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If you plan to do a charge back on Google, better be prepared to lose access to your entire Google account [1] including Gmail.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016389

I think the GP's point is that talking on phone can be done without disturbing anybody else when you're in your own car

You are mandated to take a vacation of at least 2 weeks every year (once you reach a certain level), the idea being that any “off books stuff” you may be doing would get exposed.

That's an interesting way to fix a problem!

I had seen this before, but then it stopped appearing. Turns out I had been lured into turning web activity back on somehow.

Web & App Activity is basically the collection of each of your interaction with Google that was recorded. It includes the list of all websites you visited while logged in, the time that you opened any app on your Android phone, the locations that you've visited etc.

It's a pretty scary list when you first see it and can be viewed/managed at https://myactivity.google.com

It was Zoho. Their registrar took down their main domain after a few phishing reports.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/24/zoho-pulled-offline-after-...

Widget Workshop [1]

It was a electronics tinkering game where you had different components like timers, light bulbs, switches, gravity testers and what not, which you could connect with wires and build interesting things.

They had several demos that you could check out, like poem generators, dog barking sound generator machine and other interesting stuff.

As a kid, it really helped fuel my imagination to make new contraptions out of random things.

I haven't seen an alternate that works on modern systems or phones. The original version, I believe, worked only till Windows ME or so.

[1] https://youtu.be/Vc9F_QayL5s

That's very interesting. Is any of this code open-source?

Unsplash Instant[0] is my favorite. It shows a new background from Unslpash for every tab.

[0] https://instant.unsplash.com/

"Lorem ipsum" on the Installation page!

It should work only for those phones which came with Avast factory installed. After you do a factory reset and turn on phone, they send an SMS to contact their server. This gives them the phone number which can then be used by the server to send remote commands to the phone.

One of my phones had McAfee pre-installed with a similar setup. If you do a factory reset and they find that it is a different phone number now, the phone locks down (You can enter a pin to unlock). You can't even access the bootloader or do another factory reset.

The gift was not by McDonald's but by the scammer!

Just out of curiosity, what did you talk about? (assuming the lunch is already over)

It takes some effort to find jobs where clients are willing to pay a premium for quality.

I've used Upwork before - if you are experienced enough, you can easily filter the client by a combination of amount spent, average hourly rate paid, prior feedback by contractors, feedback given to contractors and their estimate price (or expertise) for the project. Apply/respond only if the client matches your filter.

But as others have mentioned here, it is cut-throat competition - you have to be patient and very choosy.

You shouldn't neglect everything that doesn't seem related. These can affect the overall climate for innovation, imo.

It should give more clearence for getting into the car; and better access to the third row

Musk actually demoes it opening in a low-height garage. It has two hinges for the door that lets it open at less height.

"The Grid[0] harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to take everything you throw at it - videos, images, text, urls and more - and automatically shape them into a custom website unique to you"

Seems like a good use of AI.

[0] https://thegrid.io/

First of all, congratulations. Can you tell us more about why you chose Chennai? Does it have a good startup ecosystem?

Not the OP, but I think he means that search should be decentralized with respect to regional differences, not computing. Eg, Baidu is better positioned to give more relevant results in China

I don't think counterfeit iPhones run iOS; the people creating them wouldn't care enough to spoof the user agents.

The additional numbers would probably be because used phones are imported and sold there.

What's Paper?

Which is the company, if you don't mind?

This works, but can't beat talking in-person, at least in my case.

That said, I still don't consider going to a regular office. Should try a coworking space.

Nice article. As someone who has never worked at a normal office, I'm glad that you're finding remote work better.

I'm in my mid 20s, I do contract work and has several personal projects that I have high hopes for. But there are moments when I'm bored/stuck when I think having a coworker nearby whom you could instantly talk to would be better.