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mkrishnan··on Celsius Network Plots a Comeback After a Crypto Crash
Basically they locked out funds when the users needed the funds most. I am wondering why the celsius executives are not arrested yet?
mkrishnan··on Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won’t fix green bubbles
Google version of RCS would cripple iMessage. standard RCS is not good enough to be used in practice. Basically google wants apple to use its own version of iMessage (conveniently calls it as RCS and make it looks like it is standard)
mkrishnan··on Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won’t fix green bubbles
Users to Google: Can you provide better messaging experience?

Google: let me think

Google to Apple: Can you cripple your iMessaging experience so that these people would stop blaming me?

mkrishnan··on Tim Cook revealed the real reason Apple won’t fix green bubbles
Green bubble doesn't need any fixing as such.

Google released 13 + messaging products in last 10 years. Apple provides much better compatibility to google Apps than google itself provides to its own apps lol :)

mkrishnan··on Introducing: Maestro – Painless Mobile UI Automation
Only supports Android?
mkrishnan··on Removal of Heroku free product plans
Actually this is a good decision. Instead of squeezing paying customers to fund the free users, it's better to stop the free plan and offer better service to playing users. There are lots of free hosting plans now a days like every cloud vendor offers some kind of free plans.
mkrishnan··on Heroku will phase out their free tier
Actually this is a good decision. Instead of squeezing paying customers to fund the free users, it's better to stop the free plan and offer better service to playing users. There are lots of free hosting plans now a days like every cloud vendor offers some kind of free plans.
mkrishnan··on Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator
Love it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!.
mkrishnan··on Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development?
Asp.net Forms and WinForms are much much much better rapid development tools than the kinds of bubble/retool etc. The issue is that lots of very young people have very limited set knowledge about the choices available to them.
mkrishnan··on Don't use Kubernetes yet
My advise would be exactly opposite. Dont EVER use serverless container use kubernetes instead if you need scale or not.

1. Use GKS/EKS/LKE/DKS. dont try to setup kubernetes cluster in your server by yourself.

2. It's very simple to setup deployment, database etc. it will take a week of a decent engineer to setup your application in kubernetes cluster - end to end.

3. LKE/DKS is super cheap compared to Heroku.

4. Use github actions (free) and docher hub ($5 month to build your container images) and its very easy, all you need is a weekend.

5. IMPORTANT: It's foolish to architecture your application to fit into serverless container.

mkrishnan··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
bullshit. there are tons of images in this site most are above 10kb, there are several images I could find which are above 20kb.

Jquery is passive, just loading jQuery in the page itself doesn't do any harm. could be some plugins they are using might be doing something unnecessary.

mkrishnan··on Distributed Tracing: The Why, What, and How?
Nice. Thanks
mkrishnan··on YouTube will put ads on non-partner videos but won’t pay the creators (2020)
Well, somehow they need to make money to serve those videos. it seems fair to me.
mkrishnan··on Launch HN: Onfolk (YC S21) – Modern HR and Payroll in One Place (For the UK)
Couldn't agree more - "Fresh, FAST and easy to understand"

wish everyone could this.

mkrishnan··on Show HN: Send and receive anonymous Feedback to grow as a person
Nice work.
mkrishnan··on What is the best way to develop a cross-platform native app in 2021?
Run As Fast As You Can As Far As You Can from frameworks like flutter.

If I were you, I'd develop web app and embed it via web view in native Android/iOS. If you really need platform specific L&F, you can consider react-native.

mkrishnan··on Show HN: Talk V2 – A free and open-source group video call for the web
Any major change from V1?
mkrishnan··on Why you should NOT use NativeScript
+1 to the dart part.
mkrishnan··on Why you should NOT use NativeScript
NativeScript is way better than flutter/dart. NS embraces open web technologies.

As you mentioned, NS has all the substance it needs but like any framework has some rough edges. What NS lacks is the PR army like the one flutter has.

mkrishnan··on Why you should NOT use NativeScript
biggest advantage of flutter is the amount of time/energy spent in marketing flutter itself. dart is given up by google engineers long time ago. There were time where small amount of ads front end written in angular dart (like 10 pages across 4 applications) and those pages replaced with angular/typescript.

Probably you should go with java/kotlin instead of flutter/dart.

mkrishnan··on Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana
seems like a good tool but docker version would be nice.
mkrishnan··on Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code
My opinion: JetBrains IDEs beat every single other IDE/editor hands down (Visual Studio -- not Code -- comes close). The level of integration and polish is unmatched. I happily paid for license and it's been a well spent investment.
mkrishnan··on Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes
Cool idea, it it works. important thing is re-balancing should not be a taxable event.
mkrishnan··on Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes
so re-balancing IS a taxable event right?
mkrishnan··on Homebrew 3.0
'sudo' installing it sucks
mkrishnan··on Homebrew 3.0
When do we get to install brew without sudo?
mkrishnan··on Ask HN: What technology made your jaw drop the first time you used it?
Airport Express
mkrishnan··on Ask HN: What technology made your jaw drop the first time you used it?
iPhone
mkrishnan··on Ask HN: What technology made your jaw drop the first time you used it?
AirPods
mkrishnan··on Why cancer cells waste so much energy
Congrats.
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