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Ask HN: Advice for an Indian Student?
1 points by subtra3t 7mo ago|1 comments
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by subtra3t 2y ago
Not surprised at all to see how unpopular this sentiment is on HN. For some reason HN seems to love one dimensional stereotypes for every job that isn't theirs. Actually that's wrong, even the idea that engineers are smarter than
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by subtra3t 2y ago
I suspect the latter.
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by subtra3t 2y ago
Good catch. I haven't found a proper source other than a quotation from some HN comment, so I'm not sure if it actually is POSIX valid or not, just that many people seem to think it is.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
> Seems similar to the JVM situation Oracle was relying on behaviour that was POSIX valid so I don't see how it is "incorrect code".
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Since the paid tiers have paid for the free tier for at least 9 years, I'd imagine that it shall remain available for at least a few more years.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
I haven't read the article yet but I think that means that UDP was used less than TCP and so routers/operating systems didn't optimize for it as much as they did for TCP. Hope this helps.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
On a related note, is it a good idea to sell access to the same API your app is using under the hood? Why or why not?
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Really? I used the website on Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy M12 (a fairly average smartphone) and the experience was fine.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
If the user experiences stuttering while decoding a video, they won't learn to enable special permissions for the website but instead switch to a different browser that hasn't yet implemented this "feature". And most web
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by subtra3t 3y ago
As of 9th March 2024, Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world, followed by Apple and Nvidia (which might take Apple's position soon).
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by subtra3t 3y ago
People who want others to ask them their pronouns before referring to them, what is your reason for doing so?
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Is the book worth reading, for an average lurker of HN?
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by subtra3t 3y ago
In a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
For some reason I couldn't browse the home page but I could still access my messages (website).
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by subtra3t 3y ago
I think this depends a lot on where you currently live. Maybe if you live in a very closely knit and/or isolated area, other people might welcome you with open arms. But if you try the same thing in a cafe at a busy street you might be
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Ah, I hadn't considered that a smaller size could be seen as a symptom of an inferior/incomplete feature set when compared with competitors.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
I think the 2nd person in the article you read was Scott Bell, who stopped working on HN around 2019 [1]. Still, dang isn't the only moderator here [2], just the only one who posts publicly. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by subtra3t 3y ago
I used to use it a lot in the past and I think it was mostly the convenience factor for me personally. I didn't want to learn another piece of software and I thought that WinRar did what it was supposed to do, reasonably well.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
> Big size impress management I thought this was relevant mostly for line of code or similar metrics used to evaluate the size of projects (build sizes not being one of them). Or are you trying to imply that artifically inflating the pe
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Ah, sorry. If one day you decide to write under your real name, please do email me the names of your books. If you feel like it, of course.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Less than 20. Most mirror the chapters of manga I like, and some are blogs I regularly find interesting.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
If you don't mind sharing, could you link to a few of your books? No pressure of course.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
A cynic might call that the purpose of this forum.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
"* Rich 46yr-old man has mid-life crisis"
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by subtra3t 3y ago
What have you written/published so far?
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Some economies of scale take effect not with the scale of production but with the size of the business. And Apple is as big a business as any.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Depends on what you mean by working. If you mean able to render a standard HTML5 page with a little bit of CSS and no javascript, a game engine would probably be more complicated. But to create a browser that implements most/all of the
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by subtra3t 3y ago
Ah, this helped clarify my doubts. Thanks.
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by subtra3t 3y ago
I think at the last stage you meant to write month and not year.

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