Yep. I do this and route my email through mailgun that allows me to setup rules for forwarding emails. Their free tier is pretty generous and works great for my needs. Also solves the problem of shoddy websites selling my email because I gave them an unique email address and can block all emails coming to that address easily, if needed.
Ola seems to be doing fine and I think they've some sort of partnership with lyft where at some point in time you'll be able to use the lyft app and hail ola rides. This hasn't happened yet, though.
I'm in Bangalore for a few days right now and I am interested in talking about it. Contact me through my website listed on the profile. FYI, I live in the US.
Maybe they learnt their lesson from the whole Free Basics debacle and are trying to bring low cost internet to developing areas. But that's just me being optimistic. Realistic me feels like they might just use this as another trojan horse to bring Facebook rather than the internet to more people.
A blanket ban to protect a few defense installations seems like an overreaction. They do mention that monitoring it after launch would be impossible, but mistakes can discouraged by imposing large fines or something similar to that.
If technology comes far enough that telepresence is preferred to on-site, I think it would be pretty trivial to replace the headset with whatever is behind them in VR
I get the acronym is easy to pronounce with the suggested word, but why not just use the suggested word (destiny) as the name instead of the acronym. So much easier to read and write. They could explain the name's origin in Readme.md
I hate FB and stopped using it a few months ago. But the people behind the company are pretty clever. They might have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to move pretty quickly to act against it. You've already alluded to one, but FB has also bought Oculus, Instagram and WhatsApp. All for ridiculous amounts of money, but with a crazy amount of potential. As a company FB isn't going anywhere, any time soon and by extension nor are its ideologies and practices.
So, I'm curious about this. Does a waitlist with a referral system help increase signups? I'm wondering how's it better than wait lists that don't push you up the line for referring people. Is it worth dedicating resources to build it out?
I am gonna copy paste a similar comment I made on a related thread [0]. That demo was very cool. But:
1. do we really want a centralised service for everything that has access to a lot of data within a walled garden?
2. Siri only works well with North American accents afaik (maybe all western accents?). Alexa's voice recognition is the best and I hope Viv does a similar job.
3. This is mostly a personal preference, but for online shopping I prefer using a lot of filters. This UI doesn't really help with that.
Also, HN probably knows better but is the "computed plan" shown in the demo, different from an execution plan created by an RDBMS?
1. do we really want a centralised service for everything that has access to a lot of data within a walled garden?
2. Siri only works well with North American accents afaik (maybe all western accents?). Alexa's voice recognition is the best and I hope Viv does a similar job.
3. This is mostly a personal preference, but for online shopping I prefer using a lot of filters. This UI doesn't really help with that.
Also, HN probably knows better but is the "computed plan" shown in the demo, different from an execution plan created by an RDBMS?