anandsuresh

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Why is a Nix rollback just a symlink flip?(labcraft.dev)
2 points by anandsuresh 4d ago|0 comments
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Why does shipping a Nix upgrade move only the difference?(labcraft.dev)
2 points by anandsuresh 22d ago|0 comments
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MitM Is a Feature(labcraft.dev)
1 points by anandsuresh 22d ago|0 comments
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LabCraft Blog: What does the hash in a Nix store path name?(labcraft.dev)
2 points by anandsuresh 1mo ago|0 comments
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by anandsuresh 1mo ago
True. IMO, this is one of nix's weak UX points. There are ways to see if it's still running/doing things, but one should not have to jump through hoops to answer such a basic question.
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Nix didn't hang it was evaluating the world(labcraft.dev)
4 points by anandsuresh 1mo ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Learning Nix with LabCraft(labcraft.dev)
5 points by anandsuresh 1mo ago|0 comments
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Learn Nix where it breaks(labcraft.dev)
5 points by anandsuresh 2mo ago|0 comments
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by anandsuresh 2y ago
Didn't realize that was a thing. Was using the keyboard the whole time. Took a few tries to figure out how to strafe... and then just kept the spacebar pressed the whole time, and cleared the CAPTCHA. :)
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by anandsuresh 2y ago
+100 for technical chops, -100 for usability. +10 for the trip down memory lane, and the self-realization that I now suck at playing video games.
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Pretty cool. Have been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks for building it. Just sent you a PR for some typos I found while running through an example.
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
I can relate to a lot of what you've said here. I've built a similar super-generalist profile in software engineering and have spent the last decade in startups. Compared to my peers/friends in larger companies, I've alw
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
I understand and empathize with the sentiment here. Interviews have a skewed power-dynamic. A handful of people, or sometimes even a single person, can make or break your chances at what you feel is your dream job, and there is nothing you
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
I'm curious about the legality of such practices. Your employer needs to authorize what you do on your own time and dime? What country/state are you located in?
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
So fucking good it felt like the 90s again. :)
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
This is a bandaid that avoids solving the harder problem of trust/spam. It is such design patterns that make a fundamentally open/federated protocol more centralized, exacerbating the problem. Personally, I think the use of proof-
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
About time this happened. I experienced this with the ACLU, of all the entities out there using this dark pattern. Enable subscriptions online to donate to the ACLU, but if you changed your mind, you have to get the phone to cancel. Needles
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Could not agree more. I've learned more about build systems and different compilers by reading through Nix code than any other endeavor in the past.
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Not just that. The ability to enter a sandboxed shell environment, play around with as many packages as you can get your hands on, and then exit back to my clean machine is my absolute favorite feature!!! SO many times in the past, I'd
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Complexity exists and is going to get worse with time. The root cause is the prevalent software development paradigm: millions of developers/teams working simultaneously on different parts of the software stack, with an imperfect under
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
I could not agree more. Most people, IMO, are workflow junkies! It doesn't matter how good/bad/ugly the tool is; if it works, it stays forever! And git is a perfect example of a tool that is complex, but survives because it b
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Nix operates at the cusp of some of the most complex and obscure parts of the technology stack: operating systems, compiler toolchains, and package managers. These inherently complex components require a fair bit of commitment to fully comp
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Not in any usable form. But I do intend to blog about it once I clean it up.
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Not in any usable form. But I do intend to blog about it once I clean it up. :)
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Congrats on your journey out of the tarpit! :)
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by anandsuresh 5y ago
Love to see more adoption of Nix and NixOS. I started my Nix journey a little over a year ago, and I regret not having switched sooner. A package-manager that also ships an operating system that can be customized from the bootloader up, usi
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by anandsuresh 6y ago
Obligatory "Bitcoin would solve this!" post. :)
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by anandsuresh 6y ago
True. It is sad that market forces may and likely will have the opposite of the intended effect. Personally, I like the idea of having more options to have healthier competition in the market. It is also true that the issue is very similar
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by anandsuresh 6y ago
It is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it does make it harder for newer businesses to enter the space. However, from what I have been able to piece together, the real culprits here are DoorDash and GrubHub, by listing restaurants with
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by anandsuresh 6y ago
This law is dated September 24, 2020. If it has indeed been the law for around 3 months now, any ideas if/how much this impacts Doordash, Uber Eats and others? From my own research, it looks like these delivery companies do have a numb

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