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It's interesting that this piece mentions "to get really rich" as one of the primary motivators. Especially to high school students. I wonder if that's good advice or if society is…

Hmm maybe I don't understand fully, but can't you do this in VSCode by doing a `Find And Replace All`? (Cmd + Shift + F on Mac)

Congratulations! I identify with this post a lot. Good luck! Your actions are certainly an inspiration

I built DiffLens ( https://www.difflens.com/ ) initially just for myself. It's a diff tool that uses abstract syntax trees to make the diff more review-able. It's free for anyone t…

I'm the author of DiffLens ( https://www.difflens.com/ ). I initially built it for myself too (and use it everyday) and it's currently free for anyone to try. It's an attempt to us…

The worry is understandable. As someone who's been in a similar situation before, the worry with a work visa and housing tends to go away one way or another. Either you get out of …

Either you're being reductionist on purpose, or the reply above just flew over your head.

Just wanted to chime in and say that this was a good read. Reminded me of reading editorials when I was younger. I agree with most of these points, and especially appreciate the fa…

I wonder if you can pick your favorite language/framework and write a daemon that serves as the "backend". Then, write a UI in whatever you like, and send calls to the backend to m…

My recommendation would be to apply to as many positions as you can, but steel yourself to the fact that you may not hear back from any of them. I'd also recommend exploring if you…

> as I see it is that it provides a uniform api for traversing a parse tree, which makes it relatively straightforward to onboard a new language to a tool with tree-sitter support.…

Haha, I found this quite funny :) I'm sure there's an element of truth to it considering how complicated the code base must be for the various services

This is a great post! I have very similar thoughts! I haven't escaped the corporate job yet, but the pandemic and subsequent layoff scares have convinced me that bootstrapping a bu…

Interesting execution. I'm not totally sold that Sapling is somehow forcing smaller/(more understandable) commits. Running Sapling restack with the manual step of an `amend` doesn'…

Nice article! I agree with all your points, they closely mirror my experience too!

JIRA GroupBy is free and was made to solve personal pain points with backlog pages. We're around if anyone has questions!

Not related to this article per se, but I wonder if there is a tool (or a market) for "validating" pdfs. Specifically I'm thinking of a tool that validates that different fields in…

Great write up! I don't have much practical experience with Paxos/Raft other than coursework. I'm curious, if I wanted to insert a row into a table, what is the overhead of all the…

I've been wondering over the past few months if we can build a "public" cloud. I have some old machines gathering dust, I'm sure others do too. Is it feasible to build an ad-hoc ne…