ssiddharth

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by ssiddharth 4y ago
Etymologically, Deepavali is a Sanskrit word meaning row of lamps (Deepa means lamp). Diwali is a colloquial form used in Northern states of India, as the word in their language for a lamp is Diva/Diwa. Ultimately, there’s no differenc
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by ssiddharth 4y ago
Any idea which departments the 300 being let go are from? Would be interesting, in a rather morbid sense…
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by ssiddharth 4y ago
12 years at a billion dollar company. I was indispensable to the business unit, but the unit itself wasn't. Entire lot got made redundant.
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
In case you’re wondering what happened, from the thread: He sent ETH to the WETH contract, received WETH as expected. Then he wanted to do the reverse and sent WETH, but will not receive anything, because you're supposed to swap your W
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
This is perfect, thank you!
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
Off topic but for those curious: the blog is named after a chess tactic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenzug (Also called an intermezzo or an intermediate/in between move.) As a chess nerd, I perked up aft
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
I apologise, profusely, if this is bad form to talk about a personal app. After years of getting steadily deterioring quality search results, and being thoroughly fed up with it, I built an iPhone app (other platforms soon) that removes spa
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
jquizzy.com
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
Magnus, the GOAT! What else is there to say? He’s an endgame god. Incredible win. After the 2018 championship match, I was pretty much expecting no decisive games here. Tough luck for Ian though. It’ll be hard not to tilt after this but he’
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by ssiddharth 5y ago
This looks great! Would love to know more about the tech stack behind this. Tangential question: is it named after Kalam, the scientist?
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by ssiddharth 6y ago
Thanks for this. Lichess is pretty great in terms of features. If you see the guy playing the bong cloud, that's probably me.
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by ssiddharth 7y ago
Could you share your contact details? Or email me at sid at ssiddharth dot com? I run https://jquizzy.com/
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by ssiddharth 10y ago
This looks extremely well done. Great job with the docs too! Gives me something to dig into over the upcoming weekend.
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by ssiddharth 11y ago
I was skeptical going in but seeing as Nicholas Zakas is involved, I'm cautiously optimistic. For those who don't know him, he has written a number of influential books on JS as well as working on YUI.
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Honestly, 120ms is certainly not all that bad. I grew up in the sub continent playing Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike at ~100ms and it wasn't half bad. Sure, the latency is there but it takes only a short period to get used to it.
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
If you're going the PHP route, I recommend Laravel. It's easy to pick up, there's a ton of interest and plenty of places to teach you. They even have a neat little Vagrant box to help you with the initial set up.
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Interesting point. Would you mind elaborating further?
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
After a mastectomy last December, the docs are finally letting me work out so I'm going full bore to put a little muscle to compensate for the lost mass. I've been trying to meditate for exactly five minutes a day. I'm not su
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
I'm really, really sorry that this is a subtle typo/grammar nitpick post. Hailing from a non-English speaking country, I've recently taken to going through HN comments and trying to find issues in order to improve my grasp of
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Ouch, that sounds bad. Stay positive, my man. Or lady. It's probably a zen thing to say but it is what it is and couldn't have happened any differently. Remember to talk to your family and friends. If you simply need someone to ta
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
I've been using Laravel on HHVM for the backend and a mix of jQuery and React for the front end and couldn't be happier. Everything flies and the ecosystem is actually not all that bad. Taking a look at the upcoming 5's featu
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
sid at ssiddharth dot com or sid at jquizzy dot com. Thanks!
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
I've been working on a little quizzing SaaS: http://jquizzy.com Tech: Laravel on HHVM + Postgres plus a lot of little things. History: Did a soft launch of the beta sometime ago on HN. No comments here but drove a bunch of
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
This is disgusting on so many levels. Hopefully us Indians can now stop being so starry eyed over working abroad and see it for what it is.
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
FWIW, the Facebook SVG in the home page doesn't seem to be loading for me. Rest looks great. Congrats!
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Hey there, Patrick! I work at ThemeForest/Envato and I'm happy to look into the issues here. Could you email me the link to the item in question? sid at envato dot com. Thanks!
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Hello there, HN! The guy behind the jQuizzy MVP here. Happy to hear any feedback/critique/questions you may have. As a bit of a background, the first version of jQuizzy was a lightweight quizzing engine that I built when I was at
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Show HN: jQuizzy – Easy, embeddable interactive quizzes(jquizzy.com)
3 points by ssiddharth 12y ago|1 comments
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Haha. And then you have a video call with your remote work people. It's either switch on the AC and fan and drown everything out or sweat like you're dying and have them ask you what's wrong. Oh the joy...
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by ssiddharth 12y ago
Oh jeez. This post struck way too close for comfort. I'm in a situation very similar to yours. That feeling of missing out and your friends now in relationships is quite stark . I'm watching the comments above me like a hawk for w

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