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by addicted44 6y ago
India's is an extremely price conscious market. Companies that raise prices by doing that will be beaten by companies that don't very quickly. Alternatively, combined with the much weaker law enforcement, "illegal" (I&#x
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by addicted44 6y ago
India also has extremely high interest rates. So there is a benefit in converting fixed upfront capital costs into rolling operational costs. In most developed countries consumers can convert those upfront costs easily and cheaply through l
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by addicted44 6y ago
Uber/Lyft drivers don't badmouth it. Would you if some random person, who for all you know could be an Uber/Lyft employee, and even if not, is someone who uses Uber/Lyft and therefore is likely happy with it, asks you a
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by addicted44 6y ago
What? He's obviously talking about the person in different contexts. The person is a friend to them, but they are also a someone, and for Apple they are a customer.
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by addicted44 6y ago
You're telling me Apple doesn't have a conflict of interest policy? That sounds strange. So the Geniuses at the Genius bar can basically openly tell people that they can go to the other shop they work at across the door and they w
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by addicted44 6y ago
Servo wasn't even the main engine. Considering their main revenue sources will likely be decimated, it makes sense to focus resources on the primary browser engine, and allow the open source community to build out the experimental feat
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by addicted44 6y ago
:term is new with Vim 8 I believe. The Vim author was against adding :term but their hand was forced by the success of neovim from what I understand.
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by addicted44 6y ago
If the article is worthless the issue isn't with the author who has written it and posted it. The issue is with HNers who have promoted it and highlighted it.
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by addicted44 6y ago
Couldn't that also be because Firefox has a higher percentage of expert users than Chrome, which has pretty much become the default browser, would.
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by addicted44 6y ago
Hash maps also don't (usually) have external effects. There arent many hash map methods that will actually modify the data. Standard OOP, on the other hand, seems to encourage such behavior. So, for example, a Company object could cont
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by addicted44 6y ago
Eventually data has to be bound to code. Otherwise you'd have apps where you either have functional code running and other apps that are displays of raw data. The engineering question is what layer is it appropriate to do so. Under tra
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by addicted44 6y ago
I was fortunate in that I moved my team to Teams (I still find the name terrible) well before MS put a mandate out. So our folks were comfortable once the MS EOL statement came out and the company started moving everyone over. Everyone else
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by addicted44 6y ago
I wasn't intending on disputing your statement but merely adding to it. Apologies if it came across that way.
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by addicted44 6y ago
Assuming the reporter is internal, you don't need them to go ahead and type out everything. A quick call with a screen share is all that's needed. Not even reaching out (again, assuming they are internal...if they are external the
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by addicted44 6y ago
If the reporter hasn't provided enough information to recreate the issue (it's obviously not a major deal breaking issue otherwise it would be obvious and easy to recreate) and they are internal to the company, tell them to provid
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by addicted44 6y ago
Well, before this year there wasn't a global pandemic. That's really meaningless. This wouldnt be an issue if it had happened last year, or the year before, or the year before...1918. The point is that any functional government wo
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by addicted44 6y ago
Yeah, that's why the idea that H1Bs need to be restricted will help with US employment is remarkably stupid. There are a few companies that abuse (abused?) the H1B program but that was always a small but visible percentage, but more im
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by addicted44 6y ago
Almost every major tech company has massive campuses in India. So, almost every one of them? These don't replace their US operations, but add to them and grow them in ways they couldnt in the US itself.
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by addicted44 6y ago
People earning 80k in India, China, and heck even Europe, for that matter, almost certainly have a much higher standard of living than people earning that much in the US. And you can find far more 80k level developers in individual cities i
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by addicted44 6y ago
This is pretty much completely anecdotal, and not very useful, to be honest. The informal stuff doesn't work well. I'm guessing they went to buy their furniture off the informal buses during off peak hours. So they didn't hav
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by addicted44 6y ago
Free does not mean devoid of consequence in the private domain. Otherwise, if I am ever rejected by a company in an interview it would be a clear violation of my free speech rights. It wasn't violent. And I shouldnt be afraid to disclo
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by addicted44 6y ago
Free speech means you dont get put into jail, or worse, for the speech you exercise. The right to free speech does not mean you are entitled to no negative consequences for your speech in the private domain. Free speech doesn't mean th
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by addicted44 6y ago
In all likelihood, insufficient coaching and rehearsal is why it feels coached and rehearsed. A perfect presentation, which has been extremely well practiced and rehearsed, comes off as natural. Because they havent practiced it enough (and
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by addicted44 6y ago
There's also apps you just want for the integration they may provide (for example, a keyboard app) but don't want to install the entire app. I have the Pocket app installed on my iPhone, because I want to be able to share stuff to
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by addicted44 6y ago
I enjoyed widgets when I used Android. Being able to keep a few key contacts 1 tap away, the weather and calendar always visible, and being able to single tap to create a new todo, another single tap to open my groceries note, etc. was pret
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by addicted44 6y ago
Servers... A lot of people developing apps that run on Linux servers use Macs, and have had MS targeting them for a couple of years as well.
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by addicted44 6y ago
But how would they ever have the most content? There isn't a single restaurant that is not being paid millions by Uber that is specific to Uber. Nearly every cab driver will also drive for Lyft, Via, etc. Additionally, Google actually
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by addicted44 6y ago
My primary question, as always with Uber, is with ridiculously easy switching costs, and almost no lock-in, why will Uber be the one that benefits when the profit making $EPOCH happens? Why wouldnt another well capitalized business that has
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by addicted44 6y ago
So you dont need a lockdown. You simply need mosquito nets. So when you have a cheap solution that works, why would you want to do something expensive that does not even work any better than the cheap solution? Other than making a nonsensic
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by addicted44 6y ago
It's not entirely clear to me, but did Google delete the file from the user's personal, private drive, or did they delete public access to the file? Because the former is unacceptable, but the latter is not as big a deal at all.

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