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by kartickv 9y ago
I don't want even more updates to apply. It's a nuisance. And most of the time they don't make things better for me in any appreciable way.
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by kartickv 9y ago
> It won't have a non-rocky solid core Meaning a solid core, if it exists, will be rocky? How, at such high temperatures? I'm uncertain whether I'm not misinterpreting your double negatives :)
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by kartickv 9y ago
Unless Google can track you better when you use Chrome, that's not an argument against using Chrome.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Moving money to a low inflation currency sounds good in theory, but is not an accessible solution to the average Indian, and is fraught with bureaucracy and fees even for those it is accessible to. I put my money in a liquid fund (debt mutu
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by kartickv 9y ago
Not many in India would see things the way you do. Why lose interest if you can get it, particularly if you don't have more interest coming in from mutual funds or someplace else? If anything, the competition is on to see who'll p
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Photographers should stop using 8-bits-per-channel image formats(medium.com)
2 points by kartickv 9y ago|0 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
A related point is to not quickly dismiss an idea though it's wrong or unworkable, because a different version of it may be the best solution to the problem.
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by kartickv 9y ago
That's not true. http://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/Amazon-ends-refund-polic... http://www.amazon.in/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=orc_h... — expand the laptop section and
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by kartickv 9y ago
Not true. See my post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14415675 Try walking into a random shop and asking if they permit returns.
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by kartickv 9y ago
No, returning a purchase is not a concept that exists in India, whether for electronics or clothes or other things.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Would you buy a 256GB device if two people are going to share it? Or pay $2200 for 512?
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by kartickv 9y ago
I stay in India, and considered buying an iPhone on a trip to the US. But Apple India told me that US-bought iPhones may not be serviced in India, because Apple service centers in India aren't Apple-run, but franchisees. Apparently, if
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by kartickv 9y ago
At least you could return it. Returns aren't accepted in India, even on Amazon. If you buy it, you're stuck with it.
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by kartickv 9y ago
As an iOS developer who's looking to port to Android, this makes it easier to manually port my Swift code to Kotlin. But I wish there were automated tools. If two languages are this similar conceptually, such a tool should be easy to w
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by kartickv 9y ago
Thanks for your perspective, and it makes sense from your point of view. But what about the problem the grandparent raised, which is that with one-time payments, after a while, the income from the app decreases to below the cost of maintena
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Office 365 Was Too Hard to Buy, So I Bought GSuite(medium.com)
2 points by kartickv 9y ago|0 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
It's not just conservative companies, but also independent developers and startups that may not want to start investigating third-party languages, of which there's no shortage. Particularly if they're up against other barrier
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by kartickv 9y ago
I'm building a camera app. Would you suggest I charge annually, instead of one-time? None of the other camera apps I've used has a subscription. Would you pay via a subscription?
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by kartickv 9y ago
Yes, foreign transactions are exempt, which is why I said I was wary giving my card to companies outside India.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Sad to see the industry choose abrupt collapse over upskilling themselves and remaining relevant.
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by kartickv 9y ago
This works well in India, with 2-factor auth — Indian companies can't charge my debit or credit card just because they have the card number, expiry and CVV. I have to approve each transaction with my bank. I'm wary of giving my ca
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by kartickv 9y ago
Would it be possible to decouple the roof from the solar? In other words, I'd buy this roof for the cost of a normal roof, and an investor would pay for the cost of the solar panels, and they'd own the electricity that comes from
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by kartickv 9y ago
If you stay in a hot area, you're also going to save money from lower AC bills, because the solar panels would absorb some of the heat that would otherwise enter your house.
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by kartickv 9y ago
Almost everything you said is missing the point in some way. You can think all you want, but your needs change over time, and in any case can't be foreseen by reading some articles. There's no substitute to using it for a few mont
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by kartickv 9y ago
The OEM could be offering rentals as a way to drive sales, making the same profit as they do when they sell it outright.
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Why It Makes Sense to Rent Rather Than Buy Your Devices(medium.com)
3 points by kartickv 9y ago|4 comments
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by kartickv 9y ago
Why is it okay for the owner to do this, but not an employee? Why is it okay if you have just one shop rather than a chain?
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by kartickv 9y ago
Would you be interested in supporting color space conversions for Apple developers? Like how does UIColor(displayP3Red:0.7 green:0.8 blue:0.4) map to extended sRGB? Standard sRGB? If you give you an sRGB color, what's the saturated ver
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by kartickv 9y ago
I agree — as someone who hasn't bought a Surface or a Surface Dock, a proprietary version of Thunderbolt 3 or USB-C is a step back, not a step forward.
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by kartickv 10y ago
Maybe because it's cheaper? For example, I don't think India can afford to simultaneously build metro systems that cover all cities, and cover a good enough area of each city. Or, if we can afford it, the govt wouldn't consid

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