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Ask HN: In a post Sparrow world - how to manage multiple GMail accounts on Mac?
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by ashray 13y ago
I just wrote a script to do the follow/unfollow thing myself. When tweetadder removed their auto follow/unfollow system due to pressure from twitter - there weren't any other options left in the market. So, I ended up doing e
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Not only that but facebook may block your account at a whim. Happened to me once for posting 'explicit pictures'. The picture was not even explicit, apparently something tripped their automatic 'skin detection system'. B
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by ashray 13y ago
I have to say here that I've been impressed with both the price and performance of Cloudfiles. I was using S3+Cloudfront for a long time and with cloudfiles my bills pretty much HALVED. What made the difference ? GET request pricing. A
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Simple hack to save upto 70% on Kindle books (region-switcharoo)(bkpk.me)
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by ashray 13y ago
Not only that. Imagine Super Mario with just touchscreen controls. It would be a disaster. That would hurt them too! Nintendo makes gaming hardware and software. Apple makes multipurpose hardware and software. These two worlds are meeting r
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by ashray 13y ago
The problem with this whole premise is that iOS i.e. the iPhone/iPad are assumed to be great platforms for gaming. Maybe this will change with the new gamepad options in iOS 7 but iOS devices so far have not been really good for gaming
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by ashray 13y ago
I feel like I should share a story here. The fight against spam is becoming a serious problem for legitimate businesses. I've suffered from the same malware issue earlier. Since we use ad networks for advertising it works as follows. 1
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by ashray 13y ago
There's an infinite performance gain for browsers that have javascript turned off or use noscript. Other than that, I'd say that doing this kind of stuff in CSS would by default be much faster in a web page context.
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I have to agree. I spent two days in Berlin this week and went to the Holocaust memorial, etc. I was impressed with the way these things are talked about with such openness - to make sure that this stuff never happens again. Also, I've
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by ashray 13y ago
That's a good point but don't assume that the CIA/US-govt is above bribing or even threatening/blackmailing agencies in foreign countries. They do this all the time!
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by ashray 13y ago
Are you czech by any chance ? I think it's a great place and completely understand why your people would be against government surveillance. The days of asking random people for IDs just to make sure they aren't spies still aren&#
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by ashray 13y ago
This is a really interesting problem that needs to be solved. We need some sort of P2P secure protocol to exchange keys between people. Bypassing all sorts of stuff and connecting directly and sharing over an encrypted channel. This sounds
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I find the idea really interesting. And the portuguese startup called crowdprocess seems to be down with this stuff. I just think that charity would be a great angle to it. How about you donate your CPU cycles for charity ? Companies that n
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I find it interesting that the entire debate has shifted from US surveillance to be about what is happening to Snowden and whether he is/isn't a traitor and now even about Ecuador and how they do/don't protect their citi
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by ashray 13y ago
Since this is HN, I'd like to draw a parallel. Six gruelling hours of complex programming. I think you can now appreciate the level of concentration that the exam requires because no question is easy. (well, to be fair, maybe 2-3% are.
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by ashray 13y ago
That's the right choice - work harder or work smarter ? It's true that getting into a top school like the IIT will open some doors, but that's really important if you don't know about the doors you want to open and head
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That's possibly because of a few advantages that US companies had due to quicker exposure to leading edge technology. However, when privacy becomes a unique selling point that US corporations can no longer provide - suddenly the compet
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Congrats! That sounds like a great compensation package. I'm just trying to understand though how does tax effect the overall amount that you eventually earn ? Does it come down by 35% or 40% or does it depend on when you decide to cash out
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by ashray 13y ago
Files are pretty straightforward, especially in a possibly low volume - startup that cannot afford a dedicated sysadmin stage, not going to address that here. Simple database backup would be to replicate to a slave (just addressing mysql he
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You're right and the cosmos has just proved it. I just went in to check my backups and found some that hadn't been running since Nov. 19th 2012. Well, lesson learnt :) - gotta test those backups!
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by ashray 13y ago
You're right, I seem to have gotten lucky with my unmanaged hosting (3 times over with different hosts). They seem to have some sort of hardware interface to monitor RAID health, of course, this is hardware RAID so maybe that's where the se
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The author said that the primary hard disk failed and the host had told him there was a backup hard disk that hummed along for a year. I cannot imagine any other practical situation in which a 'backup hard disk' would automatically kick in
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The most basic backup would be to have a remote backup of your files and databases. That's a simple shell script and cron job combination. I can understand that one may not get around to setting it up (I had a massive project and only start
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I don't understand, you had a backup HD - that means you had a RAID setup. Why didn't your host replace the damaged hard disk ? In my experience hosts usually monitor RAID health on their servers and if there is a problem they replace the b
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I think this is absolutely awesome! Congratulations to all the startups who are pulling this off! I do however think that when startups have proven themselves, and have a steady cash flow, but want to race to the top, VC funding may be the
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by ashray 14y ago
You know what I love about jQuery ? It's readable. Every time I have to look at plain ol' javascript it feels like my eyes are going to bleed. Regardless of whether I wrote it myself or whether another developer wrote it. On the other hand,
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The middle class in India is growing quite fast. I can't imagine a programmer behaving this way, so I'll say no. The example in the article is very indicative of behavior in and around New Delhi however, it'd be hard to find that kind of be
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by ashray 14y ago
Thanks for posting this since a lot of people have been asking for numbers and it was late last night and I couldn't really dig up sources for all the info I posted. You're absolutely right about the huge gap that exists between people tryi
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by ashray 14y ago
You're 100% correct. However, the poor in India are truly trapped, almost like slaves to their own poverty ( http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/08/generat... ). By comparison those who have acquired sufficient wealth are free

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