amirathi

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   by amirathi 8y ago

   > What could I do now to make myself more employable at startups? Startup hiring is a fuzzy science at best. Apart from abilities it's a lot about what impression you make in the first few interactions with the team. Before talking
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   by amirathi 8y ago

   I built an internal wiki replacement: nurtch.com It provides ability to create documents with markdown text, images, executable code and output all within single document. Although it's optimized for infrastructure runbooks, it can be
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   by amirathi 8y ago

   Thanks :) Just saw that you are CEO of GitLab. Good job making your runbooks public [1]. I converted one of your runbook into an executable notebook to convey my point. Check the before/after screenshot here: https://blog.am
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   by amirathi 8y ago

   I built a platform exactly for this. Check it out here: https://www.nurtch.com/
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   by amirathi 9y ago

   indiehackers.com Not news per se but I got a lot of inspiration from their podcast.
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   by amirathi 9y ago

   There's a business angle to the newsfeed that's not being talked at all. Your news feed being "algorithmically controlled" is a huge advantage to the platform from advertising perspective. Facebook at this point has libe
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   by amirathi 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing. F.B. Purity seems good for blocking explicit ads on the side bar. Good, that makes the UI clean. But I'm looking for something more. Something that hides the promoted content from feed, hides the posts that are basi
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   Ask HN: Can someone make FB client that only shows posts that I'm interested in?

   1 points by amirathi 9y ago|2 comments
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   by amirathi 9y ago

   I am not a manager. But I will list down a few traits of one of the best manager I have had: - Shield the team from all the churn that happens from manager upwards. There can be so much shift in priorities, uncertainty in the upper manageme
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    No ads, no investors, no shareholders. What pays the bills then? How does the future looks like?
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    That's nice & all. But you are not being very efficient :)
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Ditto. I almost never read the question. A well written answer restates the question in some form.
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    Ask HN: Are you currently paying for any Slackbots?

    2 points by amirathi 9y ago|1 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    I am an engineer who recently managed DevOps at a decent scale (traffic wise) startup. ~1 year is a long time so I think it's do-able. As somebody mentioned here do start with a small team right off the bat. You will be making lot of t
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Keep it simple. Just write about things that you find interesting. It could be a new library/tool/framework that you used/built or how you solved a particular problem. What you genuinely find interesting is likely to be usefu
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    Ask HN: What do you think of performance appraisal at your workplace?

    88 points by amirathi 9y ago|90 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Seems like you work strictly sequentially. What would help is to bring in more dynamism based on your mood & time of the day. Dynamism = mixing of subtasks from various tasks in a way that optimizes your energy spend and work satisfacti
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Looks great. Email notification of incident to subscribers is must. I couldn't find it. You can hook it up with SNS I think.
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    The Science of Software Estimation(blog.amirathi.com)

    1 points by amirathi 9y ago|1 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Neat idea. As a reader, I would also find it useful as a discovery tool for interesting newsletter.
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Looks great. You might want to make it mobile web friendly. Wish you lots of affiliate money :)
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    Show HN: Numcompress – Python package to compress numerical series into strings(github.com)

    1 points by amirathi 9y ago|0 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    How much time do those functional tests take to write (measured as % of time spent in coding the feature itself)? And what's the primary programming language here?
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    >How do you get similar coverage in shorter time? Keep doing it. In a few years it will be second nature, and you'll stop seeing it as a separate activity, but a natural part of feature development. Practice will definitely help. Do
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    >Note the key difference here: invest vs. spend. Time spent on writing good automated tests is an investment. That investment pays dividends every time the test suite is ran. On the other hand, time spent manually testing is lost. If you
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    Ask HN: How much time do you invest in writing tests?

    25 points by amirathi 9y ago|18 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    You are this guy right? https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/900-cold-emails-and-no-si... You need to get off of HN/Indiehacker and go actually talk to your potential users. You don't need "some sale guy&q
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    Good talk, thanks for sharing. "... difference between having minus $10k vs $1M in your bank account is much larger than having a million vs a billion..." :D
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    Ask HN: Bootstrap a small profitable product vs. chase large risky opportunity?

    6 points by amirathi 9y ago|11 comments
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    by amirathi 9y ago

    This is one of the best assignments I worked on at CMU. Putting in 20 hours of coding to actually get the passing malloc was not the most fun part. It was spending additional 40 hours to beat others at the leaderboard :) Gamification at it&