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Not interested on flamewars here. Reading this thread it looks like merits of system is upon peoples arbitrary metrics based on varying perspectives. So a constructive discussion is not going to happen.

So until there is some standardised comparison probably making any statements about merits or demerits, including mine are just opinions without facts.

UPI is an impressive system, I use it often and it is quite empowering for billions of Indians.

But calling it the "best payment system in the world"! And west wants it so bad sounds like blind exaggerations.

United States is not the only western country. Scandinavian countries has Swish (2012), Vipps (2013), and Mobile pay (2015), Canada has Interac.

I was surprised by this statement as well. I think the author wanted to paint a picture how miserable things are. Things definitely are difficult for them financially. The prices stated however is bit too over exaggerated. A dinner that starts at $47 in India is something would have made me think 10 times before going for it. You can have a really good dinner for two at 10$ at a nice restaurant in India.

A trillion dollar publicly traded company sure care about money and PR.

I understand being a developer who does a passion project or an app. But I can't buy into, Apple forcing any developer to make a decision in a very short term. Almost all new guidelines comes with a 3 months interval before being enforced. And most times the deadlines get extended https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=03262020b

Apple waits a year or more before removing the Apps that don't follow a newly enforced guideline. The restriction is a problem with app submissions that comes in after a deadline

The author's revenge seems to be against his users who opted to used Sign In with Apple. Since they will be the one suffering because they trusted to use the particular app. I can find merit in complaining about apple's restriction in accessing payments. But SignIn with Apple, as a user I will always opt for that given my email won't be available with a third party forever for them to spam or sell. I have integrated SignIn with Apple both in an app and backend. I never felt it was particularly difficult or under-documented.

I agree that the preview of Xcode build looks it is very tightly integrated with Xcode >Xcode Cloud requires you to push your repository to their servers, and you have to configure the "Workflows" via their desktop application.

The code still lives with your preferred Git hosting provider. Xcode Cloud copies/clones the code just like any conventional CI. Once the build is done, Apple claims to remote/delete any copy of it.

> No configuration as code, no shell scripts you can run from your existing CI/CD, no ability to trigger a build remotely or push code to them on demand. You can't even synchronously wait on a build to finish - you have to set up a web server and listen for a webhook! You can't integrate it with your existing CI/CD - whether that's GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, etc.

I will reserve my comments about inter-op till they release their API and I get to play with it.

Xcode Cloud seems to be a blessing for iOS developers who don't have exposure to CI/CD systems. And that includes most iOS developers. And also it will be a blessing for companies since hiring good CI/CD engineers for iOS is really hard.

My personal view is, Xcode cloud does a lot of things what fastlane was doing using Apples Cloud infrastructure.

I was not disagreeing with the articles claim people flouting rules caused a spike. But the people or the country isn't by itself responsible. Rather a callous government that was indifferent to this pandemic is. It had an year to prepare. It did nothing more than PR works

- If the health infrastructure could not take it, what was the reason for this narrative ? https://www.thequint.com/news/india/in-january-pm-modi-had-e...

- Did they not know about vaccine demand ? https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/world/2021-01-20-india-phar...

- Why did they take away the states ability to prepare ? https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/apr/09/as-per-n...

The initial lock down and panic eventually made people deny existence of Covid, along with a narrative that Indians are immune to Covid. Later the leadership started claiming India already conquered Covid. https://www.livemint.com/science/health/we-are-in-the-endgam...

To answer your question, people were gathering for events other than rallies

Opinion columns are not scientific sources. To the article's credit recklessness from people are is the reason for the spike. But doesn't absolves a leadership that claimed to have concurred Covid-19 and have no clue about disaster management. Indians deserved better.

I agree with you that larger mass gatherings have a clear responsibility. However, cherry-picking the farmers protest which was dissenting a government policy when there were multiple other events and a clearly clue-less government feels like government propaganda.

What are the sources of this claim ? A general consensus was the false narrative that claimed India have conquered Covid, resulting in people ignoring the safety measured cause this. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01059-y

If you are looking for super spreader events its more likely the large election gatherings caused a spike.

Blaming a protest that was taking place even months before looks like propaganda.

> but these days I'm seeing a lot more of a walking back of this as people invariably use the primitives incorrectly and shoot themselves in the foot

Interesting, on which eco-systems you see this happening (iOS/MacOS) ?

Impressive that it works well with my native language Malayalam. However, it would be nice to notify the user that adding a profile picture is required to sign up. My girlfriend who is non-tech savvy was confused + stuck at the page.

I am an Indian and knows Hindi. I am curious to know how it is offensive or an insult. And among students it may earn some giggles and nothing more. And for South India, which probably has the infrastructure to use a library like this, Hindi isn't even the medium for communication.

For coconuts, you can't solve just harvesting alone. It need to be harvested right. Coconut trees has a comparable life span to a human. If it is not harvested correctly, which including only picking ripe coconut, cleaning the top etc. The farmer will loose years of investment due to one action.

It is quite interesting to read through the threads here. Most people generalize India in terms of society or income. The south of India is pretty different from the northern part. The state in the video here especially is vastly different in terms of socio-economic structure from the rest. The caste discrimination is almost non-existent in the Southern part of Kerala. In the context, it won't affect your choice of life or jobs available to you. Or won't face any discrimination in day to day life. Thanks to a strong Communist/Marxist political presence.

In terms of economy, the southern part is well off, there are few pockets of poverty. But poverty isn't as visible as rest of India https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/southern-comfort-indi...

Coming to the robot/contraption. Growing up in an environment with an average-sized coconut farm. The device is completely useless. The assembly time per tree, even if its 5 minutes, would take 5*200 trees -> 16 hours in just assembly. And this amount of trees get covered in almost 2 days of 6-hour labor in a season by manual labor. Also, coconut harvesting isn't just about plucking the coconuts, but also involves cleaning the top. Picking the right coconut to be plucked etc. In that aspect, the robot would do more harm to the farmer. Though the cost of labor is high, a serious farmer is going to convert a portion of his yield into oil, which gives a decent margin. Also, this won't be the only crop they depend on. My family had a rubber plantation along.

Labour shortage is a real issue and it isn't economically profitable for someone with about 20 trees or so. But this device under the current design solves only one problem, i.e plucking and solves it very badly.

Hey Vishnu, Congrats for your progress with your product. And also best of luck for all things ahead! Noticed the name is "ente" couldn't notice the similarity with Malayalam "ente" meaning mine.

Not sure if you are from Kerala, but we can’t deny there is a an equal not major blame in politics that slows down or completely stop industries from adopting automation. Living in Kerala for 22 years of my life it is easier to see that politicians find it easy to create a spectacle by scapegoating industries. Kerala fared well in terms of development, but we are highly dependent on foreign remittance which is heavily concentrated from Middle East. To curb the high unemployment rate (7.4 percent) there needs a new wave of industrialisation in the state.

Goa, a state in India has a popular liquor called Feni which is made from the cashew apple https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni_(liquor). This is a good way to make use of an otherwise perishable fruit.