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srathi

2,124 karma · joined August 6, 2012

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssrathi/

SDM @AWS LakeFormation (Palo Alto, CA)

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srathi··on How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
My primary gripe with the new tabs is that the 'unread message count' is not displayed on each tab and I've to go to each of them every time to see if something new has popped up.
srathi··on Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website
There is a similar story about Armani brand and a person named A.R. Mani.
srathi··on Ask HN: How do you manage your photos?
I use Picasa on my Mac for local photo management and keep all my photos on Flickr for backup and sharing. I recommend the Flickr Uploadr tool for backup.

edit: typo

srathi··on The IIT Entrance Exam
That is wonderful. I struggled at both of them. :) If you don't mind asking, what is your current education level? These exam questions are attempted by high school teenagers in the IIT entrance exam.
srathi··on US Government Takes Down 3D Printed Gun Plans
+1 for the Tom Clancy reference.
srathi··on Alice strikes back against Bob's 'reverse dictionary'
Surprisingly simple explanations of tricky cryptographic concepts. Thanks a lot!
srathi··on Stop Using Small Font Sizes
One workaround: Use 'zap colors' bookmarklet found at https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html. I got this link from some other HN comments.
srathi··on Google now article
Is it this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006967 ?
srathi··on Megafail
The 128 bit strong key is applicable for symmetric key encryption (e.g. AES, Blowfish etc.). However, even 2048 bit keys are considered relatively insecure for asymmetric key encryption (e.g. RSA).
srathi··on A vim interface for gmail: Vmail
One possible way is to use an extension called 'Vimium' with Google Chrome.
srathi··on Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
Slightly off-topic: there is a story-like narrative description of development of quantum mechanics in a book by Manjit Kumar. I don't recall the title, though.
srathi··on Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out
I couldn't agree more. It is a pain to set Google as default search provider in IE.
srathi··on [dead]
Sorry for the inconvenience. I was just testing the poll feature.
srathi··on Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless
My mistake! It is probably 3.5G.
srathi··on Google Nexus 4: Nearly flawless
It has 4G, just not LTE.
srathi··on Why American Phone, Cable and Internet Bills are so High
A humble suggestion: use Flashblock extension. It is also effective against flash based ads.
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