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New comment by rck404 in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

rck404 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:28:05 +0000

Instagram tried this with IGTV. I actually liked the format too but they did shutdown due to lack of interest https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484436/instagram-igtv-v...

New comment by rck404 in "Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey"

rck404 — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:45:53 +0000

Clipboard. This is brilliant when you have to use similar set of responses.

This along with swipe are life-savers.

New comment by rck404 in "Atom was archived today"

rck404 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:27:24 +0000

Wow man.

Your comment brought me memories. This exactly was what made me switch over too back then.

Pre-VS setup was: Atom for most cases but [large files | quickly edit something] was with Brackets (It was unbelievably swift)

VS Code comes in and says: Don't worry. I got you!

New comment by rck404 in "Twitter tests Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons"

rck404 — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:47:24 +0000

It's also that they have reason not to change up things. They have created vibrant monetisation mechanisms & fine tuned those mechanisms.

Innovating means new patterns of interactions & ideas. This also means new forms of monetisation that might be required.

As an example all the previous FB & instagram ads became obsolete or useless once they introduced stories. Now, have to create better ad formats and subsequently take few quarters to fine tune the experience and pricing.

New comment by rck404 in "macOS Big Sur"

rck404 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 03:52:43 +0000

In old safari, try setting 'max-content' to to any div 'width' attribute and it'll crash. This has been a persistent since many years and yet not fixed.

New comment by rck404 in "Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud"

rck404 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:10:34 +0000

Personally, for me though Pre-W10: Average UI, Great UX. W10: Nice UI touches, No-so great UX.

New comment by rck404 in "Microsoft bids $44.6B for Yahoo (2008)"

rck404 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:02:37 +0000

Yahoo and Microsoft compete in most of the divisions. Namely search, sports, news, video, mail, chat and advertising. Probably, the news & media part of Yahoo is the only thing better than Microsoft at this point; Even, that I don't see remaining as such for long time with MSN coping up well.

So, if Microsoft would have acquired Yahoo they would have surplus of divisions and similarly talented people & infrastructure; Which would eventually lead to more layoffs and more time wasted consolidating teams, infra, design and resources.

New comment by rck404 in "Google teases October 4th announcement"

rck404 — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:42:59 +0000

Please. This fanboyism without any concrete evidence is just a troll comment. I can go an about how Apple ios design brought in inspiration from Windows Metro & from other competitors too but, this thread isn't about that. Please do provide specific examples or notes to validate or create a new thread.

New comment by rck404 in "Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub"

rck404 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:23:25 +0000

GPL and Open Source are still a cancer purely from Business perspective especially on a short term perspective. This is exactly Steve Ballmer too, he is a business guy running a tech organization. He generated huge profits. Satya Nadella is a technical guy, who had seen the benefits of OSS tools, languages and platforms to know how they impact both the developer mindshare & long-term company perspective

New comment by rck404 in "Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub"

rck404 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:16:48 +0000

.NET Core is a hugely useful OSS project, only suprassed by another of theirs called "VS Code". I use it on day to day basis.

New comment by rck404 in "Visual Studio Code 1.5"

rck404 — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:23:49 +0000

When I'm on OSX I'm exclusively on Webstorm. When I switch for my personal work to Windows I mostly use VS Code. Webstorm just doesn't render the font, the IDE frame correctly. I find it either too small or big. Webstorm also doesn't use "ctr+w" to close tabs on Windows & linux while does that on OSX.

New comment by rck404 in "India's richest man offers free 4G to one billion people"

rck404 — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 15:48:25 +0000

Every website is routed through Facebook servers. They created a pseudo-standard as opposed to standard HTML and only the websites with that would be allowed onto the program. Imagine if Google comes over and says "AMP" loads faster, takes less data is better but, is a subset of HTML spec & "Google"-sponsored format; So, we will give free internet access but, only websites which adapt to our specifications would be allowed and not everyone. You either provide internet access or no. Facebook could have gone with tiered system in regard to Free basics as in provide free data only for about "X" GB. Most of India consumes internet in terms of amount of data. They didn't go about this approach but, rather wanted to get on with providing free internet but, collect data of the website visit information, hava user analytics.

Another important consideration is that Facebook only allowed any website to be in it after initial backlash. Initially, it only allowed websites deemed necessary by Facebook like "facebook", "messenger", "groups" and "Google. No way for users or website owners to say they'd like a wesbite "xyz" as part of program. This was and is an attempt by Facebook to create a walled gatway to internet by Facebook masked by their philanthrophic arm.

New comment by rck404 in "Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets"

rck404 — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 01:56:23 +0000

Torrents and mesh networks were breaking out to be the future of internet during mid and late 90s (Also why Skype was P2P and why it was successfull). I'm not sure what happened to it though.

New comment by rck404 in "Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets"

rck404 — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:22:24 +0000

Even now I do the same. In india direct downloads are slightly slower. I guess it's to do with the mirror location or something else. Torrent makes it much faster

New comment by rck404 in "Git Undo"

rck404 — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 12:53:29 +0000

I prefer git CLI mostly, except for merge conflicts. Exclusively for git merge conficts I use IDEA IDE resources. Otherwise CLI is my friend because I feel safe (git push and git commit have the best color-coded messages in most OSes)

New comment by rck404 in "Postman – Now available for Windows"

rck404 — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 22:37:49 +0000

Chrome apps are dead as per Chrome. This was a good move.

New comment by rck404 in "From Chrome Apps to the Web"

rck404 — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 21:35:00 +0000

Does this mean postman app is gone as webapp ?

New comment by rck404 in "Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app"

rck404 — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:49:13 +0000

For all the openness Apple claims, developers and companies should be able to talk to press or write blogs about what they want. Apple is benefiting from these apps and tries to silence the voices of arguments. This is pure North Korean kind of rule that only Apple and Kim Jong would approve of.

New comment by rck404 in "Spotify says Apple won’t approve a new version of its app"

rck404 — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:46:46 +0000

More specifically, Apple started competing in that specific service domain. Apple wasn't into streaming business but, saw Spotify and entered with a 30% price advantage.

New comment by rck404 in "India launches 20 satellites in single mission"

rck404 — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:59:38 +0000

Yes unless you can provide something Indian citizens cannot provide like expertise in some of the systems ISRO doesn't have proficiency in. I don't say these in demeaning way. India is a 1.26 billion people country and pays less when you compare to salaries of NASA in USD. There's also the aspect of ISRO also being important research organization for defence. It's more like US DRDO and NASA both in a single entity. As a national security risk it's mostly Indian citizens with SMEs on contractual basis