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Navin Pai

@navinpai

I'm A Moron Who's Too Lazy To Write A Proper Bio

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linkhttps://lifeofnav.in calendar_today05-11-2008 10:21:16

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Stayed up till 3 AM to watch Manchester United play worse football than a semi-pro team, but atleast managed to track down and fix a really pesky memory leak that was causing OOMs (50Gi+ >>> 1Gi ) #SilverLinings 😖

Stayed up till 3 AM to watch <a href="/ManUtd/">Manchester United</a> play worse football than a semi-pro team, but atleast managed to track down and fix a really pesky memory leak that was causing OOMs (50Gi+ &gt;&gt;&gt; 1Gi )

#SilverLinings 😖
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We're the opposite in our workplaces though. Western workplaces are so much more transactional while Indian workplaces are a much nicer mix of work + social banter (sometimes bordering on #tmi) Weird how cultural contexts frame how personas are presented internally vs externally

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For those of us who lived through the OS wars, seeing Linus and Gates together without the universe imploding is a testament to, well, something. Epic moment captured!

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Showing my age here but I remember when the original template was OSX - Windows - Linux where OSX was seen as an expensive toy for non-techies, Windows were normies, and Linux users were manually patching wifi/sound drivers, lkms and GRUB entries on a not-so-infrequent basis 🧙‍♂️

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Everyone has varied definitions of "happiness" until the first time your kid randomly smiles at you like this, and instantly all the previous definitions feel like they were just rough drafts. #parenthood #facts

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As a software engineer, it's very important to learn about Gall’s Law, which states that complex systems cannot be created successfully from scratch. In reality, even large systems, such as Netflix, Google, or Facebook, have started small and built incrementally over the

As a software engineer, it's very important to learn about Gall’s Law, which states that complex systems cannot be created successfully from scratch. 

In reality,  even large systems, such as Netflix, Google, or Facebook, have started small and built incrementally over the
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Reason #1471 why I hate junior engineers blindly using GenAI coding tools to write code. Every second PR I see is like this now. 🤦😢 If there's one advice I keep giving junior engineers, it's PLEASE don't outsource "thinking" to an LLM. Use it as a copilot, not as a crutch😮‍💨

Reason #1471 why I hate junior engineers blindly using GenAI coding tools to write code. Every second PR I see is like this now. 🤦😢

If there's one advice I keep giving junior engineers, it's PLEASE don't outsource "thinking" to an LLM. Use it as a copilot, not as a crutch😮‍💨
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If you are selling an "enterprise-grade" observability tool, and your homepage has been like this for the last 3+ hours, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but #yagmi

If you are selling an "enterprise-grade" observability tool, and your homepage has been like this for the last 3+ hours, then I'm sorry to break it to you, but #yagmi
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"Why would anyone live in Delhi with air that's as toxic as breathing 15 cigarettes daily" said the Bengaluru guy on his way to work on Outer Ring Road which takes him 1.5 hours each way daily, during which he breathes in more dust than a Dyson vaccuum cleaner