Thank you! I was literally looking for an Indian music alternative to Generative.fm. May not have been the use case you are trying to target, but it is the use case for me :)
Big shout out to Generative.fm as well!
Readit Newshbharadwaj commented on Ragya – Indian classical music played by time of the day ragya.com/... · Posted by u/kadal
hbharadwaj commented on Google’s top search result is Google themarkup.org/google-the-... · Posted by u/danso
Many of them save me extra clicks which is convenient. Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it's not the case. Build better alternatives and I'm on board. In the end, Google is a business - I would promote my own shit on the first vertical as well.
One thing that pisses me off is the AMP ordeal but, other than that, I extract value from Google.
I am on Google to find results to my questions - I want the quickest exit and that's what they provide. If they fail to do that they back down trust me, these guys watch "the numbers" carefully.
Edge Chromium has Microsoft Translate which does a pretty good job as well
20-50 year olds with no pre-existing conditions are at low risk. The policy of shutting down the economy indefinitely is frightening on its own and we'll be dealing with the steep repercussions of that for many years. This is not sustainable.
Forgetting the overload of medical infrastructure for a bit, here are some of the myriad of issues that this leads to:
1. There are 20-50 year olds with pre-existing conditions such as asthma who are at higher risk. For example, a colleague on my team has asthma. Another colleague on my team has a husband who has asthma. As a Manager, I can't ask either of them to come into work.
2. What about 20-50 year olds who come in contact with 50+ year old or live together with them? They may be at low risk, but they will definitely spread the virus around more
It becomes quite complicated dealing with these things on a case by case basis.
As someone who had to deal a lot with SOX compliance throughout my career, I would love to see the regulations loosened. They are overly onerous and in many cases downright bad, because they are so broadly written. At the same time, enforcement is terrible, because of the same broadly written rules.
Basically, you and your auditor work together to come up with an overly complex set of rules that somewhat meets the requirements, then your auditor brings in a bunch of consultants to help you implement their rules, which usually just means checking a lot of boxes, and then everyone calls it a day.
So really all it does is create a lot of work for a lot of people for very little gain. In a lot of cases we were going to do some of that stuff anyway, but now we had to slow down and show the auditor all the work. An auditor who usually doesn't care -- all they want to do is be able to say "yep I watched their presentation on this".
So I was quite surprised by the headline, that the auditor firms would want to roll it back. It's basically just a huge money maker for them.
And then I saw what they want to change -- they want to make the rules looser on how the auditors are audited. Basically they want to be able to keep being lazy.
SOX had great intentions but was one of the most poorly implemented regulations ever.
I currently work in Tech Strategy at a Big 4 - the reason why Big 4s want to roll it back is because over the last few years, their revenue in audit is steadily decreasing. Especially with automated tools, outsourcing, RPA taking over and making a lot of the grunt work significantly cheaper. At the same time, the consulting revenues are significantly going up. SOX limits the scope of work the Big 4 can execute at firms they audit (nothing related to financially significant systems etc.). The best client relationships are with the firms the Big 4 audit! Hence, the push!
hbharadwaj commented on A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners internetingishard.com/... · Posted by u/interneting
The graphics are nice, but I think you can polish the writing.
1. It took me probably 30 seconds to understand that the text blocks on the start page are summaries of what's in every chapter. Try to read this without knowing that this website is an online book:
> The purpose of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, the difference between frameworks and languages, and finding your way around a basic website project with Atom.
This doesn't make any sense if you don't know that it describes a chapter in a book.
2. Simplify sentences. Cut adjectives. Shorten. It reads academic. Examples:
> Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for complete beginners to become professional web developers, so if you’ve never written a line of HTML or CSS, but you’re contemplating a career shift, grab a cup of coffee, take a seat, and let’s get to work.
This is a single sentence. It's hard to understand. Your readers aren't all native Americans. This could be turned into:
-> This guide helps you to become a professional web developer, even if you've never written a single line of HTML or CSS.
> They’re very closely related, but they’re also designed for very specific tasks. Understanding how they interact will go a long way towards becoming a web developer.
Ctrl + F "very": Too often.
A good editor might reduce the text by 25-50%. My secret tip is the Material Design Writing guide [1]. It shows how to write for apps. With apps, the user needs to get a task done as fast and efficient as possible. Write that way.
Are there guides similar to Material Design that you would recommend to an app developer? Looking for Dos and Don'ts. Appreciate any help in this direction!
hbharadwaj commented on Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app googleblog.blogspot.com/2... · Posted by u/mikeevans
I really wish they wouldn't overload terms that they themselves invented. In Chrome, "incognito" means we don't save your local history, but it does not add to the transport security. Here, "incognito" means you've got end-to-end encryption (and presumably also doesn't save local history).
Why on earth would you re-use the same term when naming two things with similar (thus easily confused) consumer-visible attributes but completely different security guarantees?!
I read this and then I read this -
Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature (http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/21/12994362/allo-privacy-mess...)
Performance for privacy - LOL
hbharadwaj commented on The Miracle of the Modern Banana nationalgeographic.com/pe... · Posted by u/pmcpinto
> The Southern part of India happens to be the actual point of origin of the banana plant
Do you have a source for this part?
> Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.
Do you have a source for this as well please?
https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/cost-estimation/index.ht...