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Nice. I built https://utils.foo last week. Client side only + ads free. Idea is to keep adding more utils to it, but keep it client side only.

utils.foo a fully client side, ads-free developer utils app. Today, it has a timestamp converter, base64/url encoder/decoder, json & diff utils, quick pivoting data. A lot of these…

Author here. TIL about the book. For reference https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53343.On_Writing_Well

At Stripe, this was also framed as BLUF - bottom line up front.

Please do, that would be awesome.

How does this compare to hurl.dev?

Yep If you're going to do a single request or a few requests in isolation, curl is the way to do. If you wanna do a full fledged testing suite, might as well using a proper scripti…

The abstraction is provide better UX. Anyone will have to write stuff over telnet to provide chained requests, variables, assertions, etc. Once you do that, you basically get a rei…

Because liking a cli is an individual preference and lots of dev, including me, would prefer it and find it useful.

I saw this comment and thought this exactly described what my $previous_company did. Then, I saw the username :-)

Yes, because most services haven't met the full scope of the RBI circular yet - sending pre-debit notification, self serve mandate revocation, etc

That isn't how it will work - First charge needs a AFA and it will setup a mandate - Subsequent charges will use that mandate and work without 2FA - Cardholders need to be notified…

2-random was also used in this HDFS change - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8131 . Default block placement policy chose datanodes randomly for new blocks. This change s…

Thanks. This has been my approach thus far. The place where I work allows for practical applications of this (scaling systems to millions of requests per second, having no downtime…

I wrote a lot of code for payments processing at an Indian e-commerce shop & see/make it scale from 100s of QPS to ~200k QPS. Just having the code paths exercised by so many people…

There are a lot of resources for learning algorithms, code design patterns, etc. As you grow, what are the good resources for system design patterns? How did you get better at it? …

FYI - I'm not the author of the article. I found it very useful and hence posted it here on HN.

Hangouts Chat is such a botched launch. It is backwards compatible with single user chat and not group chats. It effectively ensures that people cannot completely migrate to it. Th…

Would AOF persistence as 'everysec' not imply a write guarantee of max 1 second data loss for restart?

How will infant mortality rise as a result?

You’ll get premium eyewear in India for $150. Though, it will take around 3-5 days to get it after your order. Good quality ones that last would be $60-80.