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chetanahuja

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About chetanahuja

Chetan Ahuja

/me http://www.linkedin.com/in/chetanahuja/

/mycompany http://flai.chat

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    Oh good lord. Spare us the beatings of the chest and rending of the garments. "crafting code by hand" like some leftover hipsters from 2010s crafting their own fabric using a handl…

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    Yup. Even if you treat the LLMs as just a question answering, brainstorming, code parsing, doc creating bot, it's already a major quality of life improvement for engineers over wha…

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    Comment #44335808

    My experience on r/programming came as a surprise to me. I know that not everyone in the community is sold on LLM based coding, and I was fully prepared for some pushback. But I wa…

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    Comment #17881313

    > If there's one thing all start-ups should conspire to abolish, it's liquidity preferences. Liquidation preferences are not the norm in the normal seed/A/B rounds etc. right now. …

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    Comment #17803614

    Still running a 2008 vintage aluminum tower at home. True story.

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    Comment #16591223

    For users who have reasonably functioning products, yes. For Siri users, looks like not so much.

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    Comment #16591145

    > "Is there any proof that actual people use and value Google and Amazon assistant more than Siri?" This is a common confusion among iPhone users. I suspect the reason is that if a…

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    Comment #16374605

    Packet loss is happening at a lower layer (ethernet, wifi, mobile etc.). It's a property of the physical medium, not whether HTTP1.1 or HTTP2 is running at the higher layer. The po…

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    Comment #16267766

    > No, it's not bullshit. It is not profitable to have a train route of more than about 5 hours Most of the discussion in this tread is mostly about mass transit in metro areas.

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    Comment #15768278

    I'm getting "Sorry, Because of it's privacy settings, this video cannot be played here" for every video.

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    Comment #15558297

    Yes. Emacs has the wonderful property of one time investment in time and learning curve that pays off over years to do all sorts of code and non-code editing.

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    Comment #15405296

    "allow"? As in, you think Apple has been holding back permission of some kind?

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    Comment #15387827

    PacketZoom | Developer Evangelist | San Mateo, CA | REMOTE | NO RECRUITERS/AGENCIES PLEASE. PacketZoom ---------- PacketZoom is revolutionizing network connectivity for mobile apps…

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    Comment #15335450

    Chinese debt is a ticking time bomb. http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-debt-risk-to-financia... When (not if) it goes off, it'll not only be a huge shock to the world economy,…

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    Comment #15086673

    You want to see some weirdly long ping times... try pinging Israel to Turky. Compare that to say, Israel to Netherlands.

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    Comment #14253037

    The answer to that of course is that the underlying network protocols need to be aware of this dilemma. It's wasteful for every developer to try and solve this problem on their own…

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    Comment #14253021

    > Ideally the phone would handle this in a smarter way, e.g., by monitoring the strength of both the wifi and data signals and switching to whichever is likely to have the least pa…

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    Comment #14241621

    I knew it! I've hated the camelCase style with a passion from the day I first saw it. I'd be very curious to know if there's any developer who didn't grow up on windows actually li…

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    Comment #14205906

    > He has a very interesting (and controversial) history Sure does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots

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    Comment #14193955

    "I'm starting to get very skeptical to be honest. I tried to read that article looking for some hard evidence, one link went to BuzzFeed, where that linked to Forbes. I'm finding i…

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    Comment #14038164

    One of the biggest weaknesses of gitlab, that becomes glaring as you add more and more projects, is that a code repository and a project are considered one and the same thing. It's…