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Deepankar Sharma - C++ / Python hacker - like to work on scalable data analysis systems.

Email is deepankar.sharma at googles email service.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepankar-s-0176222/

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dman··on I wish Asciidoc was more popular
Is the documentation publicly available by any chance?
dman··on If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough
Thinkpad X1 is a phenomenal device to run OpenBSD on. The last couple of times I tried it, things worked out of the box perfectly.
dman··on Ask HN: With recent layoffs, how would you advise new grads entering the market?
If anyone is looking, hit me up using contact details in my hn profile. We are a small stealth startup building a data analysis environment and actively hiring.
dman··on Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
xfce isnt just a window manager.
dman··on Building the Future of TensorFlow
Is it me or does this between the lines suggest that the current approach to Tensorflow is not working?
dman··on LibSQL is an open source, open contribution fork of SQLite
The part about the SQLITE code of conduct at the end is unnecessary imo.
dman··on Hacking anything with GNU Guix
Thank you!!
dman··on Hacking anything with GNU Guix
Could you elaborate a bit on how this works? Am a longtime emacs user and very motivated to get this working!
dman··on Hacking anything with GNU Guix
Any pointers to your setup?
dman··on FogBugz goes dark
That name brings back memories! Not of the good kind.
dman··on Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday
Whoa - how much traffic were you generating?
dman··on Google’s in-house desktop Linux
Post.
dman··on Google’s in-house desktop Linux
Google was the only employer I had where I had root on my machine, so I would say that developers have control over their machine.
dman··on Gnome has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked (2021)
Just wait until systemd grows a ui toolkit :D
dman··on Netflix will stream a Norm Macdonald stand-up special he shot before dying
In my case I suspect because he was a real person and he didnt hate the people he was making fun of :)
dman··on NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
NYC has has a city tax on your income. If you are living in the tristate area youre paying one way or the other :)
dman··on Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)
Just trying to use this thread for a market demand survey - Julia devs, would you pay $9.99 a month for better tooling? [Maybe responses to this will encourage devs to notice that there is a viable market here?]
dman··on Brendan at Intel.com
Being able to collect performance data from production boxes is invaluable.
dman··on Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity
Its cheaper to make a demo than to do solid rewrites / bug fixes of a huge incumbent codebase.
dman··on WebGPU – All of the cores, none of the canvas
That ship has long sailed.
dman··on The CIA and the Media (1977)
Are you in a position to confirm or deny that you work for an intelligence agency?
dman··on Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’
Same thing happened to Age of Empires and Railroad Tycoon. The 3d versions were never as special to me.
dman··on Maintain It with Zig
Ah yes - that makes sense. I should have been more precise - I meant abstractions that allow you to add opaqueness (like macros and operator overloading). Again culture plays a role here too - some communities normalize such abstractions more than others.

In short I believe languages that one can pick up in a couple of days and then read code where reasoning of the code is highly local would stand a higher chance of being perceived as simple.

dman··on Maintain It with Zig
There is also the notion of languages you love writing code in vs languages you like reading code in. Languages with more powerful abstraction abilities bring joy to the writer but make things tedious for the reader.
dman··on Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
Hopefully this translates into the phones being supported for longer since they are an inhouse design.
dman··on Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund
Isnt this a recipe for always taking your current users for granted? [Not saying it applies in Blender's case, but more generally]
dman··on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
My read is very close to yours.
dman··on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
For the particular metric John cares about, yes definitely. But there are other metrics out there by which GPL would have been a superior choice.
dman··on “I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”
This headline is a bit sensationalist. His tweet at the end says - "I'm still supportive of lots of GPL work, but I don't think the restrictions helped in this particular case."

He also says - "but tons of opportunities to just copy-paste-modify were lost due to license concerns".

It appears that the goal John was shooting for was to have as broad an impact by having the code being reused in as many situations as possible. On this metric, yes BSD would have been a superior choice.

dman··on GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model
On the other hand its infinitely more Open than anything from OpenAI :)
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