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wirddin

65 karma · joined January 31, 2015

Abhishek Biswal.

https://wirdd.in

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wirddin··on Postgres.app
Pretty awesome. I use this along with MongoDB.app and Redis.app makes a lot of small tasks easier.
wirddin··on Show HN: Check if Number exists on WhatsApp
Makes sense. I will add a note about this, thank you
wirddin··on Show HN: Visualize Your Life in Weeks
It's a good idea to have placeholder text for the input (date format) in there. It doesn't work on Safari :(

Works well on Chrome though!

wirddin··on Ask HN: Best Music Background to Work?
I sometimes listen to tracks from musicForProgramming[0] website, and I usually download the ones which I like and then play them off the offline music player.

Other than that, I have some Spotify playlists saved (not from me, some links I found on Twitter and other sites) [1,2]

[0] https://musicforprogramming.net

[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlwJYNRdkTfZMALZclyIx?si=...

[2] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2u5h5ZloqSXRuDMTrRincp?si=...

wirddin··on Ask HN: Would you develop Android or iOS first?
Adding to lm28469's answer:

Depends on the user base as well. Which users are likely to use the app and you're able to retain easily.

Another factor is how well you / developer knows the platform. For example, if you have always been writing React Native apps, then you can do RN but focus only either iOS / Android app. That way you can give one platform your 100% and then quickly launch to the other platform with lesser work.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Which text editor do you use for writing code?
Sublime for single file scripts, VS Code for projects.
wirddin··on Ask HN: What's your favourite ZSH theme?
Spaceship: https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt

Before that, I was using Dracula and Pure.

wirddin··on MedleyText
Typora reminds me of MacDown :)
wirddin··on Ask HN: What about women on HN?
Funny, it also displays "I'm not a woman" results in the first few pages.
wirddin··on Thanks Mozilla Firefox
Can confirm this. It drains the battery.
wirddin··on Ask HN: Which books have you re-read the most?
> Zero To One, Peter Thiel.

> Hooked, Nir Eyal.

wirddin··on What would you recommend to read?
Suggestion: Mastering Bitcoins [0]

It's great and it was the first technical book which I read so was kind of interesting. You can skip to the actual part, after Introduction to get to know Bitcoins (and Blockchain) works.

Read these if you haven't already:

- Zero To One, Peter Thiel [1]

- Hooked, Nir Eyal [2]

- The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Ben Horowitz [3]

[0] http://amzn.to/2lgnHrS

[1] http://amzn.to/2yMNvR1

[2] http://amzn.to/2lftjCq

[3] http://amzn.to/2gKv3Cl

wirddin··on Ask HN: What are the good channels on YouTube to learn?
What are you planning to learn?

For Python (mostly) along with Web Dev & Machine learning related stuff, you can check out `sentdex`[0]. Have went through some of his tutorials.

For tools, you can check Leveluptuts[1]

Those are the only two programming channels I follow :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyU5wkjgQYGRB0hIHMwm2Sg

wirddin··on Ask HN: Where do you read the news?
Why not news.google.com? Too much personal filtering?
wirddin··on Which service do you use to host static website?
Github Pages + CloudFlare for the SSL in case of custom domain.
wirddin··on Ask HN: Need help creating a database from five sets of CSVs
If I was you, I would have exported these csv along with the header line to mongodb. Excel and other tools have a limit to the number of rows and columns they can display. Now, this has worked for me because I eventually had to process the data and my go-to stack had mongodb. You can try that if you like, or:

You can go with pandas (python) to programmatically read the csv.

Advice: Avoid CSVs for huge amount of data.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Why can't Credit/Debit Card have ID and Password like netbanking?
Most Debit Cards in India require a PIN to verify the transaction on POS (and sometimes online as well, in case One Time Password doesn't work / not available) which actually makes sense.

Now, the same debit card (if international) would not require a pin/otp in case of transaction happening on a US payment gateway. Now, it really depends how banks (or the country) handles the credit/debit card transactions.

Here's a good read on why US has the least secure cards: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-dete...

wirddin··on I'm a founder in the current Y Combinator batch, Ask Me Anything!
This AMA isn't being hosted on HN. It's on reddit. You should ask there if you really are looking for an answer.
wirddin··on More than anything, GitHub projects need a big “active/not active” sign
OR an "Active X days ago" message somewhere near the name. Where activity can mean a closed Issue / Comment by a contributor or a commit. Will save some research time.

P.S.: Weekend Hack : Build a Chrome extension for the same.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?
If you're delivering what you promised to your customer or end user (without compromising on speed) then great!

As a developer, I avoid Electron apps because of the battery consumption. But that's just me. Your end user might not even know the stack or have no idea about it and only cares about the work being done. So yeah, I guess it's great for something which needs to be there as a desktop app.

From a dev's point of view: It's like how React Native is growing as an easy native app development tool. If a team can focus on one codebase instead of multiple, that's a great thing.

wirddin··on Chrome dino
Yep. I guess it first came to the Desktop Version :D
wirddin··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
If they can pull this off with the API, this is worth millions of dollars on the table.
wirddin··on Show HN: Whisper Walk – Siri for Walking
Haha I remember seeing a tweet where you're recording a demo and a notification pops up xD. Great work, man.
wirddin··on Ask HN: Do people still use the social media buttons on your website?
On Desktop, I guess users click on it because there's no other native way to share.

On Mobile phones, users tend to go the native way - for most of the people, they use Chrome's share because it's easier.

wirddin··on Ask HN: What technical skill should I learn to prepare for the next 10 Years?
Why specifically SQL?
wirddin··on What are you working on?
https://matchr.in : An App which lets you connect with people anonymously and then unlock each others profiles once the time is right :)
wirddin··on Ask HN: Will YC ever fund a time travel startup?
Like Peter Thiel has invested in an anti-ageing solution?

http://www.livemint.com/Science/MxP4L2VV7teq4141X49u1I/Can-w...

wirddin··on Do you think Snap will build it own data centres?
If they do they'll save a lot. But they aren't going to.

You can check the IPO filing where they state that they'll be using web services by the leading companies and have also estimated the value.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Is G+ profitable for Google?
Directly? Nope. Indirectly? I guess.

Google stores information about you to make the ads more relevant to you. If someone is using/have used g+ and have liked a few profile/pages(not sure what they're called) then google surely is more confident about this data than other data, so it might help google drive more business by targeting better.

Again, as someone else pointed out, most of the google products are operating at a loss only at individual product level. You can think of it as another example for 80-20 Principle.

wirddin··on Ask HN: Did GitHub just change the default link color?
Yep, they're now using a darker blue. At first I thought it was flux :D
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