piyush_soni

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by piyush_soni 4y ago
We've been using 98.6F as the threshold for fever in India for as long as I can remember (I'm 40 years old) even though for everything else we use the Celsius scale.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Yes, I was mostly kidding that Scientists found out only now. But we definitely need a new design. Closing the lid is ugly (someone who has always thought about invisible splashes falling up on the floor and toilet seat wouldn't think
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Wow. That should have become a household design by now.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Scientists have found it only now, but I have always thought about it. :D ... I have always wondered why no one has invented a toilet with an auto-closeable, auto-cleanable "inner lid" (sitting collapsed just below the seat) that
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Yeah. C++/Rust, or (slightly far fetched) C# support would be so awesome!
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Just to give you a feedback from a new (neutral) user who had no experience of either image editing concepts and tricks; OR an image editing tool like Photoshop or GIMP. I could at least navigate my way through in Photoshop but never in GIM
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I having a masters in Computer Science could never make my way through GIMP, tried quite a few times. I have never seen a more complicated UI (while I was at least functional in Photoshop). Thankfully hundreds of online image editors arri
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
People keep saying Google reads your emails (even when Google explicitly says otherwise), but have no proof, and trust Apple's words as the gospel of truth - how strange. It's almost as if it's fashionable to criticize them.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
It was never about you (the customer), if you were thinking that. It was always about they keeping the control so that they can monetize every possible part of the ecosystem. Giving you the freedom takes that opportunity away. You see how t
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Just a few. Enabling it on a few sites doesn't work as expected at all, and the add-on should probably be disabled on those - for example Twitter. First, it tries to enable the dark mode on Twitter, but the tweets itself are all gone (
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Just tried a bit, looks nice!
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Exactly my point, I'm sure there are benefits, but this example is more suited to Typed languages whereas many functional languages like you say are untyped. And man, I've worked with MIT Scheme in a major commercial software for
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Yeah. I'm one of those who are not convinced yet about functional programming being so great . In most cases what people call functional programming are inefficient shortcuts to lengthier functions, so I never got all that hype about
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Two of his quotes that were logically inconsistent with each other. I forgot the exact ones and can't search them right now but that was it.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I'd heard Japan already has a mild version of this.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Moreover, I very politely found out some logical flaws in some other comments of his on Twitter. I'm a nobody, he's the famous Naval. Just on that small thing he blocked me (no, I didn't use any rude words or bad language etc
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I went through many of famous 'sayings'. I found them way too simplistic at best (so much so that they end up being completely useless). He says abstract things like "learn to sell, learn to build, if you can do both, you wi
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I think he's limited by the technology of our times, but I'd still agree with him that this is _the future_ (not sure how soon), and they probably want to be at the forefront when that happens.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
Repeat after me, "You are the product" only when you buy an Android phone.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
They're basically an engineering company that could never become a marketing company. I personally think it's a little inverse of Apple's philosophy. It's primarily a fashion/marketing company before an engineering
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
I've bought "digital gold" quite a few times from apps (in India). So they could demand 30% out of that as well? Apple's greed is now getting to ridiculous levels.
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by piyush_soni 4y ago
>> Most of the products I like, I didn't discover through ads. That's what you're made to think. :)
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
In my company setting up the office email on our personal phone is optional. But if we choose to do that, they install this entirely new 'profile' with work apps and controlling software on that in the name of security. I chose no
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
> _Word has been feature complete since maybe the 2000 version_ I am not sure, say for example the browser / Office 365 release version of Microsoft Word was very useful, and I'm sure they had to make _many_ changes in the desk
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
It might be fashionable to say that about Apple products etc., but using a macbook pro for 8 months now (long term user of Windows), I can say, Windows machine DOES actually just work MUCH more than macs. I can't even connect to an e
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
I'm not sure. On Android phones you can still install any third party android app just by installing its apk.
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
It's not enough. And "Inspired by" is deliberately hidden below a long trail of text, and that itself is a lie. It's not "inspired by". It's "almost lifted from".
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
For the life of me I can't find any mention of where you have picked up the original source from (actually, I can't even find the "inspiration" mention) on your blog post. It's a deliberately misleading blog. It sho
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
No, it's wrong because it is wrong. Not because whether someone benefits or loses because of it. That doesn't matter.
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by piyush_soni 5y ago
Great work, but the fact that you had to build it means you need to change the company you work with ;).

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