comvidyarthi

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by comvidyarthi 2y ago
Is this open source ?
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by comvidyarthi 3y ago
I don’t understand the title of the article. The article essentially talks about what RepeatableRead isolation levels of Postgresql cannot do and how to remedy that by Serialize Isolation. But both need lock at some level, and tradeoff perf
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by comvidyarthi 3y ago
I have worked on Ambry for a few years now. This paper is a bit old, but captures most of the core concepts of Ambry. Some of the most fascinating parts of the journey after this paper have been scaling the system to support hundreds of GiB
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Ask HN: How to do a Computer Science PhD part time?
1 points by comvidyarthi 4y ago|0 comments
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by comvidyarthi 4y ago
I want to point out that a person’s is not a static thing. You are not born with whatever you are “worth”. You either build your worthiness over time, or lose it. I think instead of propagating that most people are horrible devs, we should
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by comvidyarthi 6y ago
I do not agree with the premise that the best way to hire engineers is to follow the hire—chef model of restaurants. I don’t think it’s fair in any way to ask someone to work for free for few days, while you keep the candidate guessing whet
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by comvidyarthi 6y ago
Read The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier. It’s not just about managers, it’s also about tech leads.
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by comvidyarthi 6y ago
I dont think there is a way to know which one thing in the list of potential 1000 things, will be the one that has highest payoff. And the definition of payoff also depends on what your goals are. For examples, learning computer networking
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by comvidyarthi 7y ago
This is a very interesting take. The only problem in using this analogy for social media companies is that in a coffee shop you pay for the coffee. In case of social media you don’t pay for anything. So there is no incentive to maintain you
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by comvidyarthi 8y ago
The best way of tracking that has worked for me over the years has been automatic tracking. For example my fitness band automatically tracks my workouts and gives me the summary, it automatically tracks my sleep too, my meditation app autom
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by comvidyarthi 8y ago
If you are in FAANG, and in bay area, then your numbers look too low. I know mid-level engineers in bay area, can make ~300k. All this assuming a good engineer who has been performing consistently, and is among the top 10% in his/her t
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by comvidyarthi 8y ago
I really liked "The Effective Engineer" by Edmond Lau. Its not intended for starting your own company. But it has some good insight for doing good in your job and how to grow as a software engineer. https://www.amazon.c