alagappanr

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by alagappanr 8y ago
Would agree with your sentiment, but Whatsapp itself is an example of a messaging service that relied on their 1$/year model and had around 200 million active users before it went free.
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Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040(money.cnn.com)
4 points by alagappanr 9y ago|2 comments
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by alagappanr 9y ago
Agree! And it's not just limited to math. I used to study for my engineering entrance exams with the Problems in General Physics book by IE Irodov. They were some of the most challenging and creative problems that I have ever solved. T
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by alagappanr 9y ago
Even with over 1000 friends on Facebook - the maximum engagement that my posts reach is probably in the range of 10 to 200 or at the max 300. One thing I have noticed is that the friends with whom you engage the most - chat, like, comments
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by alagappanr 10y ago
If you look at the Q&A, there's a question about whether the product is original Apple or not. And there are 5 answers to the question all on the same day saying the same thing. These must be fake accounts posting fake answers for
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by alagappanr 10y ago
Strangely, the small merchants in India are doing a great job when it comes to door delivery of groceries. Even over 15-20 years back, my mom used to get door delivery of the month's groceries by just making a phone call. One of the r
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Jobseekers resort to resume whitening to get a foot in the door(thestar.com)
2 points by alagappanr 10y ago|1 comments
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by alagappanr 11y ago
Why not just increase the fees for companies that are filing a lot of H1B applications? For example, they could charge 4000$ per application for the first 100 applications and then increase it to say $8000 or $10000. Companies that are taki
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by alagappanr 11y ago
The one that I bought through Elcot -- in association with the TN Govt (in 2008) had OpenSUSE installed by default.
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by alagappanr 11y ago
I think the reason for this is the same as the reason why companies do not disclose salary information of their employees.
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200 Coffees(blog.jaredfriedman.com)
3 points by alagappanr 11y ago|4 comments
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by alagappanr 11y ago
I wonder why GitHub has a separate domain githubengineering.com for this blog instead of a subdomain like engineering.github.com. I notice that there is an inactive user account called engineering. If at all an User Page is created by that
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by alagappanr 11y ago
This approach is probably in complete contrast to what Flipkart/Myntra have been doing in India. Both are widely used e-commerce websites that are going complete mobile-app only by killing even their desktop and mobile websites. Two mo
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by alagappanr 11y ago
Tweetdeck provided an easy way for me to read tweets from different lists that I had created. And then Twitter bought them and killed off their Android app. And from that point there has been no simple way to follows lists on Mobile.
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by alagappanr 12y ago
Whatsapp is the primary messaging app for many of my teenage cousins. Most have it as the default message app and is a permanent fixture on their phone home screens and rarely use SMS anymore.
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by alagappanr 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/927/ :)
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by alagappanr 12y ago
I've been using Xoom for money transfer to India. For amounts larger than 1000$, there is no fee.
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by alagappanr 12y ago
The irony is that the emails from Stellar have been marked as spam. PS: I use live.com
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by alagappanr 12y ago
But then when you casually want to have a look at your news feed, it not really feasible to go back and follow your friends. This, CSS trick is a simple hide/show functionality that allows you to go back to the news feed when you feel
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by alagappanr 13y ago
Only the web version is ad-free. The iOS version has ads. Its longevity I believe will be greater compared to the Threes game. What makes you think otherwise - that Threes will stay on the top for longer than 2048?
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Ask HN: Where can I find datasets of size greater than 1 GB?
13 points by alagappanr 13y ago|9 comments
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DDoS Attack against StackExchange(twitter.com)
1 points by alagappanr 13y ago|0 comments
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by alagappanr 13y ago
IMO Wordpress has grown to include something for everybody. It irks me a bit when people say it is feature heavy for simple blogging. You write a blog post and publish it to the web. Yes, you can do just that and ignore the other features.
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by alagappanr 13y ago
Though I'd love to see the day come, it really hasn't dawned on us yet. This ranking is based on a small subset of data viz. codeeval submissions, so hardly conclusive.
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by alagappanr 13y ago
However the fact that large companies are usually averse anything new would make that difficult.
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by alagappanr 13y ago
We would need a significant number of seeders in order for this to become a successfully used product. Perhaps, universities can seed data?
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by alagappanr 13y ago
It is interesting to see that the gaming circle has decreased considerably in size over the years from 1984 to 2013 and has almost disappeared now. What could be probable reasons for the same? I'm referring to the 'What they did w
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by alagappanr 13y ago
Apple iPhone 5 touchscreen is as fast as Android. Meh.
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Networking - Good vs Evil(thoughtcatalog.com)
1 points by alagappanr 13y ago|0 comments
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by alagappanr 13y ago
New Year's Day would still be Day 1.

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