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by ashray 14y ago
I've used skype over 3G. Infact, I've used skype with video over 3G as well. However, a 4-way Skype over 3G is probably very difficult in most countries (but hey, choose Japan and South Korea and you should be able to 16-way skype on their
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by ashray 14y ago
No it's not and I would fix that given the chance. I just wish people wouldn't flag this down. Infact, it should be fixed now.
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by ashray 14y ago
I use my iPhone 4S and tether it to my laptop. Most countries do have different frequency bands but an iPhone or newer Android will work just fine. 7Mb/s down and 3Mb up would be too much to expect off 3G. Even over Wifi in many countries,
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by ashray 14y ago
Well, I would think that allowing me to fix the issue would be nicer so that everyone can actually benefit from a potentially useful/inspiring article. But hey, sorry you had to look at a popup.
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by ashray 14y ago
Author here. Really ? :( I didn't think the ads were intrusive because they're set to not run any popups. That website doesn't make any money, well, it makes like 20 cents a day but I don't think that counts.. :S I remember there was a post
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How to travel the world while freelancing as a programmer(bkpk.me)
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by ashray 14y ago
To be honest I haven't looked very deeply at the example. However, I recently started working on a backbone project and while it's definitely overkill for basic stuff, if your data visualizations and paths become more complex then it defini
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by ashray 14y ago
Been using elasticsearch for a number of projects and all I can say is that it's really great! We almost replaced it on one large project to use it as a distributed storage but didn't work out cause it couldn't handle the load. (not surpris
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by ashray 14y ago
Huh? I never said anything like that, my post simply explains the rationalizations of why an IITian might not choose to work on a startup. I think you read into something but I can't figure out what it is. All I wanted to say was that there
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by ashray 14y ago
The IITs are definitely overhyped however there is no doubt that there are some real quality minds in there. That said, there isn't a great deal of research required to understand why fresh grads in India don't do startups. It's just common
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by ashray 14y ago
Also has enough food to feed themselves. But are tripping over time and again =/
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by ashray 14y ago
This is SHAMEFUL! I'm a web developer and I want to solve this distribution problem. I've been trying to think of a business model to sustain it but have come up with nothing. Ideas ?
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by ashray 14y ago
I see how you can use this :) It's actually a pretty great idea for some scenarios so kudos on that! TBH, I still think Django is overkill for a static site, there are templating systems and frameworks that would be far lighter (flask + jin
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by ashray 14y ago
I see, that makes perfect sense! So it's an interesting thing for website development businesses. Especially the part where you allow the client to modify 'static' content. Well, in that case I can see how this tool could be really handy! T
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by ashray 14y ago
That's interesting. So basically it's for rendering pages and then pushing them on to S3/Other-static-storage and serving them from there ? I don't see any particular gains however since high traffic pages (static or otherwise..) served off
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by ashray 14y ago
I just don't see the point to this kind of stuff.. =/ For high traffic apps, Varnish is the answer as you don't hit the application layer. If you think that's too complicated, try nginx-memcached - also an excellent solution. If not that, t
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by ashray 14y ago
I think the point was that there would be some obvious differences in systems. That doesn't mean that they aren't improving their system - it just isn't at the same place as Estonia yet. Not so hard to understand - right ?
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by ashray 14y ago
Yes, but when you start something in Chile you can't expect it to be like Estonia or elsewhere. ;)
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by ashray 14y ago
I have to say that I don't really agree with the overall assessment made over here. It appears that a lot of people come to Startup Chile expecting the wrong things. Why would you come to Chile and expect: - There will be no bureaucracy (th
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by ashray 14y ago
I think it's important to note here that this is one of the main reasons that people shouldn't use cloud storage for sensitive stuff. I'm pretty sure that the feds have access to your dropbox, google drive, etc. Even if they don't, in the c
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by ashray 14y ago
Oh come on! Calling yourself a financial hacker! A real financial hacker would: a) Figure out the IP ranges that the chase hoodlums use. b) Setup an alternate banner (without the word badassity in there) to show for those IP ranges. c) Rins
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by ashray 14y ago
I understand and mostly agree with your sentiment. R&D is important. However, I do feel it's important to bring up the point of making generic drugs more accessible to the masses. Sure, cancer is a big beast, but the masses out there mu
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by ashray 14y ago
They don't do much R&D. Most of their drugs are copies of drugs that have been developed in western countries. The drugs are just reverse engineered and reproduced. This is pretty legal under Indian patent law and hence carries on, whil
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by ashray 14y ago
Haha only on hacker news. Would love to do this to end users :D
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by ashray 14y ago
Might be a good idea to take that to stackoverflow. My suggestion though would be to use that little sauce that we can't achieve programmatically yet. Human intelligence. How often do you think you're going to need this data ? How often doe
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by ashray 14y ago
I think something the author didn't really cover was upgrades. When elements are highly decoupled, it's easy to go and upgrade piece by piece. API changes can be factored in and dealt with relatively easily. (I believe this is something Ama
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by ashray 14y ago
Word. Facebook's iOS apps are really really poor. Even their performance in mobile Safari with the standard Facebook website is very bad. I really don't get why their performance on mobile safari is any different from safari on a desktop. I
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by ashray 14y ago
I'm curious as to how you make such investments though. I thought the rules were that you either need to have net worth > $5MM or a household income of over $300k/year. Those are from the SEC website and I'm not 100% sure of whether the
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by ashray 14y ago
Low five figure investments ? You seem pretty angelic to me. Us mere mortals don't have that kind of ca$h bro!
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by ashray 14y ago
You guys are so naive. The only reason Jeff doesn't want everyone to program is so that we can have the benefits we have right now. There's currently an industry shortage, it's awesome for programmers right, left and center. We get better p

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