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by khalilravanna 4y ago
I had this problem but with videogames. What I ended up doing was making a giant spreadsheet in Airtable with every game I've ever played and ever want to play. I have a nice little "What To Play Next" grid of images that I&#
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
It’s a bummer cause it’s so short sighted in how it cripples creativity and open minded thinking. Fear has never been a motivator for almost anything good. Dumb example I’ll share for a laugh is when I went to university (graduated 2013) th
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
Love this thought. I’d also throw in that doing well in college can be as simple as trying tons of new experiences with the absurd low risk entailed with being a kid with almost total freedom and almost 0 real responsibility. Make friends,
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
It sounds like they invest somewhat conservatively. By spreading across different issuers they’ll likely be insured more than if they put all their money in one pot. But given the amount of money I imagine the actual amount fully insured wo
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
The Back Page Podcast A video games podcast hosted by two former games magazines journalists. Actual great discussion of games especially in the early 2000s, early 2010s and while funny they don’t go on incredibly boring, unrelated tangents
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
Yeah for sure in serious traffic it can be useless but in most situations I still try to use it. You find gaps in traffic with a car in front going the speed you want and then match their speed. I find if you do this you can often find a go
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
The consistent speed thing is so crazy to me as someone who almost always uses cruise control. Why don’t more people use it? (Pretty sure it’s been standard on every car since like 2005?) If people used cruise control and stayed in their la
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
> That's like saying that code copy/pasted from OSS projects on github was "written by the developer". I don't think that's what OP is saying. What I think OP is saying (and I agree) is that submitted code i
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
This. If copilot suggests anything more than basic syntax or boilerplate I don’t use it. If it writes code I don’t understand or wouldn’t be able to write myself I won’t use it. Why? Because at the end of the day it’s my code. In what wor
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
Counter-point: always pay for online dating (as a guy). (Everything that follows is anecdotal.) I used Tinder off and on for years. When I was active I’d swipe for 10-30 mns a day and I think I estimated I could get through 100 right-swipes
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
Another good option which is encrypted but not open source is Inkdrop. I’ve been loving it for years (especially with the vim keybindings plugin). https://www.inkdrop.app/
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
Haha this is amazing! Thanks for the share.
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
On the monetization front I’ve been looking for something to automatically catalog a large collection of cards but it looks like the only ones that exist are for large outfits ( https://tcgmachines.com/shop/phyzbatch-900
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
I feel like this is especially important for game consoles. The 3DS store is on its way to being shut down and with it a set of digital-only games will be effectively unplayable for most people going forward. It feels correct to me that if
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by khalilravanna 4y ago
(Related but kind of off-topic) I’m a software engineer (non-ML) currently working at big tech company that does ML and has a fair amount of open roles in ML and I’ve wondered is ML the sort of thing you could jump into a team and learn on
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
This is really smart. You're right we often fixate on "the principle of the matter" instead of just stepping back and looking for an easy solution and then moving on with our lives.
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
Wanted to reply saying the same thing. I didn't really muck with the settings on my QNAP NAS and then checked into my files one day and everything was encrypted with some txt files telling me to send BTC to some address. I just formatt
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
Anecdotally I’ve heard a lot of the recruiting orgs in tech companies are very understaffed right now. It might be a simple case of too many balls in the air for a small number of internal recruiters so stuff slips through the cracks. While
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
This comment would be more helpful with some examples. I’m personally very curious what the leading solutions are. I’ve worked with one involving GraphQL but that’s about it.
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
But surely that experience being 20 years ago makes it, at best, academic? Should we act like a 20 year old experience makes someone an expert or just another person with an opinion on the internet? I cynically wonder how much credibility w
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
I see a lot of flak for this comment but I will say first hand it is true that you can study to pass FAANG interviews and double your salary (in the US). I spent 7 months studying during covid and finally made the leap. Obviously not everyo
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
IMO this is the hallmark of a good engineer. One of my absolute favorite engineers/mentors did this. Having just one of these people in the room can be a huge differentiator in problem solving in a group setting.
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
I'll truthfully answer anyone that asks but I don't volunteer it to non-tech friends, I don't want to come across as bragging or boastful. This is exactly what I do: only if they ask. Even among tech friends. Tech f
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
It feels disingenuous to use this as the headline as it implies they were fired for organizing the walkout instead of for leaking internal data: A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the employees’ dismissal. “We have let go of an employee
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
This is a great list. My two from 10 years of experience would probably be: - Simplicity is everything. Complexity is fun but business is not about fun. It’s about solving problems. It’s about having other people be able to read your code a
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
As I get older, and maybe because I worked at a company whose product is “talent optimization”, I think a lot of the “10x” thing is just a function engagement and passion. That is to say it’s not entirely skill or “intelligence”. You could
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
What’s unergonomic or unidiomatic about TS? As far as I understand it TS is supposed to follow as closely to JS as possible. I always saw it as “let’s add types to JS” rather than a separate language. I’m not sure I’ve seen a “this is how y
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
Or until they silently hate their job and leave.
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
What about switching to seltzer you can mix with caffeine powder? If you look you should be able to find a “cola” flavored one which while not the same should at least be an approximation. From some quick googling it appears seltzer still h
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by khalilravanna 5y ago
Could also be a function of age. People mellow out with age. You learn to take more things in stride without getting in a huff. This topic actually came up in another HN post this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2

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