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by asto 15y ago
Cheap web-developers do shoddy work. Why are you pulling groupon into this? Businesses offer discounts through groupon. The business itself may be among the worst of its kind or among the best. So the quality of product/service received dep
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by asto 15y ago
I am also an Indian, also from Bangalore. India and other poor nations account for a larger share of piracy worldwide. Here's a somewhat old study but it still serves to prove my point. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-cri
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by asto 15y ago
It doesn't matter what the underlying reasons are. The point is if you are going to invest resources in something that requires Indians to actually pay for it (regardless of payment model), you are taking a big risk. PS: I am saying "Indian
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by asto 15y ago
Mindset over cost. Companies here do all sorts of things to avoid small costs. I've seen some wrangle with hosting their own email on a server they have already purchased or make do with a poor experience with shared hosts simply to avoid t
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by asto 15y ago
Completely agree with the "don't want to pay for software" bit. Heck, they don't want to pay for ANYTHING. Pirated windows, pirated accounting software, cheapass website because they look for the cheapest deal... the list is endless.
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by asto 15y ago
Same problem on my blackberry.
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by asto 15y ago
I felt they're all behaving rather immaturely.
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by asto 15y ago
Incorrect. Cleavage is socially acceptable. Having a bit of my penis sticking out of my pants is not.
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The Hidden Risk of Meltdown in the Cloud(technologyreview.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
The average HNer will know to do this but the majority of the internet won't. So they'll likely have the effect they want (reducing the number of unpaid pageviews) and a bunch of side-effects they don't want (drastically reducing their rele
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What to do about plastic bags? There is no "correct" option(reapbenefit.org)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Cost of learning should be amortised over one's lifetime. It iwill work out to a handful of pennies or dollars on a per-project basis.
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by asto 15y ago
Religion? Minding its own business? Anybody with the ability to read a history textbook or pick up a newspaper can see what religion's about. The major religions of the world (Christianity, Islam, Hinduism) have been responsible for mass mu
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Anonymous declares war on religion(webpronews.com)
6 points by asto 15y ago|3 comments
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Google giving us a sign of things to come for Facebook? [pic](blog.arunbalan.in)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
What's with all the downvotes? I thought the exact same thing too till I read the explanations on this thread!
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by asto 15y ago
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to write out such a detailed reply. I did read up. A salt needs to be large enough to avoid clashes with other salts in my database and the algorithm needs to be slow enough to calculate that it's impossible
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by asto 15y ago
Look around you. You are not a citizen. You are an exception.
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Ask HN: What are the current standards for online password storage?
5 points by asto 15y ago|7 comments
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by asto 15y ago
You're also scaring web consumers to pick non-US businesses. Do I want to purchase a service that can be shut down by the US govt with no notice whatsoever? No.
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by asto 15y ago
Phones outsell computers. So? Appending "apple" makes this interesting?
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by asto 15y ago
If you want something faster, why not try Pyramid? It's a modular framework that lets you pick any component you want! http://www.pylonsproject.org/
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by asto 15y ago
Learn on python 2.x. You don't want to start with a version that has fewer compatible packages.
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by asto 15y ago
Imagine the site now wants to add a little bit of social interaction, like allowing users to post video, follow each others Follow each other? I'm not sure you know what the point of a porn website is.
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Indian government to track locations of all cell phone users(indianexpress.com)
5 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
I've never done any systems programming on Linux (or any other OS for that matter) so I can't comment on most of the article but I HAVE configured a network on a Fedora box on many occasions and it's simpler than the author's making it out
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Indian govt. set to gain ‘back-door’ access to Blackberry corporate email(livemint.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
The anonymous twitter account tweeted this. I copied and pasted the link directly from there. The article isn't even well written but I thought it was interesting that someone can have something this horrible done to them because of a mere
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Father accused of being a hacker in legal fight for his child(docs.google.com)
2 points by asto 15y ago|3 comments
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by asto 15y ago
tl;dr: The author failed to fully explore the tools available for Linux and uses Windows on account of his ignorance

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