kumarm

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by kumarm 6y ago
I never understand people on HN complaining about Ads on YouTube, life long Storage on Google Photos costing $. Probably for 90% of people on HN, it costs more (Opportunity cost) to type a comment complaining about ads on Youtube compared t
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by kumarm 6y ago
no GAN support?
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by kumarm 6y ago
I think it is of great public service that the email is out in public domain. It warns many first time CEO's of the dark side of raising money from naive VC's who never ran a company before becoming VC. The email also adds context
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by kumarm 6y ago
Its funny the comment above you says CA Governor signed a law that he doesn't have to follow through since he would retire by then. You comment indicate why it discourages people buying non electric cars even now. So it's a good w
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by kumarm 6y ago
The biggest mistake Oracle did with Java was being hostile to Android community with the goal to extract some money from Google. A significant reason for Java to be relevant even today is Android.
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by kumarm 6y ago
Whats a good open source solution for Text to speech? Current cloud based solutions from AWS/Google Cloud/Azure are pretty expensive.
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by kumarm 6y ago
This great. This is going to really bring out some interesting facts. Looks like even Adult Entertainment businesses got money through Paycheck Protection Program. Example: https://pppreport.org/company/11000+reeder+l+l
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by kumarm 6y ago
Aren't companies already paying indirectly by providing free service? I am no fan of Facebook but I am using the service free of cost and in return company collects data for targeted advertising. Shouldn't this be more targeted at
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by kumarm 6y ago
NPR How I Built this Interviewed Tony and covered the same questions: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/09/666295686/doordash-tony-xu
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by kumarm 6y ago
In early days of twitter, they used to go down almost everyday and showed failed whale. Every day media covered news that twitter went down again and thus creating more publicity resulting in more users.
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by kumarm 6y ago
Its already main stream for cats to do the same with litter. https://prettylitter.com/ Its matter of time before this becomes common. Disclaimer: Investor in prettylitter.
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by kumarm 6y ago
Indie Hackers has been a great resource for a long time and filled a need. Hope in search for growth, IH doesn't lose its soul.
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by kumarm 6y ago
>> However, today the company announced a new seven-figure contract with DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), a big win for the cloud unit and CEO Thomas Kurian. So a single digit Million contract? How is that news at Google scale?
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by kumarm 6y ago
>>That specific header seems to be a "default" one if you host your site on WordPress VIP, the enterprise WordPress hosting solution managed by Automattic. Now thats terabytes of data moving around :)
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by kumarm 6y ago
When I joined Engineering in India (1994), my state had 2000 engineering seats. 120K people wrote the entrance test for the 2K seats. Today the same state has about 250K seats. Anyone who writes the entrance test can get into some college o
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by kumarm 6y ago
Q4 to Q1 revenue always drops due to seasonality in advertising.
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by kumarm 6y ago
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
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by kumarm 6y ago
Nice. Worked well for me for several photos. Is this model open source?
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by kumarm 7y ago
The app never exited Beta. I would think Google realized there is no $ in being second social network in its category (after nextdoor) at Google Scale. I do think it make sense for Google to shutdown the app. Spinning it off as a startup, I
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by kumarm 7y ago
This seems to be done by 2 developers as open source and open data project ( https://github.com/covid19india ). and one of them is 15 yr old kid. Including building the website and collecting data from every data source avail
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Covid-19 Tracker – India(covid19india.org)
4 points by kumarm 7y ago|1 comments
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by kumarm 7y ago
CoronaVirus So far affected Rich Countries significantly higher than poor countries (Only China where it originated and Iran are exceptions). One Theory is people in rich countries have less immunity. (Africa, India etc have better immunity
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by kumarm 7y ago
I agree. Eric Schmidt was the real war time CEO. But let's not forget that he worked for failed war time CEO's against the same enemy (Novell and Sun when they fought with Microsoft).
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by kumarm 7y ago
IndieHackers is a great resource. It serves its purpose very well and built a great community. That is all that matters.
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by kumarm 7y ago
The article is from 2018 as mentioned in title.
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by kumarm 7y ago
Chakra is common Sanskrit word meaning Wheel.
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by kumarm 7y ago
How is that Bad? Any Activity you have need to have proper lifecycle. Every UI Toolkit has something similar. Same events for IOS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_envi...
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by kumarm 7y ago
Google runs B2B Ads too.
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by kumarm 7y ago
I am surprised Google hasn't started Business Card similar to Amazon Business Card (5% cash back on AWS and Amazon Purchases). Businesses that use Google Ads (and Google Cloud) are far higher compared to who maintain a business account
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by kumarm 7y ago
YouTube premium costs 10$ a month. Anyone living in first world (while posting on hacker news) countries and spend hours a week on youtube shouldn't be complaining about ads on youtube.

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