Hacker News: parthdesai

New comment by parthdesai in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

parthdesai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:45:29 +0000

The irony of that statement given the current circumstances

New comment by parthdesai in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

parthdesai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:55:21 +0000

With the same logic, you could also justify bombing white house since they're clearly using weapons to destroy civilian infrastructure in other countries, and also murder civilians. That would be classified as a terror act though.

So what's the difference in your eye?

New comment by parthdesai in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

parthdesai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:46:43 +0000

At this rate, if the official religion of USA was a different one, they would be categorized as a terrorist state

New comment by parthdesai in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

parthdesai — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:52:21 +0000

I don't how exaggerated this story is, but one of my buddies did his internship at TD. One of his skip managers told him if you know COBOL there are departments that will give you a blank cheque during salary ngotiation.

New comment by parthdesai in "Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz"

parthdesai — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:11:36 +0000

> Bush assembled a large coalition of many allies to share the costs

Assembled, and also blackmailed UN security council.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5431890/

New comment by parthdesai in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

parthdesai — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:56:31 +0000

Is it only Musk? Pretty sure the President himself is manipulating the market

New comment by parthdesai in "Sports Betting Is Everywhere, Especially on Credit Reports"

parthdesai — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:20:42 +0000

Sports betting is regulated, prediction markets aren't though. That's a pretty stark difference

New comment by parthdesai in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

parthdesai — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:04:48 +0000

So just like US and Israel?

New comment by parthdesai in "I am happier writing code by hand"

parthdesai — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:30:57 +0000

My analogy is more akin to using Google Maps (or any other navigation tool).

Prior to GPS and a navigation device, you would either print out the route ahead of time, and even then, you would stop at places and ask people about directions.

Post Google Maps, you follow it, and then if you know there's a better route, you choose to take a different path and Google Maps will adjust the route accordingly.

New comment by parthdesai in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

parthdesai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:46:01 +0000

> deliberate, systematic manipulation of information

And, what are we doing with those facts? We're manipulating them lol

New comment by parthdesai in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

parthdesai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:39:32 +0000

I think you're being sarcastic, but just in case you're not

> Propaganda is the deliberate, systematic manipulation of information—including facts, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion, attitudes, and behaviors toward a specific cause, ideology, or agenda.

New comment by parthdesai in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

parthdesai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:29:14 +0000

Does China go around the world invading countries in the name of freedom?

> Content about the United States government rolling through protesters in armored vehicles, killing people in Venezuela with bombs, and threatening Greenland, straight to top of feed.

None of this is propaganda, it's just facts.

New comment by parthdesai in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

parthdesai — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:29:01 +0000

Well in my opinion, they really aren't a senior engineer then. 30 years of experience doesn't automatically mean you're a senior engineer IMO.

To me, you can trust a senior engineer to get the project done properly without any oversight

New comment by parthdesai in "Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net"

parthdesai — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:10:54 +0000

From the source himself: https://youtube.com/shorts/mEHssB6GEPw

New comment by parthdesai in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

parthdesai — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:20:01 +0000

Not an EM, but definitely think a strong technical EM can provide valuable feedback when it comes to system design and data modelling.

New comment by parthdesai in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

parthdesai — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:19:15 +0000

I'm sorry, but if a senior engineer needs coaching on getting work prioritized, they are not a senior engineer.

New comment by parthdesai in "Alex Honnold completes Taipei 101 skyscraper climb without ropes or safety net"

parthdesai — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:07:19 +0000

That’s not true, he has debunked that. It’s due to repeated practice and his confidence in his skill set that he doesn’t feel fear under those conditions

New comment by parthdesai in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

parthdesai — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 01:06:14 +0000

Does River without any extra configuration run into scaling issues at a certain point? If the answer is yes, then River doesn’t scale without optimization (Redis/Clustering in Oban’s case).

While the root cause might not be River/Oban, them not being scalable still holds true. It’s of extra importance given the context of this post is moving away from redis and to strictly a database for a queue system.

New comment by parthdesai in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

parthdesai — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:56:21 +0000

> None of that means Oban or similar queues don't/can't scale—it just means a high volume of NOTIFY doesn't scale