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by achow 5y ago
Yes, particularly when considering how much of text is all over that page [0]. An extra sentence saying something to the effect of '50% of any remaining annual plan will be charged on early termination, [see more details link]' co
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Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?(goodlookingdesign.co.uk)
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by achow 5y ago
Got the following insights from my younger team members, who are single, new to workforce, new to the city (edit - not in 'home' city). I miss the office for.. - Free and convenient food. - Social chatter & engagement. - Makin
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by achow 5y ago
Whatsapp is not part of this because it doesn't store data in servers? But what about the situation when a message is sent but not delivered. Doesn't the message sit in a server?
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by achow 5y ago
I find it really admirable that Halide team writes some great articles on Smartphone computational photography. Those who are interested in this area should check out their explainer article on what’s iPhone’s ProRAW format: https:/&#
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by achow 5y ago
Agree. It is a constant wonderment why Adobe is not called out ‘evil’ more often like its other SV brethren. They are not even good at software engineering and UX.
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by achow 5y ago
This is why last year India's policy for auto debit rules for credit debit card makes very good sense. Under the new norms, banks will be required to inform customers in advance about recurring payment due and transaction would be car
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by achow 5y ago
You realize that is highly dramatized and curated? Annually around 1.5-2 millions patents are granted. How many episodes of Shark Tank has run till now and what subset of the participants had patents on their inventions? And, how many of th
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by achow 5y ago
The days of garage invention and patenting those are gone. Patent process itself is so expensive and laborious that many do not do it, and upon that to keep patent 'alive' there is an annual expenditure. I'm not sure whether
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by achow 5y ago
We are not in Metaverse yet. 'Internet people' (your customers) live at real places, order real stuff, has different expectations, use different tools (payment, security..) differently in different geographies.
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by achow 5y ago
Well, considering the hardware release cycles are approx' 12 months (from Apple, Samsung et al), 9 months is really not in future.
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by achow 5y ago
To be close to customers?
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by achow 5y ago
India has been deeply 'non-aligned' to that of West so far, and this was simply because West was/is confused bunch - policies in middle east, cutting deals with Saudi, winking at Pakistan, ignoring China's ascedence powe
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by achow 5y ago
A 1 kg of Tide detergent pack will occupy same space as in UK or US.
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by achow 5y ago
Hmm.. per sqft seems to be reasonable. Whichever country (given income equality and ignoring cultural disposition to consumption patterns) a human would need approx' same amount of goods, whether grocery, clothing or other such, and th
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by achow 5y ago
https://archive.fo/nRK7O
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Samsung Q4 result broke records – Profit:$11.5B, Revenue:$64.6B(theverge.com)
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by achow 5y ago
Yes. Why not stick to that topic. Why to conflate by bringing in vaccine one?
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by achow 5y ago
'Actively' seems to be accurate for the scenario when one is choosing to make body conducive to incubate virus, or already incubating them (albeit unknowingly if asymptomatic). [Edit] And if you meant active in context of 'Ac
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by achow 5y ago
This is not same. The non vaccinated are actively choosing to be a danger to people around them. It is like actively carrying concealed unlicensed gun which can silently and anynomously fire at people.
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by achow 5y ago
Some interesting facts from Rijksmuseum's abstract of a talk from 2018 - not related to the painting of this post: The stitched and registered images, each exceeding 6 gigapixels, were then visualized using the “curtain viewer”, an in
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by achow 5y ago
Non-Paywalled https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/business/ibm-watson-healt... https://archive.fo/uFNnJ The business is being sold for an undisclosed price to Francisco Partners, a priva
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by achow 5y ago
At that time (~2003) I didn't realize the benefit - India govt asked MIT Media lab to leave India due to their high salaries and I guess lack of accountability.. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/busines
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by achow 5y ago
Totally Agree. It is well known proverb in showbiz - you are as good as your last hit. In this business you have to constantly be at the top to stay at the same place. There is no possibility to create a 'moat' in showbiz. Technol
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by achow 5y ago
I was actually talking about former - stop outsourcing 'reading and writing' to dev shops. Rules and policies are quite intricately thought through and they get refined as and when 'bugs' or 'holes' are detecte
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by achow 5y ago
Exactly. That's what OP meant. Those logic are defined by business and then translated to implementation logic by dev. Today there are many situations where one can remove outsourced dev shops, if business themselves can implement the
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by achow 5y ago
I think Capone did not have any witnesses for his murder-heavy business. Here there were plenty.
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No
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Yes. But they are already there and established, so why then this 'Ask HN'?
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by achow 5y ago
"UI Development" is not gate keeper of great UX. If you want great UX invest in professional UX designers. If you want great house to live in, hire an architect, not civil engineers. [Edit] After hiring UX designers, listen to the

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