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kkarakk
7y ago
it's india, i doubt anything will happen besides some combination of judge/businessman/politician getting their hands nice and greased up. only reason they even care is because the EU got google to cough up already, they'
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kkarakk
7y ago
Context switching overhead
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kkarakk
7y ago
Have you tried asking follow up questions on why you got passed over? some companies will respond and you can pivot accordingly. also if you are good enough for remote, you should really look at angellist, lots of startups in india are will
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kkarakk
7y ago
Never understood why fb implemented a way to send a starbucks gift card on someones bday but refuses to associate a "donate to this charity" button when you pick a disaster filter or "mark yourself safe" or whatever
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kkarakk
7y ago
Google problem not gif problem, sites like knowyourmeme embed 10 gifs in a page routinely with no issues(apart from the loading time)
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kkarakk
7y ago
so you're saying the solution to use as a replacement is harder to use and clunkier? right, i'm sure everyone will rush to adopt it and customers won't care at all
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kkarakk
7y ago
remember windows metro? marzipan is going the same route, whatever apple calls it later, marzipan is going to stick
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kkarakk
7y ago
it's a stopgap solution, there still isn't a solution for poorer folk who can't afford a card(or the fees for a card). until our government issued implanted chips come around i see physical presence of a human for transaction
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kkarakk
7y ago
Is announcing things that are nowhere near completion as finished products coming soon and putting logos for them everywhere also a "normal part of research"?
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kkarakk
7y ago
They're changing their stance on that gradually, just recently they started tracking their options for natively implementing multithreading in the background using dart(the current advice is to use platform specific plugins which isn&#
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kkarakk
7y ago
so? most apps are by nature going to be computationally expensive if they want to compete/successfully use all phone features. i made a simple(according to them) corporate data sync app recently and the company wanted a laundry list of
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kkarakk
7y ago
Not naysaying you but i learnt kotlin and flutter this past year(from january). flutter has an AMAZING experience for the things that are "done", kotlin multi platform only does one thing well - kotlin. it's basically like xa
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kkarakk
7y ago
Yes but an outlier will be identified regardless of where s/he chooses to go, the data just reflects that idea
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kkarakk
7y ago
Also maintaining that deleted data is an issue, can't just magically move it to your datacenter in the mountains. someone will notice the movement of data even if it's automated. i suspect google just extracts as much data as poss
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kkarakk
7y ago
location sharing is brilliant, i've shared my location with every one of my close friends. if they want to hang out they just ask me if i'm free and instantly show up. of course i disable it on vacations and such but it's rea
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kkarakk
7y ago
automatic acceleration feels really neutered in every car i've come across, being in control feels better than waiting for the car to kick in automatically. then again i ride bikes too and prefer a more active driving experience
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kkarakk
7y ago
sure but lets be realistic, even japan's neutered self defense force could bully tunisia
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kkarakk
7y ago
what perception? most interactions go thusly- "Please unlock your phone/laptop and submit it for processing->i enter the -clean- password/log into my carefully normal looking user on my android phone by using the -clean
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kkarakk
7y ago
120hz screens - made by samsung,they also sold to razer for their phone and htc i think Airpods - a proprietary bluetooth stack that only runs well with apple devices, wow much r&d. They run well but samsung mostly replicated the propri
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kkarakk
7y ago
Linux open source - you can contribute but on your own fork over there in the dark far away from us enlightened folk that actually make worthwhile contributions to this project. I only contribute on things that clearly have no "steward
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kkarakk
7y ago
Well the war is already lost imo, customs gets to run roughshod over every right in the name of "national security". all we can do is protect ourselves at this point. The tech big companies don't care to make an issue out of
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kkarakk
7y ago
Not related to bento in anyway, just a gripe i have with yelp/copycats - Any app still using bottom tabs for top level navigation has some serious problems with identity and "primary purpose". The first page a user sees shou
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kkarakk
7y ago
You can trivially make a partition so that it shows some data when you enter one password and some other data when using another password, next. i did it when i travelled to the US in 2018 but they didn't bother checking att I used ver
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kkarakk
7y ago
Eating raw eggs is a common thing in india, for the protein(although this is incorrect as cooking eggs leads to more protein absorption). However if i were homeless, why wouldn't i just crack open an egg and eat it? There is almost zer
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kkarakk
7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party Wu Mao Dang is common enough and well known enough that it has a wikipedia page(a very thoroughly edited and referenced one)...it IS real discussion.
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kkarakk
7y ago
you can eat raw eggs
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kkarakk
7y ago
says the person defending the personality of liking corgis as an abstract concept. you be nice and friendly and corgiless, i'll be grim and hateful while petting my corgi
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kkarakk
7y ago
To the end user none of that matters, all they know is that this thing does not "just work". windows and macos has that, no flavor of linux does(currently). i look forward to the snap/appimage/flatpack war, it's lon
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kkarakk
7y ago
there's a reason people don't use linux outside of the server space and most of it is every piece of weirdness introduced above linus. the more esoteric your linux flavor(and closer to bare metal it is), the better your linux expe
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kkarakk
7y ago
I wouldn't take ranting on cassette tapes and then offing yourself as a sign of mental stability(and i would be more likely to be selected for a jury as a result). The average judge wouldn't even bother listening to the tapes and
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