ShirsenduK

Location: Darjeeling, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Ruby-on-Rails, React, TypeScript

Résumé/CV: https://www.troysk.com (Visual) || https://www.troysk.com/Resume.pdf (Text)

Email: hn@troysk.com

I am a fullstack engineer who has been working professionally for 15 years. Most of them have been remotely. I have worked on one of the most trafficked RoR sites and built analytics tracking for a top social network.

In India, you can get the complete nation's vehicle data along with personal information of the owners.

They say, data is the new oil, so exploit it!

https://inc42.com/buzz/indian-govt-is-selling-vehicle-owner-...

Wouldn't the profiles feature be good enough to isolate the two identities?

Thanks for clarifying! I should give Firefox a try again, when I tried last time it wasn't good enough. Chrome's devtools had many features of timing and performance which were absent or not good enough last time I tried.

Yes, Firefox is good for browsing but as a developer who has to work on the frontend, the ecosystem isn't there in Firefox. Many of the framework debugging tools for React, Redux, etc. don't work well in Firefox.

Slightly off topic: Does anyone else have the problem of constantly being logged out of your Google accounts on Brave. I keep getting logged out even without closing the browser. I have tweeted to them but haven't been able to get a response. I am so annoyed with the experience that I stopped recommending it and am planning to switch back to Chrome.

Edit: I have multiple Google accounts signed into. And also, it does not block all ads in GMail which uBlock on Chrome is able to.

I mentioned the facts and your observations about my personal opinions are incorrect. I want EVs too but the price conscious Indian market won't buy them at current prices/performance.

1. Even the top courts in India have questioned the government on it but the government has no answer. I am not sure what information you have that you can emphasise that it has to. There is no political/public pressure only a marketing one.

2. Exactly! But enforcing of shorter deadlines by government is not going to help anyone and result in a few outrages by the road by the drivers and forgotten by everyone by the next news cycle.

Ofcourse I don't; as I am not a climate scientist who is doing research on it. I am from India and am giving a reality check. As for how switch to electric cars, I have answered @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20117147.

HN threads are for healthy discussions and I would not expect a solution to climate change here.

Your language is aggressive & attacks me personally and I am not going to respond further.

When did I say that?

Replacing new and working oil cars with new electric cars in a short timeline is a poor decision which is far off from reality.

Please read the complete statement again.

A car without a 100 mile range is toy, you are welcome to have your own opinion. Range anxiety is real for a car buyer.

And the car size, range and pricing competitive? A VC handing out money to a startup will not usher electric taxis. People will need to start buying them because they are better, cheaper and more powerful.

Indian cars/manufacturing/importing has different economics and pollution impacts. You are free do your own research and make up your mind.

I am not against electric cars, I want them. I am against the idea to replace cars which have already contributed to significant pollution being removed from road.

The lowest hanging fruit for me is to get US and other top polluters to reduce pollution. India and China are doing good already as they are increasing more green cover. The reality is the India car drivers cannot afford the cheaper electric cars, forget about Tesla.

Ola/Uber cars are mostly new taken on loan in India.

China has shown the way to do the transfer. Super high taxes for registration of a petrol/diesel car and free registration for an electric one. Build cars at home and subsidise its components.

No hand-waving required. Just make it more affordable. Let capitalism finish the job.

Electric cars produce more CO2 during manufacturing.

Indian taxis/cars on Indian roads do worse.

India's electric market is 60% coal.

"If you want good return-on-investment, taxis are the first vehicles we should be regulating. They drive a lot more than the average car." - Who is the you here? The car driver who is trying to make ends meet?

Semi-rural India should not suffer too!

Please lookup charts of air pollution in the world, there are multiple smaller cities of India which are manufacturing hubs and on the list.

There is nothing called controlled pollution. And even if there is a technical feasibility like Carbon Capture and Storage it is not enforced.

I cannot recall a source as I read it at multiple places and the math made sense. This was the first link that showed up when I googled just now. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...

This is what they said 12 years back. https://www.tesla.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushless-mot...

Congrats!

Is the team is only EU men? https://mobilejazz.com/team

The Internet!

I wrote about this model few days back. https://medium.com/@troysk/saving-journalism-with-cryptocurr...

ingenieroariel is being humble here. He is one of the first (if not the first) to do this with the Ford Fusion.

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/issues/1

Hottest course in AI town!!!

(I was trying to be sarcastic. Thankful for the courses :)).

This is so uncool!

This is again going to take up my weekends just like their previous course. :D

Congrats on the new course! Thank you. :)

I hear it as ending with yeah! As no one says no to them. :P

Although I live in that area and don't drink tea.

The local Nepali speaking people of Darjeeling, which is famous its champagne of teas, call it chi-yah. Close to Cha but not quite.

It does. The bitcoin protocol adjusts its difficulty every 2 weeks by analysing the number of miners in the network. The adjustment is such that a block is discovered every ~10 minutes.

I have worked mostly on frontend development and have to say that the quality of pixel perfect code being generated will make many a designers happy!

Super awesome!