sonaltr

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by sonaltr 7y ago
For those asking about API keys - While it makes life easy to have API keys, it's quite easy to just use something like Puppeteer[0] to control it via a Lambda etc. [0] https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
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by sonaltr 8y ago
See, I've had the exact opposite experience here in Canada. My family owns a range of Hyundai cars (Elentra -> Sonata, Veolster -> Kona, Santa Fe -> Palisade when it releases) and all those cars have been driven to ~100-200k e
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by sonaltr 8y ago
The UN said the same in 1990s. So forgive me if I'm unsympathetic when everyone screams doomsday. There is absolutely nothing you can do today in your personal life that'll matter at a scale to impact the global issue of climate c
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by sonaltr 8y ago
idk where you live, but Hyundai has been making a killing selling smaller cars (Elentra et al). I do know that the American car manufacturers are looking to stop making smaller cars though.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
Oh man! I love how climate change pushers (not saying I don't believe in Climate Change - I do) love to point at something we can do to matter about CC. I feel even if every. single. person. on the planet works towards CC improvement,
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by sonaltr 8y ago
The internet always has been (and is) whatever we make it to be. I do really mean that - in fact, it's more accessible than ever. For example, personally for me, it means that I can go online and access vast resources of knowledge to m
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by sonaltr 8y ago
so I can be the CEO for 12 months for $12? And I have no responsibilities, and I get a better LinkedIn? Count me in!
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by sonaltr 8y ago
Thanks for the heads up! I had noticed that almost all of them had the exact same website, emails and billing software. I assumed that it was like how all sites using Wordpress are essentially the same if you take away the flashy JS stuff.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I commented here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19018656
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I used lowendbox[0] to find great deals. Then, I automated buying a ton of them into one bill as they generally don't allow you to bulk buy (which lead to a failed bill as it broke their billing. This lead their sales team to contact m
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I recently found out that I could get a 2 GB / 2 Core machine for ~ $15/yr - and my plan is to buy a bunch of them (~ 150 - 200) to make my own cluster for my personal needs, learning and running some stuff I charge $ for. One thi
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by sonaltr 8y ago
This has to be BS. Ericsson's gear works, Nokia's gear works. Both of those are in use, in prod in Canada right now (for Rogers) as far as I know. And as for it being "cheap" - let's be real - There's a reason
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by sonaltr 8y ago
A few friends of mine work for a company that most would consider terrible. I know for a fact that when ex employees do leave bad reviews, they have a line to call Glassdoor, and get it taken down under promise of buying a new subscription
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by sonaltr 8y ago
This is amazing! One of the main reasons I went with Spotify after 3 yrs of Apple Music is because I moved to use Linux as my primary desktop and I didn't have an Apple Music client there. This is making me reconsider getting Apple Mus
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by sonaltr 8y ago
same here. I really want to learn more about my past and also learn about my DNA (and all there is to learn with that data), but the invasion of privacy by such companies is just unacceptable (hence my refusal to take such tests).
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by sonaltr 8y ago
While I get why people are annoyed by that message, I get and understand it. It's super annoying when you are trying to create a desktop app and you get issues (multiple of them) essentially going "Why are you using Electron? it e
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I like TS. I really do. It makes life nice and easy to catch bugs quite quickly and also makes you think about your code quite a bit more (which I guess makes you a bit slower but it's important enough so it's ok). What is annoyin
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by sonaltr 8y ago
From my understanding - their windows / Mac OS apps is just a shell to their site (with one exception - offline support).
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I wish they had an API to integrate with.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I had not thought about that...great points! This is way simpler in that case!
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by sonaltr 8y ago
The security issue comes in when you ship the private key - if you are following best practices - won't the private key be different for each domain / managed in a better way?
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I'm almost 99% certain that everyone who's this concerned - already has a domain. (or they can get a free domain from something like .tk - as it really does not matter since this is for pure local development). So I feel like the
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by sonaltr 8y ago
> and unsurprisingly, gas prices didn't change with the removal of the program While that might not be completely true...gas prices are down. I'm talking $1.45 to $0.99 / L. As someone who drives ~ 3 hrs a day (and all my
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by sonaltr 8y ago
One of the startups I worked at had 3 frameworks in PHP - all grown, all messed up in all the wrong ways - and that was just the backend. We had a homegrown framework written in JQuery for the frontend as well. never Again.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
he means that he's using stuff like Lambda, Cognito and other PaaS services provided by Azure and AWS - not considering the cloud as IaaS only providers.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I whole heartedly agree with the author. While I disagree with GO's style guide and a ton of other choices - I don't mind following them since that's what the language requires. But it goes past that and wants me to organize
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by sonaltr 8y ago
We need an ifixit site to help owners that care about such things. You had a great point (about FCC) and I'll see if I can do something about this for the cars I plan on getting.
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by sonaltr 8y ago
> Why do you think this is insecure? Because its cars? Because of the engineering culture. As an example, I've interviewed at GM for software positions and i've interviewed at actual tech companies for similar positions and the
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by sonaltr 8y ago
We need a better way of disabling this physically - by removing the 4G/LTE connectivity in cars. Remove connectivity, and that data collection is moot. I'm looking to buy a car in the coming months / year - and I've narr
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by sonaltr 8y ago
I saw that and while that is super cool - (it's being sold for ~$100K btw), that's not what I was looking for. (think more human plane / human with wings rather than an human + machine if that makes sense) (more horizontal th

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