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iamAtom··on Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
Is it truly open source ?
iamAtom··on Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
Not surprising this is why I have switched to Macbook Pro long back.

Windows is to crappy and bloated to deal with and linux desktop is great to some extent but nothing beats the hardware and software synergy provided by Macbook Pro.

iamAtom··on Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter
Well its a diwali in Jupiter I guess
iamAtom··on Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
Imagine how many decisions were made similar to this at the cost of smooth user experience. This is why windows or any MS products will never be my favourite because user experience takes back seat mostly.
iamAtom··on Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
Sometimes I wonder how worse our world could be if Google and Facebook doesn't exist and Microsoft kind of corporates dominating search and social networks.

Products will be shitty AF and no regards even for paid user and expert at annoying them.

iamAtom··on Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
So true. Without amazon retail experience is shit in India
iamAtom··on India’s second wave
Why would you post an article behind pay wall ?
iamAtom··on RSS as a Facebook alternative
One major reason for people to rely on FB is every post carry some weight like author/friend who shared it/likes/comments

RSS is a great alternative but definitely won't make a dent in FB

iamAtom··on AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
Intellij have amazing extensions for database.
iamAtom··on WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
> Penetration of Signal in real world is way too different from what it "feels" here on HN

But we should also remember most of the popular apps right now started with small bubble.

People like HN readers and techies is what going to influence non-tech people in long run.

iamAtom··on Snapdrop – AirDrop equivalent through a web browser using WebRTC
Majority of people want to use Airdrop to share file in same network in my experience.
iamAtom··on Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable
You are talking about server side use cases mostly. This executable will come handy for variety 3rd party apps.
iamAtom··on Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting
"it really didn't completely disrupt a large existing industry" - Have you checked market share of Apple Watch ?
iamAtom··on YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring [video]
Why they aren't punished yet ? This is horrible

Good job @Nick Crowley for exposing this Psychopath

iamAtom··on Google's new logos are bad
Exactly I felt why Google is using this annoying / cheap tactics.
iamAtom··on Facebook Container for Firefox
I wish we have the same for Android apps as well. I don't want random Apps to have full access to my storage instead it can have it's own space.
iamAtom··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
Not sure what VSCode will become in future but for now VSCode is amazing for JS projects, quick browse & edits on adhoc files

But IntelliJ, GoLand, PyCharm etc.. is way more convenient for significant changes in code base.

And the data grip plugin provided by Jetbrains for Postgres / MySQL is light years ahead of any other DB GUI I came across.

iamAtom··on A Picture of Java in 2020
Good luck with working on complex enterprise projects with simplest tool like golang
iamAtom··on Ask HN: Can Dynamo DB Handle Google?
Let's say just search engine.
iamAtom··on The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
In India BSNL Fibernet has stepped up their game. Even rural towns and villages (not all but the list is growing) now have access to 100Mbps internet for ~10 USD
iamAtom··on Netflix Conductor: Open-source workflow orchestration engine
Comparison with Airflow will be helpful.
iamAtom··on Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
Based on radiocarbon dating researchers say GoodReads is built by Ancient Aliens.
iamAtom··on Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
I am gonna open source my video conferencing application which will redirect you to zoom.us
iamAtom··on Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure
Recently my respect to apple is growing more and more because of issues like this. Apple is always criticised for lack of innovations compared to its competitors but their attention to smaller details and ensuring their products just "work" proved to be more valuable to customers than dozens of broken features.

Edit: Of course there are some exceptions like apple maps