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It was an option I considered, but the accuracy of the sensors was way worse than apple for the price.

I agree that a single outlier is more stressful - but many times these aren't medical grade devices anyway so the actual data you're looking for is the trend (not the absolute valu…

I believe the value add is a combination of both factors - ability to measure and (as a consequence) induce more exercise. An example here is how I made sure my parents are getting…

The primary use for a smartwatch for myself (and many of my family, friends) is fitness and health tracking. Card payments, notifications, WatchFaces etc. are all secondary. Basica…

Something that improved developer experience by far and also sped up our builds is starting the container dependencies via docker-compose and connect to it for integration testing.…

Apache Thrift is another great way of server-server & client-server communication. Pretty similar to protobuf but feels a bit more mature to me. https://thrift.apache.org/

This was my exact experience when interviewing for Google 5 years ago. Extremely irritating to write (and see) code like that.

Person living in India here. GPay gained success by offering scratch cards (giving you money) and cashbacks for making payments through GPay. From a UX perspective, it has been not…

Backend engineer here. I've dabbled a bit with SRE and UI/UX as well. Right now I'm focused on building out a globally distributed API platform. I'm looking for a challenge. I lear…

This is precisely why I went with YNAB [0], started budgeting better and saved quite a bit of money. Everyone who sees me paying for an app (I'm from India) ask me - "why can't you…

I've worked in two of these top investment banks and the amount of red tape that needs to be crossed is just breathtaking. Something as simple as provisioning a kafka topic? Go rai…

Disclaimer: I graduated in CS from one of these "elite" colleges. I also took the JEE in 2013 when it underwent significant changes. Back in 2011, the government decided to revamp …

While it is mind blowing how less we've invested in modernizing education, the biggest barrier I've seen in recent times is - educating the educators. For reference, I helped set u…

Didn't know that. Thanks for the info!

Wikipedia runs on HHVM IIRC. https://hhvm.com/blog/7205/wikipedia-on-hhvm

Even when joining zoom meetings with the "Always turn off video when joining meeting", I see a the video come on for a second before turning off. Anyone else observe this?