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Keep your US number and call from it too (for free)

Now that I have relocated to India having sold my car among other things, I was confronted with a new problem - many tools and products assume or prefer that their users are

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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It's been solved

I have a Fermat-esque declaration to make. I may have resolved the moral conundrum at the heart of adblocking but this space is too small to go into the details. The conundrum is

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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The world hates shorts

Back in March 2015, I had a trading idea. Today, I'd like to report its results. My big idea back then was to buy and hold UDOW, a 3x ETF which tries to

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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Pan and scan

Apple should build a "Scan" function into the iPhone camera. I often pan up a document to create an image but the image quality is often compromised because the iPhone light

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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OpenVPN client setup

TL;DR Here's how to do it: locate your easy-rsa directory. In my case, it was located inside /etc/openvpn. Now cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa run the following command: sudo ./easyrsa build-client-full client1_

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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Can a manual tester write automation scripts?

A few days ago, I posted Kheera on the Cukes mailing list. The framework's utility was called into question in a remarkably civil discussion (for the internet.) The basic thrust of the argument

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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Introducing Kheera

TL;DR: Kheera is the best Cucumber based web automation tool on the planet. When you are responsible for web automation for two multibillion websites, you very quickly learn the pitfalls of doing

  • Sai Ramachandran
3 min read
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On online classes

In the last months, I have finished three four week long courses online. I will soon finish my fourth such course. I have never met the Stanford Associate Professor (re)teaching me algorithms.

  • Sai Ramachandran
1 min read
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The Producer-Consumer conundrum

I am slowly eliminating my smart phone from my life. Right now, it sits banished on the ground floor on my house. I have not looked at it since roughly 6PM yesterday. This

  • Sai Ramachandran
3 min read
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