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xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?

It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Building Your Color Palette

So many designers just rip off the design team at Stripe, even the author of this article frequently raves about Stripe.

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide

For paywalled sites that let users read X free articles, the easiest solution for me was to block all cookies from the site, i.e. block all cookies from [*.]medium.com. Medium will always think that "You have 2 free member-only stories left this month". This has worked for nytimes and medium so far.

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU

It always baffles me when people claim "Paki" is an ethnic slur when used for Pakistani citizens. Do you consider "Brit" for a British citizen to be an ethnic slur as well?

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: A ‘viral’ new bird song in Canada is causing sparrows to change their tune

I'm surprised McDonald's haven't tried teaching birds to whistle their melody, free advertising

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: “Massive DDoS attack” just T-Mobile error?

Facebook itself was up but messaging was unavailable, same with Instagram messaging.

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

>they were able to resolve it by contacting google.

Do they happen to be government-funded, or represent a health company as stated above? To be fair, I didn't follow up the rejection, I just assumed the rule would be set in stone and they wouldn't budge. The app was free, no ads or any method to profit from covid so I was pretty shocked.

xkyscore | 5 years ago | on: Apple, Google ban location tracking in apps using their contact-tracing system

Google have flat out banned any apps that have anything to do with combating COVID-19 if they aren't either funded by their government or are a registered health company. I tried releasing a symptom tracker app before Zoe released theirs and it was rejected for this reason.