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You know, a lot of these features are so mindlessly piled that for an existing iPhone user it does not feel like cognitive overload. But my mom used the newest iPhone last week -- she used iPhone 4 as her full time phone back in the day --
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Actually serious bug detection and prevention is not bad in C either. Most C code uses very well accepted design patterns which is very readable to a seasoned C programmer. Haskell and OCaml are better at easy reasoning of correctness of a
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These aren't problems of the language. These are a result of having a design choice of full programmer control. Having automatic cars is convenient and has its uses. But the argument that not using a manual cars will cause less road ac
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by arihant 11y ago
> Economics don't tell you that competition dilutes profits, it tells you that competition drives down prices until profits are zero, which isn't the same thing. Dilution is a process that happens over a time interval. In tha
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by arihant 11y ago
The desirability of paying to reduce pain and interactions with humans to get a job done increases proportional to income. I'm sure we all have been at a point in life (college) where we would read Indian tax code to try and avoid payi
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by arihant 11y ago
The existing site is simple enough. Digital India would probably help these guys with Aadhaar auth, FACTA link for NRIs, and unified API. The issue with IT website is not simplicity or functionality -- it is the fact that it assumes you kno
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No it's like that wine is available for everyone to buy anyway (via HTTP) and people are arguing that perhaps the bottled version (via non-HTTP protocol) should be age limited while keeping non-bottled version as is.
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by arihant 11y ago
Google hit the sweet spot between Android and Chrome when they announced the continuity like features which they actually never released. Still, without being able to beam Android apps to Chromebook, I love the integrations my Android Wear,
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by arihant 11y ago
Except email, there is nothing private on HN to raise privacy issue. Public internet is written in ink.
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by arihant 11y ago
That's shortsighted. Sometimes such practices eliminate the need for additional protocols for related tasks. Maybe instruction slips could be passed on here? This kind of approach can be very helpful in the wild. For delivery of SMS, f
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by arihant 11y ago
It is. Free lane is fundamentally similar to fast lane. Also, if you use Internet.org, you cannot use other websites unless you stop using Internet.org, you get a "fuck off" message for any other website you want to visit, even if
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There's desert on either side of the border.
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Absolutely. It's the motion of the ocean.
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This. To be honest, I think the customer confusion they say is coming from the fact that chromecast was a Prime product and therefore had a Prime logo next to it while buying. That could confuse some buyers. But the sane thing to do would b
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by arihant 11y ago
I think the point is -- if the TTL is set low, most ISPs simply ignore it to a minimum setting of at least a few hours. So changing/pointing a Google hostname to a victim might not have that big an impact if done only for a few minutes
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by arihant 11y ago
I'm fairly certain a lot of wrongful flagging is a direct consequence of fat-fingering the flag button. I've been there, and my fingers aren't that fat.
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by arihant 11y ago
How is this not April? The problem with this approach is this -- you're still bidding on the ad spot. While this is cool, here are ignored issues: 1. It removes Google ads, which are arguably the least annoying ads. 2. Since it is stil
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Google Fortunetelling(betagoogle.com)
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by arihant 11y ago
Adding more privacy controls would sort of kill the point of it as SMS killer. You can block specific people. What they should control is the APIs that are popping up like promotional SMS with support for Whatsapp. These companies are obvio
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by arihant 11y ago
There is good decade between when you graduate and when you expect children. Starting a business before 20-21 is not really ideal. Yes, some people can do it. But those people have an over the top mental and emotional maturity that nominal
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by arihant 11y ago
True, but nobody is trying to get a C. Mediocrity is possible everywhere. Zuckerberg could have just made a university-specific social network and have gotten by. Bill Gates could have just made software for altair and gotten by. Larry Page
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by arihant 11y ago
There are avenues such as taking project based classes in the area you want to start something, doing an independent study, working on senior research in field one wants to work in. You can do what Google guys did in senior thesis time. But
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by arihant 11y ago
There are classes where a lot of people get A's. But I have a first hand experience to tell you that it's not easy. Just because majority got an A in a very small number of classes, does not disregard equal number of classes where
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by arihant 11y ago
Java programs got that way not because of language, but because teams of thousands of developers managing same codebase for decades. Explicitness and non-magicness are extremely valued in that environment. Imagine you're refactoring a
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by arihant 11y ago
> They are nothing for entrepeneurs. This is absolutely false. Great colleges are extremely hard, and in top programs kids are always fighting for life to not get kicked out. To me, CMU taught invaluable lessons in hard work, getting k
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by arihant 11y ago
Well, Java isn't verbose. Certain codebases have gotten verbose because they are being maintained for years (decades?) with extremely functional tools. Give a Go team IntelliJ and 20 years, and then we can compare Go and Java codebases
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I love Go, 90% of my company's codebase is in Go. But I can't ignore the Kool-Aid in this article. I don't see why people have perception of IDE being a bad thing. In past 15 years or so, I have never been in a situation wher
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by arihant 11y ago
Exactly. I thought someone wants to organize a Hackathon, or something.
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First, reCAPTCHA's purpose was to digitize books, not digitize them for public domain. If the work was copyrighted, it was returned to rightful owners. Second, if Big Mac got 2000% tastier every year, and while at that, 2 billion peopl
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I was referring to digitizing books as Luis defines it - actually typing in the scanned pages. Not the scanned pages themselves, as Google Books had. My comment was regarding reCAPTCHA not being used to convert scanned book pages to text. F

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