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rajeevk

966 karma · joined January 10, 2012

Generalist programmer. Interested in system programming, distributed system and machine learning.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevku02/

email: rajeevku02 [at] gmail.com

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rajeevk··on No “Material Difference Between 5G and LTE”
> IoT will rarely require speeds more than 100's of megabits. Most actually is kilobits.

This reminds me this famous quote by Bill Gates: "640 kB ought to be enough for anybody"

rajeevk··on Show HN: Using deep learning to detect objects from your webcam
Seems very very slow on iPhone (safari)

Here is what it detected for me https://imgur.com/a/DSIZQ

rajeevk··on Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
Curious, how many startups does a YC batch have?
rajeevk··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
> Perhaps you could have a privacy policy which clearly states no text from user emails will be looked at by humans.

I don't think this would be practically possible. As these guys have to improve algorithm for better suggestion, someone has to look at the suggestion and the context to improve the algorithm.

rajeevk··on Launch HN: OSIMple (YC W18) – Automating data entry for inspectors
I had the same experience. I thought some problem with my internet connection
rajeevk··on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
Exactly! I had iPad2 working fine until upgraded to iOS 9. Then I had to upgrade the whole iPad to latest iPad Pro.
rajeevk··on GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale
In Hindi too, Samsara means universe
rajeevk··on Credibility and trust: Microsoft blows it by forcing Windows 10 on users
Not always..

Once I decided not to upgrade. But it used to pop up every now and then and I used to cancel the notification. Once by mistake, I pressed ok and there was no way to cancel the update. Then it bloated my phone(Samsung S4) like anything and phone keeps complaining out of disk space and I have to keep deleting my photos(and also uninstall apps) for getting more and more space for the stupid android it's own junk

rajeevk··on There's an iOS device attached to my Google account and I own no Apple products
I had one interesting incident.. I was not able to access my twitter and gamil account both. The twitter account was associated with that gmail account. I had same password for both of them. I was able to recover my gmail as the attacker did not change the recovery email in my gmail account. And hence I could recover the twitter account too. Then again I set the same password for both of them. Next day same thing happened again. Then recovered both and set different password and since then it is fine.

I wondered how someone could hack so easily. The passwords were not easy and I can not believe that anyone could guess that. I also checked the last access time in gmail and there were no suspicious activity there.

rajeevk··on Dropbox Project Infinite
What will happen if I run these commands:

cd dropBoxDir

grep -nr someStr .

rajeevk··on Saving Private Flipkart
Same with me. I almost stopped looking/searching at FK. It is either not available at FK or amazon is little cheaper. I have not purchased anything recently on FK, so can't comment on the customer service.
rajeevk··on Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Google Cloud is by far the best Cloud.

Any reference for this claim?

rajeevk··on An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
So, if you are aspiring to attend classes at MIT then you know what to do now. If you are applying for the admission, then you can choose your underwear color to increase your chances to get in.
rajeevk··on Free “Deep Learning” Textbook by Goodfellow and Bengio Now Finished
spent lot of time to convert each pages using this website and merged the pdfs into single pdf and then found that Athena has not done the conversion correctly. The diagrams not converted correctly.

Waste of time!!

rajeevk··on Announcing SQL Server on Linux
With this trend, I will not be surprised if Microsoft releases its own Linux distro which will be optimized for MS software (e.g. sql server)
rajeevk··on Goodbye Docker on CentOS, Hello Ubuntu
Exactly!

My company is extensively using docker. It has made deployment and maintaining different versions too smooth.

rajeevk··on Facebook made its Android app crash to test user loyalty?
I think the author wanted to say biggest by number of downloads or by popularity
rajeevk··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership
Sometime, Google employees also show this kind of attitude in their social life which makes other people hard to just have social interaction with Google employees.
rajeevk··on A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
I can rule out the co poisoning because I was the only one who got affected in that office. Others did not have such issues
rajeevk··on A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
I have been suffering from similar problem but not that extreme from last one and half year. I hope people here will provide some info that would be useful to me. Doctors are not helpful.

