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by ashray 14y ago
Uhh.. India buys so many tanks, aircrafts, etc. because politicians here take a healthy cut on those deals. There's no strategy involved, it's pure business. Also, pointing at Pakistan as the enemy works because of long term cultural issues
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by ashray 14y ago
I'm taking a hit on the exchange rate hoping for a future appreciation of bitcoin value. Basically, I wanted to speculate in bitcoins in a productive way. This was the best experiment I could think of in the short term. Also, the dollar &#6
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by ashray 14y ago
Just want to say that I've been really excited about bitcoins and I wanted to start an experimental bitcoin business. The process was pretty straightforward: - Think of a name and idea (I thought amazonbitcoins going down was a shame so dec
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Show HN: Bitcoin site I started in under 1 hour - Really Rapid prototyping(bitcoinsaresexy.com)
3 points by ashray 14y ago|3 comments
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by ashray 14y ago
There's an interesting spike in bitcoin value everyday when Europe wakes up. This does look like a bubble but at the end of the day, as long as the rest of the world currencies keep people nervous, bitcoin will gain wider adoption.
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by ashray 14y ago
I hope they figure this out soon. This is the kind of thing that scares me and the primary reason that I decided against speculating in bitcoins. For someone like me who can't really afford to lose a lot of money, I need to trade in histori
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by ashray 14y ago
Try csf. Works like a charm for me.
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by ashray 14y ago
The only use case I could think of was those ATM Pins that you receive which always say "destroy this letter after you memorize your pin". So you could email a pin/some sort of sensitive info and have some level of safety. Obviously the per
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by ashray 14y ago
People going to jail for copyright infringement, which should really be a civil offense at best is pretty heinous in my books. It's not apartheid but I find it (the punishment) really odd that it's acceptable in today's world.
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by ashray 14y ago
Not a windows user here but I remember that you can do something like this using Task Manager. Just right click on the process and see if you can set the CPU affinity or something similar for your browser.
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by ashray 14y ago
I think that more than hacker news, y combinator has funded reddit which has more far reaching effects and contributions. Also, wasn't HN created for y combinator people to discuss stuff ? As I see it, HN is an investment by YC because time
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by ashray 14y ago
People actually emulate a ton of games not available on virtual console. In fact, emulation is a pretty popular way for people to play fan translations of games that were never released in english (tales of phantasia, radical dreamers, etc.
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by ashray 14y ago
I don't know how much she had to do with it, but the new flickr iPhone app really got me excited. It was a combination of being tired of looking at n00b pictures on instagram and finally being able to explore flickr properly on the iphone.
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by ashray 14y ago
Whoops! Added in my email address :) Cool site btw, IRC still has some pretty weird stuff going around :P
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by ashray 14y ago
If it's a forum style thing then discussion systems with a high number of pageviews per unique visitor (vbulletin/reddit/etc) will generally have very poor advertising revenue. Maybe you need to look at a different model though ? Sort of li
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by ashray 14y ago
You're right, and the problem here is a naive understanding of advertising as a business model rather than it not being a good business model. I happened to go the opposite way. My first major project was an online advertising success. I na
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by ashray 14y ago
This post has a very naive understanding of online advertising. Here's a breakdown: - If you're thinking of advertising in terms of just slapping on some Google Adsense then you need high amounts (millions of users per month) of traffic to
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by ashray 14y ago
I think this is best evidenced by my joy at payday. When I started out my website (about 13 years ago..), the first $25 payment really thrilled me! Eventually, I had bigger milestones. When I got to $100/month that was awesome! Then, we got
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by ashray 14y ago
It's a bit of a design issue but you actually need to go into Settings -> Notifications -> Do Not Disturb to actually setup your DnD preferences including automatic scheduling. Then, you can flip it on or off from the main Settings
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by ashray 14y ago
This is so true. I took time off to travel around the world the last whole year but due to online projects bought a phone card in each country with 3g connectivity. At one point I had to turn off boxcar and other push notifications. Back wh
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by ashray 14y ago
Exactly, why is this content available to US users for free (via Youtube) but I have to pay because I'm outside of the US ? I guess it's to do with youtube ad revenues for US impressions but as a customer it makes me feel a bit shafted cons
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by ashray 14y ago
I'm wondering about the kind of data you provide and what it's applications would be. Just to be sure, would this API somehow let me know if a new episode of say.. Mad Men comes out ? Or is it only for me to query info regarding a specific
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by ashray 14y ago
Hi Nathan, Congrats on the amazing achievement. Being in a similar situation as you, I'm curious as to how you and your wife divide finances. What does she do? I am mobile and me and my fiancé want to travel long term but I'm wondering on h
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Men facing deportation for unannounced torrent site(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by ashray 14y ago|2 comments
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by ashray 14y ago
That really depends on the kind of product you're pushing. If each conversion for you is worth $100,000 and your chances of converting are 1/10,000 it would still be VERY worth it ;)
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by ashray 14y ago
I wouldn't call these shortcomings of Django's ORM as much as design decisions that may or may not be agreed with. I've found Django's ORM pretty useful in that, it reduces the amount of typing you need to do. BlogPost.objects.filter() is s
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Ask HN: On an album do you always like the song after your favorite song?
1 points by ashray 14y ago|0 comments
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by ashray 14y ago
I thought this was going to be an article that would tell me how to fix my existing sites. You know like, make the font larger, increase line height, that kind of thing.. I know that for new sites I should start out with bootstrap...
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by ashray 14y ago
Is this not a terrible waste of bandwidth though ? At about 10 bytes per header (on the low end..) and say 100 million requests per day, that amounts to 1Gb of outbound bandwidth, if you count inbound bandwidth then that comes to 2gb in tot
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by ashray 14y ago
Well, considering that you legally own the titles you could look into emulating them. Homebrew on the Wii is pretty advanced right now and you could use that to retrieve ROMs for all your titles and still play them. Obviously, that doesn't

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