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Cisco Webex launches real-time translation(business-review.eu)
110 points by achow 6y ago|87 comments
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by achow 6y ago
This is about crypto currency and not blockchain. We haven't heard anything against blockchain from any govt (India or otherwise). As far as cryptocurrency is concerned for micro transaction - Why?! There was a recent discussion on how
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by achow 6y ago
The blog exactly answers this. ------------------------ Google Pay switched to Flutter a few months ago for their flagship mobile app, and they already achieved major gains in productivity and quality. By unifying the codebase, the team rem
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by achow 6y ago
Title needs to be appended with (2012).
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by achow 6y ago
Not sure how comprehensive is this collection. Missed on mentioning Microsoft's fluent design guidelines https://www.microsoft.com/design/fluent/#/ Then there are 100s of design systems.. https:/&#
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by achow 6y ago
Sounds very good and no catch(?): POWERPASTE thus has a huge energy storage density,” says Vogt. “It is substantially higher than that of a 700 bar high-pressure tank. And compared to batteries, it has ten times the energy storage density.
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by achow 6y ago
‘We are very sorry’: Deloitte apologizes to RI about UHIP (Unified Health Infrastructure Project) https://www.wpri.com/target-12/we-are-very-sorry-deloitte-ap...
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by achow 6y ago
This also explains nicely: https://i.redd.it/elrhw73gpwd61.jpg
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by achow 6y ago
I echo all of this post, especially the part about wrong mental model. Me too after reading listening to all success stories thought that it would be a fairly effortless, all I have to do is build a great product and users and investments w
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by achow 6y ago
That's a small glacier looks like. And more interesting for me was the drink cooler that is carved out of the glacier (at the bottom of the same steps). Genius! https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMj_FbNF8VZduHZ5
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by achow 6y ago
In this particular example, the engineer and designer had very little incentive to make it bulletproof (as there was no check), and there was no guarantee that the decision taken were not wrong (ex. not complying to Security Standard XYZ.NN
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by achow 6y ago
No focus on a structured product definition and leaving it to engineers to 'figure it out' does not bode well for the end user or business itself. This is a real experience in a FAANG company - we were developing a new product in
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by achow 6y ago
Aren't plastics or polymer inert to salt water?
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by achow 6y ago
Google map is amazing in India (a poor country albeit with higher usage). It is not uncommon to see cab or auto (tuk-tuk) drivers use smartphones to navigate the city roads. Map technology in general has become a great leveller, where it en
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by achow 6y ago
Reddit demo links are down. The alternate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qrURPAtnY
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by achow 6y ago
Microsoft’s control over the hardware specs and the behavior of the software allowed it to run smooth as silk on older, single-core processors. I’ve always thought that Windows Phone looked particularly good (as mobile platforms go) at low
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by achow 6y ago
Earth: 29% Land, 71% Ocean Land: 71% Habitable, 29% Not Agricultural: 2.3% of all habitable land Livestock: 8% of all habitable land Looking at the stats, your question is very valid. We can drastically increase food production by marginall
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by achow 6y ago
Places like Middle East, Singapore and also USA majority of foods are being imported anyway.
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by achow 6y ago
Use Teams for Video conference. It is a life saver. Never faced issues on the things that you mention - screen sharing, uploading of a video or image etc. Perf no issues, conduct internal as well as external conferences with college hires a
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Mechanics of a Snap Fit(journals.aps.org)
2 points by achow 6y ago|0 comments
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by achow 6y ago
> Make me think. Little learning curve is OK.. The same argument I used to hear when User Interface was transitioning from command line to GUI for many enterprise applications. The inherent flaw in the article is that the author assumes
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by achow 6y ago
> Our huge network of merchant data found.. at some tiny brick-and-mortar in Baltimore and it comes out $50 cheaper Here is the crux: the 'supply chain' for gathering the data from all the tiny stores in small towns, who may
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by achow 6y ago
http://archive.is/aEjKt
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by achow 6y ago
This should not be seen as chats, but transaction documentation. The dialogs associated with informal or semi-formal transactions may not belong in your personal chat space; quite often that set of dialogs exists only before and during the
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by achow 6y ago
Super interesting part for me was - on this legacy apps would run just as fast as they would on Intel Macs. But the real nut of it is that it has managed to make a chip so powerful that it can take the approximate 26% hit (see the followin
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by achow 6y ago
Super interesting part for me was that legacy apps (apps not rewritten for M1 chip) would run just as fast as they on Intel Macs. But the real nut of it is that it has managed to make a chip so powerful that it can take the approximate 26%
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by achow 6y ago
This could easily be to compensate for unvested Amazon stock that he maybe leaving behind.
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by achow 6y ago
Mar 2014, Paul Graham I’m delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN community. Many HN
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by achow 6y ago
In Android eco system just focusing on high end (flagship) phones may not take one very far. Mid and mass market phones are where the action is; and to that point Xiaomi's success is because of that.
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by achow 6y ago
> If you are already using WA for sending money, why won't you use it for payments? Yes, Payments to business that exists within WhatsApp. That would not lead to "30%" marketshare. Case in point - Amazon Pay in India is

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