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by arihant 11y ago
It's not quiet the same, people were going from theater towards home video. In India, people are going mobile-first. So in effect, it's reversed. The problem with mobile-first is that it doesn't show that people have moved on
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by arihant 11y ago
I think they are overvaluing brand loyalty here. I don't even understand people who can shop using mobile apps, especially clothes. You cannot easily compare, read reviews, get a gist of product or compare with other websites before bu
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Meerkat API(meerkatapp.co)
2 points by arihant 11y ago|0 comments
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by arihant 11y ago
That has nothing to do with open source. Winamp is not actively developed, but I can still use it as long as I have the binary. So by your definition, is Winamp dead or alive? The point is - a software is considered dead when there is nobod
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by arihant 11y ago
What you fail to analyze is why MS got that way. They got there because they dropped the ball on IE post XP. When MS stretched violently with IE 6 back then, they changed the web landscape forever, they were light years ahead of competition
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by arihant 11y ago
I don't know why comments here think it is Metro IE repackaged. It doesn't look anything like it (it looks more like Chrome than Metro IE), doesn't have the same rendering engine, supports crazy amount of new functionality: 1
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by arihant 11y ago
The message they posted a day before this settlement - http://grooveshark.com/ I'm confused, didn't Grooveshark just provided aggregation and a streaming player with playlist management? The music was not hosted b
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by arihant 11y ago
Here is my feedback: 1. The main section of your CV is filled with things that are either not that impressive compared to other things you have done or are hard to judge on. "4x speedup on Docker," how many machines? What infrastr
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by arihant 11y ago
Hard to see problem with this behavior. It is the same reason we don't ride horses to work anymore - better stuff available. We didn't read at all, then we read leaves, then we read scrolls, then we read books, now we read the int
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by arihant 11y ago
Another Indian e-commerce site Tradus did this last year, and they failed so badly they went back to stealth mode. Having said that, Flipkart might be just big enough to actually pull this off. I must note that it is highly irritating. They
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by arihant 12y ago
I feel stupid. I never even thought of it as a bookmarking tool. When I have to bookmark, I just bookmark the repo page in the browser. I never thought of GitHub stars as anything more than a "Kudos, Good job" tool.
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by arihant 12y ago
Couchbase (then CouchOne) seems to be doing pretty well. SendGrid, Buffer, Storenvy, are others that come to mind. I think that there are more founders that were rejected by YC that became successful, not startups.
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by arihant 12y ago
Sidenote: This page has unbearable amounts of JS. It is unscrollable on latest generation Chromebook, a device explicitly built to browse the Web. There is a limit to how much JS one should use; if your website requires a pro gaming machine
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Zoho's Inbox Insight(zoho.com)
1 points by arihant 12y ago|0 comments
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by arihant 12y ago
I am not sure I agree. How would they quantify and publish their instincts? "We've got 43% hunch that you will wet your pants in first 10 board meetings." I don't think so. It is too complicated for the numbers to be dis
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by arihant 12y ago
Finding a mentor for getting better at code is probably not the best way. The best way is to build, break, build again. Great programmers are masters of detail, you only get to detail with daunting experience in things that won't work.
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by arihant 12y ago
From what I tried, it seems to be working on templates, similar to Eliza. However, in some templates it grabs data from Wolfram Alpha. Very hard to find a non-canned response not coming straight from Alpha. Still, a good project and obvious
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by arihant 12y ago
As I said before, we already have plans that give access to basic websites for $0.5 a month. Facebook-only access is like $0.1 a month. But with these plans, I can still access the rest of the web if I choose to, I just have to pay. $0.5 is
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by arihant 12y ago
That quarter and a half billion cannot afford a smartphone yet. So mobile data scheme for apps is not a conversation about them. It is peanuts for people who can afford a smartphone.
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by arihant 12y ago
It's not a scheme for people struggling for food. Airtel Zero is only for companies offering Android and iPhone apps. If a person can afford a $120 phone at minimum, they can pay $3 a month. The "poor" is a marketing stunt he
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by arihant 12y ago
Okay, this has nothing to do with supporting the poor as the comments here are suggesting, and as Airtel is trying to paint it. Poor can avail month-long 1GB data at $3 in India. All major providers have a plan that makes Facebook, Whatzapp
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by arihant 12y ago
A big reason that comes to mind is easy, cheap availability of people to install, debug, and customize an Apache setup. Also, availability of one-click install setups from major hosting providers. The ecosystem for "mere mortals"
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by arihant 12y ago
ReadMe is the one that looks very promising. But somewhere on HN, someone from your team commented that internal use is frowned upon and the system gets more and more naggy if used internal only. Is that still true? If yes, does that stop a
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Duolingo adds Klingon to its language-learning platform(thenextweb.com)
2 points by arihant 12y ago|0 comments
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Pixl8r: Relive the '90s digital camera(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by arihant 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do you use for internal API docs?
5 points by arihant 12y ago|5 comments
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Gyroscope Wants to Help You Track Everything About Yourself(techcrunch.com)
2 points by arihant 12y ago|0 comments
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Introduction to Typescript(edx.org)
4 points by arihant 12y ago|0 comments
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by arihant 12y ago
Like anything else, figure out why you're reading a paper, what are your goals? If you're reading for expanding your knowledge in a field, then a good area to start is by reading well known dissemination in the field in past decad
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by arihant 12y ago
While there are great options mentioned here, I would actually be suggesting that you stick to a very good systems book. A standing knowledge of lower level systems and instruction code will give great depth to your debugging skills. Nothin

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