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by fakeer 14y ago
If one think devs must learn from this development, that would be - go for an open standard now. The way Rackspace is doing with OpenStack for cloud. Similarly sth for feed sync/tag etc - where a services changes with an URL and few more th
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by fakeer 14y ago
Yes. But without ads and with my privacy intact, totally.
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by fakeer 14y ago
It doesn't give an answer that is acceptable. That's no way an explanation. That's an excuse.
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by fakeer 14y ago
In a way that might be good. They would get in touch with all of those friends and relatives via 'analog' media like phone, a visit or a get-together :-) Jokes aside, that would be horrible. I've a domain with GApps but I think my chat is s
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by fakeer 14y ago
That's where I stopped and shall not try it ever if they don't remove and no, I am not going to create a new a/c for that. I mean it's totally for spamming purposes - either to me or my contacts. By the way, interface looks cleaner, I wish
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by fakeer 14y ago
Looks like it's not able to handle the load. Will check in some time. Nice app btw. The only good thing from GR closure might be that the dev community comes up with some real great alternatives. And yes, I hope paid ones.
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by fakeer 14y ago
There were apps and services. They starting shutting down. Never actually mattered. Not to me at least. Until a few were killed, like Google Reader, and I started understanding the frustration and sometimes disappointment shown by some of t
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by fakeer 14y ago
Please read pg's next comment(above) and you might be sure again. I think he meant what cperciva interpreted. Here - "I want HN to be a site where people engage in meaningful discussion that I try to discourage people from upvoting the fir
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by fakeer 14y ago
MacBook Air, Mid 2012 - base model with 4GB RAM etc. Mt Lion. Don't feel the need of Linux now. S/W: Text - TextEdit, TextWrangler, Mo, Marked, MacVim(I've realized it works better without all those 'fancy' plug-ins), LyX for LaTex, iAWrite
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by fakeer 14y ago
Earlier it used to be ...-Firefox-Chrome-Firefox-... every 2/3 months but fot that 1 year or so it's been just Firefox, happily. I switched back to Firefox sometime ago. It got back its speed and crashes less and fries my Mac less than othe
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by fakeer 14y ago
I second that. The best bookmarking in-browser. I am really convinced it's better than most others out there - even those dedicated "bookmarking" services e.g. Delicious, Pinboard(which is a disappointment other than when I look at my li'l
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Ask HN: What is your personal computer setup?
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by fakeer 14y ago
>> I don't find Unity to be better in any meaningful sense than the "community-driven" GNOME 3 It's not better even in a meaningless sense. I just not that good. There are times when you stick to your idea long enough because you a
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by fakeer 14y ago
I take you were in BTP. We were the neighbours and competitors then and I can't agree more :-) Used to hear stories during after lunch walks. @OC: But I do not agree that Google pays those dollars only and only for their patents. If that wa
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by fakeer 14y ago
Yes. Facebook is a business model where the money comes from legally violating users' privacy which the users served into their platter with full consent. I never ever blame them - though I don't like it. Can't speak of the new interface, m
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by fakeer 14y ago
Looks like Google+. Obviously obvious. Difference being, very few people actually use Google+ Though I do not use Facebook actively, but I still have my account and do check it a few days so the new/cleaner look is certainly a welcome break
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by fakeer 14y ago
>> who are sophisticated quality and privacy-conscious internet users Well, then.. you just said it :-)
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by fakeer 14y ago
dave, I tried :-) Honestly it doesn't work. It's not sth that's filling a gap. They have Twitter/Facebook/IG (very few are still into Orkut :P) blah-blah. So, they just won't use it. It's not everyone who hates those farmville updates, spam
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by fakeer 14y ago
I tried path. In fact I am still trying. It's installed on my phone. But I never use it. Few months ago I would open the app once a few days and there would be nth, from no one. I had 2 friends on it. Turns out I am the only one using this
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by fakeer 14y ago
Aah... Wish my country(India - the largest family owned 'democracy' on this planet) had something like this. Here we get arrested for posting things on Internet. Maybe starting such a petition would attract life imprisonment. Congratulation
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by fakeer 14y ago
Please be assured that I am aware of this and hence the conversion I've mentioned in 3rd paragraph last line. If someone reads the comment he/she must have seen that, I have reasons to believe you didn't either(kidding :P). So, they would
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by fakeer 14y ago
I can commiserate with you. I am from India and my college, a govt. college, had roads in college dug out twice every year and had it rebuilt. Later I figured they cited the reason "rain ruined the pathways" :P My college, being an engineer
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by fakeer 14y ago
Attended one sometime back. What hit me was that they didn't even bother to bring water and they remembered when I needed some. Needless to say there was pizza(and the way it was spread around was "yuck"), there was soft drink and beer and
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by fakeer 14y ago
Yes. The removals, just like additions are rampant and erratic. I see a lot of DO-UNDO-DO-UNDO for sections which actually deserve to be there.
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by fakeer 14y ago
The Wikipedia page talk compensates though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ankit_Fadia There's added a Controversy[1] section [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankit_Fadia#Controversy
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by fakeer 14y ago
Friend of mine had his startup's email and contacts and some other data(using those GApps plugins/add-ons) hosted on GApps. Sth broke and they kept trying to get in touch with someone at Google but every time hit a robo-wall. They got wiser
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by fakeer 14y ago
Some more such public cheats(but marketing genius or were simply played, in an endless loop, by media for free) of his kind * Anand Kumar - the 'mathematician' from Bihar * Avtar Tulsi - The 'prodigy' * Salman Khan - (and many more) Do I h
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by fakeer 14y ago
I like Jekyll. The look of it. But I do not want to get into Ruby. I tried to Jekyll for a few months(and then I stopped blogging, planning to take up again). That comes down to Python and Java(yes, Java!). For Python I have listed some Pel
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by fakeer 14y ago
Good you are this young. You have one thing others(older than you) don't have, a lot more time - as in actual time, number of days. >> continue your education @lutusp said it Yes, indeed. And just in case the tempting 'rebellion' t
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by fakeer 14y ago
Though I recently bought a MacBook Air I still cannot say I am as enthusiastic about the OSX as OP is. Having said that I could immediately identify with the story, just from the title actually. After years of struggle with Windows I finall

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