Viewing profile — l8again

Looking at your resume, I am curious how you are intimately familiar with XP. Seems like it should be before your time.

If anyone is interested in learning more about Alloy, I would recommend this book by the author, Daniel Jackson - "Software Abstractions" - https://www.amazon.com/Software-Abstract…

In my first semester as a freshman in an American university, I took a quiz in the Calculus class that had a question based on American football. Having never played the sports or …

I am looking at this and thinking of the systems we build (in software) and what we can learn from the sublime postal system.

This isn't about desktop vs web apps. Plenty of desktop apps (or mobile apps) use a centrally located database server side. So, #3 (synchronize between clients) is about merging da…

Amazon has its own Uber, own fulfillment service down to monitoring tools that are built in house. So, not sure if it's a change in their "buy vs build" strategy or there's a more …

In the same vein, I think the industry is ripe for "smart-less" TVs. Reduce the cost, and take all the smarts out of it. Don't even need wifi. Apple TV, roku, chromecast - enough g…

I wish the author had done a comparison for Java apps using JLink that generates a custom Java runtime image that contains only the platform modules that are required for a given a…

While that is true, it isn't a problem inherently with comments.

I always wondered if the "useless comment" comment was really a way of bragging employed by experienced programmers (or their wannabes). Why is it a burden on anyone? Most IDE clea…

Paul Graham is a good writer - I give him that. But this piece can't be taken seriously. Please don't go interrupting everybody in meetings to show that you are intellectually supe…

Haven't looked at Jolie closely, but I am very well-versed in gRPC. Can someone give a quick comparison between the two or point me to a good resource that compares the advantages …

I don't know - why do Californians have sky-high everything?

If this will make Microsoft Office (specifically powerpoint) web client usable, then I will gladly pay $30 per month.

Also, I wonder how can we realistically implement this for SaaS?

The idea of SBOM, or BOM is not a new one. Maven already has one for years now called BOM files [1]. So am I right in assuming that the author's suggestion is to make this BOM file…

Clearly, it makes sense on the "sellers" side to make it into a service - the article pretty much conceded to that. However, this issue is also created by the "buyers" side as well…

I think it is demonstrably proven that Facebook has no qualms about aiding and abetting government campaigns of crushing dissent across the world, despite its claims of "cherishing…

Even though it mentions this in the context of filenames being sortable, I agree that this should have been a bullet point of its own.

> Aung San Suu Kyi has never been racist "But her personal defence of the army's actions at the ICJ hearing last year in the Hague was seen as a new turning point that obliterated …

My workflow of the last 10 years when choosing editors: Browse directories/read files/quick retrieval? -> Vim Make a quick edit on anything and rerun compiler/test/docker run -> Vi…

Fair question. Your last name is a clear give away of your caste in most cases. There may be others, but I am not sure of what they may be.

The constitution bans any discrimination based on caste. However, casteism is imbued in Indian culture today. As an Indian, I know this for a fact. All you have to do is see the ma…

To be clear, Article 15 and 17 absolutely prohibits any discrimination based on caste and abolishes untouchability respectively. [1] The issue is that the culture still imbues cast…

Another question - is there anyway to take these notes and integrate with Evernote? Or has anyone tried a creative solution for this?