vijay_nair

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by vijay_nair 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Designer/Front-end Engineer - Remote Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Node, WordPress, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Principl
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by vijay_nair 5y ago
When drugs targeting the gut have effects in the brain, serotonin receptors are usually involved and it's 5-HT4 this time. Taking carbidopa (or benserazide, another peripheral decarboxylase inhibitor) along with prucalopride can potent
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 15 years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on helping startups get both their marketing and pr
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14+ years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on helping startups get both their marketing and p
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
I rolled out my own Firefox/Chrome web extension to tweak the native UI. Nothing drastic, just a gentle tweak of the CSS. Screenshots: https://twitter.com/vjk2005/status/1343664202288754689
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
I have a private HN client that does this and more but I don't want to release it and destroy what we have here. I've gone a step further and removed username display next to comments so I make judgements based solely on the conte
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
Only some of them are on a daily schedule so actual pill count/day is low. Niacin (vitamin B3) for example leads to diabetes and liver damage when taken upwards of 4g/day. So I take 0.5 mg (nearly a tenth of the therapeutic dose
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
No condition and no medical diagnosis. For the past few years I've been afflicted by periods of existential crisis and L-DOPA short circuits this. Much better mood, focus and most importantly — drive (which is what helps most with the
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
Vitamins (B-K) + calcium + fish and cod liver oil: several years. L-citrulline, zinc: 2+ years. Ashwagandha, Boswellia: slightly more than a year. L-DOPA, niacin, L-taurine: a few months.
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
It's been a few months now. L-DOPA tolerance is dose-dependant, term-dependent as well as drug-dependant. After looking for ways to work around this, I found L-DOPA from Mucuna pruriens does not have the two major side-effects I was co
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
Supplements, especially L-DOPA (amazing mood improvement and libido boost), L-citrulline (libido and energy boost) and niacin. There are other supplements¹ in my stack but these three stand out as the effects are near immediate, measured in
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14 years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on helping startups get both their marketing and pr
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by vijay_nair 6y ago
• Magnetism. There are plenty of videos out there calling it the result of a relativistic charge imbalance. But I've never been able to use this point-of-view to practical use cases like understanding how permanent magnets work or how
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14 years Branding and Identity designer for startups. From logos and collateral (business cards, letterheads), to social media
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
This was a compelling read on the buyback issue from earlier this year: https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for...
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
SEEKING WORK — Remote okay I’m Vijay, full-stack designer and developer from South India, freelancing at https://dffrnt.com . Designed the award-winning branding for io.js, which eventually merged back into Node.js from which it
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
I'd buy Tesla Powerwalls¹ and charge 'em up. One of them can store upto 13.5 kWh of energy and going by your comment below (190 kWh/30 days = 6.3 kWh/day, which seems in line with "I have an extra KW of power genera
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
Perhaps a real-time version of this can be embedded into the diving goggles(AR) for murk-free dives.
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
yutru here; I ran into Raste earlier on EU CTF and was wondering how that happened... now I know : ) Thanks for making this post Jan, I hope it brings some of the old timers out of hiatus and back into the game for a second inning. Had some
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
I assume you're talking about celiac disease? If you have already sought professional help I don't think there's anything new I can tell you besides the usual suspects like "grit your teeth and stick to the diet" or
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
I want to call attention to the "oxidized" part of "oxidized LDL" as that's what makes LDL so dangerous. While pathologies of LDL and fat hog the limelight, it's important to keep a close eye on the third villa
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by vijay_nair 7y ago
This happened to me back in college when I was into NFS Underground which gave players points for swiping as close to oncoming cars as possible ("Near Miss"). After a few long and intense sessions I would have the urge to swipe cl
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Tangential: I looked at other "Hacker News for X" sites and a lot of those links are now dead — https://hn.algolia.com/?query="hacker%20news%20for"&sort=byP... Only lobsters and Product Hunt made it
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Something I remembered just now that was actually one of the reasons I was glad I stopped when I did: do be careful racing up and down the stairs in 20 seconds multiple times a day as the article suggests. I was constantly having low-grade
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Swimming ticks all the right boxes for me but the nearest pool is a bit far from here and I wasn't sure about the quality of water and general upkeep. If those variables can be controlled swimming is definitely the best way to get a fu
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Logo and Branding are highly dependent on the success of the company than the other way around. Nike's logo is iconic because of the success of the company, it's not intrinsic to the shape itself. This is something I have to remin
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Four years ago I went looking for the fastest way to cut down my weight and ended up comparing different modes of running on Wolfram Alpha. Turns out increasing the incline was the most effective at burning energy, almost 3X or 300% at 30°
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Looks similar to http://joystream.co which has been paying users with BCH for the past few months.
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
I made a similar one for personal use — https://www.dffrnt.com/maxculator/ I actually use it more than I thought I would. Some cases where it helped: • Last year I invested some money in Govt. bonds at 9% interest. The
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by vijay_nair 8y ago
Given that this is HN, my comment probably came across as a disappointment and most people were already aware of the surface level details of caching. Hope I kept them at least mildly entertained while waiting for the real deal to drop : )

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