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by pyeri 1y ago
All the charities and foundations like FSF getting donations through Bitcoin? That's a good thing. Another use case is countries like Zimbabwe and El Salvador where the fiat currency get's too inflated by regulatory abuse or becom
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When Gandhi Met Satoshi(prahladyeri.github.io)
3 points by pyeri 1y ago|5 comments
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Open Core and the .NET Foundation: Time for Some Introspection?
2 points by pyeri 1y ago|1 comments
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by pyeri 1y ago
Another common exception is when the collective herd instinct is invoked. When 10-15 folks congregate at a place and unleash their subliminal thought patterns, it becomes much easier to sanction a kill as it's now part of a collective
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Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software?
68 points by pyeri 1y ago|91 comments
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Few people are 'cut out' for programming in the traditional way
4 points by pyeri 2y ago|2 comments
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Session storage should be preferable to JWT auth all things remaining same
2 points by pyeri 2y ago|1 comments
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It is practically impossible to find a freelance project these days
20 points by pyeri 2y ago|33 comments
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by pyeri 2y ago
The end of extensions like uBlock Origin will mark the end of power user era in web development history.
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by pyeri 2y ago
In the interest of minimalism and collective human efficiency, buses are best. Car or SUV makes sense only when a family or friends of 3-4 folks are travelling.
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by pyeri 2y ago
The IT industry has gotten highly specialised over time. The NAND-to-Tetris style education helps create computer scientists who know their stuff from ground up. But tech companies are constantly on the lookout for vocational pragmatists (l
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by pyeri 2y ago
Exactly. Especially when considering that Signal was often advertised as that *one* privacy friendly open-source messaging solution in a world dominated by data-collecting demons like WhatsApp, etc. I don't think even WhatsApp let&#x27
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by pyeri 2y ago
There could be limitations on scaling the transistors as we approach nono-meter sizes, but there are other ways to sustain the Moore's Law and economies of scale; like 3D stacking, focus on specialized architectures like GPUs, TPUs, et
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by pyeri 2y ago
Both VB6 and FreePascal/Delphi are highly capable tools even in today's context, they just need more marketing.
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by pyeri 2y ago
Keep up the good work. Both desktop and cloud apps solve problems for users, but there is no doubt a different kind of old school PC era charm in using the former. There is a sense of freedom that comes from the ownership of software and pl
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by pyeri 2y ago
Evolution theory is generally quite coherent and intuitive. But while it can explain how a monkey or ape turned into homo-sapien, it can't explain how an amoeba turned into human. It can't explain the consciousness aspect or how l
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by pyeri 2y ago
I don't think DigitalOcean shifts risk to the customer. They have "pre-paid" cloud VPS plans of 5/10 USD per month with hard-limits right?
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Beyond Google: the future of shopping and search with ChatGPT
2 points by pyeri 2y ago|0 comments
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by pyeri 2y ago
Linkedin, without any doubt! Microsoft could have turned it into something much bigger and more useful by revamping the site after acquisition, sadly they didn't.
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by pyeri 2y ago
Let us simplify our IT layers and stacks before it is too late. It's time to introspect and ask those critical questions: Is it really necessary to install each one of these apps, every single one of these libraries and frameworks? How
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by pyeri 2y ago
> The press mostly do their jobs The press often does a great job of shielding those in power from reality, and that's what it did in most of the Biden term. Now, I also disagree with the other extreme view that press needs to be po
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by pyeri 2y ago
WebSockets has become popular only due to this "instant" mindset. IRL, only a handful of messages or notifications need a truly real-time priority such as Bank OTPs, transaction notifs, etc. Others can wait for a few seconds, and
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by pyeri 2y ago
It's not about just starting a business but employing folks, working with them as a team, sharing ideas with them and collectively become stakeholders of a new creation. The ultimate source of stress reduction is the people or folks, n
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by pyeri 2y ago
After I quit my day job and started freelancing, I actually saw my sleep schedule worsen. It partly had to do with the initial lack of projects and clients, and other challenges of freelancing itself, but what I observed was that my day job
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"My Computer" to "This PC": language evolution in brand-centric consumer culture(prahladyeri.github.io)
3 points by pyeri 2y ago|2 comments
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by pyeri 2y ago
Exactly, the organic nature of search ceased to exist that very moment when they started human intervention in a purely machine based (crawler/indexing logic) algorithm.
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by pyeri 2y ago
Call me eccentric but the only true or utilitarian use case I've found for AI so far is chatgpt. Rest all appear to be shiny toys just trying to bask in the AI glory but none solve any real human problem?
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by pyeri 2y ago
Not open source but Free Libre (GPL) can become a genuine alternative provided it's implemented widely and followed honestly.
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Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way
120 points by pyeri 2y ago|38 comments
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by pyeri 2y ago
That compromise thing was like eons ago when folks like Bruce Perens and ESR tried to tow that fine line between commercial open source and free libre paradigms and were successful to a great degree. But today, such nuance doesn't exis

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