Hacker News: ishansharma

New comment by ishansharma in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

ishansharma — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:10:28 +0000

https://ishan.co

I rarely blog about interesting problems that I think could help others and sometimes gaming.

Amazon will shut down Amazon Care on December 31st

ishansharma — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:08:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23320768/amazon-care-shut-down-virtual-care-telehealth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32588071

Points: 8

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New comment by ishansharma in "The value of owning more books than you can read (2018)"

ishansharma — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:52:51 +0000

The article has a refers to a few sources towards the end including:

  One such study found that children who grew up in homes with between 80 and 350 books showed improved literacy, numeracy, and information communication technology skills as adults.

I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as vanity or consumerism.

Uber admits covering up 2016 data breach in settlement with US prosecutors

ishansharma — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:51:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/25/23277161/uber-2016-data-breach-settlement-cover-up

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32227122

Points: 4

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New comment by ishansharma in "Apple M1 Ultra"

ishansharma — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:48:37 +0000

May I ask the $2000 desktop configuration with 2x the speed?

Of course Apple chips won’t work well for gaming, but what other benchmarks will this $2000 desktop win?

New comment by ishansharma in "Tesla Rescinds Job Offer"

ishansharma — Tue, 25 May 2021 23:53:31 +0000

Re: India. It’s very common. Large IT firms like Tech Mahindra, Cognizant etc do it. I had offers from a company where they wanted around 1 year salary of signed check. If I leave before 2 years, they use the check.

Some companies go a step ahead and keep your original documents (Degree certificate etc) so you can’t apply elsewhere after accepting offer. It’s ridiculous.

New comment by ishansharma in "Interview with Paul Graham"

ishansharma — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:23:43 +0000

I agree with most of your comment and it's making me rethink some of my opinions. But is this accurate:

> Wealth creation isn't zero-sum, just because someone builds a business and creates wealth doesn't mean they're taking it from others.

I'd say that's exactly the model that some of the startups are taking. Uber and Lyft come to mind. A part of their wealth is coming from the pockets of workers who have to work for lower wages than before and get hit by depreciation that they didn't account for when earning.

New comment by ishansharma in "Interview with Paul Graham"

ishansharma — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:19:05 +0000

I admit that politics is mixed into my opinions here.

It's just that based on current political climate, I think it's hard to keep politics aside.

My thoughts about pg have essentially gone through this flow: - Start reading some of the old essays in college, agree with most of the points - Start working, the essays slowed down. I read old ones once in a while, still mostly agree - Start following pg on twitter. There's some stuff I don't agree with but it's alright. - See a lot of stuff that I don't agree with [1]

(in between somewhere, I got convinced that keeping politics on sidelines is not an options)

Then I see the essay on wealth tax. My read is that main argument is that the tax compounds. But I don't see any alternative arguments. So I see his position as against the transfer of wealth and societal equality and I don't agree with that.

Maybe I'm being too opinionated or not reading deep enough, but that was my line of thought.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1130241349935149056

New comment by ishansharma in "Interview with Paul Graham"

ishansharma — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:40:38 +0000

It’s my opinion but that was a very one sided view. And I need to read more on this but I don’t think the way he pointed it out is how anyone is proposing wealth tax.

New comment by ishansharma in "Interview with Paul Graham"

ishansharma — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:00:11 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. I read all his essays in my early 20s and became a huge fan. Not just startup advice wise, but general big picture stuff wise too.

Then I saw his recent tweets and especially the essay about wealth tax, I was a bit disappointed. But as you said, his position is well earned. But I don’t see any useful real life advice from him anymore.

New comment by ishansharma in "GitHub was down"

ishansharma — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:03:52 +0000

Out of curiosity, what could have Microsoft done to cause this?

I'm not aware of the acquisition details. But did they make GitHub switch to Azure or make significant changes to infrastructure?

I've seen several people blaming Microsoft for GitHub outages and am trying to understand why this is a common thing.

New comment by ishansharma in "GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees"

ishansharma — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:08:55 +0000

Can you explain further? I’m curious how Bitcoin benefits from it?

Apple Suspends Program in Which Contractors Listened to Recorded Siri Snippets

ishansharma — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:47:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-suspends-program-in-which-contractors-listened-to-recorded-siri-snippets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20593380

Points: 2

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New comment by ishansharma in "I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice"

ishansharma — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:44:36 +0000

Ah, the planned obsolescence argument. It used to be invoked all the time with software (updates are making it slower) but Apple just released software updates to fix GPS on several older iPads.

Maybe, they are focusing on other things like thinness and light weight which results in making gadgets less repairable instead of a big planned conspiracy.

New comment by ishansharma in "Ask HN: What email client do you use?"

ishansharma — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:18:26 +0000

I use default Mail.app for macOS. I tried the fancy clients like Spark etc but settled on Mail finally.

I prefer desktop clients because I have 6 email accounts and managing all of them in tabs is just a headache.

Mojave’s Sandbox is leaky

ishansharma — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:56:51 +0000

Article URL: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x39.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18681679

Points: 1

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New comment by ishansharma in "How to design co-programs"

ishansharma — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 05:43:09 +0000

I'm pretty sure the ads are not put up by the author by WordPress.com. According to their pricing page[1], they "sometimes" display ads on blogs to cover costs.

https://wordpress.com/pricing/

New comment by ishansharma in "Google Cloud Global Loadbalancer Outage"

ishansharma — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:49:54 +0000

Or apps for that matter. Having used the app for 6 months, I just keep a browser tab open these days, no use of feeding all the RAM to Slack.

New comment by ishansharma in "Apple Fined as Customers Win a Right-To-Repair Fight"

ishansharma — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:53:51 +0000

This is a huge clickbait. Does not mention that fine is in Australia and fine is just $7 mil.

New comment by ishansharma in "Alternatives to Google Products"

ishansharma — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 02:50:15 +0000

I am not aware of Readdle doing anything bad or having a bad reputation. How is it bad for privacy, just asking because I’m a regular user and would switch if it’s not good for privacy.