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1. Car pooling has become very acceptable. I live in NCR and every time I've taken an Uber Pool or Ola Share the car has been packed to capacity. This is especially popular among solo office travellers.

2. This has, sort of, lost its charm with the younger generation especially if they are earning well or used to own a car. Public transit has become faster (on the order of twice as fast during peak time) compared to driving. 2 wheelers are more popular than 4 wheels for cost and practical reasons.

There's an option to pay for GSuite, which gets you access to most Google products, but I'm not sure about it's privacy policies.

They've reached a market position where NN doesn't really impact them much. They, now, have the cashflow to pay their way out. They can pay, smaller companies cannot, thus cementing their position in the market. Absence of NN, in an indirect way, helps them competitively by constructing artificial barriers to entry without taking the heat.

Sure ISPs have their own equivalent offerings, but dealing with one or two competitors in an area is easier than dealing with a couple of them.

Eh. I regularly update my Windows gaming PC and every time it takes a long time to restart and apply updates. Far more than macOS and Ubuntu. And this is not new behaviour.

Not to forget iTerm 2 on macOS is amazing. I find it much more pleasurable to use than the default Terminal.app

This is the new "It's compiling!"

Start reporting on those messages. If you are on Android, use India Against Spam. If iphone, you'll have to report manually on the operator's website. for example - airtel.in/dnd

It's a pain in the ass but I kept on reporting for a month after activating DND and the calls and messages dropped. I've even received calls from people begging me to take my complaints back or otherwise they'll loose their jobs. I agreed twice but holy hell those exact same companies spammed me again. I stopped being a good samaritan and just told them to sort it out with their companies since it's the companies fault. Now spam has reduced to a message or two a month.

From what I understand there are old mobile numbers list being passed around from before DND was available and that's why you need to start reporting the spam messages. Word quickly spreads between the companies to remove your number from the lists.

Not OP but it could be very much possible and that's what OP is trying to say. Just taking it on Intel's word that they haven't done it is not the correct way to go. For the truly privacy minded, it's better to err on the side of caution.

On average yes. There's massive corruption.

Source - I live here

Finally. But I wish microsoft would've done it sooner. Now a UNIX convert. Forever a convert. I'm no longer fighting my system to get shit done.

Do you guys hire remotely from all over the world or only US/Canada? I've been following the careers page for a few months anxiously and have been totally afraid to apply. Few days ago I checked, you guys had updated the remote options to only US/Canada. Hopes totally dashed since then.

Windows 7 can be a PITA in such cases. From what I've seen, Windows 7 has started to show its age when it comes to hardware. Quite a bit of modern hardware like NVMe SSDs and USB 3 are not recognized out of the box. You're most stable bet would be to go with Windows 10 if you can. There'll be tradeoffs which I guess you are already aware of.

I'm surprised at the success of Indian Americans. What gives for their success?

Making it worse are some websites totally disabling right click. Very very annoying.

From a limited perspective, writing code in angular can be a little jarring process. Compared to js in the browser and node, js in ng comes in the way of the thought process.

I guess Buffer comes close enough.

A flat organization cannot rapidly scale. And sometimes there might not even be a consensus. Having an overriding vote, albeit rarely, is crucial to break deadlocks.

This is not to say that flat organisations are bad. But I don't think they are a particularly good fit for the scale YC companies work at.

React and Angular can get very confusing for a first timer in front end. The official tutorials leave out a lot of magic happening behind the scenes. I tried to complete the official angular tutorial and even after completing it, though I could build an app, I still didn't feel confident that I had a good understanding of Angular.

Honest question. Not to ignore any flame wars

I have been following this surveillance and privacy debate. I understand that encryption cannot go both ways. We cannot create back doors that are only available to the good guys. Add to this that the 'good' guys are known to abuse power.

But I also cannot deny that at certain times there are legitimate reasons for law enforcement. What solution, maybe political if not technical, can we adopt to meet the legitimate demands of law enforcement?

I was a longtime android user. Now jumped to iOS. It was not just the crapware but also the sheer audacity of android developers to access any and every piece of information available on the device. Marshmallow will fix things but the ecosystem still has to catch on and I don't think that developers would be quickly jumping on board. I remember a very big media house published their first android application in my country. They demanded access to contacts, calendars, locations, camera, gallery...basically everything imaginable. And there was a fierce backlash from users.

It's always a matter of trade offs. For some people, tinkering with their device is more important. And for the rest, they just want to get their work done and for their devices to get out of the way. I have come to terms with the freedom in the latter category now.

Point well noted.

I concur with you on not wanting forced upgrades and manufactured obsolescence.

But I have found rentalware (specifically Adobe Creative Cloud as I use it) to be a somewhat positive experience. Adobe pushes out updates frequently enough where you see positive increment in productivity without it being an annoying update. Plus it has bought the price within affordable range for people like me who can afford the software if we save up enough for a few years but not the down payment in one go. Having the payment broken down over months makes it more manageable. I have been a convert from a pirate to a legitimate paying user just because of this. Straight out licenses for adobe's software cost more than some kidney operations in my country before this SaaS model.

Jetbrains has also moved onto a SaaS model. If they continue with legitimate updates every few months, then that subscription is also worth paying for.

The only subscription I do not see any benefit in, as a individual developer, is Microsoft Office 365. That's more aimed at business's whose full life depends on the software.

Not a fair apples to apples comparison.

Swift is a programming language. A form of expressing your ideas.

ML on the other hand is a full fledged field with active research going on.

Why does it need to read my browsing history?

There is already a free option of Xamarin for students.[1] Earlier there used to be a separate application process but now it is rolled into DreamSpark

[1]https://xamarin.com/student

I feel that article is no longer valid given that it's written in June 2012 while WhatsApp got acquired in 2014. Things have drastically changed since the Facebook acquisition and I've particularly seen my facebook profile being "enriched" by data from WhatsApp (specially when it comes to adding friends). WhatsApp might not be using it for ads within the app but it is surely contributing to building a user/marketing profile on facebook.

I would pay an arm and a leg to be able to use Linux (specifically Ubuntu) as my day to day OS. I miss the tools, ecosystem, flexibility and most importantly the shell. I have been toying with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for the past few months. Managed to get it up and running after an intensive weekend.

Few days later I forgot to wake up the laptop from sleep before disconnecting the external monitor.

All hell literally broke loose...