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iKSv2··on Show HN: ApexCharts – Open-Source Chart Library for Web
No problems. Cool project!
iKSv2··on What I Learned from Six Months of Obsessive Sleep Hacking
This was interesting. Anyone here who has the experience and / or qualification to speak about ZMA and the possible side-effects if any (except the dreams as mentioned).

I am intrigued by consumption of ZMA and affect on sleep.

iKSv2··on Show HN: ApexCharts – Open-Source Chart Library for Web
Cool colors. Just a note, the footer github link [0] is a 404. Please fix

https://github.com/apexcharts/apexcharts

iKSv2··on Death of a startup founder (2016)
Might be hard to do (or to trust someone else to do it) but quality delegation helps.
iKSv2··on Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”
"It's always terribly excessive and almost illogical by design"

Well, its a basic human emotion, greed. Never gets satisfied. However absurd it might get.

iKSv2··on Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”
They can not. As long as its on Internet. They might have to ban Netflix in India all together, If I am not mistaken.
iKSv2··on Netflix Makes a Statement in India with “Sacred Games”
To be honest, its less about being a Taboo (see films like Chameli, Chandni Bar, Fashion) have tried telling taboo stories. Its the censor board which is so inconsistent that it doesn't even make sense. This platform helps them bypass it and its working, and its also being accepted by the viewers . Win-Win-Win
iKSv2··on Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem
genuine question, whats Valhalla? Google returned something Norse.
iKSv2··on Google Cloud Downtime Postmortem
Totally agree with you on this one. While they keep absolute technical details to themselves and not on the page, at least give a link or something where interested people can read what went on.

Also, if I give similar root cause in my environment, I'd be laughed off. We need to absolutely provide what went wrong, what was the immediate fix and what's the permanent fix and is it done (or does it require downtime / restart).

iKSv2··on How an offer to sell our business inspired us to take on $17M in debt
Yes. Also without any immediate directions.

Add to it Idle mind being devil's workshop . Add to it some handsome cash you might have got and there's a recipe for a good potential destruction.

iKSv2··on Ask HN: What front end tools do you find yourself most productive with?
Hi,

Any link you'd suggest for a starter in UI who wants to start with React JS and has worked always in backend (PHP / DB / OS stuff when developing)?

I am aware of JS and do minor contributions to libraries but those are very basic level (compared to what library of the size of ReactJS)

iKSv2··on Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
Software Engineering Daily

How I built this

Business Wars

Scaling Postgres

Startup Secrets Lecture Series

These pretty much have me occupied on all my commute time.

iKSv2··on 'Should you be worried about North Korea? I went there to find out' (January)
"They’ve also started rolling out a cell phone network, but all of the hardware is tapped and all of the info comes straight from the central gov."

North Korea is seriously closest to "1984" we have right now.

iKSv2··on 'Should you be worried about North Korea? I went there to find out' (January)
"The Kims are worshipped as a God-King hybrid"

I see thats done in the US as well, different Kim though

iKSv2··on J.C. Bose: 60 GHz in the 1890s
What is a pity is that only mention of JC Bose happens is when he proves that Plants are living things. Thats it. 12 years of studies, 8 years with Science as subject and he gets just a paragraph at best.

PS: This is from State board in India.

iKSv2··on Nokia 6.1 Review–The best answer to “What Android phone should I buy?”
This really irks me. On the bright side, they are doing really well with on time updates but hey, allow me to do what I want to do with my phones, at least offer root somewhere deep down in settings so that normal users dont mistakenly enable it.
iKSv2··on Facebook has a movie piracy problem, but it can’t(or won’t) do anything about it
Speaking from just a purely technical point of view, doesn't facebook track so much of your data that its smart enough to find out who the owner of a facebook profile with fake name and does piracy and who he is in actual life,where does he live, what places he is at?
iKSv2··on Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days
Most, I mean upwards of 60-70% always search for charging point the first thing they arrive anywhere (be it airport, Hotel or even office). Always the devices are on charge. Always.
iKSv2··on Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server
"At the least, you should understand what problems are and are not solved so you don't look foolish in a conversation"

Seriously, this is so embarrassing at the current point ( with me having absolutely 0 understanding of the concept)

iKSv2··on Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server
Guys who have worked with Kubernetes and virtualization, I have a genuine personal question for you - I have been working as SysAdmin and then into virtualization (VMware / HyperV sort of things) and while natural progression in it says go for advanced VMware courses (related to Virtual machine and its concepts), do you think its better to switch lanes now to container-tech rather than some years down the line? I am totally 0 on Docker / Kubernetes / OpenStack (if thats related with containers).
iKSv2··on Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras
" The bottom line is that if people are not rebelling against current measures of social credit, government only has incentive to keep going."

One problem with this is that since NEWS and almost all media is State-owned in China, there might be protests and we might be unaware, also the protesters are straightaway sentenced plus now even their family members get "negative points" if I am not mistaken. There's a reason why Chinese people living outside also dont say negatively.

iKSv2··on Home insulation in China blamed for rise in emissions of ozone-depleting gas
The days after Montreal Protocol gave me so much positive hope for the world...
iKSv2··on Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018
This might sound bullshit but I found one via "LinkedIn Career suggestion" and he's given me some great perspectives.

Not "perfect" but sure its good

iKSv2··on How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
"longhorn" aah that word triggers the memories of "packs" we used to get on deviantart to modify your windows back in the day
iKSv2··on How a Microsoft Font Brought Down Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (2017)
Sure its not perfect but its definitely not how it was in my childhood ( The Musharraf days )
iKSv2··on The Not-So-Dark Art of Designing Database Indexes: Reflections from an Engineer
This is very good article detailing almost everything which almost every "not a dba, but still had to write queries" kind of backend developer has to do sooner or later.

Also, more index !== more performance. I think he explains it best : " If you need to access data quickly, you index it. If the performance of data (which almost always results in bloat) access isn't a concern, you don't index it"

iKSv2··on Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
If you want to learn JavaScript start by writing JavaScript.

This should really be like the first point of every javascript tutorial ever. Honestly.

iKSv2··on Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
Isnt it too early for going ES6 only?

For learning sure, but for production I still think best to go ES5 ...

iKSv2··on How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
"I just hope they always allow users some way to switch to the old Reddit as an option"

Pretty much the only thing why I am still using Reddit via PC in addition of mobile app (third-party)

iKSv2··on Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
A lot of your (my problems) would be solved if you understand what is async (as Zyst has already mentioned). This was a very very big problem for me coming off PHP (which is sequential, statement 2 gets executed after statement 1). So when I started with ajax requests, I used to put in timeouts, for loops which will wait for 1 second and see if operation completed or not and what not.

That and not declaring variables in global scope unless completely required.

Also I wish I had known to start with Vanilla JS and stick to it unless completely familiar then jump to frameworks. I started with jquery and the withdrawal was awful but heavy learning experience IMO.

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