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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
The core software itself is completely agnostic to currency or country. Otoh the importer ecosystem is somewhat US focused but a) you can easily write importers yourself b) I just published importers for a bunch of UK institutions (e.g. HSB
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
Happy to answer :) > What impact has having such clear visibility into your accounts had on your relationship with your wife? That's a great question. Thankfully when it comes to finances we are very aligned in our habits and goals.
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by lalitmaganti 10mo ago
> How do you think it compares time-wise to using existing accounting software? Author here. I tried various consumer budgeting apps before I ended up building my own (and then going to Beancount). The main problem with every one of th
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They have to be able to talk about us without us(anildash.com)
2 points by lalitmaganti 10mo ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> Yeah sorry if my assessment was a bit callous and overly critical, and I hope you don't take it personally Not at all. Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment! > and multiple times throughout my career experienced a r
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
Firstly, thanks for the thoughtful comments across the post. Really happy you found it insightful! > But it's best to build a strong portfolio of going fast (where needed), going slow (where high leverage), and if everyone agrees yo
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
I would say it's worked out pretty well for me at least given my career trajectory! Feel free to draw your own conclusions from my resume (it's on my about page). I think you are conflating "exec attention" with "im
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> But he can only do so because he is a staff software engineer. I don't agree with this at all. This is how I've worked for my entire time at Google, all the way from new grad L3 joining the company till today. Ignoring the sp
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
I'm very well aware of the privilege afforded to me by my company and the time I'm working in. I tried to emphasize in the post several times that this is not a "universal guide to success" and that in other companies or
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> if you ever have the inclination to write about it I definitely plan on writing a lot more about this in the coming months :) After seeing Sean's own posts and the fact this post resonated, it feels like there are people out there
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> Would a PM be responsible for this sort of broader thinking in a more typical team? Good PMs do exactly this in product teams yes. But unfortunately PMs are not immune to shifting priorities and moving around either, just like I descri
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
My goal with this post was not to claim this is a universal template to success for everyone but simply sharing an approach that worked for me. I tried to point out several times that, yes there are places where a "move fast with leade
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> The risk comes from being wrong. It's definitely a high risk high reward strategy but if you have the context from being the space for years and you've done your due diligence by speaking to your customers before you build
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
It's not that I want to avoid the career metagame (I would argue I haven't so far) but that the career metagame is different depending on your environment.
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
My personal feeling is that there's a way to both agree with the underlying issues Sean writes about while being more optimistic and providing better alternatives. Something I feel I should start writing about more.
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A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming(checkeagle.com)
1 points by lalitmaganti 11mo ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
Since the fixit just finished on Friday, I don't have hard numbers from this one I'm afraid :) Historically though, I would guess maybe 5-10% end up needing some followup fix which is itself usually smaller than the original (mayb
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> But it suggests that “human in the loop” is evolving from “human who fixes AI mistakes” to “human who directs AI work.” And that may be the biggest change since the release of ChatGPT. I feel like I've been hearing this for at lea
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> this is not care when the priority system is so broken that it requires a full suspension I'm not sure I understand this line. The whole point of the fixit is to address the bugs which are considered "low priority" becau
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
Author here! Really glad to have sparked a lively discussion in the comments. Since there is so many threads since I last looked at this post, making one top level comment to provide some thoughts: 1) I agree that estimating a bug's co
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
As I pointed out in the "criticisms" section, I don't see fixit weeks as a replacement for good technical hygiene. To be clear, engineers have a lot of autonomy in my team to do what they want. People can and do fix things
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We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs(lalitm.com)
284 points by lalitmaganti 11mo ago|349 comments
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by lalitmaganti 11mo ago
> Gemini app surpasses 650 million users per month Unless these numbers are just lies, I'm not sure how this is "pushing their AI into everything they can". Especially on iOS where every user is someone who went to App Sto
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Don't Build an Audience(humaninvariant.com)
10 points by lalitmaganti 1y ago|0 comments
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
Tried running: ~ # du -h (...) [Runner sh (2390656)]: Wasm crash: RuntimeError: operation does not support unaligned accesses [Main]: Stopping CPU 0 [Main]: Stopping CPU 1 [Main]: Stopping CPU 2 Kernel panic - not syncing:
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
> Yes I know, I used to work on Android ;) Ahhhh good to know :D > If it would help, I am of course happy to file bugs and also make simple fixes :) Please yes do file bugs! It's so useful to have these things tracked: I think yo
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment! > overwhelmingly it gets used because of their integration with the exceptionally simple JSON tracing format So in the open source community maybe, but it's use in the Android organization in Google
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
> How much overhead does the recording have? Very much a symptom of what you are trying to record! See below > I have tried ftrace before but it's making everything 100x slower... If ftrace is making things 100x slower, I'm
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
> I don't suppose there is some supported way to inject macros or "ui automation" [1] into the iframe? This is exactly what https://github.com/google/perfetto/issues/1342 is about :) It&#x27
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by lalitmaganti 1y ago
Perfetto does support embedding though I concede it's not as seamless as it was with chrome://tracing. As with Chrome://tracing, you can put the UI inside an iframe and pass the trace to the UI via postMessage (see

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