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arambhashura··on TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
You mean like what this does?

https://github.com/atomontage/osa-chrome https://melpa.org/#/osa-chrome

arambhashura··on Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (2019)
Microsoft is apparently shutting down its blockchain service, though: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/blockchain/service/mi...
arambhashura··on Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors?
> All: please don't believe what internet titles say, even > when they feed into what you were already expecting might > happen.

I'd say "please don't believe Internet content, especially when it feeds into what you were already expecting...".

arambhashura··on Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers
Just wanted to second your comment. I’m continually surprised at the number of individual contributors who (1) expect their manager to be perfect even though (s)he’s a human; (2) expect immediate gratification of their needs; (3) are only too happy to push all decision-making to the manager; (4) don’t realize that the mgr can be having a bad day; (5) compare their mgr to a friend’s mgr without comparing the job conditions; etc (not that a manager shouldn’t strive towards perfection).

OTOH, I’m also surprised by the number of managers who (1) implement something because “my friend at <massively successful co> uses <tool/process etc>; (2) don’t understand that their colleagues have lives outside work; (3) don’t realize that they’re being partial to some folks; (4) take advantage of the “meek” contributors; (5) don’t protect their team from upper mgmt when needed; (6) don’t do the grunt work when needed (and it’s always needed) etc.

In other words, just like any relationship, as you say.

arambhashura··on Rails on OCaml
What about Ocsigen and Eliom?

http://ocsigen.org/home/intro.html

arambhashura··on Ask HN: What company environment has enabled your best work?
Fwiw: I believe it should be “I credit my success to these early years”.
arambhashura··on Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)
Genuine question: what are some accessible examples of real-world programs that use multiple paradigms "well"?
arambhashura··on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
Then you may find the "narrow-to-region" command useful too. It allows you to select a region of text, and make everything else in the buffer invisible and unmodifiable.

I find it useful when trying to grok a specific function without getting distracted, or more usefully, doing a search-and-replace without fear of doing a replace in an unintended part of the buffer.

arambhashura··on Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role
OTOH, I've had the good fortune of working in a team of top 10% engineers/architects (I'm not top 10%, btw) who worked harmoniously, and it was one of the best times I ever had in my career. Learned a lot, upped my level trying to keep up, helped create a good product, etc.

In that case, the key was that clumps of them had already worked together in earlier jobs, so the incompatibilities had been pruned.

arambhashura··on Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
Not disagreeing with the basic gist, but see this:

https://sccassessor.org/index.php/tax-savings/transferring-y...

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Bill-wo...

arambhashura··on A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry
Gobble addresses the prep time. From their FAQ: "You can cook Gobble meals faster than you can order takeout. Your meal will go from kit to table in under 10 minutes."

In my experience with around 10 different (vegetarian) dishes from them, I've found that to be somewhat true. Most dishes only required some combination of: an oven (oven heating time not included in the "10 minutes"); a sauce pot for pasta/noodles; a 12-inch or larger saute pan; a mixing bowl.

The instructions use pipelining to achieve the advertised 10 minutes, and if you read the instructions in their entirety and execute accordingly, 10 minutes is very doable.

All ingredients except for salt, pepper and cooking oil are provided (this is probably obvious, but perhaps worth stating for people new to meal kits). The ingredients seemed to be fresh and of good quality.

The meals are reasonably tasty, except for the Indian ones, which I felt were not as good as something you could make from scratch at home or get in a restaurant.

A side-effect is that for lazy people like me, it may reduce the inertia to separate prep from cooking. Although I'd often thought about pre-cutting and freezing ingredients to cook later in the week, I found myself actually doing it after experiencing the 10-minute cook time, because my mind kept getting reminded that it's very doable.

An advantage of meal kits for a non-cook like me, is that certain condiments and sauces that I may not wish to stock, are provided in the required quantities with the meal kit. So I don't have to worry about buying a whole bottle of some sauce just for that one meal that requires it.

arambhashura··on Designing state machines
SMC (State Machine Compiler - http://smc.sourceforge.net/) supports multiple languages and is fairly simple to learn and use.
arambhashura··on 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
Not everyone is up to making that effort (I agree that they _should_).

For me personally, I could easily have ended up in the 40%. I was not very social, and would have had problems making friends with anyone. As an Indian, I'd probably have welcomed Indian friends, just because I'd have felt less ill-at-ease with them. Luckily, my English was good, I loved playing sports, and some American students made an effort to make friends. That made all the difference. I really appreciate those classmates who made an effort to know a strange-looking, strange-talking kid. They made a massive positive difference in my life.

Also, I did some free tutoring. I probably wouldn't know anyone outside of Engineering, had I not done that.

Another large difference nowadays, I suspect, is that a critical mass of students of certain cultures has been reached. So it's perhaps difficult to break out of a default behaviour of hanging out with "your own kind". When a foreign student arrives in the US, the local <insert foreign-country here> students association welcomes them and helps set them up. Right there are laid the potential foundations of remaining in the comfort zone of fellow countrymen.

arambhashura··on 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
Going off-topic from the OP: Not only that, but when I was a foreign student, the Indian and Chinese students had networks of past-year students, who'd built up databases of exam questions. While perhaps strictly not cheating, this gave them an advantage, because some professors repeated questions from previous quarters/years. Some of us thought that was unfair, and talked with the professors and they were unwilling to ensure that questions were not repeated. So we asked the professors to give us exam questions from the last few years, and made them available to everyone in the library. Hopefully this at least leveled the playing field a tiny bit, but I'm not sure it mattered in the grand scheme of things. (Disclosure: I'm Indian too).
arambhashura··on Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart disease risk (2016)
What about algae cooking oil?

http://www.thrivealgae.com/thrive-algae-oil/

http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/news/press_rel...