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Is there a possibility of adding OCR/linking it with apps like Roam Research or LogSeq?

Sorbet is very useful, but the ergonomics suck. It’s fucking difficult to write rspec tests. The performance overhead of writing sorbet on rails in a big codebase is so much that w…

Don’t want to be cynical (and appreciate your more constructive feedback), but i’m surprised by the kind of stuff that makes up to the front page these days.

Isn’t this just GPT-3 under the hood? Other similar things do exist (eg: copy.ai). Not sure whether there’s much of a difference between all these GPT-3 powered services when all t…

For anyone curious, http://mbasic.facebook.com/ is one of the least data-intensive way to access facebook.

Linux Kernel Development By Robert Love and Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz are great resources.

No, https://lobste.rs

Interesting rationalization. Thanks for putting it into words. I agree that my tone was could have been better. I don't buy the rest of your arguments, and would not comment on the…

@neonate I am interested in knowing how am I being a "jerk" here.

I would prefer not to. I expressed my concerns about not hearing back from employers to Kartik -- I applied only because he reassured me that every application "in their system" (s…

Folks who are downvoting, please care to explain your reasoning. Thanks.

I would ask people to stay away from Starsky. Terrible recruiting practices -- I met some of their senior staff and they assured me, well even guaranteed that someone will get back…

Devise, if you’re building a Rails app.

I read this book titled "Designing Data Intensive Applications", which covers this and a lot of other stuff about designing applications in general. https://www.amazon.com/Designin…

Back when I worked for Shopify, I got a chance to work on something similar -- GhostFerry( https://github.com/shopify/ghostferry ), which allows for doing all sorts of migrations, …

Hello I founded and worked at a financial services startup in India for 2 years while I was in high school. I sold parts of what I was working on, shut everything down and came to …