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kirankn··on Ask HN: Fastest WordPress Alternatives
Wordpress on wpx.net
kirankn··on Ask HN: Fastest WordPress Alternatives
webflow
kirankn··on Ask HN: What project management tool do you use for software development?
Try the Linear app. It's simple and does the job quite well.
kirankn··on Ask HN: Have you found a good desk chair?
Herman Miller Mirra is awesome !
kirankn··on ClickHouse: An open-source column-oriented database management system
If you have something like Kafka before you insert your events into CH, you could consider enriching the event data by connecting with your Postgres data. That way, you still retain a flat CH table which should work just fine.
kirankn··on Alar: The making of an open-source dictionary
Wonderful effort folks. You are definitely creating something that's going to last a long time and help a lot of people. Zerodha is a company I will adore from now on.
kirankn··on Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service
Would this be a replacement for something like Divolte? If yes, any specific reason why one should choose EventNative over Divolte, except for the "made in go" argument?
kirankn··on Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?
I would say, functional programming for sure.
kirankn··on Ask HN: Opinions on Apache Druid engine
We haven't used Druid yet. We did a high level comparison among Druid, Clickhouse & Pinot from material available on the internet. Apparently, all 3 have similar mechanisms. But druid is a little expensive to deploy when at a smaller scale. Clickhouse seems to be performant too. We seem to be inclining towards Clickhouse.
kirankn··on Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you?
Agree that your health becomes the highest priority as you realise that your family depends on you.
kirankn··on A Word About Apple’s OS Betas
Burnt my fingers with Catalina. Too many issues for it to be released as a public beta. Very much unlike Mojave which was almost problem-free at beta. (Happily back on Mojave now).
kirankn··on I will now charge my clients a fee to support open source projects
Like the idea !
kirankn··on Ask HN: What would you recommend a 14y/o to learn over the next 2 years?
I would suggest a combination of Elm and Elixir :-) If you gain a good handle on these, you are bound to impress good employers
kirankn··on Ask HN: Best shortcuts for doing math in your head
Try to get hold of this Indian book: Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/8120801636/).

I have also heard of a Trachtenberg Speed system (https://www.amazon.com/Trachtenberg-Speed-System-Basic-Mathe...).

kirankn··on Ask HN: How do I 3x my performance?
I consider someone doing okay if he/she is not having one of the following issues.

(a) He/She lost someone close or someone you love has a life-threatening disease. He/She most likely is having a tough time comprehending life/death or the futility of aspiring to be like someone else. Life changes in a moment and everything that was important thus far becomes insignificant.

(b) He/She has a tooth ache. You'll agree that when someone has a tooth ache, nothing else matters

I'm sure there are other examples that portray my point. But I think the root cause of this feeling of appearing "incomplete" or "not enough" to yourself is that we as humans tend to unnecessarily compare ourselves with others. I'm not saying you shouldn't have goals to achieve, but just that those goals shouldn't have origins in somebody else's seemingly successful life.

Any small success you achieve on a day-to-day basis should be celebrated. And believe me, a string of such small kinds of successes will make you contented.

kirankn··on Beta Testing Opportunity for World's Fastest Mesh Router
I'm interested to participate. I'm in Bangalore, India and I currently use a combination of Linksys/DLink routers with a Netgear repeater to connect at home. We have setup Ubiquiti at our office and it will help compare. Let me know.
kirankn··on Examples of AMP-like JavaScript approaches?
Search for JAM stack and static site generators like GatsbyJS, Hugo, Jekyll etc.
kirankn··on Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0
Looking at moving a fairly large site to Gatsby. Hoping v2 improvements will help us.
kirankn··on Streaming of videos
Try Wistia.. Harder to download
kirankn··on Anyone using a E-Ink screen for writing/programming?
I use Remarkable (https://remarkable.com/) and it's been quite good. I have heard the Sony one is also okay.
kirankn··on Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
41. Connecting GatsbyJS to Wordpress. Awesome software, both of them. Learning about them now.
kirankn··on Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
Joplin is a good Evernote replacement and has been getting updates quite frequently. Love it.
kirankn··on Elixir: A Mini-Documentary [video]
Awesome language and wonderful people
kirankn··on Ask HN: What would you do with a 1 TB of RAM workstation?
haha.. so would I :-)
kirankn··on Gatsby announces a $3.8M seed round and the formation of Gatsby Inc
Agree. If the open source project doesn't provide a good incremental build, it will lose to a project which does.
kirankn··on Ask HN: Do I have the right to delete an account someone created with my email?
Besides, it would mean that the service (website) is so bad that they do not verify email ownership before allowing creation of the a/c with this email id.
kirankn··on Ask HN: Do I have the right to delete an account someone created with my email?
I face this problem all the time. It's idiotic for people to put someone else's email id. This causes a lot of spam. However, I typically try to give them a chance to correct. If the spam still persists, I just go ahead and delete the a/c.
kirankn··on Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
I think he meant acquisition.
kirankn··on Ask HN: What is a good book on how to negotiate?
Value Negotiation: By Horacio Falcao https://www.amazon.com/Value-Negotiation-Finally-Win-Win-Rig...
kirankn··on Turning a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware
Very impressive..
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