khalilravanna

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by khalilravanna 5y ago
What’s wrong with paying money so others can live? I see a lot of life as chance. I’m lucky that I grew up upper middle class with parents who paid for college. Now I got a cushy job as a software engineer. I could have just as easily been
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
That’s fair. It’s a metric so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s game-able like others. I guess as a candidate you have to use it as one data point. It’s tough because even interviewing as a candidate and asking lots of culture questions you
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
In this case it was a problem about creating a deep copy of nodes in a graph. My “easy” approach involved using a map with the key being a reference to the original A and the value being the copy A* OR adding matching ids to A and A* and us
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
This is actually a big thing we invest in at my current company: candidate experience and consequently a high Glassdoor rating. After focusing on it for years the company has one of the top ratings on Glassdoor (top 100 or 200 I forget). It
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Good call on the dice roll. Spent months prepping for the FB interview and got an engineer who seemed to be having a bad day or was just bored. I knew both problems but they derailed me on whether you can uniquely identify objects in JS wit
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
This reminds me of the time I was riding my motorcycle in the cold at night on the highway from Vermont to Massachusetts for 3 hours. I wore a bunch of layers but with highway speeds the wind chill cut away heat incredibly quickly. Creeping
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. ... Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Having a Discord server with friends. On weekends there’s almost always someone on playing some game and I can pop in and chat for a bit. As an extrovert it’s been a really meaningful outlet to stay connected during the pandemic. Plus with
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
What's the point of a load balancer if you only have one node? Am I dense or is the idea that you'd only use this if you started to have N numbers of nodes sitting behind the load balancer (e.g. $15 + N * $10)?
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Personally I don’t even think master/slave is bad. Do black people look at the word “slave” and think “Oh, that’s about me”? Does a white person see it and think “This must be about black people”? I just cannot see the value. It just f
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
> too many businesses and organisations are reluctant to use data – either because they don’t understand the rules or are afraid of inadvertently breaking them I’m sure they’ll feel much better when there’s yet another set of rules a
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
I'm another in the camp of "Why not standard time?" It seems like a lot of experts agree Standard Time is more healthy. Plus two whole countries (admittedly in Europe) tried permanent DST and either stopped it or flipped to p
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
I don’t think it’s an anti-pattern but you might just need some sort of backup tool with incremental backups and rollback. Sounds like it would likely suit your needs with less overhead.
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
His whole point is you can use drugs and keep up all your normal daily responsibilities. He states this several times as the definition of “functioning”. If you show up to work on drugs you’re not functioning and that’s not what he’s advo
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
For sure the blog is great! But I’m thinking something more along the lines of “here’s how you’d build something like this” or “here’s the stuff to read to get started on a project like this”.
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
This sort of low level stuff is so interesting to me but I feel out of my depth having not looked at this sort of stuff since undergrad. In a hypothetical world where someone wanted to contribute to v8, what are some good resources to get u
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
I’ll wait for the mainstream IOT Shitbowl with Alexa support and an iOS app that destroys my battery life by pinging a server to give me notifications for new shit being added to the bowl.
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
From the article it sounds like the spirit behind this decision is to better serve the customer by hitting fast delivery times more. Is this really such an important thing for people? I for one would rather wait an extra day if it meant the
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Was just thinking the same thing on the “built into GitHub” thing. Being able to easily see the current bounty directly in GitHub and donate $10 to the bounty with one click I imagine would make adoption blow up.
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
come hop up on the horse with yer pappy and let me tell you about the days of server-siiiide renderin’ child’s eyes widen in wonder
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Two thoughts: 1) I think the view that “90% of people are crap” is incredibly misanthropic, cynical, and a view that would likely make the world a worse place if widely adopted. 2) I think enjoying the 90% of crap is maybe more important th
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
For me this is the key. Positivity and negativity are both harmful if they’re not specific . Saying “the team did a great job” is basically worthless. Cool, let’s all do the exact same thing we did last time with no variation so we can do
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
What are people’s thoughts on how using vs not using a REPL help or hinder one’s thinking as a programmer. Specifically I mean if you have no REPL and maybe a long compile time you’re forced to put a little more thinking and planning in u
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
I imagine one hack for overcoming social anxiety for doing this in public is to put in some airpods or something else that indicates you’re on a phone call. Most people will assume you’re on a phone call and won’t really care. For myself I
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Semi-related: Has WSL2 fixed the issue where trying to do anything in the host Windows filesystem is interminably slow? Running something like “git status” takes legitimately like 15 seconds if the repo is outside the linux filesystem.
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Fallout 4 is a great comparison point. It had the bones of something great but the soul was gone. No factions, no interesting NPCs or side quests, no lore. Just a big empty sandbox to shoot stuff in. This seems better than that at least in
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Requirements are pretty low for loans. I have a friend with not too much income who secured one. I myself was able to get a house with something like 5% down which on a house in Texas was like ~$10k. Lower interest rates equate to a noticea
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
Not directly in line with OP’s comment but interest rates are stupidly low right now. Wouldn’t surprise me if this enables a lot of people to buy homes. I know several people (late 20s, early 30s Boston area) who have bought homes recently
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
From the post: “...I myself was part of 25% of the workforce laid off in August 2020”
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by khalilravanna 6y ago
I absolutely see where you're coming from but I can't help but think this strategy will only ever gimp one's ability to grow. I always think of the example of Lebron James. If he was always comparing himself to others he woul

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