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Ask HN: How do you learn a web framework?
8 points by kulkarnic 17y ago|4 comments
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
What a silly headline! It's annoying enough that Techcrunch posts its own misinformed analogy on the Google outage (really, packets were only rerouted: there's no way you'd end up in Hong Kong instead of SF; the journey would just last a li
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Perhaps we could have a filter that detects if a particular user consistently submits links from a particular domain only. I wonder if it'll work (maybe it targets too uncommon a special-case). Really, we do need a way to custom-query news.
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Trying this now, thanks!
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Very very interesting :) I actually don't use SQL for querying anything (as I said, I'm more looking for seeing how much values deviate from the mean etc), but this looks cool. One question in relation to your project is why not simply use
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
Yes. A friend pointed it out to me just now :) Still, it really doesn't seem to make much difference (or maybe, I'm not using Excel (actually OpenOffice) right). Haven't tried Mathematica yet; though it has sounded interesting for a long ti
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Hackers' alternatives to spreadsheets?
7 points by kulkarnic 17y ago|12 comments
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
I don't believe that you need 3+ continuous hours to program. I myself routinely take breaks every hour or so; and believe the context switch is amortized at that time-frame. Also, the point is not purely about television. I've not watched
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by kulkarnic 17y ago
What a reminder how the Web keeps changing. I remember when I thought Geocities was kinda cool. Can't really remember too many sites like that-- which remained essentially unchanged, yet had such a userbase for so long. In fact, I can't thi
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
I wonder if you could include comments and make the headline fonts smaller? Newspapers are meant to be readable to everyone; but the mean hacker age will be much lesser (there was a poll on this elsewhere on HN) Also, I think the goal ought
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
Two thoughts: 1. You might want to tell the user of other books similar to the one she queried for (this could be a reason to call, simply because the user wants to see more books of th esame kind in the store). 2. There should be a reverse
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
I think that their motivations are different too. Wanting to build companies that might one day compete with Google is unthinkable; so one must assume these are ventures that either do something totally different from Google's current busin
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
I don't see why the list is deeply interesting. Maybe some analysis on the list would be more valuable than the list itself.
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
I understand the urge to make software perfect; but really a usable system need NOT be fair, democratic, open and with set rules that may be debated upon (e.g. www.xkcd.com: We don't ask for democratic control over what comics are "on-topic
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
5400 half-seconds is 45 minutes. So, assuming you take 2 min to think for every 1 min of typing, that's still working on the essay just 45 minutes everyday (for 3 days). I think (from comment above: "not working all day") you took much long
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
Not so sure; if I'm not mistaken Lynx javascript support is rudimentary (if not non-existent). Doing Comet on that would be somewhat challenging, I guess. An API to etherpad would realy help, IMO.
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by kulkarnic 18y ago
Hey, I'm posting this here, so that there'ssome fruitful discussion on how to model real-world friend. HN is a great place, but I have to say this: don't turn this into a friendfeed love/hate war. Let's look for answers; not zealotry. Thank
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How friendfeed killed your privacy(lastparadox.blogspot.com)
4 points by kulkarnic 18y ago|1 comments
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No Adjectives please! (How to pitch your company)(ventureblog.com)
3 points by kulkarnic 19y ago|0 comments
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
This is a continuation of my yesterday's question: What software makes you happy? ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128714 ). Given the number and breadth of comments, I certainly think there's a pattern to be discovered here. Your opin
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
The number and breadth of comments here not just speak about how much software affects us emotionally; but also of the diversity of this community as a whole. Most interestingly, they do seem to have a pattern in them. I want to explore thi
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Software for Happiness (part 2)(spreadsheets.google.com)
1 points by kulkarnic 19y ago|1 comments
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
Sorry. My bad. I should have said not necessarily more efficient ! @pistoiusp: Any that makes you more efficient + happier (not just more efficient)?
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
wow!
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
A lot of the comments here are really eloquent in their brevity! Still, it'd be great if you could say which aspect of the software tool makes you most happy. I know, thoroughly subjective, not statistically projectable, but interesting n
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
Echo the last part. Dependability and responsiveness are absolutely top-importance! In fact, I feel that what's more important than responsiveness is a uniform response time. Nothing puts me off more than a file-copy among the same teo disk
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by kulkarnic 19y ago
Hey, now as I think about it, games are the sort of thing that have taken UI expertise seriously, while ignoring all the UI experts (and their arbitrary heuristic rules!). And it's led to some very enjoyable applications!
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Ask YC: What software makes you happy?
12 points by kulkarnic 19y ago|65 comments