nvarsj

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by nvarsj 4y ago
Being single in SV must be hell. The gender imbalance in tech is so bad - it's made me think a few times I need to get out if I just want to meet someone.
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by nvarsj 4y ago
You are making the mistake that success provides life fulfillment and happiness. Does it though? Would you accept childhood trauma and a life of battling with depression and anxiety, so you could be "successful"?
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by nvarsj 4y ago
This... so much this. The few, good subreddits are _really_ good and it's due almost solely to a great moderation team (/r/anime is one example). I've seen a lot of small communities die off because they grew and the mod
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? You can do the same in Prometheus by summing the bucket counts. Not sure what you mean by “true p50” either. With buckets it’s always an approximation based on the bucket widths.
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Wait, they left Google for work life balance, to work more hours at a startup. Whaat? I think I get what they're saying though - they were fundamentally unhappy with their ability to make an individual impact at Giant Corp. Well, that&
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Super bright LEDs is one of my biggest pet peeves on electronics. And 99% of them seem to be blue. This one is red, but pulsing - oh god. For SMD leds it's pretty easy to destroy them directly by using a hot enough iron - they're
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Maybe not paint people with such broad strokes? Humans are complicated, and the reasons we have for wanting to go to the office vs WFH are varied. For example - some people don't like work bleeding into their home life, which is a lot
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by nvarsj 4y ago
OMSCS alumni here. OMSCS is no joke! I underestimated the program and did it in a similar situation. I completed it, but it certainly had a large cost to me personally. You will lose weekends and time with your family - whether it's a
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by nvarsj 4y ago
OMSCS alumni here. Almost all my classes had student organised study groups over video chat. But it does require you to seek them out and participate in class slack usually. Overall I had far more class related interaction than I did in my
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by nvarsj 4y ago
You can just use evil mode. It's pretty much feature parity with vim, if not better in many ways (elisp for extension).
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by nvarsj 4y ago
It sounds like you're agonizing over past decisions. Been there, done that! We're all human and have to make choices with imperfect information. Sometimes we pick the right choice, sometimes we don't. All you can do is learn
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Definitely. I've heard stories of meetings where someone openly sexually harassed a coworker, and the manager didn't say a word. Maybe they talked to them privately, but that kind of behavior needs to addressed immediately, in pub
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by nvarsj 4y ago
Learning social skills in high school is more like learning how to survive in a prison yard - it couldn't be more far removed from adult social skills. I'd say functional, healthy high schools are in the tiny minority, and general
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by nvarsj 4y ago
I feel the same way. Not to say this is a bad idea, chat / IRC / etc. are all massively successful and when I was younger I loved hanging out on chat. The problem for me is chat is synchronous. You have to sit there staring at it
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by nvarsj 4y ago
It really depends on the LSP implementation. Some are pretty bad. Some are really good. For example, Jetbrains Webstorm uses the same Microsoft LSP server as VSCode. Typescript support is really good in VSCode. I also find the golang LSP se
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Great article! LSP brought me back to Emacs. Real IDE support with best in class editing abilities is bliss. Microsoft really nailed it with LSP (albeit, I agree with the caveats the implementation has some warts). Jetbrains must be sweatin
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by nvarsj 5y ago
That’s why you use managed Wordpress, aka wordpress.com.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
No evidence - how would you even begin to get it. Just my feeling from doing many interviews as well. I still recall a CS PhD from a top school fumbling with the most basic for loop in an interview I was doing. I just can't believe peo
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Yep and it also reinforces biases in interviewers. They start to think people really are just incompetent despite their experience - and start to believe even more in high pressure interviews. When the vast majority of “can’t believe the ca
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Oh yes, I struggled with this a lot. I started working full time remote about 4 years ago, then decided after a couple years it wasn't for me, and swapped to a short lived office job as the quarantine happened. It's only in the la
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I wonder if you can provide more context. I've only had issues when I tried to use external domains, e.g. gmail, as my reply-to when sending in fastmail.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head. A good therapist will point this out as well. The OP's entire self identity is wrapped up in their career - which explains, also, their great success. It's a common ailment in high pressure, h
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Oh really? Nice. I haven’t tried it myself but all my OS X colleagues complain about it.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Yes, one of my favourite and most unique gaming experiences. I thoroughly enjoyed the process of travelling around the island, and how it encourages you to change your thinking and perspective to progress. It is essentially a puzzle game th
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by nvarsj 5y ago
shell.nix + nix install is _the_ killer linux dev tool imo. It replaces all the various nonsense with a hermetic, fully reproducible build environment. You can then use the same shell.nix in your CI with the nix docker image. Now you have e
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Haha, I just wanted to provide a counter example to the complaint. Yeah, it did sound a bit like a shill. Just a happy customer though.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Happy Monzo customer here with it as my primary account for the last 2 years. Haven’t had any issues, and neither have any of my friends. It’s the best possible banking experience imo. I’m happy they are proactive about suspicious activity.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
It's because, fundamentally, the middle class is shrinking. The barrier for staying in the middle class is getting higher and higher every day. And this is happening before our eyes at a rapid pace over the last 10-20 years. Who knows
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Sign up to wordpress.com, find a decent looking theme, done.
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by nvarsj 5y ago
Simple but really time consuming. Experienced engineers with responsibilities outside of work don't have time for that nonsense. It's hard enough to do ONE interview, let alone do tons of fake interviews in preparation. No other i

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