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by ashray 14y ago
You're right. And maybe average number of hours per month is more appropriate. Or lets, say average number of hours per week. Usually the top end goes to 100 when I'm working on some new feature and am completely obsessed with it. However,
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by ashray 14y ago
I started a site 13 years ago and it is one of the largest sites in it's niche right now. Very very popular. I do work on it many hours a week (can range from 0 to 100 hours/week) but I don't really have to. I just love working on it, addin
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by ashray 14y ago
When you load up Gmail on a mobile device it does some pretty aggressive browser side caching. Works really well! But file upload is definitely an important reason to have apps. However, the article is talking about reading the news and tho
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by ashray 14y ago
I think it has more to do with the fact that affluent people from other countries don't do the gap year thing and this is why it's seen as a 'white phenomenon'. I'm brown (from India) and have been traveling full time for the past 1 year wi
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by ashray 14y ago
Well I don't really understand why everyone jumped on the 'app bandwagon' and spent millions if not billions of dollars developing said apps. If I could have a regular mobile reading experience using my browser, pray tell why I would want t
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by ashray 14y ago
Thanks! On further thinking about my question I realized that anything at the DB layer (Postgres) will probably be faster than doing it in Python because it's written in C. (re: the json load and dump part of my question..)
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by ashray 14y ago
Could you tell me the specific advantages that this may have over say, json data in a text field ? Is it faster to: - Convert an array into json and push it into a text field - Retrieve it the same way Or use this ? Also, are there any dist
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by ashray 14y ago
Question for your JS folks: How are they going to handle document.write calls in third party or even 1st party tags ? Those are blocking by nature and trying to load them up asynchronously will ruin the page. I know there are a few document
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by ashray 14y ago
Interesting, so as I understand this - it allows 'marketers' to insert javascript code into a website when they want to do something 'new'. (maybe they want to put crazyegg on there, or do something else.. ?) I see where this is trying to h
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by ashray 14y ago
Pretty interesting post. A lot of this was covered in a book I read a few months ago, one of the best 'motivational' books that I ever came across (because it's scientific) http://www.amazon.co.uk/59-Seconds-Think-little-change/dp/02...
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by ashray 14y ago
So would you say that the day rate would be the same as an 8 hour slab ? Or would you charge for only 5 hours.. or how does this work ? I'm curious on how to do a fair calculation on this because, to be honest, I do spend a lot of time (tha
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by ashray 14y ago
Just wanted to say that I use sleepyti.me a few times a week to decide my alarm time. It's really great and the only reason I use it lesser now is because I can just calculate the sleep cycles in my head (yeah programmers/math people aren't
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by ashray 14y ago
Really interesting stuff. Since you were trying to market an event did you try using Facebook ads ? I read a post on HN a few weeks ago about how Facebook ads for a garage sale event were super successful! Would love to know if you tried th
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by ashray 14y ago
Great article! I have an iPad 2 and a Macbook air 11''. I've tried using the iPad for development (I do web development, both front end and backend) and really couldn't use it. I do have an external keyboard but I believe it's just an inter
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by ashray 14y ago
It's interesting to see that Linux users ($8.92) on average donate around 40% more than everyone else ($5.36). Also, Windows users are cheaper than Mac users. This is from the average donation amounts on the page.
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Memorial fund donations for John Hunter's [python dev, RIP] 3 children(numfocus.org)
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by ashray 14y ago
What prevented you from just caching the status page and then refilling the cache manually every X seconds ? I'm sure a status that is a few seconds old given the system wide meltdown wouldn't have been an unreasonable compromise ?
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by ashray 14y ago
Something to add into the discussion here are anti piracy agencies. The ones that advertise themselves as 'we can insert bad packets into torrents so that pirating your content takes longer or becomes impossible'. Many of these outfits will
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by ashray 14y ago
Nice work! Definitely simplifies stuff. Are you thinking of integrating writecapture [1] for a document.write override option ? Might be a nifty thing to do since a lot of external scripts use that and can block access or worse, clear the D
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by ashray 14y ago
The article has to do with loading javascript asynchronously and not CSS (title is misleading..). Great article but it fails to mention something important. A lot of 3rd party scripts use document.write. What this means is that even if you
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by ashray 14y ago
I honestly believe that Grooveshark will never get love from the major record labels. They just pissed them off and the record industry likes to play hardball. I gave them a tech suggestion a few weeks ago for their mobile apps. Obviously t
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by ashray 14y ago
Yes, but youtube doesn't have an offline player feature and if it did, the videos would still be larger than Grooveshark audio.
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by ashray 14y ago
No, it's probably due to the massive number of reads/writes pumping through their system. I'm pretty sure that their database isn't able to handle what's going on at the moment. Also, if you were to use Varnish as a cache, that wouldn't hel
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by ashray 14y ago
Well, to be fair maybe they didn't have enough notice to spin up additional instances and get replication completed beforehand but I highly doubt that considering how high profile this AMA is. The US President doesn't probably drop in on pe
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by ashray 14y ago
It looks like the Obama AMA has really caused some serious fires in reddit's backend infrastructure. The site's been down for the last 10 minutes. I would've thought that they'd have brought in some additional computing power for such an ev
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by ashray 14y ago
I think Indian cities are suffering from a serious real estate bubble. The value that you get out of a property is really questionable. I'm just talking about services (electricity/water/sewage), road networks, air quality, water quality, p
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by ashray 14y ago
In all of this the funniest part is that the government/bureaucracy is so uselessly inefficient and corrupt that the very IDs they ask for are meaningless. Case in point, my driving license has my name and address incorrectly written on it.
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by ashray 14y ago
Interesting. So I can go around spamming my competitors site via email posing as if I'm looking for paid links and maybe even post them around somewhere and then have the sites page rank go down ? That logic sounds more than a bit flawed to
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by ashray 14y ago
I saw a post on HN yesterday, someone from the bay area looking for interns. So just look around :) And good luck on your new journey!
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I think he's just tired of buzzwords and took it out on the wrong title. Now, if he had a post titled "I'll bitchslap the next person who asks me to build something web 2.0". I would totally read that and upvote it to high heaven.

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