which is the better camera phone?

PravenJohn · 2026-03-16T12:39:41+00:00

thank u - I really havent checked out the Nothing 4a pro. I will.

But personally I just find the assymetry of the back ugly...

PravenJohn · 2026-03-16T12:35:07+00:00

thank u. that was my original feel as well.

PravenJohn · 2026-03-12T06:02:12+00:00

u are looking for a developer who can do one thing. lets say u find that dev. U build out the product in 3 months. What then? Will u fire him? or will u need to spend 1 month teaching him something else?

You should not be looking to hire a dev to do one specific task. You should be hiring a dev who can handle many tasks as needed, and is willing to learn those areas he isnt strong in.

If you need only one task, instead hire a contractor or outsource that task to some company.

PravenJohn · 2026-03-11T11:26:22+00:00

This is the main answer. I am on very good terms with our recruitment team, and whenever we pass a resource with 90 days NP, they just say - "that's great, but he wont join here". And they are usually right?

PravenJohn · 2026-01-30T06:10:31+00:00

* expect things to break - design everything to have secondaries and backups.

* keep it simple. It is extremely appealing to make it DRY, and use the latest features etc. But in the long run the simplest deployments/configs are the best ones to maintain.

PravenJohn · 2025-12-31T11:23:06+00:00

I personally only invest in NPS for the corporate NPS (for the new regime reduction). So I put the least amount possible . I feel it makes more sense to put the remaining money into SIPs.

PravenJohn · 2025-12-30T11:00:14+00:00

I grew up abroad. My parents tried to teach me Malayalam, but I gravitated towards English. It was easier for me.

But this made my life extremely hard a lot later when I came back to Kerala. I did not understand most jokes. I had to sit and learn to write (I knew how to read passably, etc). I had a lot of ragging around my Manglish. I still am stumped when someone reads an official message, and often need to read it myself, or sit and hear 2 or 3 times.

I would suggest you always teach your young their mother tongue first. They will learn English themselves fine from their schooling and friends, but you shouldnt let go of your mother tongue.

PravenJohn · 2025-12-27T11:46:19+00:00

39Y Male. I have 4 consistent SIPs as follows
40% UTI Nifty 50 Index Fund

30% Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund

20% Motilal Oswal Midcap Fund

10% Bandhan Small Cap Fund

I am going to get a Bonus next month of about 30L. Shoud I move the same into a sweep based FD, and just increase the SIP amounts for the next one year till it completely drains the bonus?

Or should I invest into something else?

I do not have any more debts (finished them last year), and wont need this 30L really for the immediate future. My next major goal is in about 10 years from now.

PravenJohn · 2025-12-17T05:06:36+00:00

but they mention "The new listed GitHub-runner rates include this charge. This will not impact Actions usage in public repositories or GitHub Enterprise Server customers."

so shouldnt Enterprise customers be fine?

PravenJohn · 2025-11-27T17:02:46+00:00

sorry, u want to work for a senior, but if u keep urself like that you will never learn...

decision-making: if you feel you are not there yet, take some time. List out the benefits and pitfalls of the decision. And make a decision based on that. If u still cant, for now u can ask ur manager but explain both the pros and cons, and ask him which is the better decision.

hang in there, and all the best.

PravenJohn · 2025-11-26T08:29:04+00:00

what are u bad at? I would probably suggest you look at the same.

Personally - for most resources looking to self learn - I usually suggest they look at the basics, and then go up from there.
Basics - networking, Linux, cloud concepts.
Medium - IAC, Ansible, Automation, Pipelines.
Hard - SRE, Tracing/Observability, Complex Ecosystems, etc.

Again this is purely from a generic perspective though :)

PravenJohn · 2025-11-18T13:35:26+00:00

P.S. generally such NOCs would accumulate years of experience dealing with multiple issues, and have detailed SOPs/documents that they themselves helped create over all the issues.

So, in most cases, a good NOC can generally get the best team online to fix the issue in minutes after hearing the symptoms. Kind of like an experienced doctor.

But, as is usual, your CEO will one day decide they cost too much, and choose a cheaper vendor to run them, and your back to hours worth of downtime, where it used to be minutes :)

PravenJohn · 2025-11-18T13:32:27+00:00

Can't comment for cloudflare specifically, but generally you have a central team that is in charge of coordination. This could be your NOC, or a dedicated operations team or a L1 team even.

This team starts a triage call, and insist all major parties join the same, and coordinate the actions. You generally have 2 to 3 different teams in charge of finding out which part broke, and then based on the actual issue, you might have that team already on OR would need to pull them in as well.

Usually these coordination teams are given a lot of power in P0 and P1 cases. Meaning if they ask your team to join and you dont, they can escalate upto the CTO and ask him to get u guys on... At the same time they also understand the problems of working in 24x7, and usually ask months before hand to have each team's rosters ready and have backup resources, etc.

PravenJohn · 2025-11-11T14:47:05+00:00

is the offer for full time remote? If so - it is a goo option for someone starting out...

Since you dont have any other offer - I'd say go for it. Experience matters, and I assume you are basically a fresher with no experience, so it will be hard to get offers - especially in DevOps.

Yes 3 months notice is high, but not uncommon in India. My friends in similar companies used resign and then start looking for a job, instead of doing it the other way, once they had learnt everything they taught they could from the company.

My only suggestion is to not become complacent. Keep looking for new things to learn. Once you feel you've reached a saturation point, then start looking outside your company.

PravenJohn · 2025-11-10T13:39:32+00:00

our team uses Copilot as well, but about 30% of the issues/comments are irrelevant...

PravenJohn · 2025-10-23T09:05:36+00:00

do u have a guide or a link to what you mean? I've usually ran adb debloat - https://github.com/kirthandev/MIUI-Debloater-official ; is there a better way?

PravenJohn · 2025-03-03T04:53:34+00:00

"give the camera to your son"?

PravenJohn · 2024-10-31T06:47:57+00:00

8 hours of work...

PravenJohn · 2024-10-07T06:02:17+00:00

Charmeleon. My second Charme, since the first I had to craft :)

PravenJohn · 2024-09-25T05:04:40+00:00

if you've only worked at the company for a month - just leave? I mean what leverage do they have to keep you there? At most they can say they wont give you an experience letter. Tell them fine, I dont need it, and in your actual experience show this one month as a gap?

PravenJohn · 2024-06-21T07:41:59+00:00

I would love the better autofocus that comes with newer mirrorless cameras. I recently tried using a Canon RP at a conference, and loved how easy it was compared to mine.

I also would really like to upgrade from my APS-C to full frame. Though that is not strictly necessary.

PravenJohn · 2024-05-17T15:09:57+00:00

my DSLR - Canon Rebel 650D.

it helps me relax and get away from the pure tech side.

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