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Nikhil Kumar

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September prod releases wrapped up 🎯 From tomorrow begins my Winter Arc ❄️ Next 3 months = Lock in Goal: System design, Ownership on multiple features, Fitness, DSA (in that order) 3 months of learning, self-improvement and sharing. Let’s see where consistency takes me.


12/39 and counting...

I have visited place 3/39 You ??? ?.........

plot_twistttt's tweet image. I have visited place  3/39
You ??? ?.........


Every senior engineer you admire once Googled "difference between process and thread" at 2 AM Consistency beats confidence


Cache is love until it betrays you with stale data Read consistency, write latency - choose your poison Real life too - faster answers aren't always accurate ones


The more you learn, the more you realize - good engineers aren't fast, they're predictable Consistency > velocity


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The curse and gift of seeing too much is the highest price most brilliant minds pay. For they don't just see the world - they oversee it. They notice the tiny cracks in conversations, the hidden connections others miss, the future unfolding before anyone else catches on. Their…


Paging, Segmentation, and Allocation - basically OS trying to do jugaad with limited RAM It's wild how computers and humans both struggle with mental fragmentation


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MFs removed the UPI option

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Monday reminder: half of engineering is just breaking down scary problems into tiny steps The other half is Googling


Winter Arc ❄️ Day 32 Bottom-up DP hits different You stop trusting recursion, start building solutions from scratch - one row at a time Feels less like magic, more like mastery


Using delete to free memory in Leetcode seems to be causing a runtime error Commenting it just works fine


Let's build

Let's build this.

krishdotdev's tweet image. Let's build this.


Nikhil Kumar reposted

"no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”


If you: • Code • Design • Build • Learn AI • Or just love tech Connect🤝 let’s grow together!

thehashmap's tweet image. If you:
• Code
• Design
• Build
• Learn AI
• Or just love tech

Connect🤝 let’s grow together!

Nikhil Kumar reposted

joining an hour-long meeting just to say "nothing from my side" is peak friday.


True GEM of a chase Haven't seen the men's team doing something like this against Australia #INDvsAUS

The magnitude of this win isn’t going to sink in for some time. This is one of the biggest moments in Indian cricket. Savour it, cherish it, talk about it. So proud of the team👏👏 #INDvAUS #CWC25

WasimJaffer14's tweet image. The magnitude of this win isn’t going to sink in for some time. This is one of the biggest moments in Indian cricket. Savour it, cherish it, talk about it. So proud of the team👏👏 #INDvAUS #CWC25


Winter Arc ❄️ Day 30 Dynamic Programming is like therapy: you revisit old subproblems till you finally move on Memoization teaches one thing Stop solving the same issue again and again. Remember your lessons


You got to enjoy the leg days 🦵


Done with my tasks and the POTD #1526 Now time to work on fitness 💪

thehashmap's tweet image. Done with my tasks and the POTD #1526
Now time to work on fitness 💪

Nonprofit to $1,000,000,000,000 valuation is wild

JUST IN: OpenAI prepares for IPO at $1 trillion valuation, Reuters reports.



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Some of the IPO conversations on twitter over the past 24 hours reminds me of this scene from the movie Margin Call. 😬

dineshpaii's tweet image. Some of the IPO conversations on twitter over the past 24 hours reminds me of this scene from the movie Margin Call. 😬

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