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but Meta's versions are significantly different than the old, boring thing that you and I have access to. At my company, we are slowly rewriting our python services in golang becau…

Many of the 2021 IPOs - HOOD, COIN, etc.

I will definitely agree that adding more protein would improve health outcomes for indians - all I really wanted to point out is that a reduced intake of protein does not lead to a…

It's probably not correct to attribute all differences in life expectancy between India and USA to diet alone - factors like air quality are so much worse in India and play a signi…

I don't know if the diet is healthy or not - I am just stating that the culture itself does not place an emphasis on protein to the extent that snakes or insects become a viable so…

Every passing day, I am more happy I am born as an Indian because I know it is possible to live a healthy life without having to resort to the consumption of protein at any cost.

I believe Heap uses Citus for distributed Postgres[1] - wonder if this issue could have been caught at the Citus level? Changing metadata about shard information can be a powerful …

I reflected on my Vim journey after Bram passed away. It has been my only constant professional companion in the past 10 years - from university projects to FAANGs to everything-on…

Is the idea here for SQLite to move from DB level locks to page locks and finally to row level locks?

Judith the Iconoclast

File a claim, there is absolutely no downside to doing so.

The pension fund probably owns shares in the bank, which are now worthless.

It seems to me that the mechanism to maintain a ledger of user accounts is mostly the same across companies and domains, even though it is probably implemented from scratch in each…

Coda and Confluence are very heavy weight and slow. Also, it's a pain to create pages when you need to tab back and forth to copy text and pictures. Any other solutions in the mark…

At work, I find myself writing a Python/Go/JS SDK for every single internal API that I implement. This might even be more prevalent for public facing APIs since creating/maintainin…

Imagine a very simple user creation flow in an online marketplace: - Service A (user service) receives the request and creates a user object and sends an async request to service B…

First time seeing Glicol - really cool!

I love your blog and thorough retrospectives on all your projects - thanks a ton for the great content!

Frozen vegetables + protein (tofu) + sauce to stir fry (e.g tomatillo). I change the sauce up for variety.

This (no phones, no notifications) has singlehandedly been the most effective step I have taken for better concentration.

This made me recall Nick Lane's thoughts on anti-oxidants and how they interfere with stress signals sent by cell (which is not an obviously good thing): https://nautil.us/issue/36…

Can someone summarize what allowed nginx to surmount the C10K problem? Was it some clever trick or just good software design?

I read this article, but I found no content discussing the title itself (that in Japan, digicams are the new film) - maybe I am missing something?

I think the Marie Kondo fad is overblown and might be a result of 1) excessive need for direction/hand-holding in all aspects of life and 2) the west's weird obsession with anythin…

I can see the claims now - "Google is holding my account ransom for $XX/hr of customer support!"