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by manidoraisamy 11y ago
Is Dart discontinued? Or, did you mean Dart VM?
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by manidoraisamy 11y ago
I don't think so. But, the 2nd best city would be in the far second place, especially if you want to be in the startup environment.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
When I was 13 years old, my dad had a heart attack and was admitted in hospital for 2 months. My mom had to accompany him in the hospital and we did not have an earning member in the family during that period. We also didn’t have health ins
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
why so serious, son? ;)
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Yes. I think Parse is good enough for your usecase. Games are client-side heavy and don't punish servers so much.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Operating system should cater to 3 different target audience: 1) Consumers need an invisible OS that understands natural interfaces like voice, mind. 2) Developers need a productivity OS that connects to their apps running in production and
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Depends on the app. If your app is server-side intensive & should be scalable, GAE is better. If it is client side intensive & time-to-market is important, Parse gives you lot of those out-of-the-box.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Thanks! Did I get these right? - HN uses time decay to reduce score of older comments. While, Reddit uses wilson confidence interval to give provisional ranking for comments. - Wilson confidence interval is useful when you want prospective
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Here is my current algorithm: DiffInDays = Today - Date_1970_1_1; // Number of days between Today and Jan 1, 1970. Rank = DiffInDays + (Score/1000); // Score is the equivalent of upvotes. // Sort by Rank
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Ask HN: Algorithm for ranking comments in a post
7 points by manidoraisamy 12y ago|5 comments
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Heavy user of Hibernate and SQLAlchemy during SQL days. Stopped using it, after moving to NoSQL - because of broken portability.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
But, he didn't offended anyone. Negative karma seems too harsh for a newbie and discourages them from participation. In real life, we don't do that to a person, if we think he is not adding value to the conversation.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
I wanted this as well. But, the business model might be hard to sustain. Most of us might use it for prototyping and then move to server-side for production. Or, the original API provider might support CORS sooner or later.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Sure! They can do a much better job. But, the wealth of data to find micro patterns of audience is what differentiates youtube from TV i.e. data science vs statistics.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
IMO, statistics shows macro patterns that humans can understand (through analytics/dashboard). Today's data science produces micro patterns that are actionable (through personalized ads/newsletters), even if it is not human c
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Ask HN: Will you build apps for Firefox OS to support an open alternative?
3 points by manidoraisamy 12y ago|1 comments
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Facebook was created as friends network, while Twitter was created as followers network. Even though facebook added follow feature later, Twitter is still seen by many as followers network that suits celebrities.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
I have experienced this problem first hand. AFAIK, YC does not recommend co-founders working remotely.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Yes. As long as the compiler is invisible and fast enough to notice any difference. But then, will we ever have such compiler across all browsers?
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
The biggest advantage of javascript is quick prototyping + manipulating DOM objects with no tooling (you can debug with javascript console in the browser). I would die the day, I need a compiler to see a color change on a button.
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
If you are a startup, working remotely is not a good option. It is even worse, if your co-founder is working remotely. Startup is not just about getting things done faster. It is about validating if your direction is right. To do that, you
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Stanford NLP is pretty good, if you are on java - http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/corenlp.shtml You might also want to look at word2vec (implemented in most of the popular languages) - https://code.google.c
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Ask HN: Do's and Don'ts while working long hours
9 points by manidoraisamy 12y ago|6 comments
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
1) I meant global capitalism in the context of shrinking working class. It brings lot of benefits to consumers and creates competitive businesses. But, that competition/cost cutting drives outsourcing and leads to job losses in develop
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
I don't think the job lost in US translates into outsourced job anymore. Cloud is destroying lot of bespoke app development, as startups are aggregating those bespoke needs of multiple companies into out-of-the-box apps. "There’s
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
+1 for OAuth process. Google cloud has mature abstract services (evolved from PaaS), while AWS has mature low level services (evolved from IaaS). So, you might experience better stability with Google cloud, if you use abstract services like
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Ok. Is my credibility at stake now? :) You should read his article on AWS Lambda, in case you think he is one sided - http://research.gigaom.com/2015/01/why-aws-lambda-is-a-maste...
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Janakiram was with Amazon as AWS evangelist (and Microsoft as Azure evangelist) before writing for Gigaom. Calling someone you barely know as fake is very rude. I suggest you focus on merits/demerits of the products. Cost advantage is
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
GCE is better than AWS in terms of cost and performance. But, lags in community support/3rd party tools. Read Janakiram's Gigaom research articles. Here is his answer on quora - http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-ad
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by manidoraisamy 12y ago
Awesome! IMO, relying on walled social networks for identity is a bigger risk than government ID. Decentralizing it is a great idea! BTW, what is the incentive for hosting these dentralized registries?

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