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New comment by throwaway158497 in "Back to India"

throwaway158497 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 22:41:02 +0000

Hard disagree. There is no evidence that startups of India are helping the GDP or improving the lives of rank and file Indians. In my understanding, right now, all these VC funded businesses are catering to top 100M of Indian population, people who are already living US-lifestyle in India.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Back to India"

throwaway158497 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 07:06:35 +0000

Many people somehow are able to overlook the lack of infrastructure and accident prone roads. Family+having access to maids, cooks, drivers, etc is a big driver of this behavior.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "O’Reilly Learning platform no longer as a benefit of your ACM membership"

throwaway158497 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 20:08:54 +0000

Anyone knows a good API to access books in my library? It is 2021 and there is no App which sends me daily notifications of what I must read. It is insane. The book is already checked out. I just need a remainder to read it or a random page given to me.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Ask HN: Why is raising money from VCs worn as a badge of honour?"

throwaway158497 — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:01:31 +0000

It's a marketing tool. It is like saying, "All these smart people believe in our growth potential. You as a potential employee too should believe us. You as a customer should think we have innovative solution to your needs"

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Podcast-conversations with YC founders whose startups failed"

throwaway158497 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:57:19 +0000

No. Whitewashed as as in give an aura of we did no shady things, we never faked anything, we did not have to give an extreme discounts to anyone, all our discussions with customers were straight forward. We just walked into people's offices, gave presentation and they were a contract, there are no externalities to our product, we are very profitable and stress free at each step of the journey.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Tell HN: OpenBB scraping GitHub emails for marketing spam"

throwaway158497 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:52:42 +0000

Same with turing.com and a bunch of other sites.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Podcast-conversations with YC founders whose startups failed"

throwaway158497 — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:52:56 +0000

Also, This series is good, although sadly, I dont see much new content being added.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/lessons-from-a-failed-s...

Also, if I were to give one advise to startup founders. Ignore all advice online about how to succeed. It's mostly whitewashed stuff. Unless you know the founder privately, 1-on-1, it is useless. The only honest ones are from failed founders.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Ask HN: Best approach for always on TV dashboard"

throwaway158497 — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:36:34 +0000

Great question. But related to this, what is the best "always" ON digital Photo frame with an API/wifi connectivity?

I want to make a screen which my kids can see every morning. It will pull interesting pics from reddit or from NASA, for example.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?"

throwaway158497 — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:15:12 +0000

Because no product manager has been able to push it through various layers of beauracracy (yet). Plus more customizations means, their ML based personalized SERP page has failed in understanding your intent/needs.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "TrueCaller built a billion-dollar caller ID data empire in India"

throwaway158497 — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:00:33 +0000

A cabinet minister (secretary in US administration) got a call like this out of the blue. That is when the India govt work up to the problem. Nothing was done so far though,

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands"

throwaway158497 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:41:49 +0000

Interesting. Thanks very much. I will try it out.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi"

throwaway158497 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:17:26 +0000

Not really. news channels, print media, billboards, internet websites use devanagari script. But in Messenger apps, FB, Telegram, people use latin script.

Ask HN: Hacker Friendly Terminal (Linux/macOS)

throwaway158497 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:16:29 +0000

Is there a open source terminal that is friendly to hacking? I want to add "next command prediction" to my terminal but I am at a loss to identify the correct terminal. iTerms2's architecture unfortunately did not allow me to do that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30726983

Points: 2

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New comment by throwaway158497 in "Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands"

throwaway158497 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:15:02 +0000

This is great. Is there an easy "open source terminal emulator" where I can run this after I typed enter but before it is executed? More like. is there a way the terminal can understand I typed a bad command and then give suggestions for changing it.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Ask HN: Lots of Engineering ladders, skill grids, and none for QA?"

throwaway158497 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 01:24:59 +0000

QA is not rolled up in to software engineering. Developers are now expected to write UTs and ITs. Except in companies like Apple, where there are still Manual QA and SDET positions.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest"

throwaway158497 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:07:51 +0000

True. But sometimes there are small openings in the hills which are enough for rivers to rush through. Brahmaputra starts near Tibet, but enters India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmaputra_River#/media/File:...

New comment by throwaway158497 in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

throwaway158497 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:06:42 +0000

Thats not the point of my question. Substack can say something like medium does. "You can view five posts for free and then you should login to read more"

New comment by throwaway158497 in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

throwaway158497 — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:57:40 +0000

When are you implementing a login wall like medium.com? I believe any user generated content must not be hidden behind a login wall, unless (of course) the user wants. Unfortunately, I believe that is what you will be doing soon, just because all other companies have done the same.

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Ask HN: Being bombarded by recruiter emails, all same pattern"

throwaway158497 — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:30:56 +0000

They are all using nylas recruiting software. Reply to the third or fourth mail asking for what skills they need and you will be a boilerplate "Shortly after sending you this email, We have shortlisted some candidates and they have moved to final rounds. In order to be respectful of your time, we will not be proceeding with your candidature."

https://www.nylas.com/industries/recruiting

New comment by throwaway158497 in "Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job"

throwaway158497 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:05:42 +0000

That's a cool story. However, I would say there are good reasons to test whether I can actually implement something. Mostly it tells the hiring manager about my quality of my work rather than a simple yes (s)he can do or no (s)he can't.

However, as with anything else, there are exceptions one should be cognizant of.