AkshayD08 - Hackdot

Re:How to Remember What You Read on Sunday August 22, 2021 @01:02AM (#28263021)

I believe is using the tech and apps for remembering what I read. I recently started using Readwise app for getting all my important sections from different books into daily dose of reminders. It works well. I also use Notion for auto syncing of book highlights.

I don't think it's fair to eliminate technology from reading. Use it for your advantage.

Re:Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2020? on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:13AM (#25383806)

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

Gave me a wider perspective of things. Should have read it much earlier.

Re:Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it? on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:00AM (#22800689)

https://performanceengineeringin.wordpress.com/

I am a Performance Engineer and I mainly write about : - Tools/profilers required for monitoring Performance of code. - Basic concepts for Performance tuning of the code. - Interesting resources that I come across in the field of CS.

Re:Seven Unix Commands Every Data Scientist Should Know on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:49AM (#19326526)

The Unix Programming Environment was eye opening for me!

Re:Seven Unix Commands Every Data Scientist Should Know on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:35AM (#19326471)

For a quick understanding of the power of awk :

https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...

Re:Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything? on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:39AM (#19093188)

"Extreme Ownership" - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin : This is an amazing book which will make you stop complaining no matter what. It's all on you to make it better. Such an amazing book which changed my perspective on external world dependencies. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownersh...

"Tools of Titans" - Tim Ferriss : This book can be seen a summary of 15 most popular non-fiction books. There are a lot of guests in this book with a diverse back ground. There is wide wisdom you can pick on every page of this book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823677-tools-of-titans

Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise? on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:21AM (#18110402)

Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg. It is an amazing book for every performance engineer.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube? on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:05AM (#18004011)

Brendan Gregg: He is a performance engineer at Netflix. Has great content regarding performance engineering and tuning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/brendangregg

Raymond Hettinger: The contributor of collections module in python. Amazing content.

Raymond Hettinger Talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRVdut2KPAguz3xcd22i_...

Re:Ask HN: What is the best API documentation you have ever seen? on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:45AM (#17906719)

Absolutely. I had a hard time going through Python documentation during the early days.

Re:Ask HN: What music helps you code better? on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:44PM (#17140923)

Any music that blocks me from external noise but at the same time doesn't distract me. Anything without lyrics is best but I have found Classical Piano works the best for me.

Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a ... on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:25PM (#16004884)

Children watch 2.6 hours if TV / day ? That sounds too much!

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @11:36AM (#14042868)

Idea : Saving all the git and stackoverflow searches made during the day.

Thought : We hit Git or stackoverflow mainly to check up on something that we don't know about. Saving all these searches is something to begin with . Making sense of all the data by the end of a month is something which I have work on next. Else it will all turn in to dumps of "never seen again" data. Basically, having an overview of all new topics searched and digging in deeper in to interesting topics is the idea.

Re:Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently? on Saturday February 04, 2017 @08:04AM (#13566838)

The Fountainhead. Makes me a better person Everytime.

Re:Ask HN: Do you find reading increasingly challenging? on Sunday December 06, 2015 @10:21PM (#10687865)

The problem with reading on phones is there is always some notification which will find its way in to the phone. I tried it myself but not spend more than 15 mins getting back to the notifications.

I think kindle is a much better way to address the issue.

Re:Ask HN: What are you currently learning in your spare time? on Sunday November 01, 2015 @02:33PM (#10487775)

Shell scripting. I did not realize how powerful it is until I only started with it.