abhayb

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by abhayb 2mo ago
I used to live under the guy that ran Lost Weekend on Valencia street. Held out till like 2014/2015. At the time I wasn't really sad about it but now I wish it was still around
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19.hz: almost every electronic music show in the Bay Area (+ other cities)(19hz.info)
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by abhayb 3y ago
Thanks for that! I'll have to get a pint next time I'm there (for some prog-metal in like two weeks). Concert beer tastes better in glass glasses too heh
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by abhayb 6y ago
Sorta sounds like Enneagram types is what you're looking for?
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by abhayb 6y ago
Finally a place for new desktop wallpapers after http://exoteric.roach.org/bg/ Also I would describe your server situation as "brave" and "a mood" (I mean that in the very best possible sense) And f
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by abhayb 6y ago
First, I understand what you are saying and understand the constraints keeping you at a job you have issues with. I've certainly seen organizations go too far on consensus even when each person individually (especially the ones at the
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by abhayb 6y ago
Secret third option: spun out of the Business School!
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by abhayb 6y ago
Data has always been plural! Datum is the singular. But actually treating it as plural is mostly a question of where the person speaking/writing is based. Americans treat it as singular, Brits plural. See also, corporations
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by abhayb 6y ago
Hello, yes, recent member of the HN note-taking crowd here. Throwaway meeting notes are exactly my use case. It helps that I do most of my thinking on paper anyway so I have a pen and pad handy at all times. For me it's all about focus
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by abhayb 6y ago
Hey komali2, why'd you have to go and describe me this sharply on a Saturday morning? Is it that I accidentally crowded you out at the Four Barrel pour-over bar and now you want your revenge? I've heard it said about running: it d
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by abhayb 6y ago
This is what I hear out of Bangalore too. Maybe even further? Like you can command Valley level comp (or at least base+bonus) if you can clear the right hurdles. Though maybe in Poland too, the issue is that there are far more people one ru
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by abhayb 6y ago
Some amount of post-install runtime loading is basically necessary on Android if you're using shared native libs. Can't remember off the top of my head what needs to happen but basically every app runs into strange crashes until t
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by abhayb 6y ago
Yes! I've seen these called guardrail metrics. Having a single metric be the one to optimize works pretty well if that optimization is what you want. But optimizing a teams work is messy and generates organizational instabilities. Tuni
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by abhayb 6y ago
All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don't know what it's called when viewed positively but I expect the word "holi
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by abhayb 6y ago
The super power I see is not so much written communication as intentional communication. I try to get myself to communicate intentionally by having command-enter send my Slack messages. But sometimes you need to Do the Thing. And you can&#x
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by abhayb 6y ago
Hmm... I think the idea with synchronous communication is very much the same as it is with with synchronous method calls. Synchronous communication lets you break your thoughts down into smaller chunks and thus make them easier to understan
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by abhayb 6y ago
I sort of see what you're saying. When a person with Great Authority says that Something Needs Doing, I need to think through what I'm going to say about what I'm going to do. But the single best response is to spend those fi
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by abhayb 6y ago
Just got a three pack of Iroshizuku in! The tsuki-yo, kon-peki, and take-sumi. Only tried the first so far but it's lovely. Maybe I need to get the set with asa-gao soon? > it has a clear preference for pricy paper Well so do I :)
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by abhayb 6y ago
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. Flies a little under the radar. I'm definitely biased here (TA'ed the class that originated it). But by the end of it I left with a decent understanding of x86-64 assembly to the
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by abhayb 6y ago
Pretty much. I'm all about data classes so the code reads just fine. Definitely less boilerplate than something like JsonObject. But using Gson means non-nullable fields can still be null if the incoming JSON doesn't have them. So
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by abhayb 6y ago
Hard same on the Kotin/Jackson sadness. Gson also has a bunch of issues. Really want to cut my code over to Moshi but haven't worked up the energy for it. Maybe we all just want to wait till Kotlin serialization is production read
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by abhayb 6y ago
CMU's Compilers course (15-411)[1] does a lot of what you want. Students write code generation code in the very first assignment. A particular delight of this approach is that the first assignment is for compiling straight line code wh
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by abhayb 6y ago
Ah I wasn't even thinking about motivation! Yeah it makes sense that I'd have to start with motivation when I'm breaking down a perf problem. I'm reminded of the talk So you want to be a wizard [1]. It definitely underst
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by abhayb 6y ago
Ah dark knowledge through blood sacrifice. Was hoping they'd found an easier way :( Thanks for the pointer, been a bit since I read some OG John Gruber
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by abhayb 6y ago
I love the detail in the post! A lot of this seems to boil down to the author being able to drop to a lower level of abstraction when necessary. I'm curious to know how they got that facility. Did they dig deep when they found somethin
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by abhayb 6y ago
It's been 10 years since I was a well behaved and anhedonic teenager. Not only did I fit what the newspaper describes but I actually read the The Economist cover to obituary (the obit is the best part). Now that I'm past that it s
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by abhayb 6y ago
I'm going to take inspiration from @lexi-lambda and respond in mini-composition form. Note that great writers write essays. I, write compositions. It's just like Haskell for the crucial difference between two functions to be denot
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by abhayb 7y ago
You're absolutely right about not overthinking. Any architecture doc is better than none. Even if the thinking it describes is incoherent or if it describes coherent thinking sloppily. And even during editing, there's only one thi
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by abhayb 7y ago
Pinker made it easy for me to slip into my own thoughts about writing, how I currently write, and how I would like to write in the future. Just for that I thought it was worth it. However Pinker has Opinions about writing rather than just s
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by abhayb 7y ago
This is exactly what I want to see on HN. Exactly because I will never use Plan 9. It makes me happy to know that someone, somewhere, is using it. Providing an existence proof that even something this unwieldy and obscure is for one gloriou

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