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by jeswin 5y ago
Indeed. In other CCP news, they forced a Colorado highschool to edit their website to say Taiwan is a province of China. The school complied, so that the kids could attend United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. [1] 1: https:&#x2
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by jeswin 5y ago
I'd like to mention (once again), that Firefox on Android is a huge leap in everyday browsing experience over Chrome - and you should try it if you haven't. Due to mainly one reason: ad blocker extensions; which aren't suppor
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by jeswin 5y ago
1. The web server component could be fronting a middle-tier written in C#. There are numerous advantages to doing this in .Net over Node. 2. Performance. 3. Native AOT is coming in 6.0. Meaning, you get a native platform specific app which
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by jeswin 5y ago
This is important, and will show confidence in your product. The requirement is insurance against not exceeding a hard limit. We're talking about a rare event, so the offering (vantage.sh) is not good for this specific usecase if it is
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by jeswin 5y ago
"Cancer", "Symptom of a disease" - from the headline one can assume that there wouldn't be any original content in TFA. Add: I find this level of click-baiting unfit for HN's audience.
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by jeswin 5y ago
> I fear Taiwan will soon be conquered by China, not by force but suppression and economic ties. A majority in Taiwan (two-thirds) are against unification, and that's hardended further after what's happened in HongKong. This is
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by jeswin 5y ago
That train left long back; nobody wants a Windows-only app when half the management are using Macs. Unless of course you're taking about pro apps like AutoCad or Photoshop; but they have never been electron and unlikely to ever be.
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by jeswin 5y ago
How can you say that customers are demanding native apps when only a minuscule number of users can tell if an app is native or not? Most are not even familiar with the term native; desktop installed app (of all types) vs browser app at best
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by jeswin 5y ago
Yeah. What about it?
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by jeswin 5y ago
> In the case it does, it would be over Taiwan, not over a writer. I don't think the parent post is implying they'll do anything over a writer. But there is significant awareness now regarding the threat CCP poses. Last week Li
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by jeswin 5y ago
> Just a thought experiment: if you could "fix" those countries, why not start with Saudi Arabia, instead of China or Russia? On account of them being tiny, they aren't a threat to freedoms outside of their own country. Ch
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China’s top universities told to stop slacking off on Communist Party ideology(scmp.com)
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by jeswin 5y ago
Add: Perhaps my Google fu is lacking, but I am not able to validate "decent sub $50 phones have been around for years". With these specs, that is. I can't find anything on Amazon, Walmart and TMobile under 50.
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by jeswin 5y ago
I did search unlocked phones before commenting; couldn't find a comparable phone. The link you posted comes with a 60-day lock period. The cheapest phone in India with an HD display comes in at around 25% higher than what Jio phone wil
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by jeswin 5y ago
MotoG at $40 off contract was probably a clearance sale, and not available in millions of units. I can't think of an HD screen phone at this price point - can you post some links? The 300m people Jio is hoping to migrate from 2G to 4G
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by jeswin 5y ago
There was no way to defeat the Afghan Taliban without Pakistani help. The ideological reservoir from which Taliban recruits is bottomless; and with military and financial support from across the border, quite formidable. Over the last decad
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by jeswin 5y ago
Thanks for the image, upvoting you. I think it could be a personal preference, but I can't handle it very well with the mouse.
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by jeswin 5y ago
I think it could be a personal preference, but I find multi-level cascading menus[1] somewhat difficult to use. [1]: Posting the relevant image from sibling comment https://www.haiku-os.org/files/slideshow/drilldow
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by jeswin 5y ago
I've tried Haiku many times over the years, but still can't get used to the way menus work. It was hard a decade back, it's harder when I'm 40. I like everything else about it.
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by jeswin 5y ago
If I remember correctly, WinRT doesn't use Native AOT. Native AOT has never been released before, and to me is the most exciting feature since generics in .Net 2.0 (circa 2005).
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by jeswin 5y ago
Good idea, and extra credits for not being another software and services platform. India needs more companies who actually build/manufacture, will be rooting for you.
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by jeswin 5y ago
""Oh… and we don’t sell your data." I have conflicting feelings about this. Closed source codebase; but even if I trust you, what if you get acquired? In fact, because the risks are unknown this seems even riskier than a regu
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by jeswin 5y ago
If Intel provides as much Linux driver support as they do for their current integrated graphics lineup, we might have a new favourite among Linux users.
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by jeswin 5y ago
Shameless plug: If you want the exact opposite of this (that is, to use JS from the shell), try https://bashojs.org For example: curl 'https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Bangalore
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by jeswin 5y ago
Upvoting you, what you're saying is quite accurate and as an Indian, it's embarrassing for me. Part of the problem is that India doesn't have too many things to brag about - so we're super sensitive about culture, food,
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by jeswin 5y ago
My assumption is that a very small percentage of developers participate in it. Feel free to prove me wrong if you have any numbers. > I'm not. What Google does isn't experimentation. So the way this is done now (with origin tri
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by jeswin 5y ago
> Ah yes. But SQlite not having competing independent implementations somehow is? Except that's not why it was culled. The reasons are discussed in great detail on this thread and elsewhere. > non-standards that Chrome pushes (ma
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by jeswin 5y ago
> And yet we're are now at a point where Chrome rams its own APIs through standards bodies, and there are no (and often won't be) any independent competing implementations. Very few people are using Chrome-only APIs which are n
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by jeswin 5y ago
Yep. According to Indian laws, publishing the identities or pictures of rape victims (or their families) is illegal. Twitter really doesn't have a choice here.
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by jeswin 5y ago
At that point, it's better to let the employee go.

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