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New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

sreeramvenkat — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:59:05 +0000

Read it as if you are reading it the second time.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Is My Blue Your Blue?"

sreeramvenkat — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 03:44:27 +0000

It is also possible that I say something is blue because rest of society says so. My blue can only be known to me

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Babylon's Mystery Goddess"

sreeramvenkat — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:54:03 +0000

The left hand seems to hold something like a noose which is an oft repeated item in Hindu iconography (pasha/pasa)

Ask HN: Why does Chrome text scaling not work in HN

sreeramvenkat — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:12:13 +0000

Chrome text scaling is applied on comments. But it does not apply to the links shown in the main HN page. Any idea why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret"

sreeramvenkat — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:13:48 +0000

Ironic that the article begins with an image of server chassis with wires running around while the description is entirely about cloud infra.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun?"

sreeramvenkat — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:29:51 +0000

IIRC it doesn't have a stack. So all variables are globals. There is no way to call a function with a parameter - to be accurate, there are only subroutines; no functions.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

sreeramvenkat — Fri, 12 May 2023 04:18:15 +0000

Another option is to watch Doordarshan - Indian national news. https://www.youtube.com/@DDIndia

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]"

sreeramvenkat — Mon, 01 May 2023 10:16:23 +0000

Any recommendations for a set of hands on exercises that go well with this book ?

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: How should one work with severe chronic pain?"

sreeramvenkat — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:16:10 +0000

I had a severe pain in my neck (cervical spondylosis) for 2 years radiating to my arms and head. At a point, I started getting black outs and random head tingling, driving me crazy. I consulted an Ayurvedic doctor & applied a medicated oil with daily sun exposure for an hour. The pain became manageable after 6 months. I have a livable/bearable pain for the last 10 years - but it no longer bothers me much. The oil saved my mind. I can share more details if anyone is interested (email in profile).

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: Ask HN: How do you structure your code"

sreeramvenkat — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:27:49 +0000

I am finding many things to learn on this from the book 'Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout. There is a video in YouTube where John Ousterhout outlines the core principles present in his book.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: HN for Finance?"

sreeramvenkat — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 13:57:48 +0000

I think its not HN but it's the openness and inclination to help that makes HN very unique.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence"

sreeramvenkat — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 07:28:06 +0000

> So I asked Ilya, their chief scientist, for a reading list

Just curious, if this reading list is available somewhere.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Why is the state of mathematics education so abstract and uninspiring?"

sreeramvenkat — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:16:37 +0000

Nice article from Oliver Heaviside. Essentially, it comes down to the realisation that experimenting with mathematics holds as much virtue as reason with logic.

Ask HN: Tech stack suggestion for a simple desktop app

sreeramvenkat — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 02:25:56 +0000

Hello HN,

I want to develop a simple desktop application for a non-profit, that will be used to store monetary contribution data from donors.

There should be a facility to generate receipts, get monthly reports and query the data offline.

The software will be running in a Windows based Desktop machine. The desktop machine is low end (1 GB RAM).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33477166

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Tamil Nadu woman disguised herself as man for 3 decades to raise daughter

sreeramvenkat — Sun, 15 May 2022 03:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/tamil-nadu-woman-disguised-herself-as-man-for-3-decades-to-raise-daughter-8506411.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Emacs Lisp Readable Closures (2013)"

sreeramvenkat — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 07:29:09 +0000

Zenlisp by Nils Holm has readable closure too. http://t3x.org/

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis"

sreeramvenkat — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 15:30:57 +0000

Palar river is mostly dry. The last time I saw any water was during 2015 floods.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "How to Draw Animals (1930)"

sreeramvenkat — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:04:42 +0000

I have observed the same (abstracting the essentials) in some of young children's drawings. They seem to be adept in identifying the essential elements from the details.

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these math topics?"

sreeramvenkat — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 10:48:31 +0000

There is a good set of recommendations from mathwonk in this physicsforums thread (pretty detailed) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-should-i-become-a-...

New comment by sreeramvenkat in "Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (1987) [pdf]"

sreeramvenkat — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 17:21:41 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if anyone can write a JCL from scratch. A new JCL is always copied from an existing one and the gets modified. The first couple of lines of a JCL are particularly scary if I recollect properly.