blntechie

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by blntechie 3mo ago
This is a lazy comment. India's TFR just reached 1.9 which is below replacement rate.. The state I live in with 60m people has 1.5-1.6 TFR and still going down rapidly towards Japan and South Korea level of population decline. This wi
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by blntechie 9mo ago
This is so cool!! The responsiveness of the page is so much better than any maps app I have used.
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by blntechie 1y ago
What does DuckDB mean by query engines here? Something like Trino?
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by blntechie 2y ago
I can't say user metrics but Google Photos came out of Google+ and it is a massively successful product. Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a s
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by blntechie 2y ago
I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs. I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, an
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by blntechie 2y ago
Byju's was perplexing as almost every customer of theirs and the target customers knew what Byju's was doing except those in the board, the VC analysts and LPs.
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by blntechie 2y ago
> red tape I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot. Also, SV has these red tapes too. Bloom Tech -> California BoE an
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by blntechie 2y ago
I have used OAuth2 with and without JWTs as bearer tokens and pretty much used them the same way. JWT helps with fetching the user details without having to hit the DB/backend, and that's basically was the only difference to me. I
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by blntechie 3y ago
Wow, I have never been more impressed with any other Show HN before. The sheer number of features and platforms you have covered and also keeping to some core engineering principles at the same time is extremely impressive. I will be trying
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by blntechie 3y ago
That's how Google Analytics started.
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by blntechie 3y ago
2300 - 23 hundred is a spoken informal thing. Two thousand three hundred is another common usage which might be the 'proper' way.
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by blntechie 3y ago
I have been a long time MacOS user and the app/window switching never made any sense to me. Windows and Linux just does it better.
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by blntechie 3y ago
Worse in multilingual countries. The websites somehow think I speak the most prominent language in the country when I can't understand a word of it and I prefer English and my own language.
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by blntechie 3y ago
How is it different from any digital payment? Many European countries and the US has been doing digital transactions for like 2 decades now. How was it not authoritarian then but suddenly when the Asian people do it, it's a way to trac
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by blntechie 3y ago
It's 200 Rs/mo as per a shopkeeper I talked to. It's pretty affordable for many shops as it cuts down on fraud a bit and they see utility in it.
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by blntechie 3y ago
It's just not screenshots. Initially the payment apps added moving icons/pictures to differentiate screenshots with actual payment confirmation screens. As a response, some people made specialized apps which dynamically recreated
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by blntechie 3y ago
Similarly Netherlands is not even as big as most provinces/states of the bigger countries where internet wiring challenges exists. So not sure what is the point of bringing up the Netherlands.
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by blntechie 3y ago
What was the final result numbers from the transcription?
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by blntechie 4y ago
Honestly, many of the employees and scenarios quoted in the article comes out like they were because of people making decisions without forethought. Do note they are still earning more than 95% of the population and will come out as entitle
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by blntechie 4y ago
Weird cultural attacks and criticisms here. I'm sure everyone here started as a Principal Engineer calibre engineers straight out of college. It will be a fair criticism if this same factory is having same quality output 2-3 years down
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by blntechie 4y ago
If you are within customs rules, you don't have to pay anything. Else pay the right duty based on the original invoice you should be carrying with you. I have taken TVs, laptops, iPhones, game consoles and have never been bothered by c
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by blntechie 4y ago
Probably India must be their short lived launch. They did a launch party and announcement but their fiat payment integration was pulled by the central bank and they never actually launched.
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by blntechie 4y ago
This is a super critical hack, looks really bad for CircleCI. But I don't see any negative news much elsewhere. They will move on. Also, maybe that localised build system running on an old server for each team seem to be not a bad idea
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by blntechie 4y ago
Timers are very common in Asia. But the countdown timers for Green to Yellow could be dangerous as most people seeing the timer about to be zero from far and speeds up instead of slowing down. Recently many of the traffic signals in my city
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by blntechie 4y ago
Doxxing is a fair policy and sharing real time location to be included in the doxxing policy is fair. No disagreements there. Elon backtracking from the absolute free speech is fair to be mocked and laughed at as 'I said so'.
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by blntechie 4y ago
Completely fair banning them over policy violation. But Elon promised 'absolute' free speech when he took over? No one would be complaining about these bans if not for the hypocrisy. I have never seen this two face stand. Elon is
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by blntechie 4y ago
Looks neat. The beta launch post is really well written and appreciate the segment on pricing. I'd appreciate if you would consider regional pricing at some point. As it's priced today, it's more expensive than all the stream
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by blntechie 4y ago
I assume because the US credit card customers are obsessed with reward points and miles and it need to be paid by someone. It's usually the merchants through high MDR. The merchants pass on the costs to the card customers or debit car
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by blntechie 4y ago
One of the first ublock origin rules i setup is to block intercom chat overlays.
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by blntechie 4y ago
I’m in mid of one of those exact death spirals. Finalizing a launch date before even knowing full well what the scope is. Yeah there is a general fuzzy idea of what the end goal is but that’s not what requirements are. A well defined requir

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