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nkskalyan

49 karma · joined August 15, 2013

Developer. Comments and posts here are my own

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nkskalyan··on India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises
Putin can stop whenever he wants by not annexing Ukraine. Its surprising that people spin that west is responsible for a war started by Russia. The article says "We can stop the war by the west stopping supply to Ukraine". This is literally the way Russia wins the war and annexes Ukraine.

Stop being an apologist for the aggressor

nkskalyan··on India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises
Food transportation is NOT a big contributor to global warming. Bulk transportation, especially with ships is one of the most efficient ways of moving things around the globe. https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
nkskalyan··on Meta Quest Pro
Not if you count the ads to activate Apple products like AppleTv/AppleMusic
nkskalyan··on The many gifts of awkward silence
Thanks - This is some great advice :) Another thing to note - This would also require research to come up with some numbers.

Stay silent, take time to think, show excitement but not too much

nkskalyan··on The many gifts of awkward silence
At what time do you remain silent?

Salary negotiation is one of those things I suck at and don't get the chance to practice a lot either. I wish there were more opportunities to practise

nkskalyan··on India downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in democracy report
"The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government." -> Do you have any proof for this? I have been for greater part of the 1st Modi regime. It was mostly a shitshow with Demonetisation.
nkskalyan··on Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate phone calls
Most of us HN'ers make use of websites to obtain information. There are lot of folks who still find it easier to make call instead of having to deal with the website UX.
nkskalyan··on Washington’s new anti-robocall law won’t stop the calls
I have stopped answering unknown numbers and let Google Fi Screen for me. Robocalls mostly drop at this step.
nkskalyan··on How to do a code review
It is an internally built versioning tool with similar interface as perforce https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
nkskalyan··on Google for India: Building India-first products and features
Mi A1 was released in September http://www.mi.com/in/mi-a1/
nkskalyan··on India demonetisation fails to purge black money
Question is, was it worth it? Weren't there easier ways to increase Digital payments? Better ways to make people put money into banks?

Was it worth killing people? http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/17/day-9-demonetisation...

nkskalyan··on Ask HN: I can't do this anymore, I need help
You have the technical skills, don't push to startup. I had say things work better when you get a 9-5 job and learn the field you are in, and once you know enough about the domain you are working in, you can startup in the same. We rarely here of vague startup ideas without domain knowledge succeeding.