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I finally completed my self published beginner Android programming book earlier this year. I took a break and now I'm working on updating it to add more Kotlin examples. I wrote the book in markdown and used Pandoc to convert it to print ready PDF.

https://a.co/d/blzUk62

The Google Podcasts app works for me. It has a minimalist feel to it.

For those who are interested in leather goods https://www.youtube.com/@Corter

This sounds like the premise for a good zombie movie.

In fact West African countries have a centuries old method of making soap from locally available material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_black_soap

I had to do view page source to see the HTML code. Very nicely written.

Can someone explain how Amazon is able to use the Elasticsearch name when it is owned by Elasticsearch BV?

SCRUM is toxic. It is toxic because it dis-empowers the developers who are doing the actual work and hands that power over to the "SCRUM master". The SCRUM master is the ultimate bureaucrat -- and a proxy for Management -- in a heavily bureaucratic methodology. The job of the SCRUM master is to guard and protect the SCRUM process. Often to the detriment of the developers and ultimately the project.

Well in their defense, we don't want to pay for newspapers and so you can argue that this is the result of a lack of resources.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood - Theodore Roosevelt

Wow. Heads will surely roll once this reaches Satya's desk.

iRoku TV seems to have been successful in becoming the Netflix of Africa

> There might be some good doctors in Cuba but you bet your ass that only Castro and his goons have access to them.

A minor correction, neither the late Fidel Castro nor Raul Castro are currently the leaders of Cuba. Cuba is currently led by Miguel Diaz-Canel.

I thought that inside info was non-public material info and so air-traffic data is not non-public per-se and so it's fair game. No?

Reading to your kids in not good for them? Can you please elaborate?

Can someone explain the link of the lowered life expectancy to flu and pneumonia? I thought that these were deceases that were only fatal for people with compromised immunity.

We as the collective tech community brought this onto ourselves. We did not self regulate ourselves. We did not take out customer's privacy serious enough. Therefore, big government stepped in and regulated us.

I believe Adobe's CMS, Adobe Experience Manager, supports WebDAV.

I presume that expectation was that the human driver was suppose to be fully engaged to take evasive actions if and when required. What jumps up at me if that fact that the system does not alert the driver when his/her intervention is required.

Yep. On a human level, I really hope the PM is okay. Maybe open source communities can setup a way for core team members to check in on each other on personal level.

Does it allow you to reject the 'lunch date'?

Alerting is fine. Altering the page is not.

I don't think that browser should be in the business of blocking Ads. That's the job of 3rd party tools and extensions. A browsers job is to display a webpage as is not to alter it. At most it should scream if a man in the middle altered my page anything more is crossing the line.

There's a long standing tradition on Hacker News to put up the black bar when a Computer Science/Engineering/Tech pioneer passes away.

East Africa, maybe Kenya.

I just wanted to add a few more African civilizations, namely: Great Zimbabwe[0], Axum[1], Asante Kingdom [2] Swahili Kingdoms[3] etc.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axum

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti_Empire

[3]http://richard-hooker.com/sites/worldcultures/CIVAFRCA/SWAHI...

Botswana has/had a "shot to kill" policy aimed at poachers https://mg.co.za/article/2016-03-16-botswanas-shoot-to-kill-...

Developers, developers, developers. I would open up the apps store and the API -- embrace developers once again. The media companies trajectory that they're currently on seems like that which Yahoo was on, and it did help Yahoo much.

Can someone with more expertise shed mpre light on this? What does he mean? What kind of things are they hiding in the Git commit. If git is opensource then how can they hide anything?

> Git has opaque data in some places (we hide things in commit objects intentionally...

I think he's being a little bit to hard on Slack. He was really stretching a free trial offer beyond its limit. If he was a paying customer then I might have cut him some slack.