niroze | 8 years ago | on: Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations
we know. but they are vastly different.
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niroze | 8 years ago | on: Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations
I can't remember the last time I depended on Google Maps for directions.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations
Anyone still use Maps in the car? I use Waze.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: AI speed test shows clever coders can still beat tech giants like Google, Intel
Talent isn't the problem, capital is.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: A Look at MyRocks Performance
Exciting!
niroze | 8 years ago | on: 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
I wish I could upvote this many times. Great reply. Agree 100% and thanks for speaking for us that work behind the scenes to make things happen.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: A Look at MyRocks Performance
Indeed! Their expertise and quality are something I truly value. Percona Server is killer.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016)
It was a geek joke, I'm not serious. I've written plenty of both languages, even in .gov.
Why so serious?!
niroze | 8 years ago | on: Leela Chess Zero – Open Source “Alpha Zero”
In a similar manner as Alpha Zero, Leela is growing by playing games with people and with itself (mostly). It is already a strong expert or low rated master at this point.
Youtube chess (masters) like ChessNetwork and Kingcrusher have videos of them playing it.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_-qtuuhLnI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvxGXNLs-0
You can help make it stronger by donating your CPU/GPU cycles!
niroze | 8 years ago | on: A Python Interpreter Written in Python (2016)
It isn't a LISP :P
niroze | 8 years ago | on: Goodbye iPod, and Thanks for All the Tunes
Pretty much all of this is fiction.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: Font Awesome 5 Released – new icons, styles, SVG, ligatures, and more
Is there data with that, or do paid customers generally not have a problem with it?
Open sourcing their work is a courtesy and not a right.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: NET Framework 4.7.1 Runtime and Compiler Features
Really cool technology, but I wish the Linux was a first-class citizen for this, too.
I know Microsoft is making progress support Linux more and more, and they have made Core .NET available for Linux https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/linux
I get they're supporting what they know best. A geek can dream.
niroze | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
thank you!
niroze | 9 years ago | on: A PostgreSQL response to Uber [pdf]
Love the shrug emoji
niroze | 9 years ago | on: Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016
A lot of Africans are white, especially ones settled and controlled by Brits at some point.
niroze | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet?
Not only is it like a totally different language than Perl 5, the most critical problem is that it simply wasn't popular.
All it would take is buzz... and millennials. Lots of millennials.
Generally, products that are the most popular aren't always the best. Better to just accept that now, especially before you invest much time in the space :)
niroze | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
millennials ;)
...and it is where a lot of excitement is now. Excitement drives development (of tools themselves and general usage). Much of the time, it is for the best.
People tend to get lost in tooling, which I can understand.
niroze | 9 years ago | on: NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf]
A great resource for systems engineering. I love this.
Source: am systems engineer for complex systems that can't go down and are heavily used by millions... but not as cool as NASA.
niroze | 9 years ago | on: Recommendations for building a career in open source
You build a career doing a job and solving problems, using specific skill sets.
Sometimes you're lucky enough to get paid to work on opensource projects or projects you've worked on become opensource.
I've built a career on open source technologies, mainly as a hobby that I turned into a job :)
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