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by krisgenre 6y ago
https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2009/02/browsers-powered... was posted by Sundar Pichai himself!
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by krisgenre 6y ago
If Apple releases a search engine that was even half decent, DDG would be in big trouble. Most of DDG users would jus move to Apple because they have a better 'privacy' brand.
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Amazon brings macOS to cloud in a boost to Apple app developers(moneycontrol.com)
1 points by krisgenre 6y ago|0 comments
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GitLive Case Study: Kotlin Multiplatform Across Desktop and Mobile(blog.jetbrains.com)
1 points by krisgenre 6y ago|0 comments
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by krisgenre 6y ago
"We only use the constructs that are fast and efficient, and we avoid all the garbage." Is there any open source project that one can study to understand how to code like this?
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Linus Torvalds wants Apple’s new M1-powered Macs to run Linux(thenextweb.com)
5 points by krisgenre 6y ago|3 comments
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Scientists discover oldest known human-made nanostructures in India(thehindu.com)
1 points by krisgenre 6y ago|0 comments
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Haven't watched the full video yet but the saying that one shouldn't build what everyone else is building doesn't seem like good advise. Yahoo was hugely popular when Google launched. Orkut and MySpace were very popular when
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M1 chip the beginning of the end for Hackintoshing?(reddit.com)
2 points by krisgenre 6y ago|0 comments
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I initially thought this was about the site strawpoll.me. On a side note why does the caption above the chart says 'Advertisement' ?
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by krisgenre 6y ago
This one is my all time favorite - What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Been thinking of explaining technical debt using a book library as an example... Say you want to start a lending library, you hire one person and stock 25 books. The stock is small and one person can easily remember all of them so the emplo
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Yes, I meant the GUI.
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Content Critical of ‘WhiteHat Jr’s Coding from Age 6 Claim’ Wiped Out?(edtimes.in)
2 points by krisgenre 6y ago|0 comments
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by krisgenre 6y ago
A sting of nostalgia and coincidence perhaps, was thinking about Java and HFT only a few days ago. I worked as an offshore employee for E*Trade back in 2010 - 2012. Their desktop app for HFT was written in Java Swing and their web client to
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by krisgenre 6y ago
How much is the tax for software in the US? A $149 IntelliJ licence costs $176 including taxes + there is a 3.5% processing and currency conversion charges imposed by by credit card. Converting to INR I may have to shell out Rs. 3.5k to 4k
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Way back in 2009 there was a company in Chennai that tried something like this https://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=5... . And AFAIK Hathway (another ISP in India) too tried something like thi
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Oh yes Yahoo Games! I used to play Pool and Chess for long hours. Didn't mention it because I mostly played from within Messenger.
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I spent a good amount of my teenage using Yahoo services - Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups, Geocities, Yahoo Mail and of course Yahoo search. It's really sad to see them fade into oblivion. I wonder what will happen to Google and Faceboo
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by krisgenre 6y ago
In the end how much did you really save?
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by krisgenre 6y ago
How will the Indian govt. enforce an alternative app store? Will Apple bow down?
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Zoho Writer isn't that popular I guess - https://www.zoho.com/writer/
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Did I read it correctly? This person learnt to code and released a product to compete with Google in just three years? That's very impressive!
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I am using fish along with fzf[1] and it makes `ctrl-r` even better. [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I am going to turn 40 in a couple of years. Honestly, I have never liked the idea of 'preparing for interviews'. If I want to switch job I mostly want to apply what I have learnt so far to clear the interview. The interview at my
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I was quite amazed by IntelliJ's refactoring capabilities just few days back. I had code like below switch(sort) { case "asc": sortedComments = topicComments .stream().map(Comment::getThreadC
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Try https://www.baeldung.com/
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by krisgenre 6y ago
Long back there was similar bug in iOS camera itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413926
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by krisgenre 6y ago
>> host it close to metal as possible Wouldn't it be less efficient to host something myself than to use some cloud provider?
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by krisgenre 6y ago
I am indebted to Firebug forever. If it weren't for Firebug it would have taken me a really long time to understand how the web (browser) works.

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