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SJetKaranon Written communication is remote work super power

> - No responding from mobile devices. The poor response rate is just too high.

For me, the tendency of slack to let users write very short sentences/phrases is the issue. Etiquette for slack allows very IM like messages, whereas Emails are generally required to be more verbose.

SJetKaranon Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut

well put

SJetKaranon To software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson’s epidemics simulation code

` and why you need pd.DataFrame.copy() all over the place.` Thanks for saying this!

Also, in the past decade, the R data analysis/munging ecosystem has matured far more than the equivalent in Python. These days, writing (tabular) data transformation code in R is often far cleaner, clearer and less error prone than any other platform imo.

SJetKaranon Org-roam: Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode

True, to use the full functionality of org-mode, you do need Emacs. As long as one uses a note-taking system that uses plain text, they are good. Saying that, org-mode has a specific syntax that all org files adhere to, so that you can re-format the files to any other format whenever you want (or use the in-built export options in Emacs/Org-mode to convert to Markdown/PDF/etc).

SJetKaranon Sweden's unusual response to coronavirus

While I agree with you partly, many of these arguments sound like some feeling of Swedish exceptionalism to me. As someone living and working in Sweden, I hope we are doing the right thing. Your last point of "getting to conclusions right now is premature" is on point.

SJetKaranon India announces nationwide lockdown to stop spread of coronavirus

It always is a fight between having larger (and federal) countries/regions, and having smaller states. There needs to be a balance. Even with Norway, aren't you in EEA and Schengen?

In any case, the geographical boundaries of my state in India changed thrice within a span of ~70 years. And that happened peacefully. I can't imagine that happening without wars if the individual states are nation states.

SJetKaranon Coronavirus: Some scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'

> There is a strong argument that closing schools will impact the NHS, even though children aren't very at risk.

Sweden also made the same point and kept the schools open FYI

SJetKaranon Google recommends all North America employees work from home

Even if assume for a moment that WFH improves productivity, this impromptu WFH means that most people might not even have a proper desk/etc for optimal WFH setup.

SJetKaranon Open-plan offices decrease face-to-face collaboration: study

Exactly! I would be fine in an open office where monitors can't be seen from behind (sideways is okay, I should be able to show colleagues sitting beside me, my screen). Perhaps, between two rows a thin paper-ish wall can be put up.

SJetKaranon Language Learning with Netflix extension

Prime video shows all subtitles. Even if we assume it is licensing, then Netflix's own shows should show more subtitles, but they just don't. I think they see showing tons of subtitle languages being shown as an UX issue.

SJetKaranon EU beckons Indian tech talent

Yep, most people will move to greener pastures, when the opportunity arises. Polish people go to UK/France/Germany; People from Romania/Ukraine move to Poland, etc.

SJetKaranon Effectively Using Matplotlib (2017)

what is wrong with plotnine's ylim?

SJetKaranon Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)

I use this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

SJetKaranon What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (2016)

From what I encountered, this is generally the case when someone is in the "analysis/reports" mode. Rather than get summary statistics on each column, find number of nulls, etc by writing a sql query, they instead get the data into the Python/R instance, and use general purpose functions, utilities, etc. "Programmers are expensive" statement probably applies here as well. I'm not trying to be defensive here, just saying that this might be one reason.

SJetKaranon Why we don't use Galileo's last name (2009)

I guess you can start here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Sahasranama#The_Thousan...

SJetKaranon ‘No girls born’ for past three months in area of India covering 132 villages

Nice work! I created a couple of charts illustrating similar ideas before (https://sainathadapa.github.io/blog/population-pyramids/). Minor request for change: In the graphs for population, density and fertility rate, you are showing the district boundaries, but it seems the underlying data you are using is for states isn't it? Why then show the boundaries of individual districts?

SJetKaranon India has the highest data usage per smartphone

ah!, got it

SJetKaranon India has the highest data usage per smartphone

This mainly depends on the location. In the denser areas of the metros, speed is lower (depends on time of the day as well). But the coverage across the India landmass is pretty good. I was streaming netflix hd on mobile, while traveling to another city on a bus.

SJetKaranon India heatwave temperatures pass 50 Celsius

Depends on the particular states. Some states have the necessary economic resources to buy power at peak hours when necessary.

SJetKaranon Norway's capital is the latest city to declare war on cars

That is the right way to do things. If Norway can export oil to India, they should. Not all countries can switch away from oil as easily, and countries should let other countries to switch on their own cost and time.

SJetKaranon Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones

Part of the push against Huawei in US, is because it also deals with networking equipment. Xiaomi and OPPO don't do that.

SJetKaranon 20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse

Same here, 2+ years now

SJetKaranon Coffee Cups Are Next

Yes, similar situation in Netherlands

SJetKaranon How to live without Google (2017)

Yeah, I switched to DDG, but it didn't give me satisfactory results, particularly for debugging searches. Moved to startpage, and am a happy user since two weeks now.

SJetKaranon Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week

That statement was never valid in India. Facebook introduced (or tried to) FreeBasics, but they had to withdraw after Net Neutrality regulations.

SJetKaranon Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

Trust.Zone, cheap (relatively), outside of the 5 eyes, and has an server in India

SJetKaranon When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-uWwvpn5c

SJetKaranon The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain

https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/267rzg/what_e...

> Churchill certainly did not engineer the famine in Bengal, but he was ultimately responsible for the lack of a relief effort for it.

https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6zi5fx/was_ch...

> It is hard to say where British incompetence, obsession with the war effort, and active cruelty begin and end. My read of the evidence is that official rice production statistics were wrong, and the British let millions of people in Bengal die because the war was more important, but there's a lot of debate about what actually happened.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/83oijk/was_c...