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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Don't reinvent the wheel. But by all means, upgrade and evolve the wheel.
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Favorite quotes from the article: Students should be taught that failure is a process, not an obstacle. Luck finds the doers. Simplicity makes ideas powerful. What made the article worth it were the real life stories he shared to make
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Reflections on the 10 Years Since the Agile Manifesto(blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com)
3 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
This startup story emanates the true hacker spirit. Some good lessons in here as well. 1) You continuously provided something of value to your users. 2) You listened to what your users had to say and iterated accordingly. 3) You pivoted sen
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Looks like we killed the poor guy's website. I mirrored the text here: https://gist.github.com/910648
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The JavaScript Age(metamarketsgroup.com)
119 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|50 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Strange. To me, as an outsider, it looks like Bing has just started to get good enough to be considered as a threat to Google. Of course, they have a long long way to go. But it appears as a rapidly emerging product rather than a dying pr
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Notch (the guy who made Minecraft) recently did an AMA on reddit. To quote something simple yet valuable from one of his comments, which is relevant here: "Developing in the dark is scary and probably wrong."
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Boolean Blindness(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
4 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
I certainly agree with you, and I didn't imply that their target market is casual indie developers. Surely they are targeting enterprise here. But I am guessing that indie developers itself is a huge market and say if they went with a singl
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Here are a few ways that come to mind: 1) Attend local tech meetups, hackathons, conferences. 2) Contribute to open source projects. 3) Be active in an online tech community, like HN. 4) Start a blog and write about technically intriguing s
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Looks like there is no free version and the single developer license costs about 400$. That is going to be a big hurdle to get the casual indie developers interested.
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Mono for Android released with Visual Studio 2010 integration(mono-android.net)
90 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|70 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
It was medicine and engineering 5-10 years ago, now it's MBA. Everyone wants to do whatever is currently hip or what their peers are doing. The society here is breeding passionless robots.
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Clj3D: A Clojure graphic library (github.com)
4 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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Knitters and Coders: separated at birth?(cs4fn.org)
2 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
How about weighted votes based on karma? After a certain karma threshold, your vote value is doubled. The system could also have multiple levels. For e.g. at 2k karma, when you upvote/downvote a post, it gains/loses 2 points. At 5k karma, 3
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Great work Paul. Quite nifty. The Photo Particles demo[1] is pretty cool as well. [1] http://lab.aerotwist.com/webgl/photoparticles/
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
Here you go: http://i.imgur.com/ZCzU3.png :)
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Immutability and Blocks, Lambdas and Closures(algorithm.com.au)
67 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|16 comments
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Microsoft Ready to Turn Advertising Upside Down(microsoft.com)
2 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
For those who are interested, here's a 9 minute audio where Brendon Eich talks about new programming languages and Rust: http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101206 .
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How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.(thenextweb.com)
9 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|2 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
This is one of the best startup articles I have read in a while. Some real gems in there. The metaphor by Martin Fowler that the article mentions is particularly noteworthy. Imagine you’re tasked with building a computer controlled gun tha
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C++ object model and other internals explained with simple C code(avabodh.com)
67 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|16 comments
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Netflix Lowers Data Usage By 2/3 For Members In Canada(blog.netflix.com)
5 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|2 comments
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by hanifvirani 16y ago
I am a happy Dropbox user and not planning to move away anytime soon. Amazon's expansion strategy is commendable though.
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Microsoft creates giant 234″ interactive touch-screen(winrumors.com)
2 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments
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Riak and Scala at Yammer(blog.basho.com)
29 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|1 comments
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ICANN asks the US to cut it loose(domainincite.com)
3 points by hanifvirani 16y ago|0 comments

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