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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Not trying to defend anyone but (at least to me), the Ask HN: Who's hiring always opens up with comments sorted with latest first i.e. sorted by time vs by upvotes. Maybe its the extension I use or the default setting. Not sure.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> Teams has a truly terrible messaging interface. Organization is nearly nonexistent, and the UI is awful Also, if you have a slightly older workstation, your tab on which teams run will definitely crash. Mostly.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
always had a feeling balding and not having the hormones to grow beard had its benefits
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
tbf, that is the beauty of people in general and not the Internet
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Weird. This[1] only mentions "We’ve also significantly reduced main-thread load." while this[2] says "No notable changes." in Javascript section. 1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0&#x
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> It's insane for smaller companies to try and ape them In my cynical view, When you think about engineers as people who want to stay up to date with 'latest and greatest' so that they are not left behind in the market, th
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
I am sorry by credits I meant attribution. I remember there was a certain channel on youtube which let you use the song provided you shared the source / original song (their yt link to the music)
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
I used to be a creator (YT) in 2011 (channel created in 2011), granted I was young and inexperienced, I used certain copyrighted music / images initially and those particular videos were de-monetized. I feel my account was "flagge
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
irrelevant to the link, but sometimes I miss the old youtube where you may start watching a video and then end up on the most random stuff on youtube but it was a great way to discover what else is out there. Now it is just what it is calle
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
I was recently appearing for an interview and a fintech org did this. Wow that interview was so pleasant. I did not have to worry about forgetting where algorithm X is O(N^2) or O(2^N). and since they asked all about my experiences and what
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> Yeah but they’re not necessary for selection wouldn't it be easier to select an item with ID than select one with a class name and then iterate over to find which one you want. I am talking about items which exist only once. I a
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
That is exactly how use it too. For unique items which 100% will be once on a given page. CSS can be applied too however re-usability of css styles for a given component no more is possible but that is an agreed upon side effect.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> How often do you need to select unique elements by ID? Don't use IDs in the first place. wait a minute, does everyone NOT use IDs for unique elements on page (not each element)? I mean I am genuinely interested in knowing why not
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
scottydelta, Thank you for taking the time to give me more context / insight. Safe to say you have a verified way of backup and restore (with worst case data loss of an 1 hour). I am not exactly an expert on what stage does Transactio
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> 2. Self-hosted production and staging server that hosts my web/django app. It has a local postgres db and is encrypted and backed up on S3 every hour. Did you have any instance where you needed to restore the DB / Have you do
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> Out of school I put way more effort in building my infrastructure but in reality a good VPS, something like Cloudflare and some app based caching can run millions of daily views over 20+ different apps without issues. I read such messa
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
In India, Jupiter is called as "guru" (Sanskrit:बृहस्पति). बृहस्पति roughly translates to "guru" of the gods.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
I recently interviewed at some place which did exactly this. Their first round of interview was a 30 min (or 1 hour) candid talk with the hiring manager which involved around technology (and the role). Although I was deemed not fit for cand
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> "PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said. "They are still going to be around." However, he said, only "one out of x people will need them." ( https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-a
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Although my default is DDG and I am technical, but I still find myself heading back to Google in case DDG disappoints. and that happens frequently (although definitely not always)
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
While things might have changed and improved at the back-end but this is impressive in 2021, makes it even more impressive in 2011 IMO
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
This comes after taking the learnui.design (UI and UX course), the course is well worth it (provided you put in the effort in lessons and submit for review). However, if you want to start, I highly suggest going through each and every artic
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Not using it for enterprise (I am not the one who decides) but I started with Gitlab CE for my personal use (running in a docker container), it was exactly as you put it. It felt complex. Moved to Gitea and I am surprised by how fast git do
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Holy shit that was a good read honestly.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
Sorry I am late on replying to this. I am checking both of the suggested books, will start looking into `The field to Human Error`, nothing like 'personal attack on my character' which makes you related to the book.
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
There are always exceptions (maybe they might be norm in this case) but its still not 100%, still not all encompassing. This "AI" seems to be. I think that is like the entire concern. ALL the code is affected for all the instances
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
This ( https://miki.mimix.io/en/old-home-2 ) page documents that this is based of Wikijs ( https://docs.requarks.io/ ) but did not document (or maybe I couldn't find) the comparison with it and /
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
I am looking for ways to improve communication (and hence also negotiations). Far too many times I have been too very direct - I really envy typical HR's soft-spoken language, even if it is to deliver something horrific. I don't k
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> Held too many strong opinions for really no good reason other than technical "virtue signaling" of sorts. Oh my god this is so true for me too. I had really strong opinions on so many things that if I put aside my ignorant op
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by iKevinShah 5y ago
> I try to line up several interviews at once Interesting. Read about this elsewhere too (but that was subject to a negotiation) but yeah, I think it might help in not getting hung up on a single rejection / company so to speak.

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