tushartyagi

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by tushartyagi 3y ago
I've been using Emacs as my editor for the last decade or so. I used it for general purpose editing for the first 6 years because I was doing C# development (Web/a bit of Xamarin) and VisualStudio (not code) was my daily driver. F
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by tushartyagi 7y ago
I think it's mostly about drinking too much Kool-Aid of owning my data. But probably because ttrss's pretty nice with quite a few plugins, so I can mold it based on what interests me. For example, I am also self hosting wallabag,
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by tushartyagi 7y ago
Yes. Self hosting tt-rss[1] and using it for close to an year now. No problem what so ever; It's so low maintenance that I would've quite possibly forgotten about it if I wasn't reading the feeds everyday. Before this I was u
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
And I find it equally interesting to think about what happened to Google Books project after half the world was entering text into captchas perhaps close to a decade? Is the project still going on?
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I've started dipping my toes in Rust and Elixir. Rust because of the concepts like borrow checker, highly strict compiler, traits etc. Elixir because it is based on Erlang and is highly concurrent due to Actors, and overall a very clea
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Case against behavioral advertising is stacking up(techcrunch.com)
28 points by tushartyagi 8y ago|6 comments
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
These posts can get your ball rolling. The first one is pretty detailed, I started with copy-pasting a large hunk of code from it and using as is. Once you get the hang of it, the second one gives a gentle introduction to the entire process
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Ask HN: How to Create Personal Feedback Loops?
1 points by tushartyagi 8y ago|0 comments
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
This is really impressive. Thanks for posting it. This website tells the truth when it says that following the deep work ritual is a pain. I've read the book and wholeheartedly agree with whatever Cal Newport says, but so far planning
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I've tried a lot of different time slots and so far only two have worked for me: 1. Wake up 1.5hr earlier than my family. This gives me around 1.15hrs of solid focused time. The downside is, of course, I have to sleep around 10 so the
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
+1 for i3. I have a 13" laptop as my primary driver and using i3 is so much faster & convenient on such a small screen. Though I have made 2 changes to my workflow to get better out of it: - I use i3 inside XFCE. This allows me to
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I had the same frustration with org when I started, which has since disappeared and I keep working with saving the screenshots and linking them to my docs. :| Anyhow, some time ago I came across a blog post where the author wrote some elisp
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
The problem with this is that the bootloader is now becoming more and more locked down and the consumers have to jump ever more hoops to unlock it. Some years ago I had Samsung S2 where unlocking the bootloader was an offline activity. I do
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Assuming the mails are still online with the mail provider, I think that copying that data on local disk, indexing and then running queries on it should work. Doing this locally will save time and then you can sync back the changes. I know
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
My new HDD started having problems in just 1.5 years.I just salvaged an old HDD from my dad's 9 year old laptop (Dell Vostro) and used it. This old laptop is what I would go to whenever I was between laptops. It's a C2D, 4GB RAM.
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Ask HN: Third party email provider vs. custom email address and spam problem
1 points by tushartyagi 8y ago|0 comments
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Thanks! I really appreciate your insightful comments.
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Can you please explain what would be the best option to break out of the rut when one is mostly working on his/her own and doing a lot of suboptimal learning? I frequently find myself in the second situation and only a handful of times
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
That's my story as well. I tried the Anki plugin and didn't find it as per my taste. Now incremental reading for me is a multi-monitor and multipass approach. One monitor has Anki, the other has the thing I'm reading. I keep
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Since we are talking about Emacs now, there's a package[1] for Anki just like everything else in Emacs. :) This basically connects to a background server of Anki, you create a card and press C-c C-c to send it to Anki. End of the day,
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Also worth reading is the excellent (and pretty extensive) article by Michael Nielsen[1] showcasing how he used Anki to create an in-depth knowledge about AlphaGo. Personally, I've used Anki to keep remembering/revisiting the conc
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
The problem that I personally see, at least with Netflix India, is that finding content is like finding needle in a haystack. Some time back (last year or so), they were showing IMDB ratings for their content, but not now (maybe a falloff w
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
As an extension to your comment, here's a decent advice which is based on the principle of DeepWork. https://azeria-labs.com/the-importance-of-deep-work-the-30-h... So basically, instead of just going through different
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
Not to counter your point, but I had that new remarkably stupid ":( Oops something went wrong" error popping up the morning I had to give a presentation. I have Windows 10 Home and it forced the updates, failed after an hour, and
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I have found it to be remarkable over the last few years. I keep coming back to Debian although I've used OpenSuse Tumbleweed in recent times, and some other flavours before that. With Debian, I've used a very old Dell Latitude (c
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
That's an interesting viewpoint to strike a balance between privacy and secrecy. Can you shed some light on how you share the photos with non-technical family and friends, given that B2 has no app as such? I have some experience with A
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
> The fact that it is biodegradable is a positive here - it won't break down into toxic substances. The problem is that most of these biodegradables take a few years to fully break down, which is slower than the amount we keep on a
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I have started doing something along these lines because I have the habit of dabbling around with new shiny programming languages and libraries. I also consume a lot of information online -- blogs, articles, and ebooks of things that I am i
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by tushartyagi 8y ago
I just want to understand that given the mostly negative reaction that's here at HN to the npm ecosystem which is based on the same "minimalist libraries" idea, how is this different? I'd appreciate if the response is no
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by tushartyagi 9y ago
Also lack of fullscreen support (pre-windows 10), no history and it seems that command line was just a joke for MS for the longest time. I think it's the explosion of open source and the corresponding command line tools that they start

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