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sinsteinon Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

As someone mentioned in another comment, I don't think they will care about how the ads are being blocked. As long as you are bypassing ads, you are in breach of their TOS.

sinsteinon Facebook Watch Isn’t Living Up to Its Name

The Facebook watch is not a hardware device. It refers to their video feed service.

sinsteinon Best Display for Programming? (2017)

You can always downscale resolution to test for Full HD with a 4K panel but you cannot do the other way round.

sinsteinon Best Display for Programming? (2017)

I got a 2K monitor (4K was too expensive) for this very reason.

Standard 1080p monitors seem so bad with text, and once you plop them next to an MBP Retina screen the difference is extremely pronounced,

sinsteinon Two years later, I still miss the headphone port

Individuals used to get deeper into the Apple ecosystem because it was better than the alternative.

So now Apple, instead of improving the ecosystem, is trying to make the alternative worse. Quite sad.

sinsteinon Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?

Ex-Full Stack Developer BrowserStack in Mumbai, India. BrowserStack is a manual and automated web + mobile testing platform.

- The local language is not at all a part of the code. English is considered second nature for most people and that is what is used for all internal communication, documentation, and code.

- They have been using Agile for pretty much their entire lifecycle with daily standups and bi-weekly retrospectives.

- Languages: Most of the codebase is in Ruby/Rails and NodeJS. The FrontEnd is built on React and jQuery (for the static pages).

BrowserStack is usually considered one of the fine examples of an engineering-driven culture. Engineers are empowered and listened to.

Plus, since the product is a testing tool, we ended up being our own best customers. This provided very valuable insight on user behavior and helped navigate product decisions and keep function over form for the most part.

But as I have learned, BrowserStack is more of an exception in this matter as most other companies in India I have heard of rarely are engineering driven and.

sinsteinon Two years later, I still miss the headphone port

Really confused about Apple's recent design choices.

You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!

sinsteinon Two years later, I still miss the headphone port

Yes yes yes. The removal of the headphone jack was a decision I could have lived with, but this, that the same set of accessories cannot be used with all their products is just such an irritant. I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish with such inconsistent design choices.

The absolute kicker: You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!

sinsteinon A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs

Getting an empty response for this link. Do you have an alternate?

sinsteinon Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift

I don't feel that the quality is an issue with Udacity. I once paid for an AI Nanodegree course (which I did not complete) and was very satisfied with the course material, assignments, support and evaluation process(es).

Maybe there are free university courses that will provide students with more in-depth knowledge but the Udacity courses are designed to be more job-ready and less academic and I think it does a good job at that.

sinsteinon Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

Microsoft partnered with BrowserStack a while ago to allow free testing of Edge - https://www.browserstack.com/test-on-microsoft-edge-browser#...

sinsteinon Show HN: Share one-liner command snippets

Nifty list of snippets. Would love it if the snippets could be expanded inline on the homepage instead of opening a new page for every snippet.

The carets on the left also give me the impression that the card will expand and reveal the snippet but then I am sent to a new page. Slightly annoying.

sinsteinon WhatsApp hires ‘grievance officer’ to help combat false information in India

That still leaves copy paste though?

sinsteinon WhatsApp hires ‘grievance officer’ to help combat false information in India

I wonder what WhatsApp (Facebook) as a company can do to combat false information without seriously jeopardizing the trust it has with its users?

sinsteinon Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It

I am not a trader but in this scenario won't he have to read (news, signal, trigger, etc.) just 5 minutes before everyone reads it?

The larger corporations might be on top of things but there will be plenty of individual investors reacting to the news. You just need to react before they do.

sinsteinon SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

Can someone explain what a Warrant Canary is and why it needs to be removed?

From my understanding, a Warrant Canary is a provision to disclose subpoena(s) that a company is not allowed to disclose and now SpiderOak is shutting down that provision?

sinsteinon Ask HN: What do you really don't like about status/stand-up meetings?

A few major problems I face:

1. They stretch way longer than necessary

2. Everyone is interested in everything that is being done and that results in endless questions over trivial matters

3. If the team has people from different roles (design, product, frontend etc.), it is a huge waste of time to stand through discussions regarding issues that do not concern you