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by avikalp 2y ago
This source seems to capture the answer to our questions: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/new-york-times-revenue-c... Even though advertising revenue makes a significant chunk of their revenues, they are pushing fo
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by avikalp 2y ago
The New York Times makes most of its money from ads. Netflix is a good contradiction that you have provided. I'm wondering how they were able to solve the volume issue without offering their service for free. My current theory is that,
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by avikalp 2y ago
I believe this is because of three underlying truths: 1. These businesses need a lot of money to keep running. 2. Most of their value comes from the volume of other people using the same platform. (They aren't useful if you are the onl
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by avikalp 2y ago
We have very recently integrated Strapi into our website (we haven't even added a single blog on it yet). I wish I had asked this question here when we were doing our research. There are some great recommendations here. But I like Stra
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by avikalp 2y ago
I mostly use Bing search or Perplexity for my searches these days. - Bing for quick searches (as it is my browser default; I switched to Bing almost 4 years ago and never went back to Google Chrome). - When I really want to dig into somethi
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by avikalp 2y ago
I feel that this research is biased - it interviews Google engineers. 1. They have a very different experience of working with monolith repositories than others. Especially from engineers working in companies that use services like GitHub,
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Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Repository [pdf](storage.googleapis.com)
1 points by avikalp 2y ago|1 comments
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by avikalp 3y ago
Link to the GitHub repository: https://github.com/Alokit-Innovations/HustlerIDE Link to the Tweet mentioned in the post: https://twitter.com/BuildWithEvan/status/1772294119030693983
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Show HN: Open-source VSCode extension to remind you to talk to users(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
1 points by avikalp 3y ago|2 comments
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by avikalp 3y ago
So untrue. Creation of this kind of a brag document comes under the "retrospective" process - which is one of the core requirements of any culture that maintains capacity to recognise and value great work. If you think you are ab
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by avikalp 3y ago
Every 15 minutes would be excessive. I follow Pomodoro, so that kind of check points my progress. But when I document my daily progress, this rarely comes in handy. The daily update in the spreadsheet is extremely useful though.
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by avikalp 3y ago
This looks great. We have a ritual in our company (Vibinex) where we get everyone to fill a self-evaluation form every 6 months with 4 questions: 1. What did you achieve in last 6 months? 2. What did you plan but were not able to achieve (a
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by avikalp 3y ago
One was related to smart cupboards (fitted with weight sensors and cameras) that can automatically account for every item you put in or withdraw from it. Another one was related to furniture modifications so that it efficiently utilizes spa
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by avikalp 3y ago
Some items that are work in progress: 1. Ability to export it as an STL file (so that it can be printed using a 3D printer) 2. Converting the website to NextJS so that you can use it as a website directly, instead of having to clone the rep
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Show HN: Self-serve GitHub Skyline (because the actual one stopped working)(github.com)
3 points by avikalp 3y ago|2 comments
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by avikalp 3y ago
Wow, I had been thinking about this for so long! I have had the same problems and was thinking of solutions on the same line. Although, even as a developer, I am not a big fan of how much time and energy we need to spend maintaining documen
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by avikalp 3y ago
I am super excited about the increasing adoption of ActivityPub by platforms with large audiences. Wrote my thoughts down in this post.
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by avikalp 3y ago
These is exactly what my first thought was! Installing open-ssh and git is kind of my first activity on a new computer. But I believe they are talking about setting up a git server. The thing that we rely on GitHub/GitLab/Bitbuck
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by avikalp 3y ago
I tried that (primarily because I didn't know about it and was excited), but it didn't work. It needs me to install "lighttpd" to work. And the steps to install that are not straightforward. I like that a lot of function