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by actuator 6y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here, Amazon is definitely not the only retailer that can use data. All the retailers have data on what sells in their store, they also have the data on how sales are influenced by shelf placement. Amazon t
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by actuator 6y ago
I recently read about one of the cities, New Delhi introducing benefits to increase EV adoption. The same report also mentioned an EV by some Indian manufacturer that seemed to have good specs on paper. So I am assuming there should be EVs
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't think it is a foreigner thing. I have travelled a lot in India as well and I find your statement not representative of the actual ground situation. Infrastructure sure is not well done but the electricity bit is not true at lea
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by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure if this was something recent, if it was I can understand why someone new might find no point in it. F1 right now is going through one of the most dominating periods by a single team. While in initial days of Mercedes dominance
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by actuator 6y ago
What's wrong with JIRA? If it is about the usage of it within some orgs, I don't know if it is the tool or culture. I have seen some people fawning over tools like Asana but in my usage I just found it fancier and slower than Jira
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by actuator 6y ago
Email addresses and inboxes are important to people. They are critical to our online identity. Wiki mentions Gmail having 1.5 billion users. Imagine even 100M of them paying $100 per year. Makes Gmail a $10B product just on paid subscriptio
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by actuator 6y ago
Thanks for reminding about that. Seems like a no brainer to me that they should extend it. Google has so many tools that I depend on that I will happily pay extra for them in such plans.
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by actuator 6y ago
Maybe there was a TOS violation here but it would help if someone can explain what went wrong with some SLA unless there is a reason they can't reveal it.
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by actuator 6y ago
I have been thinking about this for a while. Considering I prefer to keep the important data/emails on Gmail or Google drive for security and I really consider it important. Would it help if Google had a paid tier? Say, if you can get
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by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure why this is worth mentioning. If you look at the whole US defense industry, it is big. There is a lot of money to be made there with products and services, so I would expect some companies to provide for that market. Also, why
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by actuator 6y ago
> forcing you to enable location history Not defending them but is it forced? I remember being asked about it. I used to keep it off for a long time but keep it on now to keep track of places I visit. > there is no technical reason fo
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by actuator 6y ago
> They said "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored" and then did it anyways. I would just apply Hanlon's razor here. It most likely was a bug or oversight, if it had been some malicious evil sc
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by actuator 6y ago
I have seen some video sites run their video streams from it. I was wondering how they are not able to detect it.
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by actuator 6y ago
I seem to run out of it quite fast. Even if we exclude all the new app install space, a typical 64 GB phone will have around 50 GB usable space. 50 GB is 66 mins of 4K 60 fps video or about 5000 RAW photos. I understand that in a city this
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by actuator 6y ago
> Google and Amazon spy systems I have only used an Echo in the past but fwiw Google does specify what they store and how they use it. https://store.google.com/magazine/google_nest_privacy
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by actuator 6y ago
There is a new Nest audio device out which apparently has good audio and is at the same price as Homepod Mini.
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by actuator 6y ago
I sure hope not. Unlike most people, I upgrade my phone in 3-4 years, so by that time even my adaptor is worn out. I would not wish to spend more for one if I don't get any reduction in phone price.
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by actuator 6y ago
I understand the value of the different phone sizes but still can't understand why companies are selling 64 GB models. I know we have everything in the cloud these days but with apps with rich assets and smartphones being more capable
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, if they really cared about environment, they would make their devices repairable/upgradable. At least, Macbook could do with non soldered RAM and a SSD you could change. Although a good move, this just increases their margin. The
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by actuator 6y ago
Spotify should definitely allow users to shift self created playlists. That is user data and very important to some as it takes years to build. Though I don't agree that Spotify has to let users transfer Spotify curated playlists as th
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by actuator 6y ago
Previous discussion(1 day old) on the same news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746001
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by actuator 6y ago
I don't think he is denigrating it. He probably phrased it badly, but he meant you did side projects like a hobby just as well you might have done hiking in that time.
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by actuator 6y ago
> I mean, the entire point of the post is wrong, but impressing recruiters is downright stupid. Let's be frank: recruiters are bottom-of-the-totem pole, lowest-common-denominator bottom-feeders. No matter how we feel, the process st
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by actuator 6y ago
> If you can speak to the processes involved and have demonstrable knowledge about how to implement things learned from side-projects As I mentioned in my comment, no difference if the person is starting out or if the project gets tracti
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by actuator 6y ago
> First, most recruiters don’t care about your personal projects or how many meetups you went during the year. What matters the most is your current company - and by that I mean the name of your current company. He is so much right here.
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by actuator 6y ago
That is a silly measure. Companies make products if they think there is good profit to be made there. Look at games. Civ wasn't released on Linux till Civ 5, that too because of Steam OS, four years after the Windows version came out.
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, this has been incredibly amusing to witness. It seems odd to single it out when you have far more anticompetitive practices on web browsers itself. You can't have other web browser engines on iOS. Shells to the same engine don&#x
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by actuator 6y ago
> I feel they could have included a clause that would let a designated third party access the extracted data on the requester's behalf in an automated way. Yeah, this would have been nice. I am not sure if legally you could enforce
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by actuator 6y ago
Amusingly enough, I think the podcast move was a realisation that like Netflix they will need their own content to prosper in the long run when faced against goliaths like Apple, as big players will just throw money and platform advantages
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, data portability is hard to define as a strict standard as it is extremely product specific. Even when we implemented it for my last company, we did JSON exports on signed S3 paths. I thought structured data was the easiest way for an

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