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manishjhawar | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you stay on top of everything you find interesting on the Web?

I try. I have a somewhat working method figured out organically over last 10-12 years:

- I have 2 browser windows full of tabs. One window contains tabs relevant to my current projects or activities. The other has tabs that are not so, but seem interesting enough to triage.

- I try to clear off the tabs by bookmarking them with relevant tags (I love Firefox for this). Initially, before tags, I had a huge bookmarks hierarchy that I have backed up somewhere, but tags it is now. I try to keep the tags simply single words, covering all keywords (in combinations) I would be looking them up with desperately.

- In case I still feel inclined to read after bookmarking because it seems relevant, I move it to the first window. I know I will read it there based on its priority wrt other tabs there. Else, I close the tab, feeling assured I can find it in my bookmarks when needed.

- Once read, if I feel inclined to read more on the site, I add its rss feed to my reader. I use Feedbro Firefox extention on the desktop as well as an android app called spaRSS, keeping the same feeds on both via OPML export/import. Plus I may have clicked on many more pages on the site impulsively - need to process them too.

- I try to minimize social network feeds, preferring links/forwards from one-to-one chats where I know the person at the other end. Additionally, limit the time for Linkedin scrolling to bare minimum, just enough to distract myself. Almost zero Facebook and yet to open an Instagram account!

- Set time aside for deep-dives. They are planned and somewhat old-school with a pen and paper! I try to port to notes to my soft-notebook (scattered everywhere, slowly migrating to self-hosted Joplin). I prefer books if I can find them as they are highly condensed.

Despite above, its a slow and uphill process. Need to keep reminding myself to read less news :-)

manishjhawar | 4 years ago | on: LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

In most of the customer support calls I make, I speak up right after connecting that I'm recording the call for legal purposes while the IVR plays. It's a bit tricky for marketing calls received, but I try nonetheless.

manishjhawar | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

I'm currently working on a solution involving larger data sets to match a record with a binary score (0/1). I'm using Redis with the Bloom Filter module. This works in that the query results are sub-second, but the data ingestion/filter population part is quite slow comparatively (<100 MB/s). Another block for me is if having to use multiple filters to query across multiple sets which just multiplies all the resources needed. Does Spark have any advantages or specialized filters for this use case? (I have nil experience with Spark, but am ready to dig up if it would really help.)

manishjhawar | 8 years ago | on: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

+1: They're really in to it with their OpenShift offerings which are really good and open source too! I really admire them for that.

manishjhawar | 8 years ago | on: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

+1 too :-)

I'm using NixOS happily since 2014 after getting messed up in pacman dependencies on Arch and haven't looked back. But their too radical shift from LSB makes for a less attractive enterprise story. Hopefully GuixSD[1] can plug that hole due to the GNU brand as it has been progressing nicely.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/

manishjhawar | 8 years ago | on: Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem

I've been in your shoes using LXC way back but moved to Docker fairly quickly when it came out, so I kinda get your position.

Now, Kubernetes/Docker provide better tooling with added benefits. Docker provides a Dockerfile based declarative approach of building the setup and storing it in an image and then running it as a container with greater flexibility and more features than a typical LXC based script. Kubernetes takes the running of multiple containers to another level capable of managing 100s or even 1000s of them for scalable operations.

RTFM for the details :-)

HTH!

manishjhawar | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: CouchDB Web Apps for Business

This looks good for a start, especially considering the architectural choices. I would like to read more about the tooling you've used and where are you going with this, like what is your target user-base. Is the project source code hosted somewhere that can be looked at like GitHub or something (I hope you're considering open sourcing)?
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