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New comment by punjabisingh in "Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code"

punjabisingh — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 04:52:05 +0000

VS Code Remote Containers is another cool feature. You can develop inside any Docker container locally. This could essentially mirror whatever image you have deployed into Kubernetes, GKE, GCS, etc.

Ref: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

New comment by punjabisingh in "Ask HN: How do you handle/maintain local Python environments?"

punjabisingh — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 03:18:33 +0000

VSCode already has it as a feature but it's a little rough around the edges. It's called "Remote Containers".

Docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

New comment by punjabisingh in "Reducing Wasted Food at Home"

punjabisingh — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 11:37:16 +0000

I'm using the same technique but at the checkout. Once my reusable bags fill up, I leave the rest. Also this technique helps in letting go of that packaged/junk food at the checkout.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Elegant Error Handling with the JavaScript “Either” Monad"

punjabisingh — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:57:01 +0000

I remember it by thinking that Left (error state) has to be handled first. This forces developers to always think of the erroneous state first and foremost. And then define the Right (success state).

On the other hand, it may be easier to forget the error state if it were the second argument. As is often the case with Promises and JS developers.

New comment by punjabisingh in "How Much Sleep Do Fitbit Users Really Get?"

punjabisingh — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:25:29 +0000

The sleep tracking from my FitBit is my favorite feature. Even the cheapest FitBit Flex provides good analysis of my sleep (restless, awake, duration, etc). I use it more to make sure I get 7-8 hours to sleep than to count steps.

Disclosure: volunteer beta tester

New comment by punjabisingh in "KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support"

punjabisingh — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:04:09 +0000

It's not perfect. It is slow because it uses Android's accessibility service to detect fields.

Ref: https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=8166

New comment by punjabisingh in "Google Cloud Platform Free Tier"

punjabisingh — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:42:10 +0000

   Always Free* products to keep you going.
   *Subject to change

That's not quite what "always free" means, but I'll always take it.

*Subject to change.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

punjabisingh — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:07:05 +0000

Google already does that:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/ https://www.stopbadware.org/blacklisted-by-google

New comment by punjabisingh in "Show HN: MovieChat.org – Archive and Replacement for IMDb Message Boards"

punjabisingh — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:37:21 +0000

Great effort. I see some broken images here: http://www.moviechat.org/movies/search?name=westworld

I'm surprised there isn't enough interest in people to recognize tMDB as relevant. Especially since iMDB is ignoring users by taking down the forums.

New comment by punjabisingh in "LastPass autofill exploit"

punjabisingh — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:06:55 +0000

It's confusing that the LastPass site is claiming only Firefox is impacted. [1] Whereas the security researcher's site (detectify.com) shows the vulnerability running in Chrome. [2]

Furthermore, the current live version on Firefox addons repository is 3.x [3], which the LastPass team claims is not vulnerable. [1]

[1] https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/07/lastpass-security-updates.... [2] https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi... [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...

New comment by punjabisingh in "Apple announces iOS 10"

punjabisingh — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 19:48:03 +0000

Google Now's dictation is so much better for people with accents.

My family's English pronunciations have a very strong Indian/Punjabi accent. For people with accents, Siri works very unreliably to the point that we've given up on it, whereas Google Now "magically" works all the time.

New comment by punjabisingh in "FullPageOS – A RaspberryPi distro to display a full page browser on boot"

punjabisingh — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 02:41:50 +0000

That's the setup I have running. Instead of r-kiosk, I've been using mKiosk, which is a more configurable add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mkiosk/

New comment by punjabisingh in "Show HN: WP Pluginator – A WordPress Plugin Development tool"

punjabisingh — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:24:46 +0000

It would better if this could integrate (and be listed inside) wp-cli, which is becoming the standard for interfacing with WordPress using cli.

New comment by punjabisingh in "In Defence of WordPress"

punjabisingh — Fri, 15 May 2015 03:15:54 +0000

The bugs are coming from everywhere.

In my view, the worst ones are the ones coming from core. They've come from old code (i.e. the comments XSS due to overly large comments) or from including other libraries (i.e. genericons vulnerability).

I think this sort of stuff is bound to happen since WordPress is slowly becoming the kitchen sink trying to keep up with all demands of the users.

The good part is:

* They are increasing their unit tests coverage.

* With auto-updates, the huge amount of sites that use WordPress are not left in the dark. So I consider it a feature even if it comes at a price. When the software is being used at the scale that WordPress is, it is a needed feature.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X"

punjabisingh — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:02:52 +0000

There are some minor issues, but Slate generally works under Mavericks and Yosemite. Check out: https://github.com/jigish/slate/issues/405

New comment by punjabisingh in "How We Did It: SNL Title Sequence"

punjabisingh — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:14:08 +0000

It is linked at the end of their article: http://www.alex-buono.com/portfolio/snl-opening-montage-2014...

New comment by punjabisingh in "To Make Streets Safe, Make Them Dangerous"

punjabisingh — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:47:34 +0000

The pedestrians may also not be visible due to the car's left pillar blind spot, especially while turning left.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Pissing Away Our Money With Google Display Ads"

punjabisingh — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:11:52 +0000

Some of the mobile games definitely use questionable ways to present the ads. If anyone has ever played Subway Surfer (on Android), they can probably remember the countless amount of times one may accidentally click on the ads. On top of that, the ads load in such funny ways at times that it is hard to avoid clicking the ad.

As an advertiser and publisher myself, I feel bad for the people spending money on advertising in that game, because the 99% of the time that I have clicked on an ad in that game is because it was a mistake.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Bitcoin Payment Processor BIPS Attacked, Over $1M Stolen"

punjabisingh — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:55:39 +0000

If they made a transaction with the exact amount stolen, maybe we could say it is the same wallet as the one stolen, but it could also be a false positive.

I would think the thieves are smart enough to make multiple transactions to move this money, in which case they won't get caught at all.

New comment by punjabisingh in "Richest Bitcoin Addresses"

punjabisingh — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:06:58 +0000

The risk is that if the startup/technology (Bitcoin) failed, you just wasted your time/effort in setting up something useless. There must be thousands of these proposals that you will face in your life.

Bitcoin is the risk I knowingly didn't take, because I didn't think it would amount to anything in the future.