I love reading "code like X" posts because it gives me a window into how other folks think, and helps me clarify my own thoughts.

Here is another post that I loved! "Code like a home-cook" (unrelated to AI): www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

I want to read more books like Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar -- a rare and riveting exception that's unputdownable from start to finish.

Please recommend thrillers (Indian) to me!

Atharva, this is unbelievably, incredibly cool!

Also, I totally agree with that post!

The amount I learned in this process made me a complete Git convert, and possibly set me up with a lifetime's love for tooling.

I love Git. Happy 20th birthday you magnificent beast!

In 2008, I joined Symantec. My team used CVS. After a full year of using Git, i wasn't going to go back.

So I spent nights and weekends working to setup the git-cvs bridge on cygwin. The team would continue using CVS, and I would continue using Git, and none would be the wiser!

Early 2007, we were lucky enough to get @kedarsovani.x.com as a mentor (Go Dreamz group!)

He introduced us to git. We had no idea this was a "hot new thing". We didn't know what DVCS meant. We just absolutely loved what it unlocked for us. Forever grateful to Kedar for this.

But we didn't know anything about version control and would write code in folders "opus_final", "opus_latest", "opus_final_final" and so on.

Inevitably, we took the wrong version with us to the competition and failed.

That's when we knew we needed to get serious about version control.

Questions that made me cackle :

- "How much money should companies contribute per-dev to OSS?"
- "How are Indian devs perceived in the OSS world? How to fix this?"
- "How much of your technical success has genuinely been about merit versus who you knew or pure luck?"

Ouch!

Some bangers coming my way, for the panel:

- "Does HR care, or even understand, when the candidate has strong open-source contributions?"
- "In today's AI-enabled world, what key skills would you focus on that most CS grads are ignoring?"

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