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shabda

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Founder of Agiliq, an app development studio. We build amazing apps.

Mail me: shabda@agiliq.com

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shabda··on Show HN: A Local-only URL shortener
Haha, thank you. MY email is in my profile, I would be glad to collaborate on going further on this.

You re right, it was mostly Claude being prodded to try creative approach though the base32768 idea was suggested primarily by the human.

shabda··on Show HN: A Local-only URL shortener
Code at: https://github.com/shabda/local-only-link-shortener
shabda··on Show HN: Unique, Human-Friendly Names for Every Color (All 16.7M of Them)
Thats right. We use the browser color picker.
shabda··on Show HN: Unique, Human-Friendly Names for Every Color (All 16.7M of Them)
Ah thats a good idea.

If you click on the color pallette icon, that brings up a color picker and you can choose any hex.

Is it not obvious that the icons are clickable?

shabda··on Show HN: Unique, Human-Friendly Names for Every Color (All 16.7M of Them)
You click see the (?) icon to see the summary of the algorithm.

The tool generates unique, meaningful names for any RGB color using a combination of color properties. Every name is unique and reversible - you can convert any name back to its exact RGB color!

shabda··on Show HN: A tool for kids to practice arithmetic
I would love to see it.
shabda··on Show HN: A tool for kids to practice arithmetic
Thanks. Great ideas.

I am actually building it for my son to practise, so hopefully I will work on this for a while.

shabda··on Show HN: An AI Meme Generator
Code at: https://github.com/shabda/ai-memes
shabda··on Show HN: How far back in time do you have start working to match Musk's wealth?
Its truly crazy how far back in time you have to go.
shabda··on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail
I remember this quote here,

“Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past, you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.”

- Mario Puzo, Omerta.

shabda··on Show HN: Diagramify – Describe your diagram and get it
Could you tell me the instructions you gave and the diagram you got?

I am the author of this tool and I am trying to find out how people use it.

shabda··on Ask HN: Is there a CDN that pre-renders the app on the server?
Is Mighty Browser (https://www.mightyapp.com/) what you are looking for?
shabda··on Show HN: BornAtXCO2 – What CO2 PPM were you born at, how much has it increased
Hi, yes thank you. We need to fix the years for which we do not have the data.
shabda··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
Also, the author did not spend two days. he spent 17 minutes and then did the math to calculate the block hash rate.

> Doing one round of SHA-256 by hand took me 16 minutes, 45 seconds. At this rate, hashing a full Bitcoin block (128 rounds)[3] would take 1.49 days, for a hash rate of 0.67 hashes per day

shabda··on India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’
The Supreme Court of India declared the right to privacy a fundamental right under Article 21 - as the same level as right to life and personal liberty. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/indias-supreme-court-u...

This ruling was one the the landmark rulings in recent times, and a true David vs Goliath story - where a small group of privacy activists won against mandatory Aadhaar.

While it is true that right to privacy implementation remains patchy, there is growing awareness around privacy - both from government, and against large corporations. For example, half of my contact list is now on Signal and last week I had more chats on Signal than on WA.

shabda··on Ask HN: How do we know Signal or Telegram don't store our data on their servers?
Signal has reproducible builds for Android. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/

Does that help in any way to verify that they do not store data on their servers?

shabda··on Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case
There are geo based account bans. I have seen a few from India with a message similar to "This account has been withheld in India due to a legal request"

Example is this account: https://twitter.com/gurmeetramrahim

shabda··on The stock market is the cheapest since 1980
Subtraction makes sense here as you are trying to find the excess yield of equity over dividend.

A yield of bond: 0.5, equity 4 vs bond: 1, equity: 4.5 doesn't change his argument, but changes the ratio significantly.

shabda··on No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19
Also, Anybody who has received an organ transplant is immunosuppressed. They take immunosuppressive drugs so that the transplanted organ is not rejected.
shabda··on Google pulls India’s Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations
It is funny Google is banning Paytm claiming "Gambling", when their competing app Google Pay literally gives away a scratch card (with variable, including zero payoffs - a literal scratch card) with every transaction in their app.
shabda··on Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
Has there been any significant success stories wherein people made a fair return on their time under the "fund me" model?
shabda··on The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
Django ORM is ActiveRecord pattern, right?

This is what I would use

   Book.objects.filter(author__nationality="Italian", author__state="deceased").values("isbn")
This is

- Is one single DB query.

- Completely obvious way to describe what I want to do.

- Only pulls the fields which are needed from the DB.

If you are claiming "the troublesome acriverecord pattern" you need to provide specifics of what can't be done, rather than claim "Don't look too deeply into the code samples for specifics though"

shabda··on Python Is Eating the World
Python designers have some thoughts on this :)

$ python -c "import this" | grep purity Although practicality beats purity.

shabda··on Python Is Eating the World
> Python is for beginner programmers, who absolutely don't want to learn anything new at all.

Python is used by the largest companies as well as the smallest one person company who need to get shit done. You can continue liking Java, without becoming bitter about Python.

shabda··on How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
“A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied”
shabda··on GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
It is probably even worse, people assume that they get what they pay for, so some people won't even look at the free options.

It is happening with me right now. I am searching for a Jekyll theme, and there are a bunch of free ones, but because time is money I will only try the paid ones.

shabda··on GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restricted. Please support us
Does the US law say that the repos should be revoked with no notice, or that a zip of the code can not be sent when revoking access?
shabda··on Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High
NO currency has survived a millennia.

Almost all currencies backed only by their governments, and not by physical gold, are at most a century old.

shabda··on Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes (2015)
> each of the Haiti people would now have 20 million dollars to built up new lives.

Isn't your math way off?

50% of 400MIllion = 200MIllion

200Million/10Milion = 20

So each person gets 20$, not 20 million dollars.

shabda··on The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (2016)
How is that fair? If in a bad year, your assets lose value, you are still paying a tax, that defies logic to me.

Does NL have capital gains taxes in addition to this asset tax?

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