Hacker News: pal_9000

New comment by pal_9000 in "Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams"

pal_9000 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:28:35 +0000

I was just referring to the 'Subscription service vs One-time purchase' model. If you want to make a single presentation in a year, perhaps, not considering any differences, you are better of buying templates on Themeforest. But the convenience, cost-effectiveness of such a service, i can certainly see value

New comment by pal_9000 in "Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams"

pal_9000 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:59:33 +0000

What makes Spotify better than early iTunes? Quite obvious, no?

New comment by pal_9000 in "Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams"

pal_9000 — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:58:26 +0000

Genuinely curious. What did you find most appealing? For me, the landing page looks.. average.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Launch HN: Daybreak Health (YC S20) – Online counseling designed for teens"

pal_9000 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:53:01 +0000

Great job! What would you say are the most challenging gaps between online sessions compared to traditional in-person sessions? What are your plans to bridge the gaps?

New comment by pal_9000 in "Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products"

pal_9000 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:07:47 +0000

I dont think its just about playing by the book of law. I'm sure they also consider optics and trust in the brand.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products"

pal_9000 — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:04:16 +0000

Just a word of caution regarding the throwaways in this thread. Take them for what they are, anecdotal claims

New comment by pal_9000 in "Y Combinator has lost its soul: A YC founder's perspective"

pal_9000 — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:32:37 +0000

Exactly what i wanted to post. Also excludes everyone who is married or has to feed their family.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Twitter Got Hacked, Is Mastodon Immune?"

pal_9000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:16:08 +0000

Security by obscurity:D

New comment by pal_9000 in "Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU"

pal_9000 — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 13:52:01 +0000

Electronics are cheaper in Switzerland

New comment by pal_9000 in "Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test"

pal_9000 — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:18:43 +0000

One of the most interesting reads in the recent times.

New comment by pal_9000 in "America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies still struggle to profit"

pal_9000 — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:35:15 +0000

I believe it's just an expectation that has been built by previous tippers. When there's a significant positive event like childbirth, obtaining a driving license, e.t.c, naturally people tend to tip. This sets a precedent and they start expecting as a sort of obligation.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Bitcoin Halving Just Occured"

pal_9000 — Mon, 11 May 2020 21:20:35 +0000

Good points. I haven't read the link but aren't you missing the equation of price economics? Bitcoin is only highly skewed for early miners only if they have held on to their rewards stash.

Atleast what the designer intended/predicted if I remember correctly, is for the reward value over time to be the same. This is of course not backed by mathematical equation of sort. I would way super early mining is more similar to being the first employee of a startup that pays you in equity only.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Solar Storm of 1859"

pal_9000 — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:15:37 +0000

I like how you think

New comment by pal_9000 in "Flutter tutorial for beginners"

pal_9000 — Sat, 02 May 2020 19:32:53 +0000

For productivity apps I would agree. I personally don't care much for other apps. Good UX doesn't necessarily need native look IMHO

New comment by pal_9000 in "Flutter tutorial for beginners"

pal_9000 — Sat, 02 May 2020 18:08:37 +0000

I want to believe you are right. I have no experience in app development but before committing with Flutter, this is a big concern for me. If you take the app say, Tinder, I believe it has consistent design elements between IOS and Android except for a few pages like settings.

The science of why remote meetings don't feel the same

pal_9000 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:53:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.blog.google/inside-google/working-google/science-why-remote-meetings-dont-feel-same/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23017342

Points: 1

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New comment by pal_9000 in "Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees"

pal_9000 — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:05:33 +0000

I would bet Uber has created wealth, a lot of it. Uber didn't just sway rides from Medallions, i would imagine it increased rides by manifold. Note: Not considering environmental impact. (E) I'm not saying it's a flawless model, but you can't discount how it led to more people taking ride shares in contrast to car ownership. I think this is obvious in urban areas.

Genuinely curious about this cycle of opinion on Hacker news. It's trendy to shit on these companies until it's not.

New comment by pal_9000 in "Proof of concept: end-to-end encryption in Jitsi Meet"

pal_9000 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:06:33 +0000

Jitsi is on a roll! By the way, Does anyone know the challenging part of e2e in video chats? Thinking out of intuition, it would be keys are exchanged during handshake and binary data is decoded on the clients? I'm just wondering how could Zoom miss it?

New comment by pal_9000 in "Saving money on international payments as a remote freelancer"

pal_9000 — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 10:56:37 +0000

I believe fiat withdrawal fees / trading are a lot higher than transferwise fee, at least in my case. Which exchange do you use if I may ask?

New comment by pal_9000 in "How SEO Ruined the Internet"

pal_9000 — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:06:01 +0000

The article doesn't present complete facts. Regarding zero-sum game, this perhaps was true in the old pagerank algorithm. But I'd believe Google's ranking algorithm has advanced beyond simple keyword density, passing links. What I've noticed is it now gives much more emphasis to user experience. (With metrics like bounce rate meaning the searcher didnt find what he looked for and went back to search results)

We all like to shit on Google but there's no search engine even remotely close to the quality of results. Of course, there's a lot of spam associated with SEO, hacking attempts, spam comments, e.t.c. There are side effects of its algorithm of course, that are negative to web.