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mandliyaon Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to

Wow! if this is true.

"A person claiming to be a former Edge developer has today described one such action. For no obvious reason, Google changed YouTube to add a hidden, empty HTML element that overlaid each video. This element disabled Edge's fastest, most efficient hardware accelerated video decoding. It hurt Edge's battery-life performance and took it below Chrome's. The change didn't improve Chrome's performance and didn't appear to serve any real purpose; it just hurt Edge, allowing Google to claim that Chrome's battery life was actually superior to Edge's. Microsoft asked Google if the company could remove the element, to no avail."

mandliyaon Airbnb could plan to IPO by late 2020

Yes, Redfin shows some of the properties at least in Seattle area are being sold at an exorbitant price (way more than asking price). Too few houses, too many buyers!

mandliyaon StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix

Computer science blog gems I found using stumbleupon were priceless when I was in college. I would spend google portion of night stumbling good blogs of computer science and DIY projects. I could never find them through google because I didn’t know what to look for.

mandliyaon Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos

I use changelog nightly for similar purpose. It shows you hottest and most starred repos within the day.

http://nightly.changelog.com/2018/02/22/

mandliyaon Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?

Kudos! Amazing response.

Also,

“ Studying music, and learning that nothing is objectively difficult, just relatively unfamiliar. Learning that any skill is attainable through the right kind of practice.”

The Growth Mindset!!

mandliyaon Rents dropping significantly across the Seattle area after new construction

chuckle.

mandliyaon Data structure and algorithms problems in C++

Thanks again for the response, I understand it might be better to put a warning note at the top of readme. Thank you again for the advice.

mandliyaon Data structure and algorithms problems in C++

edit: Spellings.

Thank you for the feedback. Some of the programs here are coded 4 years ago, when I had just started learning C++ and I never revisited them. At that time, I was in university, and this repo was to attract recruiters for internship. I got the job later, and kind of ignored to correct problems. I am sure if these are ran with strict compiler flags there would be many more issues. I will get around and fix it sometime soon.

mandliyaon Data structure and algorithms problems in C++

I agree, These were mostly done from a beginner interviewee point of view, when I was learning stuff.

mandliyaon Data structure and algorithms problems in C++

These are from bunch of resources, CTCI, Leetcode, Geeksforgeeks and some from interview questions asked to me/friends/found on internet. I will update sources in the repo for the ones I remember.

mandliyaon What was the best CS, SE or Math video you watched in 2017?

https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk

3Blue1Brown’s playlist on neural networks. Like other 3Blue1Brown videos, the visualisations and explanations of the math/concepts are so amazing, they give you the intuition behind the neural networks naturally.

mandliyaon Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2018?

From my personal experience I would recommend Andrew NG's courses. (I am on the second one right now). I have done fast.ai's first course which is low on math and more practical (you directly jump to coding, and then try to make some sense of things.) CS231n is definitely a great option, however I chose coursera because I needed deadlines/reminders of Coursera to keep me motivated and finish something. If you are looking for more options, there are lot more courses listed here in Machine Learning category : https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses however I don't know if someone has reviewed them.

mandliyaon Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?

Rust NLP course sounds super interesting. I am dabbling in Rust. Could you share details/course links when it is available. Thanks

mandliyaon Ask HN: Your thoughts on returning to college to “refresh” a career?

College education at least to me is a scam. My wife recently started her school because she can’t work here as she is on a dependent visa, and the only way she could work here is to get a student visa. Paying 48k a year for 10 week courses per quarter which she could have easily learned from coursera in much better way. I feel per course fee is too high for a ten week more or less too fast and superfluous study.

I honestly think you could brush up your skills through coursera and other tools and then present your work through github and LinkedIn or your network. I know you need a bit of luck, however if you have good projects, you will get notice the coveted tech company recruiters. I have friends who took this path and are successful.

This will save you a tonne of money (those loan payments are nasty) and working hard would be common denominator.

mandliyaon Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger

As a sql server dev at microsoft, this has been lifeline for debugging customer issues pretty quickly. It is slow without indexing, however once it is indexed, it works really well.

mandliyaon Massive solar storm: Seattle, Portland, even N. Calif. may see auroras

Seattle has safety advisory for outdoor air quality and it is dense hazy. We would not be able to see anything.

mandliyaon FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public Surveillance

Same! As soon as I read the title, I did a 'Chuck' search.

mandliyaon OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing

Link to Azure function points to google cloud platform!