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praveenster | 6 years ago | on: Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)

I usually check ratings for a charity by reviewing it on Charity Navigator (which is itself a 501 (c) (3) and in need of donations as well). The rating for the Wikimedia Foundation happens to be really good: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

I use Wikipedia for reference on various topics on a daily basis and I know my kids do it at school as well. Hence, I donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the approximate cost of my yearly Netflix subscription as they provide huge amounts of valuable information without any ads and to everyone without paywalls. There aren’t very many free services on the web that run without ads.

praveenster | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Ansible Crash Course

Not op but it is mentioned in the Show HN blurb above:

> Just note an email address is required to register for the course - this is a limitation of the platform I'm using to host the course. Sorry about that!

praveenster | 6 years ago | on: China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel

I get your point and I somewhat agree with it, especially when I see a lot of cities worldwide having better public transportation than in places in my neighborhood (SoCal). But, the large benefit of working on these futuristic ideas is that it helps indirect innovation in other areas, similar to how the lunar missions helped build and shape a lot of other technologies.

praveenster | 7 years ago | on: How B players hire C players (2018)

“One of the other interviewers was a famous figure in an academic branch of engineering. The interviewee argued with the famous figure. It seemed to me that the candidate was probably right but the interviewer was so offended we couldn't extend an offer.”

This, to me, looks like the famous figure had too much ego. I wonder if that makes them a B player instead of an A?

praveenster | 8 years ago | on: White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID

This might be an interesting avenue for the tech community to come up with a solution similar to digital certificates and apply it to SSN numbers with an RFC of sorts that gets whetted by security experts and submitted to the government as a proposal to fix the problem long term.

praveenster | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you meditate and which system do you follow?

I use this app called Insight Timer on iOS. I use Bose noise cancelling headphones when I meditate as it helps cut any surrounding noise. I started with the free tunes that Insight Timer provided and meditated for 5 minutes in the morning. I have slowly increased it to about 15 minutes and purchased some of the other tunes via in app purchase on the app. Daily meditation definitely helps stay calm the rest of the day. I also use the same app after I get back home from work and use a different tune and it helps unwind.

praveenster | 8 years ago | on: Tesla's Asymmetric War Against the Auto Industry

Yes, the Volt is really fantastic. I bought it December 2016 and haven't filled gas since then. I have about 5500 miles on it so far. I drive about 25 miles each way to/from work and couple of stretches are downhill on the way to work and hence the battery drain is minimal, usually 50% at the end of the day. The drive is very smooth and there is hardly any road noise. The buying (or rather leasing) experience with the GM dealer was also really smooth and impressive, unlike working with other high pressure dealer sales staff.

praveenster | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which wireless router do you use at home?

Google WiFi (mesh of 3 units). Really love it so far. Very easy to configure and manage. No more clunky webpages to navigate, no more worrying about firmware upgrades. Switched recently from Linksys WRT610N after using it for about 8 years without any issues except for lack of firmware updates.

praveenster | 8 years ago | on: Sublime Text 3 Build 3132 released

I love sublime text and bought the ST3 license a couple years ago. For the last couple of months I've been holding off using VSCode as I felt the same way that it was an unfair comparison between the work of one or few developers vs a big team at Microsoft. But just last week I finally caved in and started using VSCode on a regular basis and I seem to like it a lot more than ST3 despite the issues about large files. I am just worried though if more people switch over and ST development stops because of funding and if Microsoft abandons VSCode development, then what are we left with? At least VSCode is on GitHub so the community might take over but I feel bad for indie developers who have to compete with large teams from big companies that have no direct revenue from the product.
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