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niksmac

307 karma · joined December 3, 2015

I spend time by reading about code, design, startups and open source. Photography enthusiast.

https://niksmac.me

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niksmac··on Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
I would call it a huge success
niksmac··on PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases
Where is "Guns. Lots Of Guns"?
niksmac··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)
Rust Developer - Trivandrum, India - Remote

We are looking for an experienced Rust developer who is ready to immediately contribute to our work. We are currently in the midst of a project based on Polkadot and we expect you to begin pulling your weight as soon as possible.

https://lightrains.com/careers/rustlang-developers

niksmac··on Show HN: Compiled, buildtime atomic CSS in JavaScript and all your favorite APIs
Isn't this the same as Styletron is doing? https://www.styletron.org
niksmac··on Ask HN: Please stop writing tutorials/tech articles on Medium
I have tweeted the same a few days back, I found this very irritating. https://twitter.com/niksmac_/status/1317859294465830912?s=20
niksmac··on Uber-fast unique id generation, for Node.js and the browser 14,452,901 ops/SEC
If hyperid performs better then why is nonoid (https://github.com/ai/nanoid) more popular
niksmac··on Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1 year validity for TLS certificates
Letsencrypt's default validity is for an year right? Is this not a game?
niksmac··on Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
Remember the same issue raised by Spotify?

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/14/spotify-sues-apple-...

https://www.apple.com/in/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotify...

niksmac··on Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
Safari is my day to day browser and I have Pi-Hole installed. Less trackers less bandwidth consumption; I am happy.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What if your DNS provider is a honeypot?
Lol. I mean they capture all the traffic and lead me somewhere else?
niksmac··on Ask HN: What if your DNS provider is a honeypot?
How can I achieve this in a normal laptop? How do you achieve this in any machine?
niksmac··on Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas
I am stealing a few Eric.
niksmac··on Saltpack – A modern crypto messaging format
I haven't seen any references of Saltpack being used by anybody yet.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What's the greatest lie of open source?
The problem I can see is with all those PRs. Nobody ever merge them.
niksmac··on Twttr sketch (2006)
Look at all his lady fans, lol.
niksmac··on BitBounce – Email paywall that lets you get paid to receive marketing emails
Isn't it the same thing that earn.com does? Plus you get a chance to read the entire email?
niksmac··on Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?
Their Privacy Policy says

You have a wide array of rights that we respect. Among those the right to:

- Require access to your personal data;

- Require rectification of your personal data (this is less relevant since otherwise we could not provide you with the service);

- Require erasure of your personal data;

- Withdraw consent to processing of your personal data, where applicable;

- Lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority (in the EEA) if you believe that your privacy rights have been breached.

https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy#privacy_9

niksmac··on Ask HN: What was Steve Job's core competency?
Lol, I'd call stat statement a perspective as I have mine.
niksmac··on Ask HN: Whats the best alternative to Inbox?
I am using Spark for a while now, https://sparkmailapp.com. I like the Smart Inbox and notification feature. You should try once before moving to anything else.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What was Steve Job's core competency?
I'd say Vision. Steve is the great visionary of the future. He was able to see the future in his mind to build amazing products that the future wants, not something world needed today to run.

I'm always excited by the stories about the detail and time he spend on designing impeccable user experience.

niksmac··on Ask HN: Developers, how do you keep SSH and web URLs organized at work?
Most of my ssh connections are aliased via my dotfiles. I use bookmarks in browser.
niksmac··on Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications
It looks more like Elm
niksmac··on Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It
This is very true, I used to get offers but right after I took some insane surge of 3x no new offers were coming. Other than that, none of the usual coupon codes were working for me.
niksmac··on Skype Vanishes from App Stores in China, Including Apple’s
I have actually thought of this a while ago and decided not to proceed because of

- file storage - verify app developers - prevent cracked apps.

If you can justify all these questions, id like to work on the same idea further.

niksmac··on Ask HN: Would it be worth it to code an SMS system to send them on your own?
I'd strongly recommend you to go with some third party providers, because

- International coverage

- Delivery dashboard

- Easy to scale = 1 less headache

- They know the regulations (DND stuff)

I will go for the 3rd party solution just for sake of 1 less headache for me.

niksmac··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
+1 for the email+junk@gmail.com trick, one of my personal favourite and it works most of the time. :D
niksmac··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
I am hearing sieve filter for the first time. Language semantics looks interesting and straight forward. Disappointed about the client support. Mostly I am on Apple/iOS Mail or web Gmail.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
I appreciate your thoughts on "unsubscribe" should mean unsubscribe not "present me a number of options to try and confuse people into staying". Makes a lot of sense, yet nobody seems to follow.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What is your favourite way of unsubscribe from emails and why?
Well, even if I mark it as junk from my iPhone, it again appears in my inbox which is irritating for me.
niksmac··on Ask HN: What is your favorite text editor?
Thats a tough choice, even for people with years of experience.

Programming is not just writing code, its a `tedious` task of writing, compiling, running and debugging. IMHO, as a started you need an IDE to get things done fast (at least to get the environment up and running)

After that you can easily switch to a better editor like Vim(again personal choice)

Also check this article: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/20950

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