r_singh

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by r_singh 8y ago
The website (on logging in) says the decisions will be out 'by' 20th August. Since we're pretty close to that date, and I haven't got my decision yet, I thought of posting it here to see if some people have their decisio
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Ask HN: Did you get a decision for your Startup School application yet?
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|2 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
The appropriate thing to do would be to mark both as correct and to mention the same in the response.
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Const declaration does not mean that the value it holds is immutable(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|0 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
Not trying to dispute the information stated in the article. Just want to add that as an exception, here in Mumbai, the weather is pleasant and enjoyable, it's cloudy with intermittent showers every few hours.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Just realised that I can see those comments on the bottom of the page after enabling 'show dead' in my HN settings.
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by r_singh 8y ago
But you’re right, there are exceptions, although far in between
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by r_singh 8y ago
Most people who go to school (even up till something like elementary school) do not take up those jobs, hence the jobs do have something to do with illiteracy.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Here in India—guards, drivers and house helps are all on the Internet all day long!
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by r_singh 8y ago
It might be interesting to know that the Sanskrit word "desi" itself just means country
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Asians have the highest median household income [by race] in the USA(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|0 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
Would depend on context, but for the most part it's not at all offensive. In my experience Indians in Silicon Valley refer to "indian things / culture" as Desi all the time.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying; it wasn't clear to me what you were referring to.
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by r_singh 8y ago
I agree with you, I was surprised to see this on the front page as well. I guess it's because this is Netflix's [being a California tech company] first real effort to enter the Indian market. Hence it implies the consequences this
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by r_singh 8y ago
Depends on how it's done. Vodafone India is an affiliate for Amazon Prime and is offering 1 year of free prime to its subscribers. Offering a year free or something similar definitely adheres to the spirit of net neutrality IMO.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Nope, strictly speaking NRI is a tax status of people who are Indian citizens but do not reside in India. Foreign citizens who descent from Indian origin are called PIO i.e. person of Indian origin
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by r_singh 8y ago
Interesting, I think it could be because Amazon chose to be conservative and selected the version of the movie that's played on national TV.
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by r_singh 8y ago
"non-India Indians" are called NRIs (non-resident Indians). And you're right, in the list of ethnic groups in USA by household income, Indian Americans rank number 1 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
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by r_singh 8y ago
True that. I subscribed to Prime before Prime Video was a thing and it still costs me only Rs. 499 a year, which is a joke tbh.
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by r_singh 8y ago
You may be surprised to know that early prime adopters in India paid as less as $4 yearly (I renew at that amount, this includes prime shipping and music as well). So interestingly, India is a place where acquiring content is relatively eas
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by r_singh 8y ago
You're right about the possibility of causing disruption (most likely will). However, the reason isn't because old production houses don't want to or cannot make content like Netflix (because it's going to be the same pe
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by r_singh 8y ago
I'm from Btown. With its latest Indian content, Netflix has really made a statement about what it can do with original content made for this market. Consciously working with the best in Bollywood and giving them creative freedom that t
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by r_singh 8y ago
and no different from a lot of the rest of the world
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by r_singh 8y ago
Not surprisingly, there's 5 places in California where the top 1% has more wealth than in 1928. Which means that the ratio of income of top 1% to income of bottom 99% is higher than it was in 1928. Which is a sign of rise in income in
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by r_singh 8y ago
You’re right, those two projects are successful at compiling AOSP. Trying to get the xda builds and LinageOS working properly is subjectively speak—difficult and heavily device dependent. I’m not sure about x86 images, but arm are heavily d
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by r_singh 8y ago
Fair enough. I still feel like iPhones are infested with apple apps for my benefit or at least to not let other cos take advantage of me. Apple’s privacy oriented disposition makes this perception. My iPhone serves me even if it is apple in
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yeah I agree. This is a particularly interesting situation because I love part of google while simultaneously am afraid of parts of it as well. I would be sad if google was beaten out of existence (seems unlikely I know) even though my perm
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by r_singh 8y ago
I agree, if dropped, this will motivate big electronics players to release smart phones powered by android that aren't Google infested. Sometimes when I'm in a cynical mood, I feel like my android phone isn't really mine, it&
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by r_singh 8y ago
It's also worth noting that it's $3B per year that Google pays Apple though . https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...
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by r_singh 8y ago
This makes even more sense with context from Google's deal with Apple to make Google Search the default on iPhones for which it pays $3B. Considering that, $5B doesn't seem to be much of a fine to be literally on the head of most

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