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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question but how do I write the json changes to a MySQL database via Php? From what I can understand the json is being updated on the client side via javascript.. but to save the changes do I have to send the entir
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Nationwide bans do work. Tiktok was banned in India even though it was quite popular here. After ban its usage almost flat-lined within days. I think an app like that needs a lot of mass and momentum and side-loading and VPN are limited to
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
> Thanks to @dang for getting a Stripe employee to respond and he was finally able to resolve the issue for me. I think it's time to add another HN tab called Complaints where we can post complaints for the common culprits like Goog
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Yes I have been victim of the very same thing too. I had to solve hundreds of captchas visiting almost every single website thanks to the centralized infrastructure of Cloudflare nowadays. The issue is not blocking of IP addresses, the iss
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Yes I thought about that too but the thing is so are the search results on Google. You never know the site on the top will give you accurate information or not. This also avoids the problem of deliberately skewed search results full of affi
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
I really love it. A lot of people may be trying to look at all the edge cases and find glitches but it you search it from the point of view of an average search user this is just groundbreaking. I mean as a regular joe I am trying to find a
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Eyesight – A personal journey of discovery by Irralee Andrzejowska(sirpa.org)
6 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|0 comments
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Twitter now asks some fired workers to please come back(moneycontrol.com)
72 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|114 comments
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Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?
28 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|17 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
For me the biggest impact I've seen in my every day programming is creating a list of utility functions like lodash or underscore.js for both Js and Php. I have these 2 huge files with hundreds and thousands of small unit tested functi
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VPN Providers Flee India as a New Data Law Takes Hold(wired.com)
3 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|0 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
> Fifth, oh, did you want to run a game? Not just a hello world? Then you need to deal with DirectX, audio (hello PulseAudio, my old friend), input devices (gamepads, joysticks), etc. It’s a lot of work! These last paragraphs just made m
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
For all the hate that Facebook gets their only redeeming quality is these open source projects they have been releasing all along. Maybe this is to attract better engineers but all in all this has been a net postive for software development
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
I think this sort of music is really good for video games or repetitive loopy music like in the earlier video games. I even love this during programming sessions as there is a certain quality to such tracks that help you gain more focus qu
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Spotify’s Beta Used ‘Pirate’ MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)(torrentfreak.com)
8 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|0 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Ihe e-myth book by michael gerber. It hits you right in the face when you're a.. what he calls the Technician masquerading as an Entrepreneur. It's truly an eye opening book and really helps you see the systems in everything from
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Contabo has been down for many hours and disruption to still continue(contabo-status.com)
1 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|0 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
100x more true for places like India which has notorious taxi and auto drivers who would charge you anywhere from 2x to 10x if you don't know the area or see you in need. For all the things uber has done wrong they have done a lot of r
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
What an amazing video for its time. I'm surprised they were do all these sorts of animations of arrows and power flowing on the gears without any cgi. Looks like it was hand drawn on a sheet of transparent plastic and added on later? N
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Not sure if really life changing but in primary school I saw a senior draw a big circle with two eyes in GW BASIC and all I could think about that day was "woah.. the possibilities." That silly thing consumed me so much I even had
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Same for me, my app used the html5 webspeech api and the text to speech and speech to text on Ff was nothing compared to chrome. So had to put that dreaded banner myself. I hope things have changed now and ff is just as good as chrome now w
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
My god the things programmers had to do back in the day to squeeze every single bit out of the machine and here I was feeling smug using Weakmap instead of map for my code optimisation :P I also remember carmack's fast square root func
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
While I have no sympathy for razorpay but I'd just like to point out that laws in India are much more heavy handed than a country like US. People are thrown in jail for social media posts and sometimes just for liking a social media p
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Cred app has really nice design and this is quite slick. But the overall app UI is just terrible still. I mean what kind of an ecom store doesn't even have a search function? Last I checked they were just expecting customers to scroll
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Hey guys.. Just wanted to say a big thanks for all your replies. I was exploring developing an android app but after reading all these comments I'd rather stick to good old saas for now. edit: Maybe i'll add an app to grow my saas
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Ask HN: Has anyone made any serious money selling Android apps?
147 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|158 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
I loved Openai's codex JavaScript game making live demo(1) where they actually created a fully functioning game in JavaScript using just plain old english. Kind of changed my whole view about programming and it's future. (1) http
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Your site is really great. Please consider creating an API with possibly a free tier. Right now I have to use godaddy api and it's so darn slow (plus I don't like using godaddy for many of the reasons for which they are so infamou
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How differential steering works (1937)(youtube.com)
1 points by ghoomketu 4y ago|0 comments
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by ghoomketu 4y ago
Reading this article only makes me realise how crypto industry has crippled the progress independent researchers like this would badly need gpus for AI. How many really useful, cool and meaningful projects are stuck because such authors can

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