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by aviraldg 7y ago
The timing is way too convenient. The current American government hates tech companies due to their generally left leaning ideologies: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/06/26/trump-says-big-tech-comp... ht
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by aviraldg 7y ago
What would be the alternative? For lawyers to specify search algorithms?
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by aviraldg 7y ago
If you kill off free and ad supported services[0], you take away the ability of a large fraction of the world's population to use the internet. People using 3-4 USD/month prepaid internet packs to communicate using Facebook and Wh
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by aviraldg 7y ago
It would be quite amusing to see engineers trying to explain search algorithms to politicians and lawyers, I admit. Not as amusing as the questions they might ask or the solutions they might suggest, though.
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by aviraldg 7y ago
Solution: allow these companies to bid for the spot. Like they're doing in the EU for the choice of default search engine in Chrome. Allow power users to pick a default, so we don't have to suffer through terrible third party cont
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by aviraldg 7y ago
Facebook and Google are both sources of "free" news these days (the quality and neutrality may vary though.) This represents a major challenge for newspapers which are struggling to monetize their content. Adtech has also impacted
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by aviraldg 7y ago
This is great advice and isn't followed often enough, especially when reviewing code written by people new to an organization/team: > If you see something nice in the CL, tell the developer, especially when they addressed one o
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by aviraldg 7y ago
What you call dark patterns are ways to ensure users don't accidentally load malware onto their device. They can definitely do better though - I think a good first step would a dialog to choose trusted alternative app stores such that
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by aviraldg 7y ago
On Android, you do have the freedom to install whatever app you want without having to root. You can also install alternative app stores.
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by aviraldg 7y ago
“Satire from The Borowitz Report”
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by aviraldg 7y ago
Can someone help me understand why technologists and entrepreneurs on HN cheer on "ending the tech industry's free reign", when they are part of the very same tech industry?
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by aviraldg 7y ago
Feel free to add them to your robots.txt; they won't scrape you then (but they won't index or rank you either)
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by aviraldg 7y ago
https://swarajyamag.com/culture/reviewing-the-real-super-30-... seems to have some comments from past students
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by aviraldg 7y ago
No, the equivalent is you walking into a store to buy DVDs, and the store manager keeping a record of what sells well, and what you show interest in, etc. to drive decisions about what to stock next.
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by aviraldg 7y ago
I feel like all these articles follow a pattern: they take a common, well known aspect of technology (in this case, analytics trackers), search for any cases where a major tech company is involved, and come up with the most clickbaity headl
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by aviraldg 7y ago
What about all the people around the world who can't afford to pay for the services that adtech currently pays for for them? Why do you feel you can make the decision to get rid of adtech on their behalf?
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by aviraldg 8y ago
There is actually -- both the companies have certain cities where they seem to have many more drivers than the other. Due to this, when I'm in Bangalore, I prefer Uber, but when in Calcutta, I prefer Ola.
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ContentEditable – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2015)(medium.com)
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by aviraldg 8y ago
I'd add jq ( https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ ) to the list. JSON data is so common, and jq makes working with it a breeze.
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by aviraldg 8y ago
One of my previous teams used to do something similar, but the initial PR would be for a change to the docs for the project. Would be great, because the docs would be updated to reflect any new changes automatically.
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Do you have specific examples in mind? I've really liked most of their original content so far, like Sacred Games, Mirzapur, Rajma Chawal, Selection Day, etc.
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Yes, what a great feature to work on while they've spent 6+ months on restoring access to many of their earliest users[1] with nothing to show for it, and no further communication from their support. [1] https://www.theguard
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Bridging the Gap Between Junior and Senior Engineers(medium.com)
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Yes, you can rebase: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (best used with --ff-only in your config to avoid unnecessary/unintentional merge commits)
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Sure, and while they're at it they may as well shut down the Play Store as well, because app developers won't be able to deal with it. Try explaining why your app doesn't work to thousands of users with terrible Chinese phone
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by aviraldg 8y ago
If you like DDG's bang commands, you might want to check out Riot.im - it supports autocomplete for DDG searches and bang commands (and as far as I'm aware is the only IM client to do so) /ddg <query> to try it out
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Why should they not be able to control how they provide access to a product they develop and provide for free?
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Lost me at the first line: "Jeff Bezos is one of President Donald Trump’s biggest critics." How do Jeff's political opinions affect AWS' suitability as a cloud service provider in any way?
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by aviraldg 8y ago
It also seems include a special case for if/while that lets you do: def foo(): if randint(0, 3) as n: return n ** 2 return 1337 which looks a bit better to me.
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by aviraldg 8y ago
Is this the same Bose that (primarily) works on audio technology?

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