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indogooner | 2 years ago | on: Building a Database in the 2020s (2022)

Can you point to some resources (discussions/blogs/papers) on these? I was under impression that the reason recent database kernels are in C++ is because the authors are more proficient in it which should change as Rust becomes more popular.

indogooner | 3 years ago | on: Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week 

  >>> As someone working for AWS, better uptime, lower costs, and higher feature throughput. How about justifying return to office with hard numbers showing that we've fallen short on those points instead of just handwaving that "it's better"
This is the most logical argument I have read on this post. Surely forcing a decent percentage even if not majority to come to office would not improve productivity. I have seen most water cooler talks which are just gossiping and not about the aha breakthrough you stumble upon when talking to a co-worker.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: DynamoDB 10 years later

It sounds incredulous but I have heard similar things about Oracle. May be a large dev team can duct tape enough so that the product is solid.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: News site that provides world updates only when relevant?

This sounds very useful. The quality of sagas would matter a lot. This is from my personal experience of trying to build a news site in my past life which cuts the clutter and focuses on facts. The problem I faced was in how do I decide which link to choose without biases. This turned off a lot of people who did not conform to that view. Even on clear topics. For instance most people agree racism is bad but there would be diverse opinion on where to draw the line and what actions constitute racism.

However there are quite a few topics where you could be objective - sports scores, election results, new releases etc.

Good luck. Hope to see it on Show HN one day.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?

Yes this is one way bu the salary gap is too huge and most startups when they start growing start hitting same problems. There may be handful with top class leaders who are better but from my limited experience they have been very rare or may be my network is too small.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you know it's time for a new job?

When I start looking forward to Fridays from Monday itself. On a serious note it is when one of compensation, learning or work life balance get so bad that I start hating start of the work day. Only once it has been that these were alright but I wanted to start my own gig.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others

I guess a lot of this should be driven by leadership team. On the contrary I see leaders themselves staying late in office, scheduling late evening status update meetings. And the developers also contribute to this. They stay up late, send status updates past midnight and then in the next company all-hands they are lionized for this. No one even bothers to retrospect what inefficiencies are causing everyone to work crazy hours. And that how can someone remain productive with this.

indogooner | 4 years ago | on: Asking developers to do QA is broken – why anyone should own QA

This has been my experience as well. The places where testing was an afterthought meant the software was not testable easily. Executing multiple steps to test one feature meant QA folks kept running into one or other service issues causing delay in bug discovery. Rather than giving time to devs for fixing this, the management put more devs on test writing and were more interested in looking at dashboards.

indogooner | 5 years ago | on: The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports

Anecdata: I usually dont remember my dreams unless I wake up early or at least not all the details of it. However, some times, before I sleep I imagine myself in some situation I always wanted to be. For example, a soccer player in a cup final, an activist making people aware about how politicians are dividing them and such things. And then I have vivid dreams and next day I remember most details. Not sure if others also experience this but at least it makes me very happy next day. That's why I so much hate days when I have night or early morning meetings at my job.

indogooner | 5 years ago | on: Microsoft Is Dead (2007)

> Actors and musicians occasionally make comebacks, but technology companies almost never do.

Microsoft had one of the greatest comeback. Just wondering if Oracle and IBM are capable of this ever.

indogooner | 5 years ago | on: How Akbar came to love books despite never learning to read (2019)

He is hated by both Hindu and Muslim extremists. I take that as a complement. His tolerance should be judged in context. One should not judge him on the basis of his early reign, when he was under influence of Bairam Khan. Remember he was barely teen when he ascended the throne. He abolished religious taxes on Hindus, employed them in high positions and patronised other religions like Sikhism. A lot of critics pick his early reign. By that token even Ashoka should not be venerated.

indogooner | 5 years ago | on: Ennio Morricone has died

Once Upon A Time is the first Western I watched and became fan of Leone, Morricone and Bronson for life. I found it slow initially but the background score won't let me leave it. And from then on I binge watched as many Westerns as I could. Btw rendition by Danish Orchestra is also awesome https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efdswXXjnBA
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