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by enitihas 7y ago
I think VLC core had a large amount of code rewritten, to change the license ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787965 ), which required a large effort from the VLC team.
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by enitihas 7y ago
Absolutely correct. HN somehow is fixated on google because google was maybe very good once and now maybe they aren't so good. The entirety of the App store is GPL hostile, so much so that the vlc devs had to rewrite a lot of vlc code
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by enitihas 7y ago
Well, since a large number of hardware manufacturers are based in China, I think it won't be much of a problem for the PRC.
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by enitihas 7y ago
At least Microsoft and Amazon have the same interview style as google. The questions might not be as hard, but the interview style is same. All sorts of DS and algos. Infact, one of my friends once went to a microsoft interview, where even
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by enitihas 7y ago
Yes google is still paying Apple for iOS. But if iOS was 50% of the market and other 50% dominated by let's say microsoft, Google would be paying Apple a lot more, along with possibly not being the default search engine on Windows Phon
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by enitihas 7y ago
The amount of people living in tier 1,2,3 cities should still be less than people living in villages I think. Anyways my village still continues to get abysmal electricity.
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think all companies would want to "have a highly profitable slice of the market than dominate it", since it ensures higher profits and frees you from monopoly accusations, but only few have managed to work it in a good way (e.g,
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by enitihas 7y ago
Or maybe "the data from literally millions of applications" has made Google realize that their current way is the best among all the others possible? Who knows.
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by enitihas 7y ago
Off course the end game of every employee at the company is to make money. But people are hired for specific focused areas for a reason. If you expect your engineers to do your VPs and director's jobs too, you should fire all you senio
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by enitihas 7y ago
What different metric do you think would work better? Github? I have seen people get job offers by taking someone else's project, editing commit history to make themselves the author, and then push it to GitHub and talk about that proj
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by enitihas 7y ago
Why is it the jobs of engineers of the company to know what businesses need to succeed? Why do companies hire and VPs and directors for. Sure principal engineers and above do get a say in what to build, but I don't think they are hired
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by enitihas 7y ago
I don't think the hiring process is the reason for Google's inability to gain market share in the cloud market. Google's hiring process has ensured that the quality bar has been very high. They have unique offerings like span
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think humidity is a big problem in a lot of places in India with high temperature. In my village in easter UP in India, summer was intolerable because of high humidity and shortage of electricity. (We used to have 8hours electricity per d
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by enitihas 7y ago
How is Bezos's wealth related to anything? Just because he owns more % shares in Amazon than other founders do in their companies, that makes Amazon exploitative? The Walton family has a similar net worth. Does that add to Walmart&#x27
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by enitihas 7y ago
I think the slowly most businesses would realize if you are a big company, it makes much more sense to capture exclusively the high end market (iPhone) and try to stay as much away as possible from the low end market. This gives you a lion&
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by enitihas 7y ago
Well it seems much better when you compare it to patenting of rounded corners.
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by enitihas 7y ago
I was finally able to unlist successfully by installing truecaller on my iPad where it didn't ask for any permissions forcefully, deactivating my account, and then unlisting. Previously I was using my android phone.
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by enitihas 7y ago
I tried using the unlisting UI, but it says I need to install the app and deactivate my account before unlisting. When I install the app, it refuses to run unless I grant it all sorts of permissions. So it seems before unlisting, I need to
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by enitihas 7y ago
Brave makes different trade offs. I use brave with javascript disabled, and find a lot of sites not working. Specifically, any links I open from email mostly don't work due to JS. If you don't know why your fav site isn't wor
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by enitihas 7y ago
Ad blocking, not any way to run "browser extensions". The parent is saying "all you need to do is look at Chrome on Android & the fact that it does not allow extensions at all." iOS doesn't allow any browser ven
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by enitihas 7y ago
Can you tell us which browser apart from mobile firefox allows extensions? Safari no, Edge no. I use firefox mobile for extensions, but browser vendors might want to make different tradeoffs since mobile has different requirements, and it i
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by enitihas 7y ago
Another big issue is that if chrome makes it difficult to disable ads such that 99% of chrome users aren't able to do it, websites may simply choose to block Firefox as it would be easy to do so without losing a large part of user base
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by enitihas 7y ago
The problem with Uber ratings is that most people use them as binary. A small number of 1 starts will quickly bring your rating below average. I used to take short rides to and from work daily for some time and it seems my rating took a lar
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by enitihas 7y ago
Curiously, what do you find lacking in Kubernetes compared to Borg?
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by enitihas 7y ago
There shouldn't be any problem than. Huwaei or anyone else can make their own "proprietary" operating system, since it is better than "a bullshit opensource software", and they can happily get higher margins there a
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by enitihas 7y ago
Copyright?
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by enitihas 7y ago
So basically making the mobile OSes more windows like in easily allowing people to install malware?
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by enitihas 7y ago
Would they do the same for iOS too?
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by enitihas 7y ago
Yeah, the entire Chinese android ecosystem is doing Okay with the official store. Would the same have been possible without Windows Phone? What would huwaei be able to do at all if they were selling Windows laptops. Android may not be linux
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by enitihas 7y ago
Yeah, and it also reveals what the world would look like if Windows phone won instead of android. Atleast for Android you have AOSP, which is atleast somewhat open source. If Windows phone and iOS were the only two alternatives, a ban on a

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