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ganduG··on Cursor Has Raised $60M
My guess is they'll want to become the AI-first developer tools company and branch out into all kinds of different dev products (CI/CD, testing, etc) ala GitHub. Obviously, enterprise is where the real money is.
ganduG··on Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
Nah, you can swap out most things.
ganduG··on Lessons from YC AI Startups
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=S23
ganduG··on Tech backlash has come to Stanford
Most CS programs in the US have a mandatory ethics class.
ganduG··on MongoDB and Python
Blogspam.
ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Given a persons name you can guess with fairly reasonable accuracy what their religion is.
ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
A birth certificate isn't required in the US for every single transaction you make.
ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
But using Facebook and other websites is a choice. Using Aadhar is not a choice - its mandatory.
ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Nice deflection! Are you disagreeing that voter lists were used in 2001 to discriminate against muslims? Do we have any laws preventing that from happening with aadhar data?
ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Yes, but the old lady in the village will have a problem with it when it is used to marginalize and discriminate against her.

The riots in 1984 and in 2001 showed us how voter lists can, and will, be misused by people in power to their own benefit.

ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
Why should applying to a university require an Aadhar card? Getting a phone number? Getting gas to my house? They're shoving it down our throats.

I'm not entirely opposed to a UID system in India, but the way its been legislated and implemented in the last few years is absolutely disgusting.

India has absolutely 0 laws when it comes to privacy. Who is accountable when your data is leaked? Its literally upto the Aadhar committee whether they prosecute any leak of data.

ganduG··on Aadhaar isn’t progress – it’s dystopian and dangerous
I don't mind giving my biometric data to the US government because I have more legal protection in the US if my data is leaked. India has absolutely no laws to deal with my data being leaked and misused. Also, my biometric data in the US is only used at entry and exit - its not used for every single action I do while in the country. Aadhar tracks literally every action you take - which is scary.
ganduG··on Tamil Bell
Anecdotal reason: I'm Indian, and we have some high quality (and possibly expensive) utensils that have been passed down for a couple of generations. They have all have my grandad's name etched on them somewhere, as a means of identification.
ganduG··on Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (2002)
Probably a backronym.
ganduG··on Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?
From friends who work there, Asana has amazing culture.
ganduG··on Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and keywords become ordered
Ah okay, good to know. I knew PyPy did this so I assumed it came from there.
ganduG··on Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and keywords become ordered
Because this is an implementation detail. The language spec doesn't enforce this.

The real reason they did this was because of the performance gains from the approach - the ordering is just a nice side effect. Its an idea originally from PyPy afaik.

`OrderedDict` is now just a thin wrapper around `dict`.

i.e. if you want your code to be portable among different Python implementations then you should still use `OrderedDict`.

ganduG··on Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa might be more useful to you.
ganduG··on Ask HN: What's the most elegant piece of code you've seen?
Do you have a link to the code?
ganduG··on Introducing Lektor – A Static File Content Management System For Python
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3xi6o9/whats_the_fu...
ganduG··on An Algorithm for Nudity Detection [pdf]
I wrote a really quick Python implementation of this a few months ago, in case someone is interested: github.com/ParthGandhi/nude.py