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I keep forgetting the reasoning for this part of the design - why is the value semantics baked in the declaration site and not at the use site? Why does the class author have to de…

I wrote dloom for myself after finding Stow not flexible enough https://github.com/dloomorg/dloom Short blogpost for the TLDR: https://swaranga.dev/posts/dloom-the-dotfile-manager-…

I built this small CLI tool mainly to symlink individual files instead of full directories like Stow does. Github link: https://github.com/dloomorg/dloom

Amazon may be big but even then resources are limited. Individual teams owning the roadmap for services are still small. And there are always competing priorities. Do you prioritiz…

For me it is the little things. Like switching windows. Mac feels half a second slower then Linux and that delay make it feel less responsive. Opening up the terminal can iterm2 is…

Sure, it works for a narrow use-case like a pure function that just queries and returns data. What about stored procedures/triggers that mutate data on insert/delete etc? With one-…

Not a security engineer so can’t comment on the threat model. But an insider threat like a rogue employee can do as much damage with a managed laptop vs an unmanaged one IMO.

I am loving the Netflix model. You can ask for a MacBook or a thinkpad. If you opt for the thinkpad, you can also install whatever Linux you want and all tools will still work. In …

Onebox deployment typically deploys the new revision of the application code to a single host/box and leaves the rest of the fleet in the older revision and then you run your tests…

How would you do one-box deployments with code in the database? Everything else could be solved with perhaps some or a lot of pain.

I have no background in AI or neural networks. And I barely understand machine learning in general. My only chat bot experience is ordering pizza at a Dominos website, I must say e…

I have been pretty happy with BofA. The mobile app is modern and wires and ACH can all be done online. I gripe though is that you cannot do either of those from the mobile app. You…

There are some edge cases because of which this had to be done, I think. For example calling static methods via the instance variables, the actual method called would be the static…

Have you considered an HP Elitebook? I am using an Elitebook 850 G7 given by my company. I have been daily driving it for a year now with Ubuntu 20.04 (previously an 840 G3 I think…

I have long searched for a configuration (Linux laptop + docking station) that can drive a triple monitor setup. Ideally all three at 4K@60 Hz but I might settle for one of them be…

For me, the Roku's killer features is its app that lets me instantly stream the audio to my phone/airpods so i do not disturb anyone else while still watching tv. All others requir…

What would you say are some examples where you look back what the state was 15 years ago vs the progress we made till the present and the jump would seem just as profound. Just cur…

I have been using the HP Elitebooks provided by my company and works well with Ubuntu. No complaints. I even upgraded my RAM to 64 GB.

You are thinking of SQS, the preview version of which was the first to be introduced. S3 was the first non-preview service made generally available.

I built a system in my previous team where clients can register "filters" described in Fusion. My system, which was a source of a lot of different notifications, would then run the…

Seriously? I bought in-car navigation for my car instead of opting for CarPlay/AndroidAuto for this exact reason. When I start a trip, my phone (always used Google Maps) can never …

For me I usually forget the generic stuff. If I wrote something that was a bit different or if I put some extra effort or thought into it I find I can recall those implementation n…

My take on such “rules” is that these are not really rules but guidelines you can take hints from to make code easier to read and understand. I rarely try to force these rules to m…