kunalb

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by kunalb 15y ago
While the UI is good with animations and a nice design, I don't see anything that will make me shift completely away from FB: I might use it for hangout as an alternative to calling over google chat/skype. That's about it.
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by kunalb 15y ago
Just judging by the symptoms without looking at the code, I'd say that perhaps you're only animating the secondary rectangle that mimics the first one when the primary rectangle intersects with the wormhole's edge. When we move the first re
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Ask HN: What goes into a JavaScript Engine?
5 points by kunalb 15y ago|1 comments
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Visualizing power cuts in India via tweets(powercuts.in)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
Well, two of the three co founders in lal happen to be Indian Engineers too: http://lal.com/about/hiring (link gives founder profiles).
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by kunalb 15y ago
er, "GOT"?
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by kunalb 15y ago
As someone about to join Facebook for his first job in a few months, posts like these make me even more enthusiastic about starting work! It would have been even more cool to work alongside the creator of firebug, though.
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What Google looks for while acquiring startups(financialpost.com)
15 points by kunalb 15y ago|2 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
Allow me to clear up one tiny misconception—the professors and the way the syllabus is taught at IITs (at least D) is not that much better either—a large of my part of my syllabus in solid mechanics, etc. (just to name a specific example) w
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by kunalb 16y ago
A bit of background about me before I add my 2 cents: because of my rank in an entrance examination (JEE), I ended up majoring in Civil Engineering and managed to work towards a minor in CS (which was, and is my passion). I'll be graduating
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by kunalb 16y ago
I found the theme rather comfortable for using in the terminal; however I set TERM=xterm-256color so that vim would also pick up the light colour scheme—there seemed to be some issues with the background colour on gnome-terminal/Ubuntu. Tha
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by kunalb 16y ago
I'd suggest starting with Mozilla Dev Network/Javascript [1] for learning Javascript. Going through how JQuery/YUI/[library of choice] is written is pretty interesting and a great learning experience. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/j
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by kunalb 16y ago
I've been looking into Haskell for web development—in particular, the snap framework. Did you consider using other functional languages before choosing OCaml, as in does OCaml have any specific advantages for web dev?
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Hard Work vs Working hard(retinart.net)
4 points by kunalb 16y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 16y ago
I've tried Ubuntu on a C series Vaio (long time back) which pretty much died on me a hardware failure at a time within 2 years and right now am using a 15'' HP Probook (4510s) which runs Ubuntu like a dream. The ATI drivers are picked up di