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bishala

313 karma · joined September 16, 2016

I am a tech blogger and an online marketing expert who dabbles in Ruby off and on. My newest site is http://www.getbeststuff.com, a site that features the latest coupons and deals from various merchants.
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bishala··on Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
Really very impressive. The applications like Paint, Notepad etc. actually work! WOW!
bishala··on Telegram: Video Calls and Seven Years
Its hands down the smoothest, fastest and most reliable messenger out there. And I don't have to ever worry about losing messages between devices or taking backups.
bishala··on Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
"meme language". lol thats hilarious.
bishala··on Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
was about to comment the same before seeing your comment.
bishala··on .NET Core 3.0 Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
Tencent - pretty rockstar in China.
bishala··on Ask HN: How comfortable do you feel using cloud-based password managers?
Thanks for the great responses!
bishala··on An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic
Why do you think Word is an abomination? Among all the word processors, I find it to be the best.
bishala··on Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back
Related thread on Twitter https://twitter.com/whitequark/status/1164395585056604160
bishala··on Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic
That's sad. I am sure Yahoo could have made more than that in 3 months by just injecting 3rd party ads.
bishala··on Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
I used to use Remember the Milk back in the day, it was pretty good. Their real time syncing across multiple devices was great!
bishala··on Evernote Blows Up the ‘Fail Fast’ Gospel
Emacs Org Mode is not even a competition, not many people apart from developers using Linux use it and its not cloud based. Instead One Note is a great competition to Evernote.
bishala··on My MacBook Pro exploded and burst into flames
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary...
bishala··on Scaling to 1M active GraphQL subscriptions on Postgres
Not really. Some other functional languages (eg. F#) don't seem as arcane as Haskell.
bishala··on Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application
LOL at that second sentence :)
bishala··on A Bunch of Money on AWS and Some Benchmark Results
He said that he doesn't want to reiterate what he already said on Twitter. That twitter thread is quite a few tweets long so I think it makes sense to just link to it.
bishala··on .NET 5
I don't see that, there is a healthy balance of positive and negative comments.
bishala··on Show HN: WordPress Running on .Net Core
Is this using Peachpie?
bishala··on ‏ 21compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes [pdf]
Yes its Graydon Hoare.
bishala··on What's New in Visual Studio 2019
Didn't know Visual Studio supported Java.
bishala··on Sublime Text 3.2 Released
People are following the "hype train" because VSCode is actually a much better and polished editor than Sublime text. Even people who absolutely detested Microsoft have grown a liking for VSCode.

Performance difference used to be palpable 1-2 years ago, not so much now. VSCode is on par with Sublime text in terms of speed(at least for me). I still have Sublime text open all the time for quick note taking, recursive searching etc. but for any coding work, VSCode seems way more polished and gives a better development experience.

bishala··on Sublime Text 3.2 Released
99% of the end users only care about the product, not how the developers are making ends meet.
bishala··on Sublime Text 3.2 Released
Agree with you. VSCode used to be somewhat slower about a year back but not anymore. Yes it uses more RAM than Sublime but for anyone with a decent computer, that is not a concern. The productivity boost with VSCode is much better than with Sublime. Especially for Javascript, there is not even a contest.
bishala··on VSCode January 2019 (version 1.31) released
I think this is only a problem when working unplugged. I have visual studio code sitting idle all the time and it really doesn't seem to slow down my system. It generally only uses about 500MB of RAM with two windows open with multiple tabs on each. I have 16GB of RAM but thats not much compared to today's standards.

Sublime text using 300mb of RAM is a little odd. Generally in my case, its uses around 20-25MB with 50+ tabs opened.

bishala··on Ask HN: NET Core a Viable Alternative to Django and Rails?
Couldn't agree more. .NET core is amazing. I generally use Ruby with microframeworks like Roda for most of my projects. But now after spending some time with ASP.NET Core, I don't think I would want to do any web project in a dynamically typed language/framework. The tooling is also awesome with ASP.Net Core.
bishala··on Ask HN: NET Core a Viable Alternative to Django and Rails?
I would say the support is pretty good for non-Windows based OSes already. Giants like Bing and Tencent have been using .NET Core in production for some time now.
bishala··on Ending our Medium integration
or just plain old Wordpress.
bishala··on Is Firefox under performing because of its Rust powered engine, Servo?
I see...but I don't have any addons installed (because I generally don't use Firefox these days).
bishala··on Visual Studio Code 1.30 Released
The release notes page of Visual Studio Code is always so well detailed and nicely done.
bishala··on Why Use F#?
Tencent FiT, a division of Tencent have been using .NET Core in production for a while now https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/tencent-telecomm...
bishala··on Google Fusion Tables Shutting Down
I hope we don't hear news of Google sunsetting any more of their products in 2018(first Google Plus and now Fusion Tables).
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