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by signal11 7y ago
Yes, for now. Jio's rival Airtel owns satellite/cable tv platforms and even supplies wired internet in parts of major cities. No one with any ambition has really tried wired internet in India -- for a long time the only way to get
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by signal11 7y ago
According to the Supreme Court ruling, "the Aadhaar number must still be quoted to file income tax returns and apply for a personal account number (PAN)."[1] [1] https://qz.com/india/1351263/supreme-court
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by signal11 7y ago
I believe Aadhar is mandatory if you're filing tax in India[1]. And the government earlier in the year passed a bill to undo some of the supreme court protections and facilitate sharing of Aadhar data with third parties[2]. So unless y
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by signal11 7y ago
> no privacy issues yet (money is directly debited from account without a mastercard/visa involved) Isn’t Aadhar (fingerprints + iris scan) needed to have a bank account? If yes, then it’s a bit disingenuous to say there are no priv
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by signal11 7y ago
Broadly, no. I know the other reply said: > 35$ for 1TB up/down, 150 Mbps. Available in all major cities. Good enough? But that's affordable for a very thin slice of the population. Remember that India's average nominal
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by signal11 7y ago
Multiple SIMs are indeed common but I believe the drivers that caused people to have two SIMs will go down with time. Unlike some other countries, India's mobile rates are very competitive (cheapest in the world, in fact) so there&#x27
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by signal11 7y ago
Not strictly Java, but Groovy is a great environment to prototype on the JVM. Prototyping was lightning fast and turning it into Java code was pretty quick too. There’s great IDE support for it too (IntelliJ’s Groovy scratches). These days
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by signal11 7y ago
Sadly, there’s a fair amount of sniping[1] in parts of the Go community if you use “Golang” instead of “Go”. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18717303
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by signal11 7y ago
Windows 10 builds have included a 'real' curl for about a year now (build 1803 onwards IIRC)[1] [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/13/microsoft-curls-too/
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by signal11 7y ago
I wish Google learned from Go/Golang (i.e., where a nontrivial number of people refer to Go as Golang, much to the displeasure of some of the authors) and use names which are easy to search for. I'm not looking forward to people m
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by signal11 7y ago
The code samples look okay for me (did the author tweak the stylesheets?), but the text uses an 'engraved' look using CSS's text-shadow (like iOS Notes but a bit worse because of the serifs) which makes it a bit hard to read.
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by signal11 7y ago
I believe Google does offer support to consumers via Google One (where available), it’s priced very reasonably too. One of Google One’s selling points Google advertises is phone based access to Google experts.
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by signal11 7y ago
If your dev workstations are virtualized already, why not ask your tooling team to provide virtualized Linux workstations? If you deploy to Linux this is something they should provide anyway, for dev/prod parity.
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by signal11 7y ago
Yes @ absurd level of abstraction, EnterpriseFizzBuzz even manages to laugh at this old-school 'Enterprise' style of writing code[1]. Some enterprises have managed to move away from this though -- DevOps in the enterprise is real
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by signal11 7y ago
What's more, you can likely (depends on country etc) use Office desktop apps and your OneDrive storage on any supported device, including native apps on Android-supporting Chromebooks, for free as long as you have your student ID, as
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by signal11 7y ago
iCloud is great for Mac/iOS users. I never felt it worked well on Windows. It never felt right. So yes, Apple still has work to do if they want wider iCloud use. Maybe they don't want to? But Microsoft and Google are creeping up.
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by signal11 7y ago
I agree their website is somewhat confusing, it nudges quite strongly towards purchasing a 1Password subscription. However these pages[1,2] makes quite clear that you can purchase a standalone license even if you're not upgrading: >
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by signal11 7y ago
I don’t believe the new rules around perma-contracting were ever applied to the private sector. Even the public sector guidance is dated 2017[1]. [1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/off-payroll-working-in-the-publi...
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by signal11 7y ago
> On Day One, the entire workforce of every company becomes "contractors". This is going to be increasingly difficult in Europe as they focus on “disguised employees” or “perm-tractors”. The UK has already implemented this rule
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by signal11 7y ago
It’s interesting that Thomas Kurian (who heads GCP) announced the purchase. He’s ex-Oracle and really understands the enterprise and enterprise software. And despite Google’s other product demises in the consumer space, GCP has had a decent
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by signal11 7y ago
Halo for PC (all of them, via the Master Chief Collection) is coming to the Steam Store soon. That might be exciting for some people.
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by signal11 7y ago
They are also subject to brigading[1], although the movie in question has recovered a bit[2]. [1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-story-behind-the-wo... [2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25
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by signal11 7y ago
I'm also quite interested in what the Chromium-powered Edge will do.
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by signal11 7y ago
Offtopic - re cookies, the etymology of cookie (or 'magic cookie') as an opaque value is very obscure and has a interesting social side-effect in that it's difficult for average people to get very worked up about websites ser
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by signal11 7y ago
According to 1Password's support forum, "1Password 6 supports 1Password.com accounts, and that will run on iOS 9 and 10"[1]. The iPad 3 was quite problematic as a device in that it was very RAM- and CPU-limited. With a 1GHz d
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by signal11 7y ago
> red means bad and green means good. This association is cross-cultural, probably universal, and probably as old as the hills: red as blood, green as grass. Red is a lucky/auspicious/'good' colour in China and parts
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by signal11 8y ago
Vista was 6.0. Windows 7 was 6.1 and 8 was 6.2 (8.1 was 6.3). They finally bumped up the version to 10 with Windows 10.
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by signal11 8y ago
Well designed icons have their place, but a great example, for me, where “text is better than icons” is Gmail’s overly stylized icons. I’ve changed mine back to text, but wow, those icons are so poorly designed.
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by signal11 8y ago
I use Pixie[1], which works really well even on Windows 7 and 10. It's an 11kB portable app. [1] http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php
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by signal11 8y ago
Besides Premji, who is mentioned in the article, the Tatas have several charitable efforts[1,2] on top of their known (past?) involvement in setting up institutions of higher education like TISS and, I think, IISC. [1] http://www

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