Hacker News: livus

New comment by livus in "A pessimistic vision of India’s looming environmental and economic collapse"

livus — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:34:54 +0000

1. Car pooling has become very acceptable. I live in NCR and every time I've taken an Uber Pool or Ola Share the car has been packed to capacity. This is especially popular among solo office travellers.

2. This has, sort of, lost its charm with the younger generation especially if they are earning well or used to own a car. Public transit has become faster (on the order of twice as fast during peak time) compared to driving. 2 wheelers are more popular than 4 wheels for cost and practical reasons.

New comment by livus in "Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch"

livus — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:53:43 +0000

There's an option to pay for GSuite, which gets you access to most Google products, but I'm not sure about it's privacy policies.

New comment by livus in "Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality"

livus — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:21:40 +0000

They've reached a market position where NN doesn't really impact them much. They, now, have the cashflow to pay their way out. They can pay, smaller companies cannot, thus cementing their position in the market. Absence of NN, in an indirect way, helps them competitively by constructing artificial barriers to entry without taking the heat.

Sure ISPs have their own equivalent offerings, but dealing with one or two competitors in an area is easier than dealing with a couple of them.

New comment by livus in "Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update"

livus — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:52:10 +0000

Eh. I regularly update my Windows gaming PC and every time it takes a long time to restart and apply updates. Far more than macOS and Ubuntu. And this is not new behaviour.

New comment by livus in "Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10"

livus — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:01:42 +0000

Not to forget iTerm 2 on macOS is amazing. I find it much more pleasurable to use than the default Terminal.app

New comment by livus in "GitHub was down"

livus — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 05:35:55 +0000

This is the new "It's compiling!"

New comment by livus in "Indian phones are weird"

livus — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:36:24 +0000

Start reporting on those messages. If you are on Android, use India Against Spam. If iphone, you'll have to report manually on the operator's website. for example - airtel.in/dnd

It's a pain in the ass but I kept on reporting for a month after activating DND and the calls and messages dropped. I've even received calls from people begging me to take my complaints back or otherwise they'll loose their jobs. I agreed twice but holy hell those exact same companies spammed me again. I stopped being a good samaritan and just told them to sort it out with their companies since it's the companies fault. Now spam has reduced to a message or two a month.

From what I understand there are old mobile numbers list being passed around from before DND was available and that's why you need to start reporting the spam messages. Word quickly spreads between the companies to remove your number from the lists.

New comment by livus in "Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME"

livus — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:36:12 +0000

Not OP but it could be very much possible and that's what OP is trying to say. Just taking it on Intel's word that they haven't done it is not the correct way to go. For the truly privacy minded, it's better to err on the side of caution.

New comment by livus in "If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why"

livus — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:42:05 +0000

On average yes. There's massive corruption.

Source - I live here

New comment by livus in "Flow vs. Typescript"

livus — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:16:40 +0000

Finally. But I wish microsoft would've done it sooner. Now a UNIX convert. Forever a convert. I'm no longer fighting my system to get shit done.

New comment by livus in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)"

livus — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:31:07 +0000

Do you guys hire remotely from all over the world or only US/Canada? I've been following the careers page for a few months anxiously and have been totally afraid to apply. Few days ago I checked, you guys had updated the remote options to only US/Canada. Hopes totally dashed since then.

New comment by livus in "Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and Tiny Package"

livus — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:03:42 +0000

Windows 7 can be a PITA in such cases. From what I've seen, Windows 7 has started to show its age when it comes to hardware. Quite a bit of modern hardware like NVMe SSDs and USB 3 are not recognized out of the box. You're most stable bet would be to go with Windows 10 if you can. There'll be tradeoffs which I guess you are already aware of.

New comment by livus in "How Not to Explain Success"

livus — Mon, 30 May 2016 11:13:17 +0000

I'm surprised at the success of Indian Americans. What gives for their success?

New comment by livus in "Ask HN: Disabling paste in password boxes - why is it practiced?"

livus — Sun, 22 May 2016 18:17:59 +0000

Making it worse are some websites totally disabling right click. Very very annoying.

Death by GPS

livus — Wed, 04 May 2016 09:35:54 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/death-by-gps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627212

Points: 3

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New comment by livus in "Angular 2 Release Candidate"

livus — Tue, 03 May 2016 08:16:32 +0000

From a limited perspective, writing code in angular can be a little jarring process. Compared to js in the browser and node, js in ng comes in the way of the thought process.

New comment by livus in "How to ace a YC interview"

livus — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:28:27 +0000

I guess Buffer comes close enough.

New comment by livus in "How to ace a YC interview"

livus — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 04:37:00 +0000

A flat organization cannot rapidly scale. And sometimes there might not even be a consensus. Having an overriding vote, albeit rarely, is crucial to break deadlocks.

This is not to say that flat organisations are bad. But I don't think they are a particularly good fit for the scale YC companies work at.

New comment by livus in "Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?"

livus — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:42:30 +0000

React and Angular can get very confusing for a first timer in front end. The official tutorials leave out a lot of magic happening behind the scenes. I tried to complete the official angular tutorial and even after completing it, though I could build an app, I still didn't feel confident that I had a good understanding of Angular.

New comment by livus in "The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam"

livus — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 18:14:37 +0000

Honest question. Not to ignore any flame wars

I have been following this surveillance and privacy debate. I understand that encryption cannot go both ways. We cannot create back doors that are only available to the good guys. Add to this that the 'good' guys are known to abuse power.

But I also cannot deny that at certain times there are legitimate reasons for law enforcement. What solution, maybe political if not technical, can we adopt to meet the legitimate demands of law enforcement?