.

If you can do 3 problems a day, completely on your own without any lookup, you're doing good pace.

When you're under time-pressure, you actually spend more time thinking about how much time you have left, rather than thinking about how to solve the problem.

It's like that parable.

2 students approached the master, wanting to become swordsmen.

'I want to reach your level in 10 days', said a student. Master replied 'It will take you 10 months'. The other student said 'I don't care if it takes 10 years, Master'. The Master said 'and you will learn in 10 days'.

That advice seems like unnecessary mental gymnastics.

Just take an unseen technical problem, solve it for the very first time in front of a colleague, then double your time as the expected time for candidates in an interview.

When you're under time-pressure, you actually spend more time thinking about how much time you have left, rather than thinking about how to solve the problem.

People taking such myths seriously

Well, atheists don't believe in anything before or after this life. It's usually such people who have no fear of committing crimes when they are confident they won't get caught.

why should you not suffer in this current life?

they will suffer. But not because of you or me. But because of reactions to their actions long ago.

Does it mean you can ill-treat them without consequence ? No. If you do so, you will be born in that caste in a next-life and suffer the same oppression they're facing now.

There is no escape from the inhuman hindu caste system.

The Hindu caste system talks about spiritual evolution of the soul as it goes from body to body in each birth.

You might be a lower-caste in this birth, but you might get upper-caste birth in a next life. And vice-versa. That's how you escape it.

Tolerating the intolerant, or intolerating the intolerant - that's not a paradox.

It's no different from the police using violence on violent people.

So an eye for an eye, eh?

So if a criminal is shooting at you (violence), the police should not shoot the criminal (also violence)?