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by kkarakk 6y ago
it is only common workplace english in india coz of babudom tho...
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by kkarakk 6y ago
yup, BYJU is getting CRAZY amounts of support in India and no major newspaper questions their claims. there are a lot of conspiracy theories about why it is so - some people say it is coz they have political support
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by kkarakk 6y ago
a major problem is that teachers are using these "crambooks" too when setting exam questions so basically you get a leg up when you study from them vs the official coursebooks. you'll literally see the same questions there
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by kkarakk 6y ago
unless you're posting names/social media handles i'm guessing you're a whitehat jr employee. i pre-emptively apologise, don't sue me.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
someone on reddit posted a screenshot of the complete article https://i.imgur.com/LBGtP4f.jpg
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Indian twitter is full of people arguing with edtech company employees. they're a really trigger happy litigative bunch. you HAVE to bow down coz the lawyer fees will quite literally beggar you esp since court cases are dragged on
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by kkarakk 6y ago
you have to admit when you're in a busy day w/ looming deadlines and your machine starts chugging coz it can't handle the excel docs/dev work going on it feels like the worst thing ever. the kinda company that can'
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by kkarakk 6y ago
if you have a server for on demand compiles why would you buy a macbook over el cheapo linux machine? besides vanity ofc
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by kkarakk 6y ago
probably doing the ol' delayed switcheroo like facebook is doing with whatsapp - maintain product as is for a couple of years to avoid immediate backlash while slowly enmeshing and branding all the tools in the product. then boom one d
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by kkarakk 6y ago
There are a LOT of companies just spamming github repo owners with job interviews nowadays my last job was through an automated email i got about my github resume hashtags. iirc all they look for is certain tags and a regular commit history
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by kkarakk 6y ago
tbh the people who are gullible enough to believe this would believe anything. if it's not hunter biden, then it's creepy joe, if it's not creepy joe it's something else. the republican trump smear circus never ends.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Does swift work 1:1 on windows or linux yet?
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by kkarakk 6y ago
right now google is at the "makes cool projects and you should get what value you can from it in the first year then dip" stage. so yeah, it's a cool product that came out. give it a whirl but don't rely on it.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
when i visit a site and it has an ugly font nowadays i just click away or use a browser extension that prettifies the content(and erases any formatting the author may have intended) if you're ok with that then by all means, use some ug
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Trying to get a Prime subscription through the app sends you to a webpage right now. Always wondered why Google was cool with that...
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by kkarakk 6y ago
if you own the platform you DO own the apps and the users...
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Lots of apps just get ripped off the android ecosystem and put on the chinese ecosystem if they're good enough.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
if you're a small indie dev supporting multiple platform you're a unicorn. i don't think this is a common usecase. most devs tend to focus on apple initially and then make an android app if they blow up.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
it's funny how big tech has become like big government- there is no recourse to your personal complaints even if it's shared by a large number of people and it's too expensive to roll out your own personal solution and s
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by kkarakk 6y ago
my social network info is highly curated. people are only seeing what i want them to see. i need to maintain a presence there for social reasons and linking a website boosted my SEO nicely however i do NOT want any gaming related info/
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Git doesn't have sexual connotations. any term with sexual connotations is a hot potato nowadays in software biz/collaboration
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by kkarakk 6y ago
so in your theoretical example you'll never work with junior devs who make mistakes and screw up the history/trustworthiness of the repo? how do you recover from that?
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by kkarakk 6y ago
sorry i'm gonna sound like i'm making an argument for authority but why do man pages have to appeal to the "average" person anyways? complex tasks require complex explanations to avoid weird hangups/errors. eve
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by kkarakk 6y ago
not to be trite but the end result of this intuitive system seems to be to bolt on even more math and made up acronyms - both of which beginners really struggle with and most non college educated journeymen devs misunderstand coz of the eso
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by kkarakk 6y ago
i fully expect assange to get life in prison/executed. would be par for the course with how authoritarian governments are getting. Snowden should watch out
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by kkarakk 6y ago
I stopped using facebook entirely apart from keeping up with acquaintances once they implemented their asinine rules like you can't post some kinds of links in chat and other irritations that added up over time til i couldn't take
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Apple can and will reject your app if you use that as your excuse.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Any homebrewed site nowadays has really aggressive ads that you need adblock to deal with since more reputable ad vendors won't deal with them.
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by kkarakk 6y ago
just realized i've had a mac since 2017 and only visited the safari store once
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by kkarakk 6y ago
Cook is a numbers guy. You can't really learn anything or be inspired by a numbers guy

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