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avikalpaon India’s fintech revolution is primed to put banks out of business

Optimism is Good. But that is just marketing.

avikalpaon Why Microsoft Wanted LinkedIn

Because they want to dominate the web as much as they can from the clutches of Google.

Another view, is to tighten their grip on the Enterprise consumers. Since, MS Office is their last remaining undisturbed stronghold.

Disclaimer: These are just views ;)

avikalpaon Ask HN: Gracefully declining support for some major browsers?

Your App loading speed is same in both Firefox and Chrome latest versions.

IMO, I would recommend you to support both Firefox and Chrome.

Let me give you an example, I had never heard of Polarr Editor. Then one fine day as I browsed the Chrome store I found it to be pretty good. It even has a web version for both Chrome and Firefox. But it lacks so much exposure.

Same goes for webflow.

Why lose consumers?

Conclusion, There are some Apps in the Chrome web store exclusive to Chrome that suffer from the inexposure to Firefox.

Most developers use both Chrome and FF alternatively as they wish. And FF's share of users is more tech oriented.

1% of web browser share equivalents around 1 million users or more.

Now, the math is self-explanatory.

Hope it helps.

avikalpaon Google Fonts Redesigned

Is it just me of the Google fonts page look a lot like the Microsoft Metro design?

avikalpaon Google Fonts Redesigned

Yes. The latest version of Firefox has cache issues. The same in Chrome was working perfectly after a single refresh. Sad. I love Firefox.

avikalpaon Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News?

You're rather mistaken my friend. Hacker News existed a long time before AWS. It has 2 servers - 1 production, 1 standby, running FreeBSD.

FreeBSD is the OS of choice for them.