Hacker News: vamsipk

New comment by vamsipk in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

vamsipk — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:50:37 +0000

Did you forget the biggest asshole, Mr Apple?

New comment by vamsipk in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

vamsipk — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:49:04 +0000

Maybe or maybe not. But Youtube ads are now freely flowing through with MV3. That was the entire ruse.

New comment by vamsipk in "Test scores are not irrelevant"

vamsipk — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 08:35:43 +0000

Sure, we can use only GPAs as long as all the applicants are graded on the same common platform. But today the GPA from one college is not exactly equivalent to the GPA from another one. The grading system as I heard is also not standard across US (leave alone international) with some instructors using absolute while others relative grading. So an A student from college X is not necessarily as good as a B student from college Y.

New comment by vamsipk in "Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs"

vamsipk — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 02:10:04 +0000

Not sure I understand your comment. If they are so good why would you exit the trade?

New comment by vamsipk in "Moving from Macbook to Linux"

vamsipk — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:43:54 +0000

I'm in the market for a new one now. Are Thinkpad T/P series still the best for running Linux? How about the Dell XPS series which seem to have a better resolution and screen?

New comment by vamsipk in "Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot"

vamsipk — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:30:40 +0000

Not sure if even that's a real change. Since a new party president with their congress can change the law again. The only way to do this correctly is with bi-partisan support which seems to be lacking on more and more issues these days.

New comment by vamsipk in "iPhone 12 does not come with power charger or earbuds in the box"

vamsipk — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:24:46 +0000

But did Apple reduce the price of iPhones by the corresponding amount they charge for these accessories? Otherwise it is just marketing bs for squeezing more money from the customers.

New comment by vamsipk in "What is the best dumb TV?"

vamsipk — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:18:01 +0000

Haven't read the article but as in the title, you shouldn't look to get the best dumb tv. Look for the best tv you can get, and see if you can make it a dumb one.

New comment by vamsipk in "Indian robot climbs trees to harvest coconuts"

vamsipk — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 03:32:50 +0000

There wouldn't be much space for a crane to move around the trees which would be spaced around 20 feet each I guess. Even a small crane takes up lot of real estate and also crush everything under its weight.

Maybe a flying drone cutter might work too.

New comment by vamsipk in "Walmart Plus takes on Amazon Prime"

vamsipk — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 21:26:08 +0000

I don't listen to music but Amazon Prime video is not junk. They make high quality tv shows and have good international content. It's comparable to Netflix.

New comment by vamsipk in "I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC"

vamsipk — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 22:18:38 +0000

Good. We have recreated the first version of Digg/Reddit.

New comment by vamsipk in "OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings"

vamsipk — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 05:08:02 +0000

If it was not sanctioned by OpenTable, why should they compensate? If a government employee does this, should the government compensate?

New comment by vamsipk in "iPad Pro"

vamsipk — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 19:37:41 +0000

Where is this coming from?

New comment by vamsipk in "Kill Google AMP before it kills the web"

vamsipk — Sat, 20 May 2017 21:56:01 +0000

And specifically why not Bing?

New comment by vamsipk in "Pixel Security"

vamsipk — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:07:51 +0000

>I can’t send my $800 phone to the manufacturer and pay some extra money to get it repaired like I could if this was a Samsung or Apple device.

It's not warranty or free repairs he is asking for isn't it? He is asking for paid support.

New comment by vamsipk in "Happiness is a Boring Stack"

vamsipk — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:52:35 +0000

Thanks to you and your team. That's very impressive especially considering only 5% (max 15%) load on the CPU. Are the systems underutilized in this case, if so is there a reason?

New comment by vamsipk in "Introducing .NET Standard"

vamsipk — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:32:14 +0000

_packages are awesome. npm is weird and hellish because people write single-function packages, but that isn't the case in other ecosystems_

I have no knowledge of how NuGet works but is there anything in NuGet that is stopping the developers from writing/using single line packages?