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amitheonlyone··on What went wrong for Yahoo
Yea this is just pure bs. If you had taken to search for the name, you'd have found the wiki explaining the name's origin. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghavan

Also,Raghavan is most probably his father's name and Prabhakar will be his given name.

amitheonlyone··on Show HN: MoodieMoovy – A free; movie recommender with a strong algorithm
Not really good. It recommended me X for "Amused" and Joker for "relaxed"
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: Learn German with Short Stories
I am experiencing an issue where if you click a word to get translation, a new Google search with 'translate "war" to english' opens. The problem is that it doesn't try to translate from German. Instead it translates the English word 'war' to Latin for some reason. I think a better search keyword is 'translate "war" from german to english'
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
This is really cool. I usually end up doing some weird math during development and I usually use the browser developer tools which is a bit cumbersome. This might help me replace it.
amitheonlyone··on Ask HN: What are you using to manage in your team the projects/features?
The website kitemaker.co is super laggy in Firefox (101.0.1, Win11) and it slows down other open tabs as well. Not sure if it's just for me
amitheonlyone··on Eight hundred employees resign after WhiteHat Jr asks them to work from office
Last news I saw was that Whitehat Jr withdrew their case
amitheonlyone··on Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
The story does say: Now, villagers reported that the monkeys are targeting small children which has created a panic within the village.
amitheonlyone··on Ask HN: Ryzen 5 Gaming laptop for development
I had used PopOs with an Nvidia card before. And it worked out of the box. I did have issues with some of the driver updates and had to roll back the driver multiple times
amitheonlyone··on Ask HN: Ryzen 5 Gaming laptop for development
I have used a Lenovo laptop with PoP OS, which had a dedicated NVIDIA card. I don't game too heavy, just some small platformers and occassionally CSGO. And with a 512 GB SSD, I might also need to expand the storage if I plan to game more I guess
amitheonlyone··on Ask HN: Ryzen 5 Gaming laptop for development
It looks like I don't have an option to bump the RAM up and there's only the 8GB variant for the model you mentioned. I hope there won't be any drastic performance difference between i5 and Ryzen 5 4600H
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: Mail Studio – IDE for designing responsive emails
I don't completely agree with your opinion. It's true that emails that are crowded with styled elements are not ideal. But I feel that there is a sweet spot where you have nicely formatted and designed emails that look and communicate pretty well.
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
You have a typo in the line "You don't have to choose between free or privacy friendy."

I believe you meant 'friendly'

amitheonlyone··on India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi
But you do fail to mention that the true democracy passed the bill without proper discussion and also with a voice vote even when the opposition asked for a division vote. Then there is the thing that even when the said governement is willing to discuss, they are not really ready to compromise.

This is just the tip of the iceberg and I don't want to go on to a full length rant here on HN on a political post. But I believe that the media should always be against the government first. And not like Indian media which are dubbed as Godi media because it is so biased for the government, even reporting fake news at times.

amitheonlyone··on HuffPost India is history, thanks to new FDI norms
No, the media should not be pro government. Yes, the media should be against the government first and should criticize and be sceptical on whatever the government is doing. And if after checking the facts, the government seems to be doing good, it's okay to compliment. But media should never be pro government.
amitheonlyone··on No More Google
I am one of those. I really want to degoogle but everything from my phone to my work depends on Google. The one thing I have done is stopped using Chrome on my laptop. But even then I have to use it occassionally because some websites won't behave properly in Firefox.
amitheonlyone··on Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
You really don't have to control though. Information itself is enough in the most part. As you said, Google already knows, but it has it's own procedure in fulfilling government requests. With the information directly in the hands of the government, that barrier is gone.
amitheonlyone··on Modi government to set up app store alternative to Google Play, Apple App Store
What is their aim by having an alternate app store? Maybe make the manufacturers install it by default as a system app with all the permissions enabled by default? It'd be pretty easy to have a control over what people are seeing or using if so. It's just guess work but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the idea.
amitheonlyone··on Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making”
I believe that the warnings you get when trying to install an APK downloaded using the browser is necessary. Especially with older people, it is much like a firewall and will prevent them from installing malware or 'spammy' apps.
amitheonlyone··on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
The thing is they may not. For all we know, they're hearing about pull requests the first time and just seeing the presenter showing how easy it is to do, by altering/adding a few words, and get a free t-shirt. I think the blame is all on the channel. The least he could've made a proper pull request by fixing an issue. That said, the blame should also go on DO since they could've made hacktoberfest opt-in. Instead they encourage PRs on any public repo.
amitheonlyone··on Identifying Airtel middleboxes that censor HTTPS traffic
This is completely off-topic but the strike-through on links had me confused for a good few minutes. I was not clicking on those because I thought the link were not valid today and hence it has strike-through.
amitheonlyone··on Investigating TLS Blocking in India
Do i have to keep it installed or is it a one-off thing
amitheonlyone··on Launch HN: Scrimba (YC S20) – Interactive video for learning to code
Why do you guys not have an Imba course on Scrimba? I can't find anything about Imba in the 'All Courses' section
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI
I got score 42 and 60 on visual appearance. My site is just a black page with a content editable paragraph.

With only two likes of text, which looks something like

Notes

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Wtire your notes here

amitheonlyone··on Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
The problem I have with Namecheap is that I can't make purchases with Indian debit cards while with Godaddy, Bank transfer, UPI and Indian Debit cards are accepted. I have a few domains which I really want to switch to another provider and checked out Namecheap twice but had payment issues. I even tried Paypal which didn't work either.
amitheonlyone··on Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
I don't know anything about STUN or TURN servers. I saw some credentials in the script.js file. Is it dummy or is it okay to make this public?
amitheonlyone··on Kotlin 1.4
I agree. I tried Kotlin when I was working on an Android app and it was a pleasant experience. Somehow, everything easily makes sense and the Android Studio support for Kotlin is excellent. I followed two Udacity courses before starting on the app. If it helps anyone, these are the courses:

Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers[0]

Developing Android Apps with Kotlin[1]

There's also an advanced android development course which is a follow up which I am going through now.

[0] https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-...

amitheonlyone··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
So it is pretty intuitive to use. But when I tried to export, it asked for sign up. So I signed up and I was taken to the dashboard where I couldn't find the story I was working on till then. :(
amitheonlyone··on A game of tag that’s been going for 20+ years
This was very entertaining. I had to stop after a while but had to bookmark it to check out in the future
amitheonlyone··on Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
I don't understand why they need to have different apps doing the same thing. I am on the same boat as you, using Hangouts for video calls quite frequently. Instead of releasing a new app like Duo, they should have first fixed performance issues with Hangouts and added this as an update. Then there is Allo. Google has weird thinking.
amitheonlyone··on Gimp 2.9.4 Released
I've been using Linux (Well only Ubuntu and Fedora to be fair) without any kind of dual boot to Windows set up for like 5 years now. Before that, I always used to have a Windows installation along with the Linux OS. But as I started getting comfortable with Linux, I just didn't feel like booting up Windows. The only thing I miss is the availability and the performance of games on Linux machines. Also used to have driver issues when I started but almost everything works out of the box now. Currently on Ubuntu 16.04.
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