throwawaypls

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by throwawaypls 4y ago
Is there a possibility of adding OCR/linking it with apps like Roam Research or LogSeq?
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by throwawaypls 5y ago
Sorbet is very useful, but the ergonomics suck. It’s fucking difficult to write rspec tests. The performance overhead of writing sorbet on rails in a big codebase is so much that we have turned it off. The pre-interpreter type checking is s
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by throwawaypls 5y ago
Don’t want to be cynical (and appreciate your more constructive feedback), but i’m surprised by the kind of stuff that makes up to the front page these days.
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by throwawaypls 6y ago
Isn’t this just GPT-3 under the hood? Other similar things do exist (eg: copy.ai). Not sure whether there’s much of a difference between all these GPT-3 powered services when all that distinguishes you from competition is some (slick) UI an
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by throwawaypls 7y ago
For anyone curious, http://mbasic.facebook.com/ is one of the least data-intensive way to access facebook.
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by throwawaypls 7y ago
Linux Kernel Development By Robert Love and Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz are great resources.
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
No, https://lobste.rs
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
Interesting rationalization. Thanks for putting it into words. I agree that my tone was could have been better. I don't buy the rest of your arguments, and would not comment on them for the sake of being misinterpreted again -- followi
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
@neonate I am interested in knowing how am I being a "jerk" here.
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
I would prefer not to. I expressed my concerns about not hearing back from employers to Kartik -- I applied only because he reassured me that every application "in their system" (sic, iirc) gets a response. "We don't do
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
Folks who are downvoting, please care to explain your reasoning. Thanks.
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
I would ask people to stay away from Starsky. Terrible recruiting practices -- I met some of their senior staff and they assured me, well even guaranteed that someone will get back, but no one did. As job-seekers, we should start maintainin
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
Devise, if you’re building a Rails app.
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
I read this book titled "Designing Data Intensive Applications", which covers this and a lot of other stuff about designing applications in general. https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
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by throwawaypls 8y ago
Back when I worked for Shopify, I got a chance to work on something similar -- GhostFerry( https://github.com/shopify/ghostferry ), which allows for doing all sorts of migrations, that too between various databases. It w
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Bay Area for a month – What to do to get back into startups
5 points by throwawaypls 9y ago|1 comments