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FunTrivia - https://www.funtrivia.com/ I spent a lot of time on it in the 2000s and later found that it was started in 1995 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FunTrivia

I spent 3 days setting up Hasura a few weeks ago and I wish I'd known about Nhost. Do you know why Hasura don't provide a managed service themselves? Also, I wonder if Hasura will …

Listen to the SE Radio podcast episode on database evolution[0]. [0] https://www.se-radio.net/2012/06/episode-186-martin-fowler-a... Also checkout the links from the show notes: ht…

It was a quote in Joel Spolsky's blog. > A very senior Microsoft developer who moved to Google told me that Google works and thinks at a higher level of abstraction than Microsoft.…

> And I am paranoid You should write tests when building a project in a dynamically typed language to alleviate some paranoia anyway. As long as you have decent test coverage and u…

Google Photos uses ML to tag photos and this feature released amidst much fanfare at Google I/O a couple of years ago. They don't need location data to geotag photos anymore.

A 10 year old I know loves http://gameaboutsquares.com

Basecamp is the only one I can think of - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3856-the-big-rewrite-revisite...

If we want to store the object's URL in a relational database, should the browser send another HTTP request to our service? Wouldn't we lose the object if there's a network error d…

I wonder what technology they use under the hood. Ceph? GlusterFS? Custom software?

Basecamp published an article explaining their migration to Medium https://m.signalvnoise.com/medium-has-been-great-for-us-35d9... > People often ask me why we switched to Medium. …

> what would your suggestion to read / follow? Here's my Quora answer - https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-make-real-time-app-in-Django-...

Sure! The course has a slow start. The first few lectures focus on the mechanics of matrix operations instead of starting with linear transformations, and compositions of linear tr…

> And at the start of the course, he teaches the very small subset of linear algebra required to understand his course materials. I tried doing the ML course without any prior know…

Metacademy [1] does a good job of identifying which subtopics of each subject are relevant to ML. [1] https://metacademy.org/roadmaps/

Here's my beginner-friendly article on magic methods: https://conceptcoaster.com/course/python-tutorial/magic-meth... If you have any trouble understanding it, go to the homepage: …

The original paper[0] on relational databases by Edgar Codd is quite accessible. I also loved the MOOC by Prof. Jennifer Widom[1] [0] https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/c…

MATLAB's linsolve uses your strategy! ( http://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/linsolve.html )

Infosys is funding the project for PR reasons. They're pretty active in the CSR space too. In early 2010, there was a show in India on CNBC TV18 that showcased CSR activities by th…

Also, since the code is open sourced ( https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia ), I guess they get the benefit of the doubt?

If you want a more modern and concrete example, the "Turning your database inside out" talk by Martin Kleppmann is pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0

>> I wonder if it could be possible to have an OO language with an automatic Erlang process per object, automatic immutable data (just don't let reassign values to variables, like …