nym3r0s

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by nym3r0s 2y ago
It was an option I considered, but the accuracy of the sensors was way worse than apple for the price.
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by nym3r0s 2y ago
I agree that a single outlier is more stressful - but many times these aren't medical grade devices anyway so the actual data you're looking for is the trend (not the absolute values. A solution could be to measure it but not real
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by nym3r0s 2y ago
I believe the value add is a combination of both factors - ability to measure and (as a consequence) induce more exercise. An example here is how I made sure my parents are getting their exercise in by making completing their Move rings and
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by nym3r0s 2y ago
The primary use for a smartwatch for myself (and many of my family, friends) is fitness and health tracking. Card payments, notifications, WatchFaces etc. are all secondary. Basically what Whoop is doing with their strap - but minus the sub
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by nym3r0s 3y ago
Something that improved developer experience by far and also sped up our builds is starting the container dependencies via docker-compose and connect to it for integration testing. This allows reuse of containers, you can connect to it afte
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Apache Thrift is another great way of server-server & client-server communication. Pretty similar to protobuf but feels a bit more mature to me. https://thrift.apache.org/
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
This was my exact experience when interviewing for Google 5 years ago. Extremely irritating to write (and see) code like that.
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Person living in India here. GPay gained success by offering scratch cards (giving you money) and cashbacks for making payments through GPay. From a UX perspective, it has been notoriously slow and is prone to failures. For example, if the
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Backend engineer here. I've dabbled a bit with SRE and UI/UX as well. Right now I'm focused on building out a globally distributed API platform. I'm looking for a challenge. I learn fast. --- Location: Bangalore, India R
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
This is precisely why I went with YNAB [0], started budgeting better and saved quite a bit of money. Everyone who sees me paying for an app (I'm from India) ask me - "why can't you just use excel and do the same thing for fre
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
I've worked in two of these top investment banks and the amount of red tape that needs to be crossed is just breathtaking. Something as simple as provisioning a kafka topic? Go raise 2 requests, have it approved by these 4 people inclu
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Disclaimer: I graduated in CS from one of these "elite" colleges. I also took the JEE in 2013 when it underwent significant changes. Back in 2011, the government decided to revamp the educational grading system by introducing &quo
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
While it is mind blowing how less we've invested in modernizing education, the biggest barrier I've seen in recent times is - educating the educators. For reference, I helped set up my high school with a <insert-suite-for-educa
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Didn't know that. Thanks for the info!
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by nym3r0s 6y ago
Wikipedia runs on HHVM IIRC. https://hhvm.com/blog/7205/wikipedia-on-hhvm
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Ask HN: Does your Zoom switches on camera for a second?
1 points by nym3r0s 6y ago|0 comments