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by balladeer 13y ago
The number of WhatsApp users in India is still infinitely less than the plain vanilla SMS people. Specially the ones living in villages which is a huge majority with a huger margin. We also have SMS packs like 100 SMS a month by paying Rs 4
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by balladeer 13y ago
You know what was pathetic? With all its security and authentication loopholes people still used it. I gave it up for time but friends still won't listen and then I had to come back. Now, Facebook is sth I can't tolerate. At least
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Ask HN: Open Source (self hosted?) WhatsApp alternatives?
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by balladeer 13y ago
I live in Bangalore too! It's just that most of my friends are moving from WhatsApp to Viber and remaining will hopefully move now. I have around 10 groups running from school, boarding, college, jobs and some more. Fb buying them is a
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by balladeer 13y ago
Honestly memracom, you come across as someone who has never seen it, or worse still, never known it or even tried. What's more shocking is your comment is on the top. > Nothing good comes from the kind of violence that these idiots
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by balladeer 13y ago
I agree with you except that money is one of the first things that would cause me to leave a job. Quality of work comes before this. Others reasons being: freedom to experiment, work culture, flexibility, and being respected as a person not
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by balladeer 13y ago
> then not only are they booted but so is the person who invited them. I understand why this was put in place there but that's the reason I don't really invite others. I have no way of knowing whether he or she will be down-vot
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by balladeer 13y ago
Agreed and I tell you, pay that kind of money to Eclipse Foundation and you might be in for a pleasant surprise in a year or so.
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by balladeer 13y ago
I would like to point out sth that is obvious that Switzerland is (emphasis) an extremely costly place to live in. When you talk about a place or city that is known by monikers like "silicon valley", or "city of dreams",
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by balladeer 13y ago
OTOH, Samsung's software r&d prowess, even today, is far from the standard needed to maintain a top class (mobile) OS, leave alone creating or polishing it. You can imagine where it would have been at that time. So yeah, they made
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by balladeer 13y ago
Well, for one I wouldn't want to authenticate via Twitter, especially when it's not a benign permission like "only basic profile information".
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by balladeer 13y ago
I might attract a lot of flack here for saying this, but lobstr.es is a lot HN could have been, alas it is yet to get some serious amount of participation.
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by balladeer 13y ago
No that was not the time and it was certainly not the same thing .
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by balladeer 13y ago
> FTC fines maker of Path app $800,000 for privacy violations First result on goolging "path privacy"
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by balladeer 13y ago
So, the privacy concerns, contact stealing and phone spamming rumours were all, well, rumours? I mean there's a reason behind their non-existent user base. I stopped using it when all my friends got an email from them. All! Even my pro
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by balladeer 13y ago
Rather strengthen your algorithmic abilities, maybe some more maths and work on something like data science or so, if that's you interest. Languages keep coming and keep going.
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by balladeer 13y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but by PG you meant Paul Graham?
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by balladeer 13y ago
Yes, that's one thing. But if that's not a big issue for me (which is not) then the CrashPlan interface and app makes me cry. (I am still a CrashPlan user though; "friends" as destination is sth very important to me).
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by balladeer 13y ago
Should have typed EU instead.
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by balladeer 13y ago
I checked this with a new/small account and it gave me the mails al right.
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by balladeer 13y ago
Earlier when I used to see people mentioning BackBlaze and not CrashPlan I used to be pissed in a way,but after I used its (BB's) native app for a month (on trial) I could see the difference.
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by balladeer 13y ago
Well, if at all someone doesn't want to waste time ever, he/she won't be either on HN, or reading pg's endless writeups, or on that guy Babauta's pointless articles (I subscribed to his blog for some time). He is on
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by balladeer 13y ago
> The short point: our system is designed to keep people out, not get them in. The true value of an IIT or IIM is not the intellectual capital they produce, but their filtering expertise > This is almost holistically true in case of t
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by balladeer 13y ago
Enjoy your day. Life is short.
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by balladeer 13y ago
Well, I am new to the (HN) scene here. I agree the language was uncalled for but I've followed these two (bloggers) in the past. And trust me on this, original commenter (OC) is spot on. These two bloggers (and the elk) unabashedly pos
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by balladeer 13y ago
Unrelated to your comment but relevant: I had my friend's number saved on my phone, but we were not in touch for over an year; one day I installed WhatsApp and saw him there - I pinged him; the response came, "Who the f k are you