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muthuraj57

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    Comment #33341702

    I think latest version of XCode is needed if latest iOS is being targeted.

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    Comment #31290160

    I primarily developed this to block spoilers about Marvel movies in social media apps before I watch the movie on theatres. But it works based on keywords, so it is not specific to…

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    Comment #30256296

    Timestamps are crowdsourced, not AI generated (AFAIK). It is 100% accurate of most of the videos. Since it is crowdsourced, less famous videos or videos with less views won't be sk…

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    Comment #30145426

    To skip intros and sponsored content, I use SponsorBlock extension. It skips those segments automatically.

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    Comment #30057638

    Had similar issue before. My and my friends are traveling to a different city and one of my friend's mobile went missing during our trip. The contact we were about to stay in the c…

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    Comment #29415681

    Comment autocomplete is very neat. I use copilot for comments more than for code.

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    Comment #29226615

    I don't agree with this. I use Google Photos to upload all my pictures and videos and it also gets killed when in background. Apple's iMovie app literally asks you to not put the a…

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    Comment #28571123

    That's not true in all cities. I'm from Tamil Nadu and even in Chennai which is the most liberal city in Tamil Nadu don't have the dating app culture like you mentioned. I heard Ba…

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    Comment #27274024

    Also it is one of the main reason "focus follow mouse" feature couldn't be implemented in Mac OS. I use multi-monitor setup and I used Ubuntu for my personal computer before Covid,…

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    Comment #26422610

    Every alarm clock app in Android lets you edit the time when you just tap the time in the list of alarms. But iOS does nothing on tapping the time. We have to click `Edit` from top…

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    Comment #26422586

    >Everything has a different way to be closed or go back to the previous screen. Sometimes you swipe up, sometimes to the left, sometimes there is a back arrow in the top left, some…

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    Comment #25924767

    Yeah, it is super handy. I routinely do this for Changelog files from the libraries I use.

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    Comment #23391382

    In Tamil, lot of CS terms are already translated but nobody uses that in speaking form. And they are properly translated in websites and mobile apps too.

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    Comment #19534912

    I found this [ https://flutterapp.com/ ], but I don't quite understand what the product was. Edit: Found this [ https://flutter.en.softonic.com/mac ]. It uses webcam to detect moti…

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    Comment #19489606

    I'm not familiar with Python since I'm from Java background. In Java throwing exceptions is costly (like null check is preferred over catching NPE) since exception needs to get sta…

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    Comment #19402832

    *Some people in India

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    Comment #16484495

    In our team, we have our custom implementation of a web app like https://bonus.ly . The idea is, every member would be given a certain points(we call it jems) at the start of the m…

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    Comment #16284271

    Ola (similar to Uber/Lyft in India) have refund button and it works pretty well. One time I booked a ride and the driver cancelled it after 20 minutes because of traffic, but I got…

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    Comment #14065909

    What makes you think they need shoes?

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    Comment #13755413

    > there was a human who pulled the trigger; it was a bot: is it a human or a bot?

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    Comment #13651822

    At least parsing and checking the commit message wouldn't be too hard, right?