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gingerjoos
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Was mainly concerned about the scalability. For a large number of users, your server would have to handle a large number of concurrent connections while they uploaded their data. If you used spiders, you could push the URLs to a queue and p
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Do you store the entire set of 1.7 million entries in redis? Or is redis an index to data stored elsewhere, in a relational DB perhaps? I was under the impression that redis wouldn't be all that useful to store a lot of data. Would be great
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GSH searches only within your Google search history. This guy searches through your entire browser(s) history.
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If I remember correctly, this was the result of some research done by a startup. Or was it Google? I couldn't tell you because this service didn't exist back when I read that article
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Beat me to it! This was something I had been planning to build on my own for a while, but didn't get around to . Congrats! Whenever I have tech discussions with friends I would recall something mentioned in a article I read via HN. But it w
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works now, cool :)
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same as above. UA string : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.7 Iceweasel/10.0.7
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Almost everyone has a mobile in India. But not many use Internet on their mobile devices. Situation is changing slowly with the arrival of really low - end smartphones, though.
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If I remember correctly this has been available out of the box at least since Drupal 5 up. Have worked on Drupal 5 and 6, don't remember using any custom module to do aggregation.
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To get the U.S. results (for eg.), run the query on google.com (google.com/ncr) and then append "&gl=us" to the URL. For eg. compare : https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in See a
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In India, the Tata and Birla groups come to mind. The Tatas[1] particularly so. Both are family owned conglomerates and have been around before India gained Independence from the British. The Japanese Keiretsu[2], from what I have read, is
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Seems like Digia was already into Qt bigtime [1] . Can anyone give some context w.r.t Digia? [1] http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-...
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What the iPad will probably end up doing is modify the way in which creativity is expressed. I would imagine that we will end up having another level of abstraction and creation will be done with tools like Pipes[1] or IFTTT[2] [1] http://
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Link to the same article which appeared on the front page : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4327908
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> But considering WebRTC could potentially ruin much of Skype's business How? Apparently Microsoft plans to use WebRTC in the Skype Web client [1] [1] http://gigaom.com/2012/06/26/skype-webrtc-web-client/
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> "Blackouts lasting up to eight hours a day are frequent in much of the country" This particular blackout is only marginally worse than the situation the common Indian is already in. The situation is so bad that blackouts are a part an
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> The reality is that the classical concept of copyright, where it is illegal to make a copy of a covered work without authorization from the rightsholder, cannot be enforced in a digital world The laws of classical physics failed us at
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I suppose Linux users have more money left from not having to buy OS updates every once in a while :P Jokes aside, Linux users are by definition more attracted to the concept of community and independence. Hence their support to people who
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Wikipedia on Charlie Kaufman [1]. His film work includes Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman
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Animated film raises funding via Kickstarter
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A little bit of what you fancy - By Dr Desmond Morris
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There's a tool called Pencil[1] that runs on the browser, but works offline. Haven't explored a lot, but does simple tasks well. [1] http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx
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I'm glad it worked out well for the OP. However, it isn't innovative any more. When the original hireme guy did it, it was audacious and innovative. It may still be audacious, but is no longer innovative.
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This kind of thing is getting old and boring. (1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840233 (2) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843530
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It does appear prominently at the back [1] [1] http://images.anandtech.com/doci/6054/GoogleIO2012-2261.jpg via http://www.anandtech.com/show/6054/google-nexus-7-mini-revie...
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Yup, I've the top 25 in a gist ( https://gist.github.com/3096776 )
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From what I heard a couple of years back, no Yahoo product is allowed into the wild without paranoid approval.
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Quick analysis of passwords of Yahoo Voice users leaked by D33D
(gist.github.com)
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Beyond a point, mastery over a particular framework comes only when you look at the actual code. Just fire up a debugger with a breakpoint set in the problem area. Figure out what happens and understand why your code is breaking. Rinse and
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Just hit a similar situation at work and realised why I had to use it. Had a django app called taxonomy in a project, couldn't use the same name in another django project. Now I definitely have to use it!
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