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vr3690

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About vr3690

http://vivekranjan.me

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    Maybe most of those roles can be lumped under devops. They probably don't have enough data to for ml/ai

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    Comment #14597817

    Yep. I do this and route my email through mailgun that allows me to setup rules for forwarding emails. Their free tier is pretty generous and works great for my needs. Also solves …

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    Comment #14499262

    Is there a version for Kindle?

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    Comment #14457456

    Ola seems to be doing fine and I think they've some sort of partnership with lyft where at some point in time you'll be able to use the lyft app and hail ola rides. This hasn't hap…

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    Comment #14450734

    I'm in Bangalore for a few days right now and I am interested in talking about it. Contact me through my website listed on the profile. FYI, I live in the US.

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    Comment #14410233

    That's false. I've returned a number of items to Amazon India, Myntra and other online/offline stores

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    Comment #14255196

    Can you really hop onto whichever network you like? I thought they made that decision for you.

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    Comment #12045798

    Maybe they learnt their lesson from the whole Free Basics debacle and are trying to bring low cost internet to developing areas. But that's just me being optimistic. Realistic me f…

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    Comment #11879692

    A blanket ban to protect a few defense installations seems like an overreaction. They do mention that monitoring it after launch would be impossible, but mistakes can discouraged b…

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    Comment #11826056

    Anybody have recommendations for decent providers of such backup services?

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    Comment #11690919

    If technology comes far enough that telepresence is preferred to on-site, I think it would be pretty trivial to replace the headset with whatever is behind them in VR

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    Comment #11681084

    Wasn't clear from the page. What can I use it for? Why does it exist?

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    Comment #11680962

    I think they meant examples of companies using microservices

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    Comment #11671983

    I get the acronym is easy to pronounce with the suggested word, but why not just use the suggested word (destiny) as the name instead of the acronym. So much easier to read and wri…

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    Comment #11671706

    I hate FB and stopped using it a few months ago. But the people behind the company are pretty clever. They might have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to move pretty qui…

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    Comment #11671658

    So, I'm curious about this. Does a waitlist with a referral system help increase signups? I'm wondering how's it better than wait lists that don't push you up the line for referrin…

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    Comment #11671289

    Don't they have like 1.65B MAUs? How is that a fad?

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    Comment #11671054

    Are you guys using a service for managing the waitlist or did you build it inhouse?

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    Ask HN: What are your favorite sources of programming/dev news?

    Question is in the title. I am looking for sources of programming and dev news HN users visit regularly. Apart from HN of course. Can be anything, websites, blogs, apps, Twitter us…

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    Comment #11662872

    I am gonna copy paste a similar comment I made on a related thread [0]. That demo was very cool. But: 1. do we really want a centralised service for everything that has access to a…

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