My problem started when switched my job in April 2014. Before I was perfectly fine. The office space was not properly ventilated. Initially (from the very first day) I used to feel very drowsy in the office and fine outside. After few days the problem became permanent even I am not in office. I was feeling like mentally blocked. Also started feeling disinterest in everything. After a month in that office, I had to travel to USA for a month in the same company and there I got severe itching and doctors there gave me some antibiotic. After taking the antibiotic, my problem even got worse. Then I had severe headache and severe metal fatigue. After returning from the US, I had to go on unpaid leave. It was feeling heavy brain fog, feeling extreme stress and metal fatigue all the time. I had visited three neurologist. All of them prescribed anti depressant. I even took an antidepressant (setraline) and it made me even worse after taking two and half months. I had got few check up done in August including MRI. The doctor told me that the MRI is normal. I have also visited few ayurvedic doctors and the ayurvedic medicine worked to some extent. In fact I am continuing the ayurvedic medicine till now. The ayurvedic medicine at least not letting the problem to get more worse. I had difficines of vitamin B12 and D and taking injection for B12 and supplements for vitamin D. Later I consulted a psychiatrist but again no help. The psychiatrist got me the EEG test which was normal. On the net I found a guy ( who is not doctor by education) describing about anti oxidants and its role in brain fog. I consulted him and he prescribed different kind of stuff (mostly for antioxidant functions) that seemed to help a bit. At present I feel little better than but the problem still very significant. Neurologists have nothing other than antidepressant to prescribe and antidepressant has worked negatively. Right now taking Ayurvedic medicines, vitamin supplements and antioxidant supplements.

I have not got the sleep test done yet. None of the doctors I visited asked to me to do that. Right now I am planning to get that done too. Is there any test that I can get done?

rajeevk··on Access Denied to Apple.com
> how "Apple has revolutionised the 'Access Denied' page

Probably, the title would be "How Apple invented Access Denied page"

- Minimalist Design

- Only black and white. Colorful page may harm your eyes

- Border-less design

- Minimal but highly informative text on the page

blah...blah..

rajeevk··on Rearchitecting GitHub Pages
They also use CDN. As the pages are cacheable, the CDN will decrease the load on their server significantly.
rajeevk··on Node.js: Cluster vs. Async
There are so many statements in the article that makes me laugh

> async cons: Adds latency with parallel overhead

What parallel? This should be cons for multi threaded running on single core cpu

> async pros: Callbacks help enforce error-prone synchronization

How does callbacks help in error prone synchronization? It is not callback, it is single threaded model that does.

rajeevk··on Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes
Just curious.. Why cant the mono team replaces almost whole of their codebase with the code Microsoft open sourced? Is there anything stopping them to do that? Maybe licensing issues?
rajeevk··on New JavaScript techniques for rapid page loads
I am not a full time javascript dev. A general advice:

Code review a great tool to learn great practices. Get your code reviewed by some good developer and work on the comments. Sometime code review comments are very personal views of commenter, but in general they can be very helpful.

You said that you taught yourself an awful practice. If you can identify a practice as awful, then probably you can fix it without help of anybody else by simply googling. In my opinion the real challenge is to identify a piece of code is awful or not. If you can identify, then probably it is much easier to correct that.

rajeevk··on MIT students open up about stress
Here is an interesting comment from Andrew S. Tanenbaum(a famous author on Operating system and Networking)

Did you experience culture shock going from M.I.T. to Berkeley?

Oh my goodness. Yes. It was so strange to be in an environment with people having I.Q.'s below 150 and where it wasn't necessary to study 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep up.

Source: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html

rajeevk··on UI Performance Decline – OS X Tiger to Yosemite [video]
Same with me. Before upgrading I always used to close the lid to make my macbook to sleep. The wake-up experience was good. But after upgrading, after waking up the system becomes too slow to use. I have to restart. So stopped putting my mac book pro to sleep. Now I always have to shut down when not using. Apart from sleep-wakeup problem, in general this has become much slower compared to mavericks

Probably this could be related to hardware config. I have a mac book pro at work with 8GB ram and it works fine. My personal mac book pro has 4GB ram and it has problem.

rajeevk··on An incomplete guide to Facebook thrift
Thanks you.. What more you expected in this?
rajeevk··on [dead]
> Windows and OSX are bloated; Linux is raw, not simple; IOS seems too basic, not simple; Android seems a piece of junk based on obsolete technologies.

Users don't care tech behind the scene, bloated or perfectly written code. If the software is fulfilling the use case or not is the only things the users care. IMO, the market should be determined based on use case not based on how any software is written.

If you come up with completely revolutionary idea of how a typical user should interact with computer, then probably you can enter into OS market, otherwise it is very very tough market to enter.

rajeevk··on Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Can you imagine what will happen to Mozilla if Google stops the contract? IMO, it is just a strategy of Google. First make the Mozilla heavily dependent on it and later ditch so the Firefox can easily die
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