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"... vim and neovim merge,..." This seems very unlikely. In neovim help docs there's a paragraph in file `nvim.txt` Nvim is emphatically a fork of Vim, not a clone: compatibility w…

He meant Cursor editor [1] and not VS Code Corsor. He corrected in the next X post [2] [1] https://www.cursor.com [2] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827148812168871986

For long form conversations, I strongly recommend Conversations with Tyler Cowen. Lex Friedman is also good. But if I have to pick one, it will be Tyler Cowen, mainly due to the ho…

There's some strong views about ThePrimeagen in this thread. Just want to share my experience. I've spent tonnes of time configuring Vim, Neovim etc. Its ... a ... mess. I love bot…

Aprenticed to a Himalayan Master (A Yogi's Autobiography) by Sri M . I've completed reading this book few hours back. Growing up in India, it's common to hear many fantastical stor…

About 9 months back I relocated to India and started listening to Scaler Pod ( https://www.youtube.com/@SCALER ). It's focused on startups in India, and interviews their CTO or SVP…

Netflix also played a huge role in raising salary bar. Anecdote: In 2008, I was working at Ericsson in San Jose, as a junior software engineer on edge routers. I was paid ~$140K (b…

Arista Networks, in Santa Clara. First round, I had to do 2 coding questions in an hour, 30 mins for each question. I had to go to their campus. They would give me a laptop/environ…

Planet Money podcast on same topic https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...

I have an experience that I vividly remember. Early in my career, I was very poor at giving interviews and would freeze on trivial questions. In Summer of 2011 I interviewed at a s…

How did you measure 4 to 6% packet loss? Do you have scripts to ping some server and you are collecting packet loss data? I would like to collect such data for my home network and …

"People buy expensive things to feel valuable. Lead a life where ordinary things gain value when you use it." Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Recalling from memory. May have errors. He said …

Reminder, Stanford is taking down this course on March 26th, 2020. They let you download courses that are setup for download (this course is not, unfortunately).

From reddit, link to book written by Ricky Kidd: > https://smile.amazon.com/Vivid-Expressions-Journey-Inside-In... He now supports himself through his book sales and speaking tours…

> In an impressively candid moment of self-reflection, Torvalds said the impetus behind Git was to prove to himself that he wasn't just a "one-hit wonder." "We all have self-doubts…

Use ctrl+b once to send commands to local Tmux server, twice to send commands to Tmux running on remote machine you SSH'ed in to. I think this can go on, in theory, but I did not t…

I'm going through this now, but following links, perhaps, answers your Q. Mesh Design: https://docs.nycmesh.net/networking/mesh/ Supernode Architecture: https://docs.nycmesh.net/ne…

> If someone has been operating at a level for 6 months, then why not retropay them for 6 months at their new salary? :) Bonus and refreshed RSU's does the same, isn't it?

Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51yez5gBFmI

Couple of others: 1) www.pramp.com 2) www.interviewbit.com 3) www.gainlo.co In 1 & 2, are free where you are paired with another candidate who's also preparing for interviews. But …

I have a slightly off topic observation and couple of questions. Hoping to get inputs from community. I'm half way through the write up and am amazed by the amount of research, ski…