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myth17on Improving Interoperability Between Rust and C++

C++ and RUST interop with async is very nascent. Hope this helps to make improvements in this space.

myth17on On-disk HNSW index for Postgres with pg_embedding

Can you explain: What does it mean to be constructed on disk?

myth17on Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

No we don't want to live with other asians. We want to live near our family (brothers / sisters / cousins) who are also in Tech. We will have no family in rural Utah.

myth17on I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card

For immigration to USA, whatever you do just don’t be born in India where wait to get Green Card is 2-3 decades (yes 20-30 years estimated wait). If only one could control the place of birth…

myth17on Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

Color Scheme hurts my eyes.

myth17on Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation

Most of the game discs that ship today don’t have the full game bundled and require Day 1 updates. Impossible to preserve these games just with emulation if the game servers are shut down.

myth17on Exodus of Silicon Valley

Only for US citizens and Green Card holders. Hundreds of thousands of H1B immigrants stuck in forever Green Card backlogs stay where they are to comply with immigration laws.

myth17on Ad Fraud Scheme Drained Users’ Batteries By Running Hidden Video Ads In Android

How are they making money by draining batteries?

myth17on Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues

Where can I find the original presentation from Microsoft's engineer?

myth17on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://www.gcreforms.org/key-issues/

myth17on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Is the american dream over for Indian nationals (multiple decades wait for GC in EB2/EB3 category). What would you suggest to people stuck in backlog?

myth17on Why Use Postgres?

Most important reason to use PostgreSQL : Constant Time Recovery (Recovery from long running transaction that rollback is instantaneous)

myth17on India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes

Is this Nano GPS Chip for real? How does it work and how much does it cost to make such currency?

myth17on All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta

On Cloud SQL : If you start with 10GB amount of storage, you can always get more storage but never decrease your storage amount. Why?

myth17on ZeroDB (YC S16) Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud

Microsoft offers "Always Encrypted" for Query Processing over encrypted data in SQL Server and SQL Azure : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx (Disclaimer : Microsoft Employee)

myth17on Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

Most Important Question : Do LinkedIn employees stop getting free food or Microsoft employees get free food now?

myth17on Tech layoffs more than double in Bay Area

Microsoft continues to hire in WA.

myth17on LittleD – SQL database for IoT, can run queries in 1KB

Do we have transaction (ACID) support? If not, have you thought about it? Is is feasible with the IOT constraints?

myth17on Uber Acquires Part of Bing’s Mapping Assets

A lot of microsoft's cloud expertise comes from running bing. Also how do you expect them to push stuff like cortana if bing (the brain) shuts down.

myth17on Building Microsoft Surface Pro 3 [video]

Amazing talk! MSFT has done a great job with SP3.