ritinkar

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by ritinkar 4y ago
You only need a user account if you want to post a comment or vote on one. You can browse as guest. The comments are stored in metadocs servers.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
There's a service worker in the background that does quite a bit of the heavy lifting. So, it can't be a pure JS script.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Thanks for the comment. It was quite insightful. I don't have any prior moderation experience, so I plan on taking up the task myself initially to get a good grasp of the challenge. That way I can build good tools to make the task easi
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by ritinkar 4y ago
So this is not a problem I've solved yet. But I think the solution would involve a mix of community voting and good sorting algorithms. But I'll only know the correct solution once I start tackling it.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Yup, there most definitely will be. Hoping to do it within the next few months.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Yup. The code was written with portability in mind. As soon as I get time to test it on Firefox I'll do it.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
I haven't thought about that direction yet, although I am aware of discourse and disqus. Metadocs is pretty young, so I'll think about it.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
It's hard to articulate the problem like that. So I was going through a documentation of an ORM library for another project of mine, and it was kinda poorly written. And I didn't feel like going through the effort required to go t
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Lots of problems to be solved yet. Moderating 10 comments / day is very different from moderating 10k/day which in turn is different from millions a day. I'll initially start by moderating comments myself, (need to create a p
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by ritinkar 4y ago
If you're asking how the "Highlights" feature works, its using something called text fragments. When the original text changes then the highlight is dead. Meaning you can still discuss it, but it will no longer be highlighted
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Yeah, cold start and moderation are two problems I need to solve. I'm focusing on documentation pages at first hoping to build a commpunity that is helpful. Like pointing out pitfalls and better solutions to existing problems. Also I u
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by ritinkar 4y ago
Yeah, I need better onboarding. Will fix.
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by ritinkar 4y ago
And if you're looking for a quick walkthrough, it's at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oln-KdIczOM
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Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation(metadocs8.com)
96 points by ritinkar 4y ago|47 comments
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by ritinkar 8y ago
And many people saw this post but didn't upvote as they were just lurking.
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by ritinkar 8y ago
mandatory for card transactions. Unless you were joking, in which case, whoosh me.
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by ritinkar 8y ago
Recently I wanted to purchase something from prime now, I added the product and during checkout where I put in the OTP ( 2FA is mandatory in India ), I changed my mind about purchasing and quit the app, knowing the purchase would fail. Amaz
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by ritinkar 8y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by ritinkar 9y ago
In India, all SIM cards have to be linked to Aadhar card , which is a unique identifier of a person with biometrics attached
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by ritinkar 9y ago
If BTC cracks 1 million won't that mean there's 2.1 trillion dollars worth of USD BTC in circulation in addition to all the other currencies?
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by ritinkar 9y ago
Isn't 2^n an exponential algorithm. I thought NP algos are still n^k but non-deterministic.