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by hiyer 4y ago
This is really cool. So do you have your own storage engine for the single node case, and you're using TiKV for the distributed one? Or is the local storage case also built on an existing engine like RocksDB?
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by hiyer 4y ago
Getting fired is not the same as being laid off. If they fire you for insubordination (which is what not reporting for mandatory office attendance would be) or bad performance, they don't have to pay you anything. If you're laid o
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by hiyer 4y ago
This is quite clever. I had tried a simpler version of this a few years back on AWS using LVM cache[1], attached SSD disks (for the cache) and EBS volumes (for the persistent storage). For our workloads (big data processing with Hadoop&#x2F
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by hiyer 4y ago
How would the reputation follow you unless you were working with someone who knew you personally from IIT? And that person would have to be in the same or a closely associated team for there to be any interaction. Those seem to be really lo
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by hiyer 4y ago
FWIW, Indian website blocks are usually DNS-based, so you can easily get around them by using a different DNS provider from your ISP's or DNS-over-HTTPS.
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by hiyer 4y ago
Or if you want to use ARM but don't want to be tied to the Apple ecosystem.
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by hiyer 4y ago
I spoke to an acquaintance at Google last week and they said they have to report to office at least 3 days in a week. Having said that - and I support working fully remote - I don't see how that's a solution to this problem. As ot
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by hiyer 4y ago
Having traveled overnight on trains several times, I can confirm that I would regularly wake up when the train stopped at a station. But this was probably because the train's state _changed_ from moving to stopped. In this case, since
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by hiyer 4y ago
I agree with this. My new washing machine has full-touch controls. It's great otherwise (includes full drying!), but it's way too easy to change the settings when it's running or turn it off when you're walking past it
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by hiyer 4y ago
Congratulations on the talk and the buyout. I hope you got a big payout :-)
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by hiyer 4y ago
Well, they say imitation is the best form of flattery, and Freshworks, another successful company, was pretty much a copy of zendesk when it started. I haven't used either in a while, so I don't know if/how much they've
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by hiyer 4y ago
I'm only referring to the specific case of the members of the ruling party allegedly making calls for violence. There is nothing in the article that says these were made on Facebook.
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by hiyer 4y ago
> I am not sure how big of a problem this is in the US/North America It is, at least in startups. At one startup I worked at, the entire engineering team in the US was Indian. At another one, my counterpart team in the US was almost
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by hiyer 4y ago
As much as it's "wrong" to splurge on clothes, Michelin-star dinners, expensive cars, etc. If you can afford it, and you genuinely enjoy it, just go ahead and do it. De gustibus non est disputandum.
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by hiyer 4y ago
I find this hard to believe. From an engineering PoV, an FB stint is definitely an indication of above average technical competency. It may also indicate you're ethically challenged - though I don't believe that's true of the
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by hiyer 4y ago
They would be fired by their managers. I don't believe this memo applies exclusively to individual contributors.
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by hiyer 4y ago
Medium subscribers can read an HTML version of this book for free here - https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/table-of-contents-1...
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by hiyer 4y ago
Razorpay acted completely in accordance with Indian laws. They shared this information because they received a written order under section 91 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) of India[1]. This does not mandate a court order to produce
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by hiyer 4y ago
True. This seems more like a general-purpose task-runner like Task [1] than a self-contained build system. 1. https://taskfile.dev/#/
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by hiyer 4y ago
The easy and practical solutions are staring us in the face - eat less meat, use less oil. Wouldn't the research budget at MIT be better utilized in advancing those goals than such impractical moonshots?
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by hiyer 4y ago
Medium subscribers get free access to the entire library of pragmatic programmer's publications [1]. That alone makes it worth the money in my book. 1. https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/directory-of-pragma.
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by hiyer 4y ago
I know of a company that was valued at ~6 billion at 40 million revenue, and is now valued at ~11 billion at just under 100 million.
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by hiyer 4y ago
If the change is specific to a single module, and the APIs exposed to other modules don't change (which can also be enforced with unit tests), you don't need to run the tests for every single repo for every change. Of course, one
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by hiyer 4y ago
It seems to me that an easier way to avoid this problem is to not have monorepos in the first place. Uber's architecture is, AFAIK, heavily based on microservices, so I wonder what's the advantage they get in using a monorepo.
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by hiyer 4y ago
This is absurd and greedy of the employee. Surely the cost of internet and electricity would be a drop in the ocean compared to an Amazon engineer's salary. As an aside, here in India, most companies do reimburse internet charges. But
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by hiyer 4y ago
Can't speak for others - and, while I don't watch either of these live - I'm more interested in WWDC because Apple launches new hardware also in this event. For the same reason - as an Android user - I find CES more interesti
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by hiyer 4y ago
Nice. Should be worth around 70 million now after all the splits if you never sold any of the shares. And you would also be making over half a mil every year just on dividends.
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by hiyer 4y ago
Dalits (and many other "backward" castes) get reservations in education and government jobs and promotions all the way up to retirement. If they emigrate and their children become citizens of another country, the children would lo
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by hiyer 4y ago
Tamil Brahmins have mostly been at the receiving end of caste discrimination in the last century or so. It's one of the reasons so many of them emigrated to Northern parts of India and, of course, the USA as well. EV Ramaswamy, revered
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by hiyer 4y ago
I've interviewed a lot of Amazon folks at my current job for software engineering roles. The one question they've all asked about my current company is how is the work-life balance. I don't get that so much from candidates wh

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