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Five years back, YouTube didn't have the feature to queue your videos on the fly. You could have created a playlist, but then it is the same sequence of songs every time. So I hack…

Are you referring to the luck surface area? https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...

You can live in almost any city in India for less than 1k USD per month. In Bangalore (Tier-1 City), rent for a 1-bed-hall-kitchen apartment will be around 200 USD. Add 10 USD per …

Related article on Amazon trying its hand on creating games. https://qz.com/1999032/why-amazon-keeps-failing-at-video-gam... I think Netflix has a better chance in winning on this.…

Where do folks use tile38?

WhatsApp is up now.

Folks are coming to HN and twitter to see what happened.

To add more info they have been building a C++ code-base for the most important features: https://github.com/symengine/symengine SymEngine can be used from C++ or from the wrappers…

And then: What do you care about what other people think? In the first chapter he goes on to tell about beauty/taste[1]. One of his friends told him that you scientist won't be abl…

I created an add-on which replaces !s with inurl:stackoverflow.com to replicate the bangs of duckduckgo in Google.

The book : Oxygen advantage[1] makes similar points. It points out to the research of why swimmers have higher life expectancy than the average athelete, why almost all of us are h…

Firefox running add-ons on Android made me switch to it on the mobile phone. It makes the mobile experience way better than Chrome and Brave.

Yes Thiel writes how sales is important. He gives out a mental model to think how much sales is important for your company, and how much you should invest in it. On a scale from ti…

I wonder how it compares to the MacBook Pro, 13" - weight wise and performance wise?

Why was the color blue chosen by evolution?

In one of the states in India, they banned plastic. But in a few months, the ban is in-effective. I really think to charge a small price for buying plastics is a better way than to…

Think of it as a game of monopoly. Microsoft got lucky and bought the pink and the orange street, got hotels over it. It was enjoying a good revenue. But then few people(the open s…

They deliberately made the 'close' button fainter. Oh we are going to have an article on "History of 'bold' close buttons".

I appreciate this for the article points out an alarming issue. But there has been slight mis-representation. It slightly portrays that Indian engineering education landscape start…

The implementation is at: https://github.com/nishnik/poincare_embeddings Corresponding blog post: https://medium.com/towards-data-science/facebook-research-ju... Corresponding pape…

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