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by arihant 9y ago
This probably has something to do with their desire for IPO. However I don't even know how it will look like when Uber finally opens up their books. I'm only one data point but I get over half the invoices wrongly calculated by Ub
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by arihant 9y ago
Regarding your second point -- that also includes the fact that you cannot sue any of the React contributors, not just Facebook. If I have a pull request on React, I can copy everything you ever built on React, down to the interface. It d
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by arihant 9y ago
And it's still nowhere close to what I imagine Kalanick imagines. Short sighted investors will see Lyft, Ola, Grab, Didi as competitors. Kalanick will see private car ownership as competition. I have a feeling if he doesn't come b
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by arihant 9y ago
Women aren't interested in tech because they grow up with social blockers, such as his memo. That's the point everyone seems to miss. Imagine a girl interested in tech when only a handful of her peers understand her interest. Then
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by arihant 9y ago
Carnival Cinemas in India have a similar scheme called Moviecard. All you can watch, Monday through Thursday. It costs around the same as one movie ticket for the entire month. This seems similar. I always thought the idea was to fill empty
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by arihant 9y ago
No. Just no. Charge a subscription if it's an ongoing service. If you're moving bits for me, running code on cloud for me on ongoing basis, charge me a subscription. If you gave me a binary to run, I pay you once. This is exactly
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by arihant 9y ago
No he should not. That letter was a disaster. While some of the points in that letter could have sparked valuable debate, one simply can't get away with a written claim that his coworkers are biologically incompetant to do their jobs.
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by arihant 9y ago
Focussing on the negative gray color in between circles gives it away. Still requires extreme focus to figure out the spiral.
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by arihant 9y ago
As far as I know, Uber does not take a cut on surge pricing. The extra money goes straight to the driver.
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by arihant 9y ago
I think the reason is that music subscription services took off in last 2-3 years massively, and globally. Apple Music expanded to a good number of nations, so did Spotify and others. And so it has also become very easy for creators to put
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by arihant 9y ago
Due process, transparency, the option to overthrow the government. China has none of these. Hell, their government can ban the words "net neutrality" and "freedom" if they want to tomorrow, with no protest or recourse op
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by arihant 9y ago
I think the trust deficit towards Chinese companies is due to their government. The government can just force their companies to hand over all data. They already do for their own citizens.
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by arihant 10y ago
It is borderline psychopathic to track down a user who gave you bad review and brick their device. It's also illegal. People don't even spare Apple for their fuck ups. Who do they really think they are?
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by arihant 10y ago
It's not so much the upload, but the fact that it will always be unclear (and dynamic) what this service will do with a particular LOC. You might store sensitive documents in Google Drive, but it is unlikely you will type something sen
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by arihant 10y ago
Since this program uploads code to the cloud, it would be worthy to clarify if it cleans out strings before upload or not. Because if it does not, it is a serious concern as it puts secret keys in code in awful risk. They also run a backgro
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by arihant 10y ago
I think it is not too odd to inscribe "Captain's iPhone" on an iPhone instead of just "Captain's." Can't see why bell would be different.
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by arihant 10y ago
If you have a 2015 rMBP, we have the same model. There is no additional glass on top of the LCD, which every unibody model always had. One can argue LCD itself is made of glass substrate, but that's about it and that's not what Ap
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by arihant 10y ago
I'm extremely put off by Apple line up getting frustratingly confusing. The devil is in the details here. There was a time, where you could simply trust that an Apple product is built like a tank, that a technology once introduced (lik
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by arihant 10y ago
It's anecdotal. However, it should not be hard to test it out with 10 non-tech friends. I also don't recall having my credit card on file on any website that uses naked domain. That's pure correlation. Which goes on to show h
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by arihant 10y ago
I understand the article walks through the technical aspects. However, having seen a lot of non-savvy users use Internet, I am firmly with WWW. Probably because of association and all major "established" companies using www, peopl
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by arihant 10y ago
You cannot really go practical in AI without academic rigor. You can do recipes of what's already been done using a TensorFlow book, but that's how far one can go. If one is serious in getting in AI today, a great way to do is rea
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by arihant 10y ago
But you do want to work in a place where you get shot based on color of skin? You can see why making blanket statements based on a piece of news you read from another continent is not the right way to judge an entire country. Besides, my re
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by arihant 10y ago
Those restrictions do not apply in the business district, AFAIK. There is a lot of encapsulation that Dubai provides international businesses from their local restrictions.
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by arihant 10y ago
If ease of attracting international founders is a concern, my recommendation would be Dubai. Unbelievable facilities which are turn key in their own business hub, a tax free environment to incorporate in, if it goes there. Foreigners can ow
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by arihant 10y ago
Fairly disappointing list. No GC in hosting list, even with generous free tier on App Engine, Firebase and other services. No DigitalOcean. No Azure. On e-mail front, no SendGrid and Mailgun, even with their generous free tiers. No Cloudfla
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by arihant 10y ago
People generally tend to try and get same username on most websites they visit. Especially the ones using same pw everywhere. So in that sense email as UID ain't that bad.
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by arihant 10y ago
$3B over the next five years. Rackspace was worth around $4.6B in August with assets of around $1.6B. Assuming that Snap would require as big an infrastructure as Rackspace, then purchasing Rackspace for $4.6B was surely a better deal, beca
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by arihant 10y ago
I might be missing something, but most of the critical code seems to be binary. It only supports two car models. So unless you own those two and are willing to let no-warranty indie code which you cannot see drive you around, this is a soli
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by arihant 10y ago
I did the same thing. I have a 2015 MBP, and I plan to hold it at least till AppleCare expires and then see how's the landscape is. Having the 2015 model, I don't feel at all left out with this release. I think I have a better lap
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by arihant 10y ago
This does not seem like a major announcement to me. They added a bar and touch ID. But they added force touch with taptic engine last year and it took 3 minutes to introduce. Between this and Surface with Bash built in, it's the first

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