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There are alternative clients that lack some features but are very lightweight, open source and don't have ads. RedReader and Slide come to mind. Edit: that was on Android, I guess…

Any recommendations?

How many of us get to study in IITs?

> I dont't really understand what point you are trying to make. That the quality of NIT and IITs are decreasing. I have seen a lot of previous generation people who studied in IITs…

Yeah. Tier 1 colleges. Tell me more about NITs and IITs. I study at a so colled top college. Where highest placement is always around 50-60 LPa. That doesn't mean teaching and othe…

As an Indian there are reasons you can point out for this. Education: Engineering syllabi are pretty outdated. And due to a work-just-enough-for-month-end-salary mindset, professor…

Indian here. This piece may sound biased, but it is true. The lockdown was a good step. But poorly enforced. /people think it is against their prestige if they are home quarantined…

* people are delusional because colleges are getting away with low quality work, because of the higher barrier of entry for competition compared to something like Udemy. * People a…

Classes are not worth the cost of full tuition.

Yeah I know. I had even detected using about:config to render Kannada text on the phone which didn't support it - it cost more bandwidth but 20MB was too much for a day at that tim…

The other firms were worse in vision, thus Jio had an edge. When I was using internet on a J2ME phone and Opera Mini, it cost INR 4 for 20MB airtime (2G!), which lasted 1 day. A GB…

Sort of. Airtel is costlier than Jio and BSNL is worse in many areas. BSNL 3G is not only slower but doesn't have half the coverage of BSNL 2G (which is mostly used for calls and S…

While not exactly a note taking method, Flash cards a la Anki come to mind.

At what point we, as an industry, failed to mandate a level of technical education for being a manager? Almost always the non technical people who can't think beyond quarterly prof…

Yes, Joel Spolsky and IIRC Jeff Atwood have written somewhat extensively about it. We are in a bubble, if we read programming blogs and think about programming in our free time, we…

The point is, they should not actually require candidates to recall these things from memory. But there is certainly value in the non-memorization part of this knowledge and the ab…

To filter out naive people that don't have proper understanding of fundamentals and just having some framework plumbing knowledge, I guess. These are considered pretty basic stuff …

As opposed to us who only use features developed by Bell labs.