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pcx

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About pcx

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    Comment #40483549

    Kudos to Meet team for supporting this! In the video conf world, where most problems are well solved, this is such an amazing feature to differentiate and be customer first!

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    Comment #38805139

    This is really neat! Loved it

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    Comment #27631963

    This exaggeration of Python3 migration is ridiculous and frankly has become boring. Yes, Python 3 broke compatibility. But we had more than a decade to migrate. It definitely does …

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    Comment #24500923

    I don't agree. There are a lot of services which provide fully managed platforms with multiple competent providers you can migrate between. WordPress + CPanel does a great job at t…

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    Comment #24279673

    Bottom navigation bar works great for me because it's easier to use with my thumb. I think Mozilla had to choose to either wait a long time to get full extension support and miss t…

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    Comment #24096650

    VPA is used for discoverability across UPI clients. Phone numbers can be used for discoverability among users of a single client. For eg: foobar@icici on Google Pay & baz@hdfc on P…

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    Comment #23689588

    Familiarity of source control tool lowers barriers for new developers coming into the project. For me this is enough reason to move to GitLab.

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    Comment #23391749

    1. They are doing it with substantially less budget than their competitors. 2. Developers shouldn't have to build software for the greater good by sacrificing their livelihood. 3. …

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    Comment #23391621

    Everyone not happy with pocket recommendations, what is the alternate source of revenue? Not enough will pay for the product. On the other hand Mozilla has to compete with Apple, G…

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    Comment #23369717

    Great to see GitLab gain momentum in FOSS. It's a great fit for small teams too, it's easy to setup and keep updated. It's more important than ever to help GitLab gain adoption wit…

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    Comment #23341996

    1. The selected Java SDK API desugaring, though limited, is much awaited. Little things like supporting `java.time` up until API Level 14 make it less painful, don't have to end up…

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    Comment #23238174

    Looks great, signed up!

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    Comment #23237795

    Yeah. I see that it works great for some scenarios, like when I and my co-founder are collaborating. But if I try to teach it to a sales guy, I can see he just hates it :(

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    Comment #23237499

    I am a 10yr+ Emacs user, this hit too close to home than I would like! I am seeing a lot of momentum in Emacs ecosystem for last couple of years and Spacemacs rocks! So hopefully i…

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    Comment #23237380

    I love using Notion, but I think the general discussion about it does not talk enough about how it's flexibility is also a problem many times. 1. Flexibility of blocks is a cogniti…

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    Comment #23231414

    In India, after Jio's success, all operators have now killed the old pricing structure or made it unviable. That structure provided us the ability to lower our plans to bare minimu…

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    Comment #22979607

    Works great on Firefox for me

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    Comment #22943197

    You should try https://meet.jit.si . Started using it this week, works great with no login necessary. And open source :)

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    Comment #21898292

    One big success of our current BJP-controlled govt in India is their ability to influence and control narrative on specific topics through targeted disinformation. This is not just…

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    Comment #21802992

    On a related note, a lot of folks feel air fresheners actually make the air fresh. Don't they usually just hide the smell?

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    Comment #21692520

    Great to see Mozilla consistently improving devtools in Firefox. I have been using them over Chrome for a while now, hope it gets to a place where most devs start using FF again fo…

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    Comment #21361775

    Education is a bad indicator for the health of a democracy. Looks like the US isn't doing any better with democracy despite having higher education levels.

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    Comment #20975842

    Nothing in this article justifies the title. Can someone share more information about this? It feels like they are subverting his point to get more page views.