jsshah

Re:Crafting Interpreters: A Review on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:28PM (#31857206)

Database Internals by Alex Petrov

If you are into videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...

Re:Show HN: Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed ... on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:37PM (#26207709)

This is amazing .. great work .. I am going to bookmark this

Re:Ask HN: Recommended books and papers on distributed systems? on Monday February 01, 2021 @05:45PM (#25995174)

And direct links to all the references he mentioned in hios book: https://github.com/ept/ddia-references

Ask HN: System design interview (generic system vs. interviewer's domain)

Posted by jsshah on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am wondering what the view points here and wanted to see if people feel the same as I am feeling. I went through few interviews recently where I was asked system design questions. I did well in interviews (based on whether I got an offer or not) where the system design interviews were about systems where both (myself and the interviewer) had the same level of familiarity with the system under...

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Re:India’s booming dark data economy on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:23AM (#25542329)

Outside Mumbai domestic airport (this is where domestic flight take off and land unlike international airport .. also it is same airport but different terminal .. I digress) there is a taxi stand .. you stand in the line and one by one cabs (and auto rickshaws) will come and pick you up

Before you get on one of these cabs .. there are two airport officials (or contractors) who make you write your name and phone number and destination (in the name of accountability or security)

I am 90% certain (through grapevine) that that data is sold ..

Re:Ask HN: Starting from 0 which language would you learn to be employ... on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:24PM (#25413535)

Java .. Javascript .. Python

Re:Ibis – A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and conve... on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:57AM (#25005300)

Any good example repo where you can learn about the code as well as evolution by following the git log and commit history?

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:10AM (#23175966)

I have two kids (3 and 7) and we both work ... with multiple work meetings .. zoom based school ... homeworks ... managing fights between the kids ... and endless cooking and cleaning .. leaves me with very little time ... I told my team at work that I am at 10% of my productivity and they have been extremely supportive ...

Re:Thank You, Guido on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:46PM (#21400426)

Someone who worked at Dropbox shared an anecdote. Guido received an email from some recruiter along the line "You seem to have great experience in Python. How many years of experience you have with Python?" To which he replied "All of it!". I am not sure if it is true story.

Re:If Sapiens were a blog post on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:34PM (#20404283)

Here is a series of videos that Yuval Harari (author) did that is enjoyable to watch

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfc2WtGuVPdmhYaQjd449...

Re:Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how to invest and bui... on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:28PM (#17359446)

Rule of 12: Start with $12000 and invest in index fund (S&P500 SPY)

every month invest $1000 into that fund (you can always invest rest of the savings in other investments)

S&P long term annual return is 12% (Assuming it remains that)

After 10 years: ~250K After 20 years: ~1M After 30 years: ~3.25M

So if you are in your 30s, when you retire you should have approx 3M from this investment alone (other mutual funds, stocks, real estate, 401K aside)

Now each year you can withdraw 100K for next 30 years (65 - 95)