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by balladeer 6y ago
Yes all of that and one another reason I cancelled my Netflix account for was - it just won't let me successfully hide/remove the content I disliked, didn't finish because I didn't find it good enough, didn't want t
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by balladeer 6y ago
There is an unofficial one for Mac (i.e. not actively developed and anyway not by the core devs) - Seaglass. Pretty much dead/abandoned. Besides, irrespective of what the founder (or someone) might say/indicate at times I really d
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by balladeer 6y ago
Got an email. About the RBI bit - possibly, but I don't think I remember one without OTP or a password (it was verified by Visa I guess or something).
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by balladeer 6y ago
This was a revelation sometimes back and it was Amex (relatively new in India) but I am sure it would be same for any credit card issuer. I had a VPS in Europe that I had emailed the support to cancel about a year ago and they had replied t
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by balladeer 6y ago
> During the hiring process, on-call is not mentioned in any way Then next: > are you willing to work nights and/or weekends To be fair I'd say this is mention enough. If someone is willing to (or has to) look the other way
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by balladeer 6y ago
I don't know how absurd this sounds but on-call is the only reason I have stayed away from backend or frontend/web development. I had worked on both for few months and ran back to native app development. There might be a place whe
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by balladeer 6y ago
I have only set a reg lock pin. I never set any other pin. Then I uninstalled the app. Now when I installed it again today it is asking me for a PIN and the only PIN on Signal I have set was a reg lock pin which is not being accepted. I rem
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by balladeer 6y ago
If Signal PINs came with a feature that made it possible for me to not have my identity tied to a phone number I'd have understood (and accepted?) this release and rollout better.
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by balladeer 6y ago
They don't live in Mumbai usually and if they do in the slums. They live on the outskirts and commute by Mumbai Local. In main areas of Mumbai that amount may not even fetch a small sized windowless room (no kitchen, or living space -
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by balladeer 6y ago
Unfortunately that happens (happened personally with me many times) and it's indeed strange and dangerous.
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by balladeer 6y ago
There's an awesome film that interestingly uses this food delivery network - The Lunchbox ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350496/ ). It stars recently passed away actor Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur (she's in H
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by balladeer 6y ago
It'd be like iOS giving us emojis back then when it instead needed innovation. Having said that HN can use some formatting.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I often notice you listing other (dup?) threads on a broader topic. Is it just an informative exercise as in - "people, check out these too", or more like something frustrating - "why start so many threads!"?
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by balladeer 6y ago
I use VS Code sparsely but this is what has worked for me https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod...
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by balladeer 6y ago
I will pretty much list the sites I visit daily. Google News (I couldn't find a clutter free alternative that gives an easy snapshot of news about India/world) Brief (aka Morning Reader) https://overcast.fm (I listen t
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by balladeer 6y ago
I think individual businesses (I am talking about the neighbourhood grocery stores and restaurants) ought to move to their own websites, their own apps (at least branding if there are template apps) as much as they can. I believe we have ha
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by balladeer 6y ago
I came across https://write.as and it seems great. In fact I use it to share one-off texts with few of my close friends. But there's no commenting and I don't want to use Disqus. Is there any simpler workflow to use th
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by balladeer 6y ago
> (looking at you mailbox.org) It's been few years. I am on Mailbox's 12 Euro/year plan which has "forum" only support (I am not sure it changed after I became a customer). My emails suddenly stopped working once
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by balladeer 6y ago
At least you can chat with someone, call someone, email someone at Apple Support very easily .
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by balladeer 6y ago
> endured some harrowing experiences while in Iraq, including escaping from a terrorist attack by scaling a building ledge ten stories up This is fascinating :) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
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by balladeer 6y ago
Indeed. But should we not even discuss, instead, about something like this? One of the treating physicians, Dr. Li Wenliang, warned some colleagues about the new illness on December 31. Instead of spreading the word about the new pathogen
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by balladeer 6y ago
We are literally not talking about a wildfire in a neighbouring country. It's a human to human transmissible pandemic in "2020". And then factor in geopolitics: Indo-China border movement, compared with Chinese people travell
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by balladeer 6y ago
> Yarvin wrote a blog. An openly racist, far right blog. By an author who has stated that he believed some races were more suitable for slavery (he also seemed to have no problem with slavery of course) and that some races have genetic s
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by balladeer 6y ago
HN does show base url fb.com in the title.
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by balladeer 6y ago
(Let's assume) You have followed US policy making, lobbying and stuff like how a coccus of ultra rich people/execs are actually running the Govt from behind the curtain and all that. So when you read all that that usually means th
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by balladeer 6y ago
I also figured it out just now after 8 years of Mac usage. But I already knew that I don't know/use most of the dedicated Mac shortcuts (thought I think I should).
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by balladeer 6y ago
A lot of things in iOS are counterintuitive. Everything happens via a "Share" option. You want to do something, you click "Share" option and hope there's that option that you need. By the way, on my 7 at least, ther
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by balladeer 6y ago
I agree. I look at it as the price of a phone, not price of an iPhone and the new iPhone SE as of today is too costly for what it offers. I switched to iPhone (older SE) from Android. Size and privacy were two reasons. Then my SE broke down
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by balladeer 6y ago
I have been coding for almost a decade and I don't think I have come home any day and felt like, "oh, today I will code this!". Nope. I always leave work at work - coding, studying, learning about work. It's not really a
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by balladeer 6y ago
India's tests/M is 149. Brazil's 296. Compared to 8894 of USA as of today. Positive % out of tests: USA ~20%, India: ~5%, Brazil: ~38%. But at least here in India we test when we are like really really really really sure this

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