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Krishna Agarwal retweeted
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Krishna Agarwal retweeted
What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
Krishna Agarwal retweeted
I don’t think people realize how selfless and wonderful the StackOverflow’s founders were.
Unlike reddit, x etc they insisted ALL of their content will be 100% open, nothing will ever be locked up in walled garden.
They made it a point by even offering structured data downloads!
They didn’t cared people cloning the website. They didn’t worry about putting the whole monetization thing at risk.
It was a true hacker spirit in it’s purest form.
Most folks won’t be able to grasp how hard this is. You are on top of the world. Millions of people depend on you daily. You have the rarest opportunity to rack in billions. And you still stay true to your principles.
This exactly in turn later enabled AI revolution. I still remember downloading entire SO archives and preparing it for pre-training while Reddit and others went onto lawfare and firewalling the content. Note that this was the content their users - not reddit employees - had created for free and voluntarily to help others and the world. But they locked it all up for profiting from it personally.
SO did none of that. I think they knew they will be sacrificed at the altar. Yet it will exactly serve the intent of their founding principles to help others and the world, now through AI, even at bigger scale.
All of today’s models are built upon efforts of such true pure hackers who spent their days and years to create training data for AIs. I was a proud SO contributer for many years and there are couple of times while testing models I did felt that models might have used my answers 😇.
Hats off to @codinghorror and @spolsky and so many builders and hackers at SO for moving the world forward, one revolution at a time 🫡.
Krishna Agarwal retweeted
India is probably the only country where a govt babu, whose department was directly responsible for mixing of water and sewage that resulted in the death of 30 innocent citizens, not only will not be punished but actually promoted, but the CEO of a private company, who doesn't have direct control over a factory where 2 workers tragically died, will be arrested immediately and sent to trial
How ridiculous can it get
CEOs of companies will now be arrested for incidents in any factory.
It was a tragic loss of life but this will make so many MNCs rethink India plans and expansion.
@Dev_Fadnavis
m.economictimes.com/industry…
Krishna Agarwal retweeted
I sometimes want to give up on progressive web apps.
The obstruction by Apple, companies that only use PWAs to promote their native apps, fragmented browser support, developer ignorance, and half-baked examples that enforce the idea that web apps are inferior.
It feels like an uphill battle that never ends, and I sometimes lose motivation to fight it.
But what if this fight is not fought?
We end up without this free distribution channel called the web, and apps will only be created inside walled gardens called app stores where Apple and Google decide the rules.
Where they can extract heavy taxes and decide who gets in and who doesn't.
Sure, we can still put our apps on the web, but as long as Apple is able to kneecap web apps in such a way that there's no level playing field, will they ever be viable?
That is still a fight worth fighting, and I will continue to show what web apps are capable of with What PWA Can Do Today.
That is my motivation.
Even if certain things only work on Android or desktop. Even if Apple makes installing a PWA more cumbersome with every iOS release.
Thankfully, we have people like the Open Web Advocacy fighting the legal battles.
We, as developers, can and must show the world what web apps are capable of.
Build great freaking web apps. Even if some features are only available in Chrome or on Android or desktop.
Otherwise, the world will never know what web apps can do.
The free, open web is at stake.
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Is this the death of desktop apps & the emergence of browser as the OS?
Models are the last moat in software.
AI can train on essays and rewrite them. AI can decompile software and recode it. AI can ingest art and recreate it.
But AI itself doesn’t want to be “distilled.”
Expect more software to retreat to the server and resist “distillation.”
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This is crazy @GoDaddy
Is it time to port?
@GoDaddyHelp @GoDaddy my 12 year old active account has been blocked for a week and every day starts with calling support for following up to unblock it with no results. I have renewals pending with some domains about to be canceled. Can you look at expediting the process?
Not applicable on IRCTC & Govt. Sites. They will pass on the MDR to customers. Just how things work in India🤷♂️
UPI MDR ate 94% of our margins.
We earn ₹50 on a ₹10,000 order. From Oct 15, UPI takes ₹47.20 of it.
Pneucons earns 0.5% commission on the order value before tax.
The math:
Customer pays: ₹10,000 + 18% GST = ₹11,800
We earn: 0.5% of ₹10,000 = ₹50
UPI MDR: 0.4% of ₹11,800 = ₹47.20
Left: ₹2.80
That's 94% of our margin gone on every UPI order above ₹2,000.
It's worse because MDR is charged on the GST too: we earn on ₹10,000 but pay MDR on ₹11,800. That costs us an extra ₹7.20.
The ₹8.50 GST on MDR is claimable, but it's paid upfront. That's working capital stuck on every order.
@kushgrwl bhai was confident fintech will bear the cost for the data they get while i was of an opinion they will also add their own mark up on top of it. Turns out we both are wrong.
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