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itsrajjuon Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

draw.io _does_ have a paid tier for its JIRA/Confluence integration[0].

[0]: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210933/draw-io-diagr...

itsrajjuon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)

Location: Delhi/NCR, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, AWS, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mg017wo50vfnlfa/resume_rajatarora_...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat190/

Email: r@rajat.co

I'm a software developer with 7 years of experience building backends for web apps. I'm comfortable with microservice architectures and building scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Open to full-time opportunities only.

itsrajjuon Build a Team that Ships (2012)

Well it's good that it's up on the internet. Gives you and me data on which companies to avoid.

itsrajjuon Office noise generator

Salespeople in my org have always been in a separate, though adjacent, building. I never knew that their noisy celebrations were a thing until I had to get on a same bus as some of them on 31st of a month.

The jubilation of those who had made the target... MY GOD!!

itsrajjuon Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

I think it stands for _Highest Paid Person's Opinion_

itsrajjuon GitHub Archive Program

This happened to me a couple of years ago. Lost my phone, no recovery codes, so no access to github. Contacted support, they told me that they wouldn't be able to restore access even when I was communicating with the email associated with my account.

Luckily I only had public repos, so I created a new account and forked them all. Support had told me that if there isn't any login activity in the blocked account for a period of six months, they would delete the account and release the username. And yes, I had to follow up after six months were up to make that happen.

itsrajjuon Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

Shift+PrintScreen. It freezes the screen and lets you draw a rectangle over the area you want to capture.

itsrajjuon Show HN: Soliloquy – Note-taking for power users

Can't access the website. HN death effect?

itsrajjuon SanDisk 1TB MicroSD Card Review

25 cents you mean? :)

itsrajjuon We can't get enough of audiobooks

I moved on to audiobooks from podcasts. I had a hard time developing a podcast habit (mostly around comprehension), but once I got a hang of it and started enjoying the experience, audiobooks were a logical next step.

itsrajjuon We can't get enough of audiobooks

I listen at 0.8x, especially when listening to fiction. Reading is certainly much faster, but I tend to enjoy more while listening to soothing, meandering speech by the voice actor.

itsrajjuon Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals

Or better... have an email address like papers@authorname.com which receives requests with the title of the paper in the subject line, and a piece of software then receives the request, waits for a random amount of time (anywhere between 10 mins to a couple hours), and then sends the paper to the requester.

It would seem that the author personally received the email and replied with an attachment as a "professional courtesy", while completely automating the process in the background.

itsrajjuon GitHub Learning Lab

Last couple of years have been really great for newcomers to any kind of tech really. Resources like this Learning Lab, freecodecamp, react.games etc. have really opened up a lot of avenues for anyone to learn how to code - no experience required!

I can only hope that this results in better developers entering the workforce few years from now.

itsrajjuon FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

It also helps that they are based out of Switzerland, which has better privacy laws than almost every country out there!

itsrajjuon New Pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions

Check out Migadu. They are a Swiss company and offer unlimited domains and mailboxes for just $4 a month. The only drawback is that you can only send 100 emails a day combined from all your email addresses. Good for personal use I guess.

They also have higher tiers if you want to send more emails.

https://www.migadu.com/en/pricing.html

itsrajjuon Show HN: Jetpack – Webpack made more convenient

The eventual evolution of DO into an AWSesque service provider is how market becomes ripe for yet another 'lite' service :)

itsrajjuon Ask HN: ISP Survey

1) New Delhi, India

2) More than 10 - Airtel, Excitel, Den, Spectranet, MTNL, Vodafone, Jio, Idea, Tata, Tikona, MTS (and a few others?)

3-4) Highest bandwidth is 150 Mbps, costs around 1500 INR a month (~$22). No data cap that I know of.

5) Cheapest is definitely Jio. 1.4 GB a day at 4G speeds (mobile broadband) and after that unlimited at 64kbps. Costs 400 INR (~$6) for 84 days.

6) Service for Jio is spotty. Service for that 150 Mbps plan (Spectranet) is top notch.

7) Yes, MTNL is a govt entity. Their plans have no data caps but are very expensive as compared to others.

8) Definitely like my ISP. I get 100 Mbps from Excitel at 800 INR a month (~$12). I can almost achieve 96 Mbps downstream and 90 upstream. No data caps. No major connectivity issues either (the connection may drop around once a month but I don't mind)

itsrajjuon Searching For Sundar Pichai

It's written by Mat Honan, who earlier used to write for Wired.