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I've like Muji but find the pricing to be inconsistent. Some items pretty reasonably priced whereas some seemed pretty expensive for no reason.

Jesus, how much did the stock rise? What was your TC before appreciation?

X1 Carbon still has pretty terrible battery life compared to say an M-1 Mac. I used to be a thinkpad fan having had T450s personally and then a X1-Carbon/X1-Extreme for work. While the T450s experience was mostly good the latter experience convinced me to not get another thinkpad as my next laptop because:

1. The X-1 Carbon light as it was had terrible battery life of a few hours. 2. The X-1 Extreme fans are like jet engines and often on even when I'm not actively doing anything and my account is locked.

Got the cheapest base M-1 Mac and it is dead silent, has great battery life and amazing performance. Plus the price is killer too.

Basically you want seasons instead of monotony.

Brokers are typically hired by the landlord to find a tenant and not a tenant to find an apartment. The big apartment complexes with a company ownership rather than individual typically hires brokers too, but probably they have enough apartments to just have in-house ones and pay them themselves.

But at least in NYC those big apartment complexes are typically only at the higher end of the spectrum. You'll be using a website like StreetEasy to find listings online which often don't have the best pictures, floor plans and you will have to schedule an appointment with one such broker for a time that works best for both of you. These days its less common but pre-pandemic it was not uncommon for a tenant to have to pay 1 month rent as broker fees.

Maybe it was 436B INR cause USD is definitely wrong.

Can confirm as another M-1 Macbook Air user that this thing seems pretty snappy with just 8 GB of RAM but my work provided thinkpad seems to be much worse with 16 GB.

> if you think you're all treated badly in FAANG

No one thinks that. Workload at some places maybe a little on the higher side but still on average monetary and toll on life wise FAANG is probably one of the best jobs.

Despite US being the butt of jokes on the internet, as someone who moved here from India at 21, ~6 years ago, I feel like my experience has been mostly pleasant. People are so much more friendly here in US than back home. And yes, some of it maybe superficial but I do feel in general it's easier for me to trust a random friendly face in America than someone back home. Life is in general just easier here.

> later maintainability threshold

I mean I imagine no one person or team completely understands the entire app. Different people/teams are responsible for different portions of the app. Each team only needs to understand their modules and the few other modules they interact with.

Ah that's a good explanation of Blue Prism vs UI Path.

I think MS is planning to offer it in the O365 stack which means if its half decent it will probably eat UI Path's lunch?

> I don't think legacy support is a major point for them, which will probably be good enough for most people.

Interesting that you say that, I thought that would be one of the primary usecases of RPA? Legacy apps where there's no possibility of an API.

I see. UX aside though, is there any advantage to Blue Prism? Just wondering if there's room for both here. Also what are your thoughts on the Microsoft offering?

> - ... and just as easy to make a huge unmaintainable mess in the wrong hands

Given how well Excel has done this con doesn't matter and might even be a pro I guess.

How does Blue Prism compare? From my understanding it seemed like UI path is the #1 player here but I was looking for an investment opportunity before the IPO into RPA sector so ended up getting some Blue Prism till UI Path can IPO

While I'm sure open offices don't help in being exposed to flu, it could also just be because people are more careful these days with the hand sanitizers and mask wearing.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-has-nearly-wiped-out-t...

I just wanted to comment on the Coke point specifically. They already have achieved market penetration at such a high level that I wonder is it really still worth it for them to keep spending 4B on ads a year. Uber also had a similar experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858

Idk, it could still be wrong or not as useful as thought of.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi... :When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?

How can someone on a H1-B which is tied to an employer start a start up and file EB-1a?

Unrelated, but if you don't mind, how did you/your employer manage to get a EB-1A filed?

Most corporate employees probably don't even have a choice of which app they can use though. They are tied in by whatever their company chose.

This looks pretty interesting. Thanks for the tip!

I have more faith in the banking system but even there it can get tricky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045.

That'd make sense only if everyone had that option. Right now this led to people who are risking their lives and out there working potentially earning less than the people who are at home not working.

I think you are missing the point that it's only a pain point for countries with a backlog, not ones without a backlog. 3-4 years in the grand scheme of things is not all that long for gaining PR of a different country.

> I've worked at companies were every line of code has to be reviewed and approved by a lawyer. Yes a lawyer (usually a former engineer that the company paid to go to law school) is reviewing some dumb little javascript or python script for license and legal compliance.

Jesus, what company was that? And how about libraries included... Will this lawyer now also need to go through that?

Discounting Uber as just an app would be silly too. The scale they have to deal with is probably one of the world's biggest and they do contribute back too open source aka making new tech.

Wow I didn't know NPR covered Indian news as well.

PS: I recognize your username from /r/india!

Just tried it and was pretty accurate for me as well. How is it even legal for our cell phone providers to sell this data...?

Not sure if you actually mean it or referring to The Big Short. If not joking what function do you use for it?

What is something cool/useful that you did on it that's not available from other internet sources?