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ajakate commented on Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)   nytimes.com/2024/05/14/ma... · Posted by u/Thevet
ajakate · 7 months ago
I think it's pretty common actually among some immigrant groups (2nd gen Indians in the US at least, of which I am one).

I was born in the US, but my first language was Marathi, and it was really the only language I was fluent in until I was around 4. After learning English in school, I started to always answer my parents in English. We didn't really live near a Marathi community, so it came to be that I could understand Marathi fluently (albeit with very limited vocabulary) around family but couldn't form a sentence to save my life.

Same story for all my US/Canadian cousins, and most other 2nd gen desis I've met.

ajakate commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
ajakate · 8 months ago
Location: Chicago, IL USA

Remote: yes, or hybrid

Willing to Relocate: probably not, but maybe for the right role

Technologies: Python (pandas, flask, dbt, sklearn, spark), Ruby (Rails, sinatra, chef), Java (spring/sringboot), HTML/CSS/JS (react, angular, jquery), SQL, Terraform, AWS, Clojure (no professional experience but a lot of side projects)

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: hiremehn@proton.me

Hey there! I'm a software engineer based in Chicago with 11+ yoe working in consulting and startups. I've had a good amount of exposure and experience across the stack, working with devops heavy projects, microservices APIs, and frontend applications. Most recently I've been deep in the world of data cleansing/pipelining/analytics, but not sure if I want to continue that path or return to more traditional application systems development.

I'm open to senior/lead eng roles at product shops or consulting shops. Would love to either work in an interesting tech stack or solve interesting domain problems. Would love to be in a role that's science/environment/medicine adjacent. Preference for teams with mature CI/CD and testing practices

ajakate commented on Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab   bandmatch.app... · Posted by u/pg5
ajakate · a year ago
I downloaded the app, but running into an infinite spinner on the main "Artists" tab, so can't really comment on the what the app is like...

What I will say is that it seems a little unfortunate that so many "matching" apps take the tinder swipe model these days when it really makes the matching experience worse.

I have a friend who's a drummer in central Illinois. He's used https://www.bandmix.com to find multiple groups that he's been jamming with for a while now. The UI is such that you can see a grid of all the bands/artists matching your criteria, and can facet and filter your search in the sidebar with a lot of other options including distance, commitment level, genre, etc.

ajakate commented on Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?    · Posted by u/metadat
ajakate · a year ago
Melancholia. I don't think I've seen a movie that depicts depression and disaster so brutally. It's a film I keep thinking about every now and again.
ajakate commented on Language Learning with Netflix   languagelearningwithnetfl... · Posted by u/impoppy
throwawaymaths · 2 years ago
All I want is star trek the next generation in LATAM spanish. Practically know that series by heart
ajakate · 2 years ago
If you have a Roku or Android TV box you should check out Pluto TV. It's a free live TV streaming app. There is a channel on there that is only star trek in Spanish. Personally I've never seen anything on that channel that wasn't TNG
ajakate commented on Tunnel of Eupalinos   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun... · Posted by u/Thevet
ajakate · 2 years ago
Numberphile video about this tunnel: https://youtu.be/kwrDX5qkwvA
ajakate commented on Google Maps launches Street View in India   nasdaq.com/articles/googl... · Posted by u/webmobdev
ajakate · 3 years ago
It's interesting to see how certain regulatory requirements of countries can disrupt the ubiquity of google maps. For the longest time South Korea looked completely different when you zoomed in on it in google maps. South Korea didn't want high-resolution map information to fall into the wrong hands, so they disallowed storing that kind of map data on foreign servers. I believe it was also hard/impossible to get driving directions [1].

Curiously, I just checked gmaps and it appears to look normal now. This must have happened in the past few months, not sure why I can't seem to find any info online.

[1]https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/one-thing-north-k...

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