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kgdinesh

30 karma · joined July 1, 2014

Software Engineer from India
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kgdinesh··on Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
Will this design change take a hit on the base iPad? I'm looking to get one and wondering if I should get the M3 air instead?
kgdinesh··on Microsoft Azure Outage
At work, we all got kicked out of a teams meeting an hour back and sending/receiving e-mails on Outlook seems to be slow.

Location: Chennai, India

kgdinesh··on Ask HN: Has remote work made you move to a new location or consider it?
You're basically living my dream. Do you ever travel to US for work?
kgdinesh··on Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022
I see the US Model as "Optimistic". Let the transactions through and fight back fraud with a strong chargeback mechanism.

Whereas the Indian Model is "Pessimistic". Put in as much checks as possible to reduce the rate of fraud before the transaction has even completed.

Thoughts?

kgdinesh··on Bank transfers as a payment method
care to explain?
kgdinesh··on [dead]
It was down for last 10 minutes.

Location: India

kgdinesh··on Choice Architecture [pdf]
Curently reading https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Final-Richard-H-Thaler/dp/01431... as a result of listening to that podcast. who thought behavioural economics would be a fun to read?
kgdinesh··on Amazon.com product pages are down
its back up for amazon.in
kgdinesh··on Listen to radio stations from around the world
had a great time listening to some music from Madagascar
kgdinesh··on Show HN: High-five strangers around the world in real-time
Meanwhile.. I've been highfive-ing myself in two different tabs for the last 5 mins.
kgdinesh··on Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes
The page doesn't load for me (Location: Chennai, India)
kgdinesh··on Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese innovation
Are they serious about this?
kgdinesh··on Quantum Dots Shift Sunlight's Spectrum to Speed Plant Growth
I wonder what would be the side-effects of speeding up plant growth.
kgdinesh··on Personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
Now only if there was a way to take this across channels.
kgdinesh··on Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’
In India, SMS services are blocked for the first 24 hours whenever a SIM is changed. This creates a bottleneck for the hackers but doesn't quite solve the problem.
kgdinesh··on Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”
Anyone else getting a "Untrusted SSL Server Certificate" on the page?
kgdinesh··on My Cognitive Bias – A cognitive bias explained every time you open a new tab
If one's aware of all the cognitive biases, does it really make his/her life better?
kgdinesh··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)
As someone with 6+ YoE, what is the range of comp that I can expect?
kgdinesh··on Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say
I think battling Fake News on WhatsApp should come first before launching a Cryptocurrency. I believe Blockchain can help in the former too.
kgdinesh··on Gitlab 500 error
you guys need to read this blog https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
kgdinesh··on Dumber phone
Interesting. I'm gonna try this and see.
kgdinesh··on You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
can you elaborate?
kgdinesh··on Google will ban all cryptocurrency-related advertising
So Google is joining the #CRAEFULGANG?
kgdinesh··on Deprecation notice: Removing anonymous gist creation
I'm surprised they kept this feature active for so long. Exposing a product / feature without authorization is like opening the flood gates for spam zombies to invade.
kgdinesh··on Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
In that case, your website is one HN post away from getting slash-dotted.
kgdinesh··on Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
Thanks!
kgdinesh··on Apple Rejects Academic App That Detects Net Neutrality Violations
Does anyone have the link to the research paper behind this app?
kgdinesh··on Show HN: HyperLogLog intersections
Useful library. I hope someone out there is writing one for Java as well.
kgdinesh··on Show HN: Aredis–redis client for Python(also has support for sentinel and cluster)
Looks Great. On a side note, Just Wondering whether folks are still doing sentinel based deployments when cluster has been stable for quite some time now.
kgdinesh··on Uber drivers gang up to cause surge pricing, research says
Uber Drivers in India have been doing this since 2015.
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