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by sankalp_sans 4y ago
Been using Firefox for 80%+ of my use cases, but whenever I need to make a payment online, it is easier to just use Chrome which stores and syncs payment methods. And I am amazed how Firefox doesn't have profiles unlike Chrome, or at
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by sankalp_sans 4y ago
It is hard to keep your vision limited on the interiors of a car when driving a convertible, because no roof. Looking outside gives your vision sensory alignment with the orientation fluid in your inner ear. In a non convertible, your visi
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by sankalp_sans 5y ago
Add to it the ecosystem of libraries which are virtually non existent for Flutter. Even Google (pioneer of Flutter) doesn’t have all their standard SDKs ported for Flutter. We played around with Flutter for a total one day before ditching t
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by sankalp_sans 7y ago
A client I worked with long back received a similar threat, and she replied "I don't have $10000 like you requested, I do have $20; would that buy you a nice coffee wherever you live?" The blackmailer(s) responded with a sing
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by sankalp_sans 7y ago
This made me visit SO and respond to a "noob" query right now. I hadn't answered any SO questions in probably over a year.
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by sankalp_sans 8y ago
Fair warning. That does add a certain level (quite significant) of inconvenience to existing users though. But probably a happy trade-off for most people entrusted with protecting accounts.
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by sankalp_sans 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but why Gmail built a feature of Dots Don't Matter is beyond me. Might have been a happy accident for all I know, but it changes the behavior that people expect from emails, which IMO is a bit of an inconvenience fo
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by sankalp_sans 9y ago
> What kind of ridiculous project structure do you have? Obviously one that was supported in every preceding version of Android Studio. When making consumer-facing tools, it is the job of the tool maker to make sure that it doesn't
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by sankalp_sans 9y ago
Oh, it's messy. In brief, if any of the said applications require Registry entry, it denies that through the permission model that these systems have installed. If it requires altering some files under some directory, it denies that as
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Ask HN: How many of us here use cron jobs, and how do you version control them?
1 points by sankalp_sans 10y ago|1 comments
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by sankalp_sans 10y ago
While this would remind one of planned obsolescence, this could very well be something less sinister- the sheer scale at which manufacturing happens. Families have grown manifolds since the golden age of quality manufacturing. More demand i
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by sankalp_sans 10y ago
That's where we have a huge gap in device ecosystem. If you want one of the best displays on a TV, it comes "bundled in" with "smart" features. It's a shame that appliances industry doesn't let us customiz
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by sankalp_sans 10y ago
This is my first Show HN post, and it is a teenie-tiny thingy (compared to the humbling things I keep seeing here day in and day out). Hacked in JS and CSS3 with no dependencies.
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Show HN: Hacked Together the “Peace Day” Love Button Seen on Facebook :)(sankalpsans.github.io)
1 points by sankalp_sans 10y ago|1 comments
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by sankalp_sans 10y ago
After some benchmarking, we did something of this sort on a media site. A middle-fold path works best for us. I'm yet to see any media site do this (yes, we are content-heavy, but we also load fast). Admittedly, the only thing slowing
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by sankalp_sans 10y ago
Yes, it is down indeed. https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/77375324625492787...