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India's is an extremely price conscious market. Companies that raise prices by doing that will be beaten by companies that don't very quickly. Alternatively, combined with the much…

India also has extremely high interest rates. So there is a benefit in converting fixed upfront capital costs into rolling operational costs. In most developed countries consumers …

Uber/Lyft drivers don't badmouth it. Would you if some random person, who for all you know could be an Uber/Lyft employee, and even if not, is someone who uses Uber/Lyft and theref…

What? He's obviously talking about the person in different contexts. The person is a friend to them, but they are also a someone, and for Apple they are a customer.

You're telling me Apple doesn't have a conflict of interest policy? That sounds strange. So the Geniuses at the Genius bar can basically openly tell people that they can go to the …

Servo wasn't even the main engine. Considering their main revenue sources will likely be decimated, it makes sense to focus resources on the primary browser engine, and allow the o…

:term is new with Vim 8 I believe. The Vim author was against adding :term but their hand was forced by the success of neovim from what I understand.

If the article is worthless the issue isn't with the author who has written it and posted it. The issue is with HNers who have promoted it and highlighted it.

Couldn't that also be because Firefox has a higher percentage of expert users than Chrome, which has pretty much become the default browser, would.

Hash maps also don't (usually) have external effects. There arent many hash map methods that will actually modify the data. Standard OOP, on the other hand, seems to encourage such…

Eventually data has to be bound to code. Otherwise you'd have apps where you either have functional code running and other apps that are displays of raw data. The engineering quest…

I was fortunate in that I moved my team to Teams (I still find the name terrible) well before MS put a mandate out. So our folks were comfortable once the MS EOL statement came out…

I wasn't intending on disputing your statement but merely adding to it. Apologies if it came across that way.

Assuming the reporter is internal, you don't need them to go ahead and type out everything. A quick call with a screen share is all that's needed. Not even reaching out (again, ass…

If the reporter hasn't provided enough information to recreate the issue (it's obviously not a major deal breaking issue otherwise it would be obvious and easy to recreate) and the…

Well, before this year there wasn't a global pandemic. That's really meaningless. This wouldnt be an issue if it had happened last year, or the year before, or the year before...19…

Yeah, that's why the idea that H1Bs need to be restricted will help with US employment is remarkably stupid. There are a few companies that abuse (abused?) the H1B program but that…

Almost every major tech company has massive campuses in India. So, almost every one of them? These don't replace their US operations, but add to them and grow them in ways they cou…

People earning 80k in India, China, and heck even Europe, for that matter, almost certainly have a much higher standard of living than people earning that much in the US. And you c…

This is pretty much completely anecdotal, and not very useful, to be honest. The informal stuff doesn't work well. I'm guessing they went to buy their furniture off the informal bu…

Free does not mean devoid of consequence in the private domain. Otherwise, if I am ever rejected by a company in an interview it would be a clear violation of my free speech rights…

Free speech means you dont get put into jail, or worse, for the speech you exercise. The right to free speech does not mean you are entitled to no negative consequences for your sp…

In all likelihood, insufficient coaching and rehearsal is why it feels coached and rehearsed. A perfect presentation, which has been extremely well practiced and rehearsed, comes o…

There's also apps you just want for the integration they may provide (for example, a keyboard app) but don't want to install the entire app. I have the Pocket app installed on my i…

I enjoyed widgets when I used Android. Being able to keep a few key contacts 1 tap away, the weather and calendar always visible, and being able to single tap to create a new todo,…