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by sinstein 8y ago
I think Taiwanese engineering is a great bunch of seemingly underpaid developers. I visited Taiwan for 2 weeks from India and had a few observations: 1. Food and transport are quite cheap. So cheap that almost everyone eats out for all thei
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China blocks India's bid to designate Masood Azhar as a global terrorist(twitter.com)
1 points by sinstein 8y ago|0 comments
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Visible upvote count for Ask HN submissions?
1 points by sinstein 8y ago|0 comments
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by sinstein 8y ago
I basically see two schools of thought in the discussion: 1. People that believe ads are strictly a source of revenue. If you don't like them but want to use the service, pay for the service 2. People who believe that ads are more than
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by sinstein 8y ago
Outline - https://outline.com/rCxLjM
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National Enquirer claims "good faith negotiations" with Bezos(cnbc.com)
2 points by sinstein 8y ago|1 comments
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by sinstein 8y ago
Yeah, paid subscribers don't have to deal with ads anyway I guess?
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by sinstein 8y ago
As someone mentioned in another comment, I don't think they will care about how the ads are being blocked. As long as you are bypassing ads, you are in breach of their TOS.
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Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers(techcrunch.com)
799 points by sinstein 8y ago|931 comments
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by sinstein 8y ago
The Facebook watch is not a hardware device. It refers to their video feed service.
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by sinstein 8y ago
You can always downscale resolution to test for Full HD with a 4K panel but you cannot do the other way round.
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by sinstein 8y ago
I got a 2K monitor (4K was too expensive) for this very reason. Standard 1080p monitors seem so bad with text, and once you plop them next to an MBP Retina screen the difference is extremely pronounced,
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by sinstein 8y ago
Individuals used to get deeper into the Apple ecosystem because it was better than the alternative. So now Apple, instead of improving the ecosystem, is trying to make the alternative worse. Quite sad.
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by sinstein 8y ago
Ex-Full Stack Developer BrowserStack in Mumbai, India. BrowserStack is a manual and automated web + mobile testing platform. - The local language is not at all a part of the code. English is considered second nature for most people and that
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by sinstein 8y ago
Really confused about Apple's recent design choices. You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!
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by sinstein 8y ago
Yes yes yes. The removal of the headphone jack was a decision I could have lived with, but this, that the same set of accessories cannot be used with all their products is just such an irritant. I have no idea what they are trying to accomp
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by sinstein 8y ago
Getting an empty response for this link. Do you have an alternate?
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by sinstein 8y ago
I don't feel that the quality is an issue with Udacity. I once paid for an AI Nanodegree course (which I did not complete) and was very satisfied with the course material, assignments, support and evaluation process(es). Maybe there ar
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by sinstein 8y ago
Microsoft partnered with BrowserStack a while ago to allow free testing of Edge - https://www.browserstack.com/test-on-microsoft-edge-browser#...
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by sinstein 8y ago
Nifty list of snippets. Would love it if the snippets could be expanded inline on the homepage instead of opening a new page for every snippet. The carets on the left also give me the impression that the card will expand and reveal the snip
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See upvote count for Ask HN submissions?
2 points by sinstein 8y ago|0 comments
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Adultery no longer a crime in India(time.com)
3 points by sinstein 8y ago|0 comments
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by sinstein 8y ago
That still leaves copy paste though?
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by sinstein 8y ago
I wonder what WhatsApp (Facebook) as a company can do to combat false information without seriously jeopardizing the trust it has with its users?
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WhatsApp hires ‘grievance officer’ to help combat false information in India(techcrunch.com)
2 points by sinstein 8y ago|2 comments
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by sinstein 8y ago
I am not a trader but in this scenario won't he have to read (news, signal, trigger, etc.) just 5 minutes before everyone reads it? The larger corporations might be on top of things but there will be plenty of individual investors reac
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by sinstein 8y ago
Can someone explain what a Warrant Canary is and why it needs to be removed? From my understanding, a Warrant Canary is a provision to disclose subpoena(s) that a company is not allowed to disclose and now SpiderOak is shutting down that pr
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BrowserStack Announces Its Open Source Program(browserstack.com)
1 points by sinstein 8y ago|0 comments
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BrowserStack hauls in $50M Series A from Accel(techcrunch.com)
9 points by sinstein 9y ago|0 comments
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by sinstein 9y ago
A few major problems I face: 1. They stretch way longer than necessary 2. Everyone is interested in everything that is being done and that results in endless questions over trivial matters 3. If the team has people from different roles (des

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