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sunnykgupta··on Show HN: Singlelink – an open-source micro-site platform
Been using it for a while now, thanks for building this!
sunnykgupta··on Why is Berkshire Hathaway sitting on $137B in cash?
Agreed, though the fact conveyed by the title itself was a surprise to me.

Why would a company keep such a large amount of cash in hand? Especially when we saw a big enough dip in many scrips. Tech has more than recovered.

I am an author for the technology blog on this website.

sunnykgupta··on Why is Berkshire Hathaway sitting on $137B in cash?
They finally bought Dominion Energy Inc's assets for a whooping 9.7 Billion announced over the weekend.
sunnykgupta··on A server crash has halted all AirIndia operations globally, thousands stranded
How dependent are we on technology to run the economy. Shouldn't a system this reliant on technology have sufficient contingency plans and regular mock-failure-tests every often?
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
It is worth it! :)
sunnykgupta··on GitHub repository to track cloud GPU offerings and promo codes for free credits
An interesting compilation.

Are you planning to update this frequently yourself? Or relying on the ecosystem to maintain and update?

sunnykgupta··on Indian startups growth going black hat is disappointing
The article mentions in detail how two startups have been trying to hold their visitors hostage by not letting them leave their websites. (Calling this browser history hijacking)
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
Make sure most of your tutorials are around the language and not specific to some frameworks.

Being able to understand the underlying language has been key to finally get a grasp on what happens under the hood with Modern Magical Frameworks.

Also, being able to understand the event-loop and how JS manages memory etc is worth getting into once you have the basics clear. I recommend understanding the internals of V8 at some-point down the line.

sunnykgupta··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
While we are on the topic, may I bring up John Oliver's June 1 2014 episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU

tl;dw - For those who want to understand how closely the government is related to those who benefit from NO net-neutrality.

sunnykgupta··on Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
+1 for DDIA by Kleppmann!
sunnykgupta··on BananaCoin
The descriptions in about me look addressed in second person. Makes me hold back on my $$$
sunnykgupta··on Connect: behind the front-end experience
Well deserved pride. It should be customary to showcase a frontend project with brilliant landing pages :)
sunnykgupta··on Connect: behind the front-end experience
Stripe has FE engineers who know what they are doing. https://stripe.com/open-source
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you – Style Components built using React/Vue/Angular etc.
I agree with most comments which say that the modular approach is good for maintainability. But what about performance that takes a hit when the JS is creating and linking styles. Also, browser caching of styles is not possible in these cases.
sunnykgupta··on They Used To Last 50 Years
Exhaust Fans have gone from 20 years to 10 years. I wonder what caused this ;)
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
Is this offer open to other FE guys too? :)
sunnykgupta··on Dear Google, I am writing an open letter from the search wilderness
Sensible summarisation.
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: Is Your Income above Your Country's Median Income?
Here in India, I started out with programming at an age of 12, today 2 years after graduation, I am 11 times higher than the national median income.
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: Why is W3Schools.com a Rock that won't Roll?
Smart resource, but I'm sure those starting out with HTML/CSS/JS and the likes would not be using this for sometime.
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: Why is W3Schools.com a Rock that won't Roll?
I am not saying they are the worst. This discussion is about:

1. Why are they not changing

2. Why are they still ranking #1

3. What is the answer to life the universe and everything

- Although I've found out the answer to the last one.

sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: Why is W3Schools.com a Rock that won't Roll?
I've noticed the top rank for W3S pages since the start of time^.

And now that you have pointed out the benefits of ranking them #1 for Google, opens a new way of vision to the situation.

^ - Metaphorical

sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: Why is W3Schools.com a Rock that won't Roll?
Haha, since I am not W3S, I've made amendments to my post!
sunnykgupta··on HN. Let's share Twitter accounts
http://twitter.com/sunnykgupta Mostly about programming, dev-hacks and web.
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
So be open about the shortcomings in your algorithms instead of trying to show that the practice is bad, try telling people that your algorithm is not competent enough to know if the intentions are good or bad.

Hence your algorithm requires you to comply to the nofollow rule.

sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
That is what I'm trying to ask, how do you define marking as an Advert?

Does every advertisement necessarily carry a 'Advert' banner?

sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
Indicating, that its a shortcoming in Google's search algorithm that makes anybody who wish to get listed on it's index to follow these `Rules`?
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
Exactly my point.
sunnykgupta··on Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?
How do you specify ads apart from other links.

Maybe I'm talking about a product, call it spammy, but I'm all praises about the product. The visitors to my website are actually reading this article, indicating that the article is not boring, badly-written content.

At the end of the article I write the line, "If you want to try out the product head over to http://theproduct.com".

Why does a multi-millionaire company get to decide that my HTML markup is `wrong` if there is no "nofollow" in my HTML?

I know they have the right to decide who gets listed on their search engine and who does not. If that is the case, they should not call their results fair.