Hacker News: pavanlimo

New comment by pavanlimo in "Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList"

pavanlimo — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:55:34 +0000

OP has shared the github repo where these pointers are maintained and has encouraged pull requests to improve on the list.

Mini Microservices Design Guide (2018)

pavanlimo — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:57:00 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/platform-engineer/microservices-design-guide-eca0b799a7e8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20682936

Points: 1

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New comment by pavanlimo in "Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV"

pavanlimo — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 03:47:01 +0000

Prime Video + Prime Shipping + Prime Music is ~16 USD per year if you get the subscription from India. I used to live in India but not anymore. So I was keen to only use Prime Video + Prime Music (since Prime Shipping doesn't work outside of India for that sub). Both Prime Video and Music were rather unsatisfactory, and no Chromcast support was just the last straw for me to unsub.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV, YouTube on Fire TV"

pavanlimo — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:59:20 +0000

I had unsubscribed from Prime Video for precisely this reason. I think it's about time I gave it another chance.

New comment by pavanlimo in "India’s largest bank SBI leaked account data on millions of customers"

pavanlimo — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:59:28 +0000

This is probably why use one-time-password via SMS is so rampant in many many services. This kind of auth has mostly eliminated large scale hacks, however OTP over SMS still won't help targeted hacking. But in general the public at large are rather safe primarily because of this.

Having said that, subscription based startups struggle due to the the compulsory use of OTP and therefore resort to yearly subscriptions rather than monthly (ex: Amazon Prime).

New comment by pavanlimo in "Quora User Data Compromised"

pavanlimo — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:31:35 +0000

Clearly this is well orchestrated and professional. I'm wondering what could be the motivation for such an attack. There is no monetary benefit whatsoever. Perhaps some AI company wanting to acquire solid data to train their models?

New comment by pavanlimo in "Mission Control Live Stream: NASA InSight Mars Landing [video]"

pavanlimo — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:51:55 +0000

Exciting, feel like a kid again!

New comment by pavanlimo in "Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit"

pavanlimo — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 01:42:09 +0000

Can't disagree with Twitter's reasoning there, anecdotally I myself have done that many times.

Varig Flight 820

pavanlimo — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:44:30 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_820

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18216837

Points: 1

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New comment by pavanlimo in "Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M"

pavanlimo — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:51:19 +0000

Agreed, for all we know they might already be doing that as well.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M"

pavanlimo — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:30:52 +0000

AB testing is not an evil act by itself. It's an effective technique to understand the user needs. But what you do with the gathered data could make you evil.

No business will want to be out of sync with its users. And no business will want to be in charity mode any more than it should. But doing this without hampering the credibility is the key.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M"

pavanlimo — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:22:37 +0000

Agreed. Influential people buying influential media outlets can be a concern if used in a biased way. But unfortunately it's not illegal. If one were to go ahead and make it illegal how exactly would one frame the law? There's no easy answer.

OnePlus to release its first-ever TV

pavanlimo — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/oneplus-tv-ceo-interview-2018-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002638

Points: 2

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New comment by pavanlimo in "E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking"

pavanlimo — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:39:15 +0000

My experience has been that standing in a circle puffing on e-cigarettes is every bit as social if not more. Most cigarette smokers want to quit and they often get inspired by vapers standing around them.

New comment by pavanlimo in "E-cigarette use as a predictor of cigarette smoking"

pavanlimo — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:11:23 +0000

As a vaper (ex-smoker), let me assert that vaping is like driving Tesla Model S P100D and smoking is akin to driving 2003 Ford Focus. I'd never gateway to Ford Focus 2003 from Tesla Model S P100D. Cheeky but true.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads"

pavanlimo — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:03:34 +0000

I used to land on Amazon as a defacto shopping place, until about a year ago. Now Aliexpress is the defacto for me.

New comment by pavanlimo in "YouTube stars heading for burnout"

pavanlimo — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 01:40:51 +0000

As with everything else there is always a spectrum and this represents the dark end of the spectrum. I follow a bunch of tech youtubers (like MKBHD) who represent the happy side of the spectrum.

New comment by pavanlimo in "You can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions"

pavanlimo — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:04:22 +0000

I tend to agree with Elon Musk's idea that every law should come with an expiry date. So that there is debate before it is renewed.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Ask HN: What has HN given you?"

pavanlimo — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:53:25 +0000

I believe 60 upvotes at the time is probably equal to >150 upvotes today.

New comment by pavanlimo in "Canva becomes Australia’s only privately backed tech startup to be valued at $1B"

pavanlimo — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:11:58 +0000

I just gave it a go and it didn't really look like a Photoshop replacement, more like a really trimmed version of Photoshop. But for the usecases it serves, it's probably enough. Not an expert in this domain but I'm struggling to see its value at $1B. May be the community is high quality and large?