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You are right. Google has completely fractured message on Android. You have to install 10 different messengers to be able to talk to different factions of people. Also since they want to push Google Hangouts' online feature their messaging app is quite confusing.

I stick to Anroid for innovations like LastPass's 'fill into applications', link browser, Pocket, etc. They are so tightly integrated with Android that it is very pleasurable to use.

Looks like you are under threat to use ad-supported apps. Guess what you can't exercise a choice and then blame people.

It takes a lot of efforts to become and Android developer and create content in general. You should respect that.

Downvoting should cost downvoter too.

Being a Linux user and Evernote's strong desire to not even support Evernote for Chrome on Linux has been one of the main points against use Evernote.

I have wanted a true Evernote competitor for so long. SpringPad going down was a bad news.

I am glad there are open source solutions that can be used at least for basic functionalities.

Anyone who has a Gmail or Facebook account automatically has one. I really like Google+ sign-in on Android.

Education is an active pursuit. You can't learn until you know what problems one is looking to solve. Colleges have made education a passive process. You go to classes. You do your homework and you take exams. It doesn't work like that.

This has been a consistent topic on HN. I wonder if folks who suffer from anxiety have tried meditation as a cure. I highly recommend some stuff from www.osho.com .

I haven't made up my mind if tracking is altogether bad. I certainly enjoy Google showing me relevant ads in a non-malware-appearance. Privacy is good in theory but out of convenience I keep using services that compromise my private information and I myself willingly leave personal information online on several websites. Anything is as strong as your weakest link. And their are too many weak links in my online circle.

Yep, it is super expensive. I wonder why didn't they go route of free personal access and paid organization plans.

Are there ways to get full articles of HN posts[1] through RSS?

[1]news.ycombinator.com/rss

The biggest worry for me is to stay distraction free and focused for 6-8 hours. Anyone claiming to be working 10-12 hours are just killing time.

KDE is an enormously big project. There is only one theme Oxygen that is feature full. It is a humongous task to make every element of it beautiful and it won't happen without your help.

Good to hear that as a KDE user.

More than anything I would like to use open protocol for chatting. Personal communication is a mess. I currently have Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber and Whatsapp on my phone. General folks use whatever is popular and XMPP is not really a choice. Moreover I looked into Jabber and the account sign-up page's certificate has expired and account sign-up has been inactive for close to a year. It is hard to establish trust over such a network.

Anything is nice as a concept. In real world you have to make compromises. When the ball goes to proprietary-chip-maker's court you don't get to play with your rules.

It would be interesting to see if some folks are going to switch from KDE to LXQt.

    “Vote brigading," as mass downvoting is called,
     is a pernicious way to undermine a subreddit, as
     Reddit’s algorithm effectively counts 1 downvote
     as much as 10 upvotes.

Downvoting can be a dangerous weapon if one who exercises it has nothing to lose. The most annoying aspect of it is that folks who downvote do take time to read the comment but not let the user know why he or she is being downvoted.

If someone were looking into freelancer/indie-developer/consulting work in India, where do you think one might find such culture in India. Where do these folks hang out online?

How is work-from-home scenario in India? Are there Indian companies that make you do interesting work and allow you to work from home? Or do you work for western companies? Or is it more like freelancing? If yes, how is freelancing working for you in India.

Thanks for the info.

That is certainly better experience than using vanilla HN. Thanks.

Don't you get myriad of posts with those the official feeds [1] [2]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/systems/.rss

What's your client?

That's a slick RSS reader. I have previously used The Old Reader for its simplicity. I am currently using Feedly as it has good Android support and are doing good job with Evernote integration. Thanks for suggesting the RSS reader and the age RSS app.

RSS is a very good nice technology from users point of view. One place to get all your news but it's a shame that companies like want to move away from open protocols like RSS and XMPP.

I have so far not been able to solve the problem of reading Hacker's News and Reddit. The easiest way to read these news aggregation sites have been to visit their front page. I couldn't find anything that would send posts that come on the front page of HN and Reddit in my RSS inbox.

As someone who has recently learned programming and is unaware of history of programming languages, all this PHP hate leaves me whimsical.

You are right. Device integration is tricky as hardware manufacturers don't play well with standards. And those hardware manufacturers that are ahead of curve are out of reach of general consumers.

There are several apps in the market that do what I want a logger to do but they tend to present the data in a form which is not very effective in motivating me and reminding me the purpose. For example, There are a lot of app that one can use for tracking activities but Moves take the whole paradigm of activity tracking to the next level.

What would you like to see in a weight logging Android application?

I hear not all libraries are supported. developer.android.com and almost all tutorials/courses recommend using JDK 6.

Not to mention debacle it creates on your system. Android requires/plays-well with JDK 6 and you probably want to be running the latest version of Java for security purposes. Maintaining multiple JDKs have been nothing but troubling for me.

Anonymity on Internet is a myth.