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FWIW, as someone who grew up in western India (but not Mumbai, another city/state), my personal experience is very similar to what the author described in the article.

Any data to support your claim? From my anecdotal experience, having lived in both the India and the US, I haven't ever felt that there was anything lacking in terms of receiving w…

I think here the main issue was that the company hired programmers without any kind of actual technical screening. It kind of seems quite likely that in this case they would end up…

Never really knew about Fermat's library. From skimming it looks like a really great idea, especially for reading papers in areas you may not be that familiar with.

Yes, its one of my favorite papers. Thanks for the pointers, very useful.

- 13" 2015 Macbook pro with 2 external monitors (34" and 24") mostly used to ssh to a powerful 16 core ec2 instance (amazon linux), which is where I do all my development - iterm2 …

Share things which any programmer ought to do at least once in the course of their career. For e.g read book X or build Y from scratch, but also anything else that was very worthwh…

Often some stuff is sold by third party dealers and shipped by Amazon. I suspect that is probably the case for the Macbook. Amazon typically has much lesser control over such sales…