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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:03PM (#46625240)
https://varunksaini.com is the one I have.
Re:System Design Interview book review on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:12PM (#25649616)
Simon from Shopify has this awesome newsletter to talk about some of these things. https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-14-using-checksums-to-ve...
Re:Ask HN: Should I quit the field of software development? on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:05AM (#24460587)
Twitter has changed this approach few times I guess, earlier it used to be simply insert tweet into a collection of tweets, and then when you load use timeline, look up the people they follow and find/merge those tweets. But it's going to create a lots of load on systems. Another approach is to maintain a cache of user's timeline(mailbox of tweets), when user posts a tweet, lookup all the people who follow that user, and insert the tweet into each or their timeline cache. results have be pre-computed, so less load. Both approaches fails when you have folks with lots of followers, so may be they use a hybrid of these approaches. this is Discussed in detail in "Designing Data-Intensive applications" book.
I am one who can be in this boat and don’t know what to do yet.
Re:Go at Digital Ocean on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:24PM (#15630403)
Yeah, they both have their use cases and they can both be popular equally. It's all about looking at the problem in hand and deciding what do you need to solve that problem.
Re:Ask HN: Do you lift? on Sunday July 16, 2017 @07:25PM (#14784643)
I lift 3 days a week and follow a routine based on this -> https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-best-3-day-plan-wor...
Also if not discussed properly, there is a possibility of trade war.I am all for better VISA policy, but I am sure US doesn't want India to go China route and block american companies or apply more tarrifs(India also has a somewhat populist leader).
Re:Ask HN: What do you learn from technical videos and how? on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:17PM (#13126298)
Yeah, I think taking notes might help. Also I watch at faster speed some times.
Re:Decommissioning Otto on Saturday August 20, 2016 @07:55AM (#12326160)
Also how can I forget Consul.
Re:Decommissioning Otto on Saturday August 20, 2016 @07:54AM (#12326157)
We have been using Vagrant, Terraform, Packer, Vault etc from some time. While there are some issues(that's true for many tools), I find these tools helpful. Hack, I used terraform to provision my QA cluster right now :)

Thanks for these tools.

I added New Relic addon and now my app is crashed. new learning...
I created this project to learn Javascript and Node.js. This is a very basic implementation and I am tracking hashcodes only in lowercase form (#javascript, #css etc). Also lot of people have their name as ruby so number of ruby language are inflated. The project is hosted on Heroku and I will be keep working on it to make it better looking.
Re:India 2.0 on Saturday May 18, 2013 @06:49PM (#5730757)
This page is pretty well designed. I liked the way of putting information bits with scrolls. But sometime you can miss them if you go fast.
I received a packet from a well known TV rating agency. The packet has $5 and few forms for survey. The company is bribing me for filling the survey forms.

Want to know what are your thoughts on this. I am planning to send this money back to company.

Re:Apple releases OS X 10.8.1 via Software Update. on Thursday August 23, 2012 @11:36AM (#4422932)
I hope it fixes the battery draining issue.
Re:Sparrow acquired by Google on Friday July 20, 2012 @12:11PM (#4271432)
Great acquisition by Google. Will help Google in stream lining it's iPhone and iPad app offering.

I believe now, Sparrow will be a free product :)

Re:Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief on Monday July 16, 2012 @04:53PM (#4252604)
I believe this change of guard might open a possibility of future Yahoo buy out by Google. I feel that it will be very hard for Yahoo to survive and future sale will be an option. In that case, Google might have an upper hand.
Re:A great visual tribute to genius Nikola Tesla on Thursday June 21, 2012 @11:39AM (#4142516)
Really loved the way he presented the story..amazing

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