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by umbs 2y ago
"... 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 with Vim (especially editor and Vimscr
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by umbs 2y ago
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
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by umbs 3y ago
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 host. The variety and depth of knowledge that Tyler posses is
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by umbs 3y ago
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 both editors and for the love of me, I don't kno
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by umbs 3y ago
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 stories of great Himalayan Yogi's and their
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by umbs 4y ago
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 SVPs. Two personal favorites: Dukaan CTO Su
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by umbs 4y ago
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 (bonus + RSU). We heard that very senior engineers were paid a
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by umbs 4y ago
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/environment of my choice and then time starts. Questions were
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by umbs 4y ago
Planet Money podcast on same topic https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
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Yahoo pulls out of China amid challenging environment(apnews.com)
7 points by umbs 5y ago|2 comments
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by umbs 5y ago
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 storage company. A good friend referred me. The nervousness w
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by umbs 6y ago
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 am curious.
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by umbs 6y ago
"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 giving examples of Rev. Martin Luther King, Mahatm
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by umbs 7y ago
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).
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by umbs 7y ago
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. That's one way to support him. If
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by umbs 7y ago
> 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," he suggested. "Linux was
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by umbs 7y ago
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 test.
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It's Dangerous to Vim Alone Take Fzf(medium.com)
3 points by umbs 7y ago|0 comments
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by umbs 7y ago
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/networking&#x2
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by umbs 7y ago
> 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?
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by umbs 8y ago
Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51yez5gBFmI
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by umbs 8y ago
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, skill and grit that went in to finding this vulnerability.
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by umbs 8y ago
Came here to say Julia Evans and Cloudflare blogs. Julia is high throughput blogger (both, quality and quantity). Usually, I come across a topic and want to understand "just" a bit deeper and there's a post on her site explai
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by umbs 8y ago
Anyone here know if Cloudflare plans to let non-customers to transfer their domains to Cloudflare? Especially, if it's a personal domain? I purchased a domain from GoDaddy and host a blog. But they have been up selling and charging me
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by umbs 8y ago
I'm in my 3rd week using this phone (same model). I switched from iPhone 6s as an experiment/experience for few months. This phone has these apps (FB, Twitter), but they are unusable. On opening, they throw some error. Since I swi
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by umbs 8y ago
This is a very good resource, but it has limitations from practicing point of view. You cannot use it for (unlimited) practice, like other sites mentioned in this post. I continuously got "We are in private beta" on their site. I
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by umbs 8y ago
As few comments already mentioned, post college, preparing for this type of thing immensely helps in job interviews. I find it very hard to clear job interviews and in 2017 alone, I appeared for ~25 job interviews. I'm very convinced t
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by umbs 8y ago
I have forgotten about it until this comment. Prof Gautam Kaul's MOOC was the first course I took on any MOOC. I did not finish it, mainly because it became very mathematical towards the end and I couldn't keep up. The course gave
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by umbs 9y ago
This comment is specific to Sanskrit learning. If you are in Bay Area, Sanskrit Bharati ( http://www.samskritabharatiusa.org/ ) is very active. Their teaching is focused on conversational style. They are world wide organizati
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by umbs 9y ago
Can't up vote this enough. I read it around 16 yrs age and strongly influenced me. "intellectually superior" accurately captures how I felt. I continued on path of "self discovery" and am much mature now. Now, I str

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