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sdaveon What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)

Someone would claim to implement sap over a weekend !

sdaveon Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?

1st level of protection is by keeping your live production data & backup data in separate accounts.

(If 1 account gets compromised the other is still available)

Perhaps 2nd level is by using cloud specific features - such as AWS S3 Object locks (even owner can't delete the object till the retention period).

my 2cents

sdaveon Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?

1984

sdaveon Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working

Congrats to you as well! We have lots of courses in common. My most fav. were: HPC, AI4R, Simulation, AI for Ethics and ML4T

sdaveon Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working

(Not the person u asked :-) )

Short answer = Yes. Learned a lot and some more. (but of course depends on what courses you end up taking).

In fact, its quite common to see alumni taking courses after they have graduated (case in point: many folks from my batch enrolled in the newly started DL class, just for the sake of learning).

sdaveon Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working

I think UT Austin has a program as well. Might want to check with the alumni there.

Also, I would say - if you don't hurry through the program and take 1 course at a time, it's worth giving it a shot. You must start slow, gradually you would have an intuition of how to pace your life along with the studies.

Hope this helps & all the best.

sdaveon Completing a part-time Master's in computer science while working

Completed OMSCS in Fall 2020 - while working in a startup & raising young kid.

Was brutal, but worth it! Thanks to Georgia Tech. for creating this program!!

Program link: https://omscs.gatech.edu

sdaveon Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

Freedom is a .... consequence , of ....

sdaveon Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules

you should too.

sdaveon The 'Fuck You' Pattern

Tiktok ?

sdaveon Bayes Theorem: A Framework for Critical Thinking

Yes, but it's unknown. And hence any meaningful estimation made using that prior means that it is based on an assumption, which may or may not hold.

sdaveon Waymo: Bringing 3D perimeter Lidar to partners

Thanks for the excellent resource Kyle!

sdaveon Bond – An extensible framework for working with schematized data

how does it compare to protobuf,thrift ?

sdaveon Consistent Hashing

trivia ex-Akamai-ite here: Danny Lewin was one of the co-inventors of this. RIP.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Lewin) link to original paper: http://www.akamai.com/dl/technical_publications/ConsistenHas...

sdaveon America Lacks Meaningful Innovation

(from India), This is the first movie i am going to watch now. Thanks jff.

sdaveon WSJ: "India Graduates Millions But Too Few Are Fit to Hire" - Yes, But .....

quite an excellent post. But very early enough I developed deep contempt for many of our teachers and chose to educate myself on my own. that would be true for most of us - self taught engineers we are. Also unlike in the US where there are many universities of top repute, in India we have either the IITs or NITs [wrt engineering] - and actual quality of education their is also isnt great [ well i can say about NITs].

sdaveon Institue of brilliant failures

Would be inspirational to read about 'failures' of HN members here who ve' been there n done that...

sdaveon Suicides in India show the dark side of micro-finance

wish i could upvote you twice for 'Peepli Live'. absolutely a must watch.this movie has a more real depiction of state of affairs , though obviously with a polarised satirical tone.

sdaveon MIT Entrance exam (1869)

This is from IIT JEE 1999. If i remember this was one of the most difficult Math paper in those years.check out question 11 at the end , nice one. Trivia: Check out JEE 1998 paper on physics & try out subjective questions at the end.Boy was that paper hard.

sdaveon Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?

"Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf" - by Herman Hesse.

"Atlas Shrugged" - by Ayn Rand.

"Mrityunjay" - by Sivaji savant (originally in marathi/hindi language.. based on the character of Karna from Mahabharata.Not very sure how good the english translation is though.The title means - he who has conquered Death.)

sdaveon Indian Students Compete for Plum Colleges

(w.r.t engineering..) Unlike in US , where you have many universities of repute & cutting edge research - in India we have only the IITs or at the next level perhaps the NITs(with quite a level of difference).And with millions of kids longing for that coveted seat in the iit , we have cut throat competition.Coaching for entrance exams has been a thriving industry in India.

sdaveon Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year?

in-house column oriented database, source code generator for diameter protocol application.. et. al.

sdaveon Some search engines besides Google

well there is another 'duckduckgo' i.e duckduckgo.com worth trying ...

sdaveon Steve Wozniak: How I Invented the Personal Computer (Video)

even if you dont have enough time, his book 'Iwoz' is a must read ! :-)

sdaveon Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering

best piece i ve' read all day.

sdaveon Phrases you can touch-type using just your left hand

i realized , i can type my username just by my left hand ! anybody else's username like mine ? :-)

sdaveon Ask HN: what's a good pet for the working programmer?

i recommend a frog, specially if it can talk too. because a talking frog is cool.

(in case you give up programming ,you can kiss it & turn it into a beautiful princess) ;-)

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who and why posts such useless stuff on HN !! ?