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chauhankiran

974 karma · joined February 16, 2017

I design software for and with people
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chauhankiran··on Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
As robots are creating products, they are using all the space possible making human to interact difficult (think about opening a screw). Previously, those products created by human hands, making it possible to interact by other human hands (as maintainer).

Now, I think same about making programs by AI. They do sometimes in such a way that makes future maintenance harder.

The problem comes when price is not cheap.

chauhankiran··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
With this, people will come here and the go. I mean consider the example of many GNU/Linux users I know who use GNU/Linux (or for them Linux means Ubuntu) system and can ask them to try out Waterfox. But, about installation - can't we have .deb? I know we can easily install from tarball and then setup the .desktop file and then adjust the icon to properly display, and what not...But, Can we make a bit simpler to try?
chauhankiran··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
I was in one seminar, and someone asked a question about future to Harish Mehta (one of the founder of NASSCOM), and he said that big companies will become bigger for at least next 10 years.
chauhankiran··on Plasma 6.4 review – A worrying trend
I still feel that Trinity was good than all these newer versions. Can't we have support for something (let it be Wayland, touchscreen, handheld, etc) with same UI than changing the UI again and again to support something (trend, flashy UI, etc).
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I'm still working on simple CRM system https://github.com/chauhankiran/rms CRM without complexity.
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
I'm creating a simple and lightweight CRM (customer relationship management) as RMS (record management system) system. Code is too early state to try.

I've take the different approach in building this system as it is traditional MVC architecture in Node with Express, Postgres, Pug, etc. as technologies.

https://github.com/chauhankiran/rms

chauhankiran··on TTE: Terminal Text Effects
Movie material!
chauhankiran··on Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
Even further nowadays, docs are created using Docusaurus. I don't have problem with it but documentation should be good (eye) friendly than easy to write. Why not be creative while writing docs such as -

Backbone.js - https://backbonejs.org Or https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html as code annotation. jQuery - https://api.jquery.com/ Bootstrap v3.x - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/ Go docs - https://pkg.go.dev/std

chauhankiran··on Actually using Ed (2012)
If you think ed is confusing or complicated, remember that Ken used ed to build Unix.
chauhankiran··on Hello, World in GTK with Vala
No specific reason. I just pick Grid and continue with it.
chauhankiran··on Brooks, Wirth and Go
I want to know what author or others think about Elixir? I recently started learning and found it interesting and something totally new than what I know.
chauhankiran··on You can't tell people anything (2004)
It is hard to explain something which is in your mind and haven't implemented. But, for my day-to-day talk with something who don't know my situation, I explain by jumping in her situation and give the feel by comparison.

For example, if I have to explain her about how I feel today at work when I was assigned with front-end task that I don't know as I'm back-end developer and just spent complete day to solve that small problem. I usually use her context like, you're tailor and you know how to make shirt but now you assigned to do some alter work on pant because you know tailoring.

chauhankiran··on Julia Academy: Learn ML, Parallel Programming, Julia and More
I'm facing Error 1014 CNAME Cross-User Banned error.
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
I was in meet-up where one of attendee asked a question to speaker on how to say no to customer when they have crazy requirements?

Speaker - There some times when you can't say no and in that situation you have to choose different path. One of my customer asked me to create the existing CRM like Google search page. It should show only one search box in front and all search should work like Google. I said sure and here is the budget for this change. After hearing the $$$ she just stop asking for!

chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm writing a book on Crystal programming language in fun, dialogues way - https://chauhankiran.github.io/crystalie/
chauhankiran··on India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July
The space program department[1] is under prime minister authority. So, this is the obvious one.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Modi_ministry

chauhankiran··on Ubuntu 19.04 comes refreshed with the Linux 5.0 kernel
They have wrongly written "Microsoft Visual Studio available as a snap". It should be "Microsoft Visual Studio Code available as a snap"
chauhankiran··on Seven databases in seven weeks (2014)
Its look like publisher has whole series on "Seven X in Seven Weeks"
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: Why do tutorial writers combine 10 technologies when 1 or 2 would do?
The most frustrated things I found with nowadays tutorials is misguided prerequisite. If you read prerequisite of tutorials, you might read that famous word - "for absolute beginners" but then they throw 40 lines of program in features introduction.

The main thing we must have to fix is - "truth about prerequisite" Its okay to have different target audience than absolute beginners.

chauhankiran··on Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?
Added in Watch later yesterday. Absolutely fun and knowledgeable. You might also check his home page[1], contains good and important stuff like this one.

[1]. https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens

chauhankiran··on Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
Yes.

1. It was taking too much time than supposed to take. 2. There are lots of information on a page which actually I don't want to see or read.

Yeah, sometimes I fill like I'm missing something when my friends taking each other like, "Oh, you did this and that. I saw your photos on fb". But, hey it is okay to not present everyplace, right!

chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful to my two primary teachers for their support. One of them is not with us on this earth and second, I don't know where she is.

but, when I think about my life back in the past how it was, I always think about them as how they are supportive to me. Otherwise, there was no way for me to study engineering as my parents already planned to give 12th standard education and then to involve in our small family business. But because of them, I came up with a bright student and my parent allow me to study further. I'm also thankful to my family. But as of now, I'm thinking about my fav. teachers.

chauhankiran··on The Flask Mega-Tutorial (2012)
Anybody know something similar on Node.js, Express or MEAN?
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
Which version? I mean you have read direct Sanskrit version or any translation by B. Tilak or Vinoba Bhave or from others?
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: What was the one book that you read and it actually changed your life?
Ganesha was way before ( even before Krishna ) Buddha. So, not sure from where you get this to info.
chauhankiran··on Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows
Might it failed, but there lots of advantages. All cash, directly or indirectly is countable now before was considered as Black Money. Transaction started to grow online. People started to become aware more about the payments. And people really give second thought when doing big deal with cash
chauhankiran··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
Yeah! That's true. Recently Ahmedabad city also bans Plastic like Mumbai. But, in last few years, I have heard this same news three times.
chauhankiran··on Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
What are the thing that is intresting ( as per your opinion, if you are willing to share? )? I mean not everybody will get the job they like and it will be the boring thing to do ( but, still we have to do this boring job! ). But, life shouldn't be boring and it should be beautiful and enjoying.
chauhankiran··on Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?
I know that the star is a de-facto way to calculate the popularity of particular repo. But, let me put aside this calculation for a moment, then I myself have stats around 250 repos and more than 40% of it, I have starred just because to refer it sometime later, not because I like it or love it, just for future ref., when I have to work on something that might need help or ref. from that particular repo.

So, if there is something that have a way bookmarks the repo then chances are hight these repos have lesser stars. Also, there is popular trend nowadays I see that 100 other developers have starred one repo for some particular reason that chances are hight that other 5 developers might star it because they just follow the developer, who have starred.

chauhankiran··on Penniless Yogi Baba Ramdev Controls a Billion-Dollar Corporation
Patanjali has give a tough competition to other products. I read in local newspaper that, Parle's ( A popular biscuits company ) top level manager saying that, his mother and other family members are eat Patanjali biscuits. i.e. they have competition in their home even!
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