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by ashray 14y ago
I think you might have come off as more credible had you said that 'Growth Hacker' is a BS title. That is just a title and anyone can really have that. I have a site with 25 million page views per month, I've been running it for years all b
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by ashray 14y ago
Meta classes are pretty interesting creatures and they allow you to generate custom classes at runtime which can be quite useful. I didn't mean that you'd get to them in 30 days but if you really like Python and eventually come around to de
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by ashray 14y ago
I can't wait to see the part where you get to meta classes. That's when the real fun shall begin :D Still, an inspiring series for python beginners. Keep it up!
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by ashray 14y ago
Yes I realize that my dumbass friends are posting all these meme's and pictures. But what I want facebook to do is show me their status updates and other meaningful things other than the "Don't worry be happy" meme that shows up on my feed.
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by ashray 14y ago
I think myspace got pretty annoying towards the end with the shitty design and overdone widgets on every page. Facebook was a pretty clean and usable alternative. Personally I couldn't stand myspace pages right around when facebook came in.
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by ashray 14y ago
The only way Google+ will dominate facebook is when facebook will do something to really piss off it's users. Some of this is already happening (I get tons of meme's and cat photos on my feed as opposed to status updates from my friends..).
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by ashray 14y ago
Fast and lightweight, yes. But vanilla-js is certainly not cross platform ;) You see, that's actually one of the biggest problems with JS and one of the main reasons why people use things like jQuery (apart from the pretty API..). That cros
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by ashray 14y ago
HTML5 is a working draft spec. It hasn't been finalised yet. This isn't usually important for most of us but companies that like calling themselves ISO900X etc etc. don't usually want to work with draft specs. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
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Some companies policies require validation and they require specs that are nailed down. In those cases you'd end up using HTML <5 and that won't validate with data-x.
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It should work fine with HTML5 :) Just that HTML5 is not actually a proper spec yet..
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CSS/JS - Make sure you load these externally so that the browser can actually cache them. CDNs - Make sure you add a Cache Control (max-age) header to your CDN sync. This doesn't happen automatically through most syncing mechanisms. Helps y
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by ashray 14y ago
Well my response wasn't really a blog post about why I want the UID system. It was simply an example of where it might be useful. I don't see how that's a bait and switch, it seems like you're more concerned about what I didn't say than wha
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How exactly are getting public healthcare, education, or crossing borders servable by the private sector ? Replacing multiple authentication vectors (voters ID, driving license, etc.) by a single acceptable ID is certainly a step towards si
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by ashray 14y ago
I suppose it depends on the experience. Time does fly by when you're having fun but I suppose it has to do with the richness of experience as well. If you're subjecting all your senses to new experiences (say.. eating a new dish in a strang
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How travel makes time slow down(bkpk.me)
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by ashray 14y ago
I think you missed a point there. Maybe your perspective is one of having a fixed residence for all of your life. Unfortunately, my life didn't progress that way and every time I move to a new place I have to go through the same rigmarole a
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by ashray 14y ago
I had come across this concept about a year and a half ago. Read some article about how our brain works to store new experiences and therefore time slows down. That's around the time that I left my full time job to travel full time! I even
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by ashray 14y ago
I think our HN conspiracy theorists have missed the point by a bit. Lets just put it this way, India still has a ton of illiterate people. The only way that they can usually sign documents/enter into contracts is by placing their (inked) fi
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by ashray 14y ago
You're right. But the fact that jQuery has a much simpler API than using just javascript makes it easier for programmers to use it. It's a library and that's what libraries are for, it takes care of notorious cross browser compatibility iss
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by ashray 14y ago
Hey man congrats to you and your team! It's great to see some people from DCE doing cool things in New Delhi! Loving your success story! Good luck!
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For some reason looking at photos on a screen is just not the same as looking at a printed picture. There's something organic about looking at printed pictures that takes you away. I remember how much fun it was to look at photographs (
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by ashray 14y ago
AFAIK almost every bank in India has now been ordered by the government to use 2 factor authentication. What's more, a specific bank I use has also included an interesting approach against phishing attacks. You are basically assigned an acc
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by ashray 14y ago
You just need to google for 'psx isos' or 'n64 ROMs' or 'ps2 isos'. For info on emulation - Zophar.net is probably the best option.
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I'm curious to know then what your take on coffee script is ?
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The histories actually get merged in when you do a merge between branches. However, it's possible to squash your commits before doing a merge to achieve this effect.
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I see. So you do have a database (it's the YAML file) but I see how you're talking about keeping costs and maintenance on the lower side. Nice! So I guess the only thing you're worried about is if google algorithms change. Still, that won't
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by ashray 14y ago
That's interesting but definitely not a global use case. Most apps will require some sort of bug fixes and security updates. Even the linux kernel requires security updates and I do think that's some tight code right there =) Not every app
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by ashray 14y ago
Passive income is pretty great but no source of income is truly passive. You'll always have certain issues like maintenance, customer support, etc. i.e. when you're talking about software. If it were a website/webapp you'd still run into is
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Travel the world while freelancing as a programmer(bkpk.me)
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I usually travel on tourist visas but it's easy enough to apply for visas up to 90 days in each country. Most of these visas are extendible for the same duration exactly once. Of-course it varies from country to country. But 90 days gives m

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