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Re:Show HN: DoNotNotify – log and intelligently block notifications on... on Monday January 05, 2026 @07:57PM (#46507417)

Ah we live in the same ‘gated’ community and probably are neighbours then ?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024? on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:10AM (#42508842)

I am so glad to read this comment. Wodehouse is sublime in all what he wrote - if you end up reading Jeeves series, I would recommend Right Ho, Jeeves and Code of Woosters

Re:Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountere... on Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:33PM (#34213944)

For me, it’s the determinism of nature. The clear hard fact that nothing I can do will impact the pre-determined outcomes. This is cold physics as we know of today. Also, the ‘present’ feeling different from past is just a trick our mind plays on us. This realisation has had profound impact on me - but this dawned on me quite late despite reading a lot on this topic for years.

Ask HN: Best country to educate and raise Neurodivergent kids

Posted by ved_a on Sunday June 26, 2022 @09:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am in India now and my son is on spectrum - I would love to know experiences from different countries where education, health care and happiness for neuro-divergent kids on autism spectrum is better supported.

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Re:Mailgun Is Down on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:21AM (#31680831)

SendGrid is up and running, like always :)

SendGird sends 20B emails during Black Friday/Cyber Monday

Posted by ved_a on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:21PM
from the sendgrid.com dept.

https://sendgrid.com/blog/black-friday-cyber-monday-2021/

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Apple iOS15 changes the way email opens are tracked

Posted by ved_a on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:54AM
from the sendgrid.com dept.

https://sendgrid.com/blog/identify-non-human-opens-apple-mail-privacy-protection/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best books/MooCs to starting on Chess on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:08PM (#25261855)

That is an interesting approach - I found https://www.chesstactics.org/ useful and several Apps (search for Chess King on Android) to practice typical patterns

Ask HN: What are the best books/MooCs to starting on Chess

Posted by ved_a on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: What popular apps were made exclusively with React Native o... on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:56PM (#17476425)

Myntra (India's largest fashion ecommerce portal) has both the Android and iOS apps built with RN

Re:Saving Private Flipkart on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:39PM (#11569059)

It is so easy to just throw in some vague ideas without any substantial data behind it. A more logical and researched answer to this article is - https://medium.com/@sumanthr/why-private-flipkart-doesn-t-ne...

Re:India students caught 'cheating' in exams in Bihar on Friday March 20, 2015 @08:10AM (#9237161)

Sigh. Unleash the troll.

Re:Facebook was down on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @01:41AM (#8951644)

Yes (from India)

Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @04:05AM (#6674054)

Faster streaming at - http://spaceflightnow.com/pslv/c25/status.html

Ask HN: Why Erlang never got the mainstream status?

Posted by ved_a on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @09:47AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Erlang is a twenty-five-year-old programming language that has yet to win a popularity contest but has won many a hearts with its ability to do things just right. Erlang has got almost everything right - concurrency, functional programming, Garbage Collection, Network I/O, etc. Still, Erlang never got the mainstream popularity and widespread acceptance it always deserved. I wonder what...

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Re:Twitter Music App Goes Live Today on Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:41AM (#5570254)

Not live. Techcruch did not get paid properly I guess

Re:LinkedIn's Down on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @09:25AM (#5407054)

Tomcat? hmm..

Re:What Is Java, Is It Insecure, and Should I Use It? on Saturday March 09, 2013 @12:16PM (#5348942)

Wow- when a lifehacker(finest resource of everything computer science) page hits Hacker News Front Page.

Re:Gmail.com was down on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:57AM (#4899997)

Chrome crashing due to failed sync problems with google servers and gmail is down.

Facebook introduces "Promote" button - new level of pimpery?

Posted by ved_a on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @12:22PM
from the self-post dept.

I was shocked to see "Promote" link in facebook. It seems that Facebook is asking for money to promote your post. Wow.

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Ask HN: Slow Gmail - a way to move out?

Posted by ved_a on Sunday August 26, 2012 @10:23AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am using Gmail exclusively to non-work email for last few years. Lately, gmail has become excruciatingly slow. I was thinking if I can host my own VPS/Amazon AWS to handle email storage redirected from Gmail as the primary account. Any thoughts on this approach ?

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Re:Why I Hate Tech Recruiters on Sunday August 26, 2012 @01:48AM (#4434472)

I recently a got from a recruiter asking me if I had 8 years of Android development experience. I laughed so hard on the phone, she got offended

Re:Textmate2 Goes Open Source on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:16AM (#4364856)

Alas, there is no linux port.

Re:Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @12:46AM (#4321228)

Looks seriously ugly in Firefox. Microsoft MUST embrace other browsers like FF and Chrome to succeed and survive.

Re:Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @01:40AM (#4259526)

Love this part - Marc Andreessen thinks you need to fire over 10K people. He’s probably right. I would start with anyone with the title ‘Architect’ or ‘Program Manager’ in their title. HR is probably another good place to look too