He meant Cursor editor [1] and not VS Code Corsor. He corrected in the next X post [2]
[1] https://www.cursor.com [2] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827148812168871986
Readit Newsumbs commented on Karpathy on VS Code Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 vs. GitHub Copilot twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/nabla9
For long form conversations, I strongly recommend Conversations with Tyler Cowen. Lex Friedman is also good. But if I have to pick one, it will be Tyler Cowen, mainly due to the host. The variety and depth of knowledge that Tyler posses is awe inspiring. I do not get bored listening to his questions. But I get bored listening to Lex.
If I've to recommend some episodes, Vishy Anand (Chess), Lazarus Lake (Endurance Running), Can't find this: an interview with a guy who is walking around the world. He is currently crossing China and walking East. And many more ...
ThePrimeagen.
Sometimes I lost my spark with programming. Watching him reminds me to enjoy programming more.
There's some strong views about ThePrimeagen in this thread. Just want to share my experience. I've spent tonnes of time configuring Vim, Neovim etc. Its ... a ... mess.
I love both editors and for the love of me, I don't know why configuring them is soooo hard and brittle.
ThePrimeagen videos on Vim/Neovim is by far information dense videos. It took me sometime to ignore his style of presentation and just focus on content. However, the value I got out of watching his videos is undeniable. Knowing his background a bit and how he battled addiction gave me some context. (Sorry can't find that video on his channel now)
Continuing on this topic of Vim/Neovim ...
Leeren Chen (https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_) is pure genius on the topic of configuring Vim. I've never seen another person like him on Youtube, who uses Vimscript to configure Vim to make it work like an IDE (almost).
[1] https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E [2] https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac
TJ Devries (https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv) videos on Neovim are awesome too (He's core dev of Neovim). But there's lot of gimmicks in his video and it can put people off. His videos with @BashBunni is very approachable in terms of learning about and configuring Neovim.
umbs commented on Ask HN: What is the most gripping thing you have read recently? · Posted by u/noob_eng
Aprenticed to a Himalayan Master (A Yogi's Autobiography) by Sri M. I've completed reading this book few hours back. Growing up in India, it's common to hear many fantastical stories of great Himalayan Yogi's and their super powers. Last such book was "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda. This book is written by a great Yogi who left his house around 19 years old in search of a Master and traveled to Himalayas. Author warns that lot of people will be skeptical of what he is about to share, but he wrote it for benefit of many and let the skeptics work it out themselves.
I believe him. And boy, what a ride it is.
Teleportation, talking to beings from other planes, Yeti, walking through doors, etc Yet, for true spiritual seeker, all these super powers are distraction and insignificant.
Definitely recommend reading it.
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About 9 months back I relocated to India and started listening to Scaler Pod (https://www.youtube.com/@SCALER). It's focused on startups in India, and interviews their CTO or SVPs.
Two personal favorites: Dukaan CTO Subhash Choudhary[1] and Rippling Co-Founder Prasanna Sankar[2]
[1] https://youtu.be/a5kKRtMmhzQ [2] https://youtu.be/8-6f7zh46EQ
umbs commented on Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs techemails.com/p/sergey-b... · Posted by u/cocacola1
All this stopped not because of any class action, but one company Meta will not play along with the cabal. Zuck raised the salary so much he started poaching left and right from other tech giants. Google and Apple had no choice but to match the salaries to retain and hire top talent. For all the fault of Meta, they knew the worth of employees and have always tried to give them a good bargain.
Netflix also played a huge role in raising salary bar.
Anecdote: In 2008, I was working at Ericsson in San Jose, as a junior software engineer on edge routers. I was paid ~$140K (bonus + RSU). We heard that very senior engineers were paid around $180K. Cisco was sought after place in our industry (Networking). They would pay ~$225K for senior engineers.
(all numbers are unverified and rumors).
Then one of my peer at Ericsson, a junior engineer, had an offer from Netflix and told during lunch break, his total comp was $250K, all cash (no RSU). I can still remember the gasps that followed.
I have read the book "No Rules Rules. Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention" [0]. It's fascinating the number of times Netflix pivoted and rewrote many rules. They discuss their philosophy on compensation in the book. They played important role in raising the salary bar.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/No-Rules-Netflix-Culture-Reinvention-...
Arista Networks, in Santa Clara.
First round, I had to do 2 coding questions in an hour, 30 mins for each question. I had to go to their campus. They would give me a laptop/environment of my choice and then time starts. Questions were very easy, so the expectation was reasonable.
Second round on On-site was two interviews: Director of engineering asked me why certain piece of C code was behaving in a certain way. I could not answer, but we compiled the code into Assembly and tried to understand the behavior. An hour later, the CTO of the company, Ken Duda, walked in and he asked me an Object Oriented question and some of my past projects. Really drilled me. He gave very simple design of same projects. Very educative and amazed to see a brilliant mind at work. The interview was in no way condescending.
They took a decision right there and it was a no hire. But I loved the experience. It was no BS interview.
umbs commented on I Sell Onions on the Internet (2019) deepsouthventures.com/i-s... · Posted by u/sylvain_kerkour
Just as long as you don't sell onion futures on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter.
Planet Money podcast on same topic
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
This seems very unlikely. In neovim help docs there's a paragraph in file `nvim.txt`
nvim maintainers believe the project diverged and compatibility is best effort at this stage. Essentially, there's no plan to merge the two projects at this stage and the benefits are not evident.