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by jnaina 2y ago
Large companies overhire for a number of reasons during robust economic/growth conditions including having a sizeable ballast that can be jettisoned when encountering inclement economic weather. Also necessary optics to show Wall Stree
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by jnaina 2y ago
Par for the course on HN to view anything remotely Apple as negative. It is what it is. Best to glaze over such comments and ignore the urge to rebut/comment/counter/flame. Greatly improves the S/N ratio IMHO.
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by jnaina 2y ago
It's about reciprocity. CCP does not allow foreign apps and services unfettered access to the Chinese marketplace. The measures that we have to take to operate and deliver our services in China is insanely difficult resulting in a dilu
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by jnaina 2y ago
Amazon should have just bought out Zoho instead keeping this rather basic and user hostile application around for all these years.
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by jnaina 2y ago
CarPlay 2 needs a deeper integration to the car, as part of the vehicle's SDV stack. From what I understand, Apple will license software that runs on the vehicles SDV stack (RTOS, etc) with support for various Auto specific SoCs (Nvidi
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by jnaina 2y ago
The 1000 Indians working to track all activities remotely was/is a false story. See link below: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7186447...
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by jnaina 2y ago
About 8 years ago. Doubt he would heard of both these gentlemen.
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by jnaina 2y ago
I remember being on a call, while at CSC, to discuss moving one of our projects to our team in our Indian subsidiary. One of the folks on the call, in his texan drawl cooly mentioned, "What next? Train dogs and cats on software develop
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by jnaina 2y ago
To do draw a parallel, some of Apple's early and risky products, like the original Mac and Newton (to name a few) were sneered at, their innovations (though somewhat half baked) ridiculed, with especially the Newton becoming a national
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by jnaina 2y ago
Blame it on the CCP, their weaponized industrial espionage network, their Wolf Warrior diplomacy, and countless other needless aggression against other nations. This along with the numerous cases of Chinese Nationals caught stealing IP from
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by jnaina 3y ago
Hmm...In this new era of mostly WFH, the boundaries between work and life are blurring, at least for me. My work day starts at 8AM and goes all the way to around 12PM, with my other daily life chores/activities interleaved throughout t
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by jnaina 3y ago
Agreed. Court jester is the correct phrase, as GCP are complete clowns. Some of the stories we know of, from our customers, about GCP's conduct and lack of any semblance of professionalism are shocking. MSFT/Azure on the other han
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by jnaina 3y ago
I remember, when I was a kid, hearing a thunderous roar and rushing outside, and saw the Concorde with the Singapore Airlines livery, flying overhead. Left an impression. Not the usual flight path, as I was living in the central part of Sin
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by jnaina 3y ago
Agreed. Running less time critical Spot instances for batch processing is in the increase especially in the Banking sectors. We have retired whole banks of on-prem servers that sit idle 80% of the month and only get used end of month or yea
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by jnaina 3y ago
If I had a penny for each of the Apple doomsayers since the day AAPL went IPO, I would be a Billionaire by now.
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by jnaina 3y ago
Explains why my Netherlands NZB^h^h^h Usenet server access from Singapore in on the fritz
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by jnaina 3y ago
For non-Americans everywhere, disallowing abortion including nonviable pregnancies sounds barbaric. America is viewed as the most advanced nation in the world. But these Taliban-level backwardness is mind boggling. America was never this re
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by jnaina 3y ago
I have a Raspberry PI 1 model B running almost non-stop for over 8 years (except during power outages) serving as my front gate controller. Custom python code uses the GPIO pins to trigger an RF remote to open or close the gate, and does no
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by jnaina 3y ago
The world is bigger than just the US of A. Memojis are big among the teen set elsewhere.
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by jnaina 3y ago
Hate to say this, but yes to some extent. Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods in 2018 and 2019. His aggressive stance on the trade war with China spooked quite a bit of foreign investments into Ch
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by jnaina 3y ago
Not sure what you are going on about, that the original iPhone was a PoC. Given what was available at that time (I was using a Windows Mobile O2 XDA AND a Blackberry at that time), the iPhone was simply magical. The ability to browse the fu
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by jnaina 3y ago
The current ICE-age (pun intended) Auto OEM dinosaurs are struggling to transition themselves from metal benders, to software innovators. Gone are the days where the complexity was in building complex Internal combustion engines (ICE), with
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by jnaina 3y ago
Had similar experience with Apple in 2011. My one of my twin's iMac had an issue that the Apple Singapore service center could not fix and I had the run around from them, including a vertical line on both their iMac screen (assuming bo
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by jnaina 3y ago
Agreed. Bought a 10 years old Porsche 911 for use as my daily driver (still cost a bomb, because Singapore). Great performance and reliable. And a real head turner. And surprisingly parts are readily available (for some reason, UK is the pl
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by jnaina 3y ago
Yes, I'm surprised at the amount of negative feedback. I buy quite a bit of stuff from Amazon and have never had a bad experience so far (my account has been active since the days when Amazon sold only books, circa 1997). Items deliver
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by jnaina 3y ago
Can't agree more. My M2 MacBook Air has been a major game changer. No battery anxiety, no throttling, no heat issues, etc. Allows me to work from anywhere. The productivity boost has been excellent.
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by jnaina 3y ago
I support merit based DEI. What worries me is that for "diversity" candidates, the hiring bar is usually set low (at least in my company). And nobody is brave enough to talk about the consequences of these decisions. Have lost luc
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by jnaina 3y ago
Awesome software. For a while, had my then secretary use GEOS because early Windows was bloated.
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by jnaina 3y ago
In Pre-Sculley Apple, Steve Jobs was also likewise known to have been manipulative, worked people against each other and being a total dick to get his way. The visionary assh*le Silicon Valley founder/CEO has been, to a large extent, r
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by jnaina 3y ago
Prediction: 1/ Sam goes on to create NeXTAI and starts wearing mostly turtleneck sweaters and jeans 2/ OpenAI buys NeXTAI 3/ OpenAI board appoints Sam Altman as Interim CEO

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