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by SriniK 16y ago
amazing Jedi mind tricks for twitter is, they figured out how the influentials matter the most for their platform. They collaborated with actors/musicians initially to take it off. dailybooth is trying similar tricks
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by SriniK 16y ago
Really like Airbnb hack for hotel system. I haven't used the service but following comment from the article makes sense. Does Airbnb have any process or protection to avoid this? There's always the danger that something bad will happen to
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by SriniK 16y ago
Deja vu all over again. Most of them said same thing about facebook twitter and linkedin. Look where they are now. Agreed foursquare/gowalla need to provide real value for checkins. I can only sympathize with entrepreneurs on 'what if googl
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by SriniK 16y ago
I think having a byte code standard is totally possible. Webkit js engine Nitro/Squirrelfish already has bytecode. Spec is here http://webkit.org/specs/squirrelfish-bytecode.html Nitro follows lot of luajit methods and techniques some are
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Imeem Founders Raise $5M From Andreessen Horowitz For Social Photo App Picplz(techcrunch.com)
8 points by SriniK 16y ago|1 comments
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SEO for Bing Versus Google(sixrevisions.com)
2 points by SriniK 16y ago|0 comments
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by SriniK 16y ago
Yup. Right on - +5 I am not familiar with windows password scheme but it would be crazy if windows just relied on the hash. Few *nix machines that I deal with have 128 bit salt + password. Even wifi-wpa, blackberry and iphones are doing pas
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After A Five Month Stay, AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui Leaves Google(techcrunch.com)
3 points by SriniK 16y ago|0 comments
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China's supercomputer details - Is China a supercomputer threat?(news.cnet.com)
3 points by SriniK 16y ago|0 comments
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by SriniK 16y ago
Nice to see trends. It would have been better if they had more numbers like gross per city or total number of users. Its funny Fremont tops the list "Highest Spending Cities in the U.S" I can only think that there are more users from Fremon
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by SriniK 16y ago
I used to work in a braille lab during my masters. Braille lab would generate braille books and reading material depending on blind students' request. For regular text, we used to do a simple text conversion and print it using a special pri
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China claims supercomputer crown(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by SriniK 16y ago|0 comments
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by SriniK 16y ago
django + appengine is something I am suspecting. Personally, I had good luck with sticking with tornado + appengine. Tornado is pretty raw and atleast keeps an option to port the code over if I have to. Datastore and dns are still suckers i
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by SriniK 16y ago
Just wanted to mention... (e.g., A4 in a MacBook Air). incorrect. Intel Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz processor in a MacBook Air http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Air-11-Inch-Model-A13... I guess author wanted to mention iPad
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by SriniK 16y ago
Yup. Also it's not solving the problem of app developers sharing the UID's intentionally. After the decryption at app's server side, they can share uid as usual. I am not sure if fb has rules for not pushing uid's with 3rd party services -
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by SriniK 16y ago
Right on grellas. Every other company does this and there is a corporate tax industry around these loop holes. Apple operates Braeburn Capital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital Microsoft is known for borrowing its own money fr
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by SriniK 16y ago
Good point. I give access to my secondary bank. This avoids extra charges when I pay to a friend.
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by SriniK 16y ago
It's weird. No offense but BART janitor makes 80K. Someone I know is a chemical research scientist, with advanced degree is making 70K. Now we are talking about cutting education budget, some schools are loosing non mainstream course work a
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by SriniK 16y ago
Just use a different browser for the new account that you created. So many users reported the problem. Incognito mode is not the one you should test with.
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by SriniK 16y ago
Ping confirmed that you are using google appengine. >ping www.wattvision.com PING ghs.l.google.com (74.125.113.121) 56(84) bytes of data. When you use federated login, google appengine is behaving as if request came from the same googl
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by SriniK 16y ago
same here.. Are you using appengine? There is a recommended way to get the login implemented from appengine. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/users/overview.... I am not sure if you wanna do federated login on appengine.
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Ask HN: Anyone has a ticket and not going to Startup School 2010?
2 points by SriniK 16y ago|0 comments
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I like the trademark law suggestion. It would be nice balance for everyone.
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by SriniK 16y ago
Nice find - thanks. Someone mentioned this kinda stuff being inspired rather than copied :)
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That sounds like a lot of risk from the investors' point of view. I know these companies are awesome and good but should we be worried about god knows who is doing what trade. If these are not bound by rules, it is so easy to rig the stock
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by SriniK 16y ago
I have a fundamental question. How are these companies allowed to trade off the market? As whole point of free/open market(stock market) is to have companies follow the regulations and guidelines protected by someone like SEC. Are these pro
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Hey Apple, See If There's An App for This(gizmodo.com)
3 points by SriniK 16y ago|3 comments
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by SriniK 16y ago
@cdixon tweeted this which summarizes "When I see how inaccurate NYTimes is re computer security, it makes me worry about inaccuracies I miss in topics I don't know about." Seriously, nyt needs new reporters who can understand and see te
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by SriniK 16y ago
I think they mongodb guys are correct - it is an issue with app architecture and app monitoring failure.
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by SriniK 16y ago
In general you want to have memcached implemented for stuff like this. Have most used stuff closer/faster with memcached. I don't understand why they are running the whole nosql db on those monster machines - it just defeats the purpose. An

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