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Npm registries seem to be down - affecting build servers and production systems!

Hear hear! >It was fun, it was challenging, it was rewarding, it was amazing. This cannot be overstated

Spot on argument. Especially valuable piece of advice is to find 25-30 minutes of uninterrupted time and aim to knock out one small task. Even if you didn't finish it, note down pr…

Absolutely this "it's an effective brain training system." Apart from helping with faster memorisation, I have noticed that writing a problem down / solving on paper improves probl…

"Treasure such places. They don't tend to last." True true true. Especially if people are building quirky cool stuff in smaller orgs, its simultaneously a great place to work and h…

I still use   to put more than one space between 2 words in text. this requirement pops up surprisingly often. Too lazy to wrap them in spans and use paddings!

tl;dr: order by mastery desc, method desc - when looking for advisors

Impressive achievement and more power to them. But does anyone else find the use of the word "showstopper" peculiar here. In management-speak, showstopper usually means - "There ar…

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which book is this? and would you recommend?

We are facing this right now for us-east-1 :/ thankfully production is unaffected.

Not an expert. But there are a few ways to look at this. Bodies that are in stable orbit can have only a specific velocity which is a function of its distance from & mass of whatev…

True but most of the research is around how to safely handle liquid cargoes. What the article talks about is 2-phase cargoes, cargoes which are expected to behave as solids but cou…

Thanks for the summary! > as long as the route the call takes is via a licensed operator. This is Twilio's problem, not yours. I surmised as much. Have not been able to speak to Tw…

Context: Want to setup a telephony solution for an Indian business with Indian customers. Would preferrably want a cloud solution with API access like Twilio. But AFAIK Indian regu…

Now need one for kafka!

As others have mentioned "12 hour days" seem intense. I am assuming then that you are not able to get a lot of work done. Then, the key thing to focus on would be to get work done:…

^ hah. that is a genuine problem But on a serious note, mature services like youtube/instagram can do it - they know more about me than anyone else. How hard would it to be to filt…

True. But another issue I feel with today's internet and apps is that it has lower rate of serendipity Most of our experience is controlled by an all-knowing black-box algorithms. …

> That you should strive to build modules which have deep functionality and small interfaces... this. interfaces are not the most important thing in a software but definitely one o…

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