OmarIsmail

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by OmarIsmail 1y ago
This article is amazing. I think any engineer outside of programming language builders would get something incredibly useful for it. Not enough engineers engage with the concept of code and programming and as an industry we suffer for it. T
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by OmarIsmail 1y ago
On a relative and even absolute basis the wealthy will lose substantially more money. On a personal quality of life basis the middle class will get hit the hardest. It will impact retirement timelines, vacations, home renovations, car purch
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
This is me. And fingers crossed it’ll be an uneventful few days for us both :)
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
You can make an exception for the pager duty providers number. That will it will always make a sound no matter what.
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
Mighty as an idea was cool and interesting and I hope the tech survives and continues to be developed. Fat clients have their place in the world but a solution like Mighty allows for a lot of the benefits of a fat client without a lot of th
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
I'm going through this right now. At dayjob we have a lot of internal dependencies and libraries that are created sufficiently far from me that I treat them as third party and when things go wrong (which they do a lot) it's a nigh
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
The different module syntax is the problem. If we just had the standard import/export syntax from the beginning I think 99% of problems would be avoided.
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
Even that blogstatic "guide" is just one page. It seems to me you're throwing a bunch of barely-built stuff at the wall to see what has traction to then actually build out. I don't think HN is a good way to do that. This
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
The idea is solid but as someone who is in the market for something like this, the product doesnt currently inspire confidence. Specifically, you’re a tool to create User Guides and yet you haven’t created a user guide for your own site. If
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
Environment is one of the factors for my preference for fake meats, but the much bigger factor is the ethical one. Both at the fundamental level of “killing an animal for food is bad” and the larger “modern animal farming is monstrous and i
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
> Nowhere will a training set featuring pictures of naked children be legal. Appropriately from the recent news stories, but it's easy to imagine at least portions of such pictures being available for medical diagnostic purposes. I&
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
We do a decent job of banning child pornography. And bringing the two ideas together, is child pornography that is provably created by an AI still illegal?
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
That actually sounds pretty cool! If that's _not_ what Flow is, I hope somebody does roll with that idea.
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
The secret is that if you’re good enough pretty much any company can be what you want. Most people don’t really know what they’re doing so if you are good and just build stuff that is useful I’ve found that people don’t really get in your w
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
Yes, graphql does indeed suck. Or rather it is not the best solution for all client-server communication that people treat it as, so it ends up being used in a lot of situations where it does suck. Backend to backend communication is almost
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
They address it here: https://github.com/coilhq/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/DESIGN....
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
What does that have to do with the valuation getting lowered? If a person had 1000 RSUs that were on paper worth 40k, now they are worth 30k. Either way they can’t be sold right now. And I don’t understand how 30k is “worthless”
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
If it’s RSUs why are they worthless?
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
Funny enough these are the exact questions that founders need to ask themselves before committing to an idea. YC has overly broadened this to “make something people want” which at first order needs to be true. The questions you’ve laid out
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by OmarIsmail 4y ago
I've been looking for something just like this! I find that people get really weird about solar stuff, so I'll explain why I've been looking for something like this. 1. I believe that man-made climate change is real and we sh
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
If I ever look for a job again my plan is to give the hiring managers my performance reviews from my previous company. There's enough information in them that speaks to the kind of engineer I am in the real workplace working on real pr
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
Are there natural “fault” lines for Russia to split into?
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
If he drops a nuke on Kyiv I honestly don’t know how the world will or even “should” respond. It really goes to show that nukes just shouldn’t exist- there’s no “counter” to them if the other side is suicidal
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
The industry does not properly reward long tenure. If the person stays curious and hungry then the accumulated knowledge and experience they hold is worth a tremendous amount. Smart companies will start appreciating and compensating for thi
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
For now. But now that the pool of people that could work from the jungles of Brazil has increased 10-100x there’s a lot more incentive to making that possible.
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
These articles are so good. Very informative for a product engineer such as myself. Allows me to create a much clearer and more expansive mental model of the running systems.
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
This article does a very good job of explaining the main difference between column vs row databases at the storage level. Knowing this low level structure is extremely helpful to make considered trade offs when choosing the right technology
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
At this point I literally only play games on Xbox Game Pass and I'm playing more now than ever before. It's truly unreal how good of a value Game Pass is.
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by OmarIsmail 5y ago
I take this _very_ seriously but didn't have a name for it until now. I totally agree that many/most software organizations don't take it seriously. But I don't think that it's because of a lack of desire, I think i
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by OmarIsmail 6y ago
"Almost none"? https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/ 143 out of 230 kept with 20 out of 230 in progress. Political discourse can be difficult enough without hyperbole making things worse.

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