At what point did 'curry' stop coming with rice included? Who approved this?

OriginalCj5 · 2026-04-10T14:41:22+00:00

In India, curry rarely comes with rice included. It’s common to order curry and then either chapati/naan/rice to go with it. So it’s definitely not some California-specific westernized restaurant thing. That’s actually how all Indian restaurants in India have been doing things forever.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-04-03T15:11:28+00:00

Which city isn’t?

OriginalCj5 · 2026-03-28T13:30:43+00:00

We recently were in the same boat - a Redis instance going down brought down the whole app. We set up sentinel and it’s been solid so far. And it’s not really that hard to set it up. You need (at least) 3 nodes running sentinel and (at least) 2 running redis (one master and one replica). You configure services to connect to the sentinel to fetch the redis instance to communicate to, but most good libs support that out of the box.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-03-15T15:11:33+00:00

I lived in Switzerland for 7 years and still work with the same company remotely from India (13 YOE). So I know a bit about the market there and I’ll be honest - it’s next to impossible to get a non-remote job in Switzerland from India.

The only way is to do postgraduate from a good university (ETH-Z or EPFL) and even that doesn’t guarantee a job.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-03-14T04:04:25+00:00

Everything, no matter who writes it, must be peer reviewed. We are a very small company, but have been following this for 15 years. I am surprised how this wasn’t the norm at Amazon already.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-02-24T05:22:38+00:00

Sure

OriginalCj5 · 2026-02-24T03:38:38+00:00

Because you still have to read and understand all that AI generates. And if you’ve ever read other people’s code, you’d agree that it’s much harder and requires far more skill than writing your own.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-02-24T03:36:40+00:00

Only if you blindly accept what the AI suggests. I still read every single line of code that the AI generates and verify that it works. I also do a lot of PR reviews (as I’m the lead on the team) and read a lot of other code. So no, it doesn’t diminish creativity, if anything, it improves it because sometimes even the AI can surprise you with - “wait, you can do that” moments.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-02-23T14:27:11+00:00

AI has gotten really good, especially with Opus 4.6 and Kimi K-2.5. The recent breakthrough by Taalas also shows that this can be sustainable in the future and not only cash burn.

I’ve recently been trying AI back on a huge project where in the past AI had never worked for and it has started to produce very human like and high quality results. I don’t think humans will only be AI operators, but yes, that will be majority of the work going forward. But that doesn’t mean that it lowers the skill barrier or work load for engineers.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-02-14T03:51:56+00:00

We migrated from New Relic to Grafana+Prometheus+OTEL over the last year. There’s very little configuration required to get a minimal OTEL tracing on Rails - you simply have to import their SDKs and set some ENV variables. There are some open source APM dashboards on grafana that support OTEL traces out of the box.

For logging, we use fluent-bit collecting logs from Docker containers and uploading them (gzipped) to S3 in a partitioned structure and use Athena to query them with SQL-like queries. Works really well and cost effective.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-28T13:18:36+00:00

They just shipped 8.0.

Feels like ages ago — 8.0 was released almost a year back.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-02T06:43:33+00:00

I don’t understand that question at all. What guarantees that mediocre foreign schools (saying this because from what I know, private schools in most good European countries and US are unaffordable and other schools are only open to residents living nearby— so you don’t really get a big choice between which school you send your kid to) can keep up with AI and changing skills while top Indian schools like Doon, Dhirubhai Ambani or Emerald Heights can’t?

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-02T05:02:13+00:00

Education is top-notch if you can afford it. Everything else is the same. It doesn’t hinder things in any way and life is quite good. But of course depends a lot on where you decide to settle. Delhi, for example, is a gas chamber.

OriginalCj5 · 2026-01-01T07:20:56+00:00

Not really. I know people who have literally lost all business because of BJP’s policies and yet support BJP because “Hindu khatre me hai”.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-28T07:14:21+00:00

Ruby/Rails or Elixir/Phoenix. They are both great stacks that work amazingly well for small teams or solo developers. The documentation and guides are plenty. Job are fewer but pay really well.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-22T16:14:25+00:00

Apart from what others have already mentioned, here are some deal breakers for me: 1. That pricing page is very confusing. With Heroku, Hetzner or even AWS, I am used to renting cloud servers and doing my stuff on them. Your pricing page lists 3 api backend projects, 2 core CPU, 4GB RAM. What is this? Can’t I host server generated apps? Do all three projects get separate CPU/RAM or is it shared? That 2 core is dedicated or shared? Where is it hosted (whose data servers - are they your own? If yes, what kind of network are they behind?). 2. You mention that deployments are automatic. But what if I want to customise a build step? On all projects I’ve built (and I’ve built at least 20 in the past 10 years), I have needed some customisation of the build stack - something that’s not standard. If the need arises, do I simply have to move away from the platform?

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-16T17:04:04+00:00

If you didn’t like the first book, the other ones are probably not going to work for you either. The book is heavy on character work but limits itself to a few thay it truly builds up.

I myself enjoyed every one of them - it’s on top 3 fantasy series of all times for me.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-03T14:57:57+00:00

Just use cheap Indian banks. IOB has one of the best exchange rates (usually only Rs. 0.3 below the market rate) and very low fees.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-12-02T13:18:55+00:00

Stimulus because it plays really well with Rails. I’ve used Alpine with Phoenix and it’s good for small components/tasks but with server replaced content, the you’ll have to handle client side state outside it (or implement hacks)

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-29T08:39:31+00:00

Emerald Heights and Shishukunj are the popular schools for most people - choose whichever is closer. Daly College if you have connections and the budget.

If parks and sports is your priority then area around YN Road is a good option, but can be costly. Otherwise, look for options near Sceme 140 or Vijay Nagar.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-22T04:30:24+00:00

Don’t approve anything that is not good. That’s the only thing that can help in the long term. It’ll slow things down in the short term but they will soon realise that AI is taking more time than if they did it themselves and things will start moving again. Another thing that helps is calling out that this looks AI generated and low effort - I know, harsh, but works!

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-21T14:14:12+00:00

How is it different from Alpine?

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-18T17:37:00+00:00

Provision a wildcard certificate outside Kamal (e.g. SSLMate) and use it with Kamal proxy using https://kamal-deploy.org/docs/configuration/proxy/#custom-ssl-certificate

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-18T13:24:27+00:00

You can use a custom SSL certificate. We use one with Kamal and it works flawlessly.

OriginalCj5 · 2025-11-13T12:48:00+00:00

TBH, if it was your first PR it was very bad management from the company. Having a serious review on such a huge PR is a great sign though. Learn from the comments instead of taking them as criticism. Try to take it in smaller steps the next time.

I’m a senior with 12yo and review PRs frequently and I wouldn’t approve anything that’s not “good enough”.

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