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Ask HN: Why don't personal chatting apps have a disable option?

Posted by divkakwani on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:46AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have used many apps (telegram, whatsapp, hangouts) and have found that none of them provide any disabling feature, where one can disable the app for a certain time period to avoid any distractions and even addictions. Ideally, anyone contacting that person during this period should be notified that the user has disabled chatting temporarily.This is a very useful feature from the point of view...

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Re:Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:16PM (#23156577)
"How Not to Die" by Michael Greger describes how a good plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse various common diseases
Re:Show HN: Kareer Day – Learn About Jobs by People Who've Done Them on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @02:00PM (#21874149)
That's a great resource for high schoolers who are trying to find a career path. I have also seen something similar to this at Khanacademy - their "meet the professional" series and also some video interviews on different careers [1].

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/college-careers-more/career-cont...

Re:Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? on Monday December 16, 2019 @08:46AM (#21802924)
Some of the books I plan to read are:

* The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

* Complications by Atul Gawande

* The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel

Re:Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs? on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:56PM (#12263204)
Have a look at Facebook's Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api
Re:MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015) on Saturday July 02, 2016 @03:50AM (#12021798)
For those who want an advanced course on algorithms, here is one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogFv-ieghdoGKGg2Bik... This is an MIT course. It doesn't appear at ocw though.
Re:When Haskell is Faster than C (2013) on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:23AM (#11860375)
What tools did the OP use for profiling his C and Haskell code?
Re:Enough with the Programming Puzzles on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:19AM (#11845328)
I think a candidate needs to have both algorithmic and software design skills. Companies put a lot of emphasis on the former skill, ignoring the latter, which imo should equally be tested.
Re:Async and Await on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:26PM (#11823826)
Check out the book You Don't Know JS (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async...) for more details on Promises and, in general, on asynchronous programming.
Re:500 Lines or Less on Sunday May 29, 2016 @10:55PM (#11799303)
This is 500L indeed. Don't know why the cover says POSA.
Re:500 Lines or Less on Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:06PM (#11797106)
Here is a link to the pdf: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29696071/500L.pdf
Re:2016 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Scoreboard on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:15PM (#11731296)
I have always found a lack of books on advanced things that I've encountered in competitive programming like Fenwick trees, link-cut trees, rmq etc. Can anybody recommend book(s) that contain these things?
Re:2016 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Scoreboard on Thursday May 19, 2016 @12:05PM (#11731212)
The course is an introductory course, suitable only for beginners. Do you know any good resource for intermediate-level programmers?
Re:Ask HN: What's the best minimal CSS framework? on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:53PM (#11043192)
Check out pure.css at purecss.io. It is lightweight(4 kb) and covers a number of common ui components.
Re:Ask HN: What is your editor/terminal font and color scheme? on Sunday November 22, 2015 @07:20AM (#10609863)
Color Scheme - jellybeans; Font - Hack with vim
Re:Ask HN: Where can I deliberately practice math online? on Saturday October 24, 2015 @03:40PM (#10444609)
Check out Project Euler(https://projecteuler.net/) if you want to solve mathematical puzzles.