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by posharma 5y ago
Agree. Todo lists are ephemeral. They're not meant to be stored and archived. Just write the list already, execute the items in the list and move on. Focus on getting things done rather than creating new formats for these ephemeral lis
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by posharma 5y ago
When has the stock market been rational!
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by posharma 5y ago
Use the tool that best suits your workflow and that's most convenient to you. There's no need to be super enthusiastic about plaintext.
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by posharma 5y ago
From the README, "This is no longer an active project at X" ==> (implies) ==> We don't care about it any more, so we're dumping it here. Do what you want :-)
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by posharma 5y ago
Martin's writing and explanation style is truly awesome! I read his book DDIA (Designing data intensive applications) and listened to his distributed systems class lectures [1]. It was a joy learning. I wish I had him or someone like h
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by posharma 5y ago
I'm a fan of text files. But many times you just want to capture the image and store it. For e.g. a bills/receipts. Secondly, the article doesn't talk about syncing - may be onedrive/dropbox? what are some good solutions
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by posharma 5y ago
I hear you. * Move semantics itself requires a whole book https://www.cppmove.com/ . * RVO has always confused me. It was much simpler in the C++03 days. Copying large objects by value was inefficient. So you always used ref
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California weighing proposal that could double its taxes(foxbusiness.com)
3 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments
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Designing WhatsApp(highscalability.com)
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by posharma 5y ago
You've to be a genius to solve a "hard" unseen leetcode problem in 15 mins correctly. Facebook is notorious at expecting candidates to regurgitate solutions to problems in 15 mins. Intelligence plays a lesser role than exhaus
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by posharma 5y ago
This is a good post for beginners. Fortunately or unfortunately coding interviews have become much tougher. This resource [1] has helped some. [1]: https://hackernoon.com/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-intervi...
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by posharma 5y ago
Designing data intensive applications by Martin Klepmann. The best engineering design book I’ve read in my 20 yrs of experience.
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by posharma 5y ago
Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for asking a genuine question. The objective is not to deride Nim in any way.
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by posharma 5y ago
Genuinely curious - why should I care about Nim? There are already a plethora of general purpose languages (both compiled and interpreted). Also, is anyone using Nim today? What's the adoption?
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by posharma 5y ago
How many more articles do we need to drive this point home? First it was a fashion to develop using microservices. Now writing about not using them is in vogue :-).
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by posharma 5y ago
Would it be fair to say that half of the job is project/program management?
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by posharma 5y ago
How do you merge a PR when someone has requested changes on it?
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by posharma 5y ago
What about binary compatibility?
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by posharma 5y ago
I've heard and read this multiple times. Why are you trying so hard to fit into a format that doesn't just support comments out of the box? What advantages is JSON offering you that you've compelled to bend over backwards to
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by posharma 5y ago
It's simple. For config files, choose the format that has the best tooling in your company and that supports comments. For data transfer, choose that supports schemas, backwards compatibility and good tooling (protobufs is just one e.g
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by posharma 5y ago
It's really sad to see the pervasiveness of JSON. For one thing its usage as a config file is disturbing. Config files need to have comments. Second, even as a data transfer format the lack of schema is even more disturbing. I really
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by posharma 5y ago
Unfortunately, other companies copy FAANG because FAANG are the most successful companies. We don't have to accept it. We just have to choose our battles. As I said, if you want the kind of money/work these companies offer, there&
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by posharma 5y ago
Another tech interview discussion :-). How many do we have these in a month? Seriously, if you want to get into FAANG type companies and want the kind of money/work they offer, there's just no choice left other than leetcode. And
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by posharma 5y ago
Sorry. Countless articles have been written about how interviews should be conducted. But nothing changes. There are thousands of engineers vying for FAANG/MAMAA and they’ll do backflips to get a job there; leetcode is nothing for them
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by posharma 5y ago
A question I'd asked a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27586432 .
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by posharma 5y ago
exactly what i thought.
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Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems(aosabook.org)
3 points by posharma 5y ago|0 comments
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Software Documentation Engineer(groq.com)
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by posharma 5y ago
With the popularity of grpc and thrift I've not seen many cases where REST is needed for internal communication. I understand it's required for external communication though. Grpc and thrift are kind of the opposite direction APIs
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by posharma 5y ago
Yes, thank you for writing this. Twitter threads are really annoying. A good well thought long form article is so much better from all points of view.

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