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by sharmi 8y ago
Actually, it was open sourced and hence posted here on HN, which is how I discovered it. Hence added that detail hoping it might help someone remember it. When it was posted, I had no need for it and hence did not bookmark it. Now I would l
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Ask HN: Pl help me find an open source project for employee interaction
3 points by sharmi 8y ago|3 comments
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My take on this: Though Bangalore is a relatively new name, it has been deeply ingrained in recent collective memory and literature. So it needs some time to change. Other cases in point, Bombay -> Mumbai. Madras -> Chennai, Calcutta
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by sharmi 8y ago
The people who are given incentives are very poor and uninformed about the ways of politics. Ideally, they can either refuse the incentives or just get it and vote the way they want. By human nature, they get a sense of obligation when they
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To be clearer, Krita supports both Windows and Linux. HDR support in Krita is currently Windows only and they are waiting for Intel for HDR support in Linux. > Of course, at this moment, only Windows 10 supports HDR monitors, and only w
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by sharmi 8y ago
Thank you for including the solutions to the exercises. This truly is godsend. You have no idea how much it is helpful for those of who try to learn outside an educational institution. It is very hard to feel confident in learning when I ha
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Scientists Find Huge Mountains Deep Below Earth’s Surface(sputniknews.com)
3 points by sharmi 8y ago|0 comments
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Just to offer a different viewpoint, my app is rather lightweight in features and a rather hierarchical structure. So I have bern able to manage just fine with props and state. It rather feels quite clean that way
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There is already a treasure trove of info in the comments. So let me try not to repeat and give only what I have learned recently. I had lost weight sometime back (around 40 pounds, give to take). Life got in the way and got a bit lazy. A f
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Food for thought: Say Oracle wins. Now android comes with a price tag. Doesn't that mean, some open source alternatives like FirefoxOS or PostMarketOS will get more mindshare? A cursory look at all the open source alternatives, shows t
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https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/healthy-eating-recommendatio... It seems to stick to more traditional lines of avoid saturated fats (butter, ghee,coconut oil) and favour olive oil, canola oil etc. And reduce fat in gen
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This was initially as a response to wattengard. But I realized more people would benefit from this, so posting as a top comment. I just wanted to post some options to workout from home. So it cuts down atleast on the time to drive out the g
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Mystery orbits in outer solar system not caused by 'Planet Nine': Study(timesnownews.com)
2 points by sharmi 8y ago|0 comments
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It is not much of a problem if Q4 is better than Q4 of the previous year. That is actually a more meaningful comparison than Q3 to Q4, each quarter will be affected by different issues (end of financial year, college opening, winter, summer
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I have not programmed in Nim and I am a Pythonista. Having said that, I had to parse the whole wikipedia dump xml file once and extract just the text. The python code for the same was so slow and would have taken days to go through the whol
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Tips from my experience * Whatever you do, try to talk to customers (not friends) as early as possible, and try to keep them in the loop when taking critical decisions. Frequent feedback can keep you on the right direction and also not lose
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by sharmi 8y ago
Zim desktop wiki has a webclipper with options to clip url or selection or all urls in a window.
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As someone who had taken the course and let some time pass, I thought the same. A stringing together of common sense ideas to learn better. Yet, to provide better context for another comment, I searched online for the course notes and came
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I use moon reader pro on Android. It allows annotating and highlighting pdf text. I am not affiliated except as a long time user.
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Ask HN: What did you learn regarding your business this year?
1 points by sharmi 8y ago|0 comments
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by sharmi 8y ago
Happy to be of help. People behind works like Firefox and Ublock Origin have done so much. Using their work is just another form of recognition that they so richly deserve.
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One is just the "in" thing like what "Cloud" was once. One has somehow equated to Storage in the Cloud that is accessible everywhere. OneDrive, OneNote, Ubuntu One etc. Don't worry, It will, too, pass.
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by sharmi 8y ago
Google One = Google Drive + more space + Customer Service for around $2 a month. Customer Service is not called Customer Service but Google Experts. What does this mean for actual service? The thing I like/jumps out for me is no compre
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Yes and that does not happen with Ublock Origin :)
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Seriously, I envy you. I would give so much to be able to forget all I have read, just to read it all over once again.
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Ask HN: Why is Firefox on Mobile's marketshare insignificant?
8 points by sharmi 8y ago|6 comments
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Ideally, all websites should be respectful of the limits and speed of bandwidth and processing power available for mobiles and limit ads. Unfortunately that's not true. And that's not in our control. The next very best solution is
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This year, I discovered Agatha Christie. A few years back, when I was temporarily advised bed rest for a month, my sis loaned me a collection of Hercule Poirot short stories. I was always a Sherlock Holmes fan and really enjoyed the logica
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Ask HN: What checklists do you use?
3 points by sharmi 8y ago|0 comments
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by sharmi 8y ago
Check out compellingsciencefiction.com It has a collection of short stories written by different authors. Most of them are written within last 2 years or so

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