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by kranner 6y ago
Oh, I’ve never seen it in Punjab though. I’ve carried bunches to Punjab (where my parents live) and it’s always a novelty there.
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by kranner 6y ago
Thanks, noted!
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by kranner 6y ago
The $100 fee is not the issue. You also give up 15% or 30% of revenue to Apple; have to go through app review on every update facing arbitrary rejection; have no direct relationship with your users; can't offer upgrade pricing on signi
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by kranner 6y ago
Southern India, it is not available in the North. Most North Indians who haven't travelled have no idea it exists.
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by kranner 6y ago
Alphonsos are a marketing success but far from the best mangoes the Indian subcontinent has to offer. Bland and tending to sourness. This battle plays out every summer on Indian Twitter.
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by kranner 6y ago
https://genius.com/Queen-39-lyrics was helpful
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by kranner 6y ago
"Mast" and "jhakas" sound like Maharashtra- or even Mumbai-specific words. As a North Indian Hindi speaker I can attest they are not used in North India. Specifically "mast" has a different connotation in the N
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by kranner 6y ago
To be fair the Norfair library is presented as a 'bonus' item and not part of the top 10 list. Even as self-promotion it seems relevant and fair.
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by kranner 6y ago
Just putting in a vote for my Casio Privia PX-S1000.
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by kranner 6y ago
Digital pianos around the $500 mark are pretty good these days.
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by kranner 6y ago
"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." -- attributed to Henry van Dyke
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by kranner 6y ago
> If you're doing that because of low revenue.... just abandon the low revenue customers. I understood the pragmatism of the advice. I'm just saying there is an ethical obligation to users, which really should be on Apple to co
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by kranner 6y ago
Sure, but many Mac users don't expect to have to do this (or even know how to) because Macs are supposed to "just work".
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by kranner 6y ago
> there's no reason to go chasing/helping customers who bought via the app store since the never generated enough revenue in the first place How does that follow? An individual customer is not responsible for the commercial via
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by kranner 6y ago
It is bad on a wide desktop as well. The copy font is too large and could use more space between letters. The font size should have been capped.
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by kranner 6y ago
I hadn't thought that far! The poker chips are a great idea. Perhaps a reset mechanism after both sides run out of moves would work too.
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by kranner 6y ago
My idea for a chess variant was giving every piece a fixed number of moves (with move-count visible at all times). After the quota of moves is finished, the piece becomes immobile except that it can still capture an enemy piece (and thus mo
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by kranner 6y ago
Of course fundamentals are invaluable. But a stable career is equally if not more important to most people, I think.
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by kranner 6y ago
Tweet threads are normalised at this point, with support from Twitter as well (using the + button). Besides people are more likely to read a thread than to click through to your blogpost.
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by kranner 6y ago
The problem is that far fewer people get hired to work on the fundamentals than to operate the current industry-standard tools. Also many of the jobs that require fundamental skills seem to require steep academic credentials (e.g. a PhD fro
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by kranner 6y ago
Slightly unrelated: I love that Carmack uses backslash (\) to escape 'EOL' and signify that this will be a thread and not a standalone tweet. Much more programmerly than "1/n" and "Thread".
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by kranner 6y ago
Twitter.
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by kranner 6y ago
I bought a racing wheel with pedals and shifter just for that one game. RIP Dirt Rally.
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by kranner 6y ago
Others have said so elsewhere in the thread.
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by kranner 6y ago
If batteries last only a year and there is no third-party alternative, this is a subscription.
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by kranner 6y ago
The Bose phones also do fast and automatic switching between the last two connected devices. The button shuffle is only needed to switch to other previously connected devices (and that also takes only another few seconds). Also one of my de
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by kranner 6y ago
Even $25 Sound Blaster JAMs tick all the boxes here. Battery lasts for days, ultra-reliable Bluetooth connection. The battery even stays at maximum capacity for years and the only thing that needs changing is the foam pads. I’ve gifted many
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by kranner 6y ago
> I have these and it’s annoying to switch them because they’re stored and switched via the app - if you’re switching between more than 2 devices. Not true, you can cycle between previously connected devices by long holding the power swi
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by kranner 6y ago
Same here. The two most interesting parts of programming to me are optimisation (mostly speed, sometimes memory though it's not needed as often) and debugging (especially when I can just reason out where the bug must be and it turns ou
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by kranner 6y ago
> you can't be rich in any traditional sense of the word, without someone else being relatively less well off. Even if that were true, all of your gain in wealth doesn't have to come out of a single individual's pocket. If

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