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by amirathi 7y ago
"The well grounded Rubyist" is a fantastic book to learn Ruby. Right balance of theory and practice. Easy to read and still offers a lot of depth about the internals of Ruby.
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by amirathi 7y ago
Python + Django on AWS Beanstalk backed by Postgres on RDS. Django REST Framework provides pretty much everything you need for a REST api.
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by amirathi 7y ago
It's astonishing how many developers resign to the idea that "estimating software projects is impossible". It's impossible when there are either, - Technical uncertainties (e.g. self driving cars) - Human uncertainties (
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by amirathi 7y ago
In that case, I would frame the conversation as a problem solving session. You can do the legwork of customer inputs, cross team talk, management buy-in etc. And once you zero in on the problem (and have it prioritised) just talk to enginee
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by amirathi 7y ago
Best thing you can do is to bring customer problems to engineers & come up with solutions together. Far too many PMs create detailed spec documents (solutions) on their own and throw it over the wall to engineers. Benefits of this appro
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Ask HN: What's your favourite audible book?
3 points by amirathi 7y ago|3 comments
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by amirathi 7y ago
-cloud storage -data costs (cell phone, broadband) -hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.)
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by amirathi 7y ago
Their turbo plan is $5 per month for unlimited sessions. Their free plan gives you 3 free sessions a week. It's a bit weird that as a signed up user I can see the pricing information but it's not publicly available on their homepa
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by amirathi 7y ago
When someone detects a bug with smallest possible fix (e.g. typo) how long does it typically take from detection until all your users are able to see/receive the fix.
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by amirathi 7y ago
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et al.
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by amirathi 7y ago
Yes. With 50-company approach you increase the absolute number of first callbacks you get (hence everyone thinks it's optimal). With 5-company approach you increase the odds of actually getting through to a single job offer. Think abou
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by amirathi 7y ago
I'd say market salary + as much equity as you can negotiate between 0.4 to 4%. Disclaimer: I prefer to be pessimistic about startup equity for employees. It's like buying a lottery ticket where folks running it dictate the odds &a
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by amirathi 7y ago
This is fantastic practical advice for software engineers early in their career. Here's some more based on the common pitfalls I see, - Don't apply to 50+ companies at one go thinking only a % of them will call you. Choose ~5 comp
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by amirathi 7y ago
Can someone please summarize the core issues between SO the company & the community? I see lot of references to policy changes, lack of empathy & such. But would like to know exactly what actions by the company caused this stir.
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Indians use 7GB+ cellular data per month on average – 29x increase in 4 years(thehindu.com)
2 points by amirathi 7y ago|0 comments
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by amirathi 7y ago
Go for either, A. Best possible salary you can fetch anywhere with low equity (around ~1%) B. Just enough salary to get by with high equity (around ~4%) Don't get stuck in the middle, avg salary with 1% equity. Given your status (recen
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Microsoft updates all on-prem licenses for AWS, GCP(microsoft.com)
5 points by amirathi 7y ago|1 comments
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by amirathi 7y ago
I'd recommend sticking to POST requests with body that fetches the data you need. I know it's semantically odd because the POST request not creating a "resource" on the server. But it's practically very useful as it
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by amirathi 7y ago
> and is still fairly unpolished (but very promising!). I'm all ears. Please write to me at amit@reviewnb.com I built ReviewNB and push improvements almost every single day :)
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by amirathi 7y ago
I am the developer behind ReviewNB. > I just wish it could live within Github Whenever I thought of integrating the review experience in the GitHub UI (via browser extension), I always thought of overwriting the GitHub diff UI. That appr
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by amirathi 7y ago
Jekyll with Netlify.
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by amirathi 7y ago
> hard to review code I built ReviewNB specifically for Jupyter notebook code reviews [1] > various kinds of tests for each of them Checkout treon, open source test framework for Jupyter Notebooks [2] Some other tips, - Move code into
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by amirathi 7y ago
I worked at Amazon for 4 years before starting my own solo bootstrapped venture. - 6 months is very short time. Carve out 18 to 24 months for a real shot at monetization - Consider moving to a low cost place or even back to your parents hou
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TCP Vulnerabilities in Linux Kernels - Patch GKE
1 points by amirathi 7y ago|0 comments
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by amirathi 7y ago
Can someone attest to accuracy of PMS5003? P.S - These are pretty cheap on AliExpress - http://bit.ly/2XoW0is
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Ask HN: Why would any senior engineer join an early stage startup?
25 points by amirathi 7y ago|9 comments
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by amirathi 7y ago
Make programming accessible to scientists. Today, running any compute/memory intensive experiment requires working through so many tools and terminologies (e.g. AWS, SSH, python, dependencies, virtualenvs). Scientists really need just
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by amirathi 7y ago
Just checked out live commenting feature on Observable [1], the ability to send code suggestions and preview + merge suggestion with 1-click looks amazing. I built a tool [2] for Jupyter notebook code reviews which has commenting feature fo
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by amirathi 7y ago
> That is an architectural failure. Let's not jump the guns too soon. Analytic products are notoriously hard from scaling perspective. UI, APIs, Infra that works crisply for 1x data, starts to become sluggish at 10x and really break
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FreeCodeCamp has moved off of medium(freecodecamp.org)
5 points by amirathi 7y ago|0 comments

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