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by jitix 9y ago
I just hope that they don't make Google login mandatory for this. For a desktop OS that's pretty invasive.
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Google’s Fuchsia OS Running on the Pixelbook(xda-developers.com)
4 points by jitix 9y ago|1 comments
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by jitix 9y ago
damn autocorrect! jumping through literal hooves would be hilarious.. lol
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by jitix 9y ago
Yeah the latter sucks because as a resident I can’t even start a business here. I have to jump through hooves like Estonia’s e-residency program to just publish an app.
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by jitix 9y ago
The worldwide tax law sucks even more for an individual. And it makes absolutely no sense when you’re not even a citizen!
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by jitix 9y ago
IMO the 12 inch MacBook is a weird proposition since it neither has the power of mbp nor the battery backup of mba. From the anecdotal reviews I read in various forums it’s performace is somewhat lower than the mba but I’m not sure if that’
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by jitix 9y ago
Actually I don't see any practical issue with the resolution. I do mostly backend programming using IntelliJ/Jupyter so it works for me. A 1080p screen would be a nice addition though. Plus for the sub-$1k price point I think the
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by jitix 9y ago
It's still a very compelling option as a second computer that you'd want to take around with you. I bought one few months back and its powerful enough for common development tasks. Considering that Macbook Pro RAM has been capped
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by jitix 9y ago
I disagree. Simple rule: Don’t allow visas for client projects. If companies need people let them hire directly at market rates. It’s weird that you work with organization A and your paycheck comes from organization B.
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by jitix 9y ago
I recently walked through my local Sears to get to the mall (I parked near them since it was 30F outside and their lot was the only one relatively unfilled) and it was literally empty compared to the rest of the mall. On my way out I starte
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by jitix 9y ago
Or nvidia. Shield tv is awesome. They inked out separate deal with amazon for prime video and other amazon stuff on android.
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by jitix 9y ago
I’ve recently switched to a mostly-vegetarian diet and have been enjoying Beyond Meat and Gardein products. The only thing that worries me is the “closed source” nature of such products. Tasty plant based protein is a tough problem to solve
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by jitix 9y ago
+1 for tags. Subsections will lead HN to become like Reddit with everyone living in their own bubbles. But tags for quick filtering would actually be nice to have. I definitely don't want to read depressing political news while having
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by jitix 9y ago
Not switched default browser yet but I'm using FF57 as my main browser on my home PC and mac. On chromebook I'm stuck with chrome lol. So far browsing websites seem to be faster in general but when I use complex webapps like Spoti
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by jitix 9y ago
I think you and I are doing completely different types of software development or live in very different bubbles. > Those are two almost separate tracks No they are not. If you come up with some innovation/improvement in your field
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by jitix 9y ago
The industry itself is only a few decades old.. it'll take some time before it stabilizes to a point where you can largely do the same thing your entire career. Also everybody doesn't have to present papers, or speak in seminars,
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by jitix 9y ago
I think it boils down to one thing: How enthusiastic an old engineer is about technology in general and whether they are proactive on keeping themselves up to date on the latest things (vs reactively learning something when a project requir
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by jitix 9y ago
I think the Roman gdp from that period should be compared with the gdps of other countries of that time. Sure the average ancient Roman might have been poorer than the average modern Congolese but I think humans in general were poor during
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by jitix 9y ago
IIRC the place they showed was somewhere in Moorish Spain
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Dirt-cheap mobile data is a thrill for Indian consumers(economist.com)
1 points by jitix 9y ago|0 comments
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by jitix 9y ago
> will you go through the hassle and expense of becoming a US citizen, even if that means giving up your Indian passport? In my experience the most common answer to that would be "Yes". There's a small percentage of people
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by jitix 9y ago
Same here.. I applied for a loan and they found that Equifax doesn't even have my report (although the other two do). After countless phone calls they agreed to start the investigation and then the hack happened. The whole concept of p
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by jitix 9y ago
That would be great! However a number of companies (like PayPal) cancelled their plans to move to the area last year because of the HB2 debacle. Not sure how Amazon feels about that. Good thing is that the situation seems to have normalized
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by jitix 9y ago
yeah the tech works with smart watches, tablets and any other wifi enabled device
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by jitix 9y ago
The devices are quite inconspicuous and the company has other competitors doing similar things so I stopped having my wifi and Bluetooth on except I know I want to use them. But there's tech being developed that can use cell signals as
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by jitix 9y ago
The stores can see correlations between products and how many people do "window shopping" in a section. Basically it's being marketed as giving e-commerce type insights into customer behavior for brick and mortar stores. But
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by jitix 9y ago
A bit tangential but here's another reason to disable wifi: even if you don't join a wifi network your phone can be tracked via the packets that it sends out to find wifi networks. That can be used is triangulate people's loc
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by jitix 9y ago
That episode's premise is probably the most plausible one in near future. Even if public services arent tied to such scores there's nothing preventing one private company to use a score from another private company to deny you ser
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by jitix 9y ago
yeah I think thats the best outcome of the whole exercise. I went to India in the middle of that shitstorm and it was really painful to travel around. Currency exchanges/banks only gave 2000 rs notes the nobody wanted to accept.
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by jitix 9y ago
Thanks for writing this! I have especially been waiting for the next release of some OS to have something revolutionary for people who use the computers as workstations.. but at this point most updates seem to be about voice automation, acc

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