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I was in a similar boat, and this book[1] helped me a lot. It deals with the roots of procrastination, which lie in poor mood management and the lack of self-compassion. If you wan…

That’s why I am asking a computer.

It is scary for sure. We were heading towards a brave new world even before chatGPT, where what's real was no longer to be taken for granted and you couldn't trust your eyes and ea…

This is the thesis of the book “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane. It’s a pretty interesting read. At points the book was slightly beyond my reach in comprehension but I still enjoy…

Replay testing is when you replay production requests into your testing environment and compare corresponding responses for variances. It's a way to do regression testing that's a …

I'm currently reading Thich Nhat Hanh's Peace Is Every Step [0]. In it he says something similar. It's not that worrying is not useful. You need to worry for sustenance, shelter. B…

This is exactly why I hate it. They can and will lock people into their ecosystem. I see Firefox only losing to features like this. I love the present tab feature and that too is a…

Looks like a success! Almost nailed the landing as well! May have ran out of fuel towards the end.. but amazing to watch.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". More likely explanation is that Amazon is using a third-party to provide candidate emails from LinkedIn…

In the unlikely scenario that we are able to mine it cheaply or at least cheaper than current methods, won’t the cost of those metals go way way down due to the abundant supply, ma…

Amazing that the idea was first suggested in a PhD thesis, even before we could observe the rings directly!

Always take other people’s experience with a grain of salt. You don’t know their motivations or their biases or even their situation. Even if what you just read is 100% true, it’s …

If you're looking to build a deployment tool from scratch, please consider Spinnaker first. I work for Netflix, and it's an open source Cloud Deployment Tool they developed in-hous…

Shameless plug for my attempt to build a smallish SPA in Reagent, Re-frame: https://rahulpilani.github.io/mortgage-calculator/ Code here: https://github.com/rahulpilani/mort-calc

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: - Cache invalidation - Naming things - Off by 1 errors

I work on the Netflix Billing Team. PostgreSQL was indeed a very attractive option, but we wanted to keep a path to Aurora open. When we were working on the migration, Aurora was s…

I think it lacks a bit of context. See here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/6/l_016_08.html