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by mds101 14y ago
Thanks. This is still just an idea in my head. I'm just in the 'gauging interest' phase now. I'll let you know if/when something is available for testing.
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by mds101 14y ago
Yeah, I agree that it's the communit that makes the forum, but I have talked to quite a few members on different forums serving different niche areas and a lot of them have agreed that a reddit-esque way of presenting discussions would be b
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by mds101 14y ago
I was thinking of pricing based on pageviews/month.
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Ask HN: A new kind of forum
8 points by mds101 14y ago|14 comments
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Aircraft anti-icing mechanism inspired by nature(fastcoexist.com)
1 points by mds101 14y ago|0 comments
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by mds101 14y ago
This comment was originally posted by shasty ut for some reason has since been deaded. I thought it was worth reposting: Over commenting is a bad practice. Comments should be reserved for code which is difficult to understand no matter how
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Robotic Gripper Runs On Coffee and Balloons(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by mds101 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Developing and selling apps on a student visa
6 points by mds101 14y ago|1 comments
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by mds101 14y ago
Just joined and heard that SpaceX had commanded Dragon to retreat from ISS. Can someone explain why? Also, what is the blinking section on the Dragon spacecraft?
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by mds101 14y ago
You should try out Sublime Text. I have used it on all three platforms and it works pretty much the same on all of them.
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by mds101 14y ago
You are not really going to get much traction on HN with the infromation you have given. Do you have an idea or project you are working on? If you do, please post details about it, and somebody might find it interesting and reach out to you
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by mds101 15y ago
I believe the difference is you ask a question to a specific person. And all these questions and answers are laid out on a single page in a nice interview style. And considering that most of the guys being asked and those doing the asking a
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by mds101 15y ago
The Tacocopter post is something that appeals to a lot of hackers. It's a wicked cool and potentially super dangerous idea. It intrigues people on HN. Hence it is discussed to the death. Your post is titled 'feedback please', and yet you ha
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by mds101 15y ago
In addition it is very actively developed and updates flow in often. Also has quite a large number of useful plugins.
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by mds101 15y ago
Yes, you are correct. I guess what I was trying to say was that there is no way to make a fair comparison between Napster and Spotify - it's not even an apples to oranges comparison.
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by mds101 15y ago
I too appreciate being able to browse other people's collections. I was only ranting at the way the author chose to write that ('Insight into somebodies personality').
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by mds101 15y ago
So just because Napster had built in chat and a wider illegal catalogue it becomes better than Spotify eh? Also, why would I want to know the personality of some ramdom guy on the other side of my p2p connection? This is mostly a fluff pie
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by mds101 15y ago
Most meetups are posted on http://hackerstreet.in/
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by mds101 15y ago
I'll second this. I recently setup Jekyll on GitHub and was pleasantly surprised by the ease of getting it up and running.
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by mds101 15y ago
That doesn't really make much sense. If reading articles is your main application for the device, why not buy the iPad 2 especially after the huge price drop?
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by mds101 15y ago
>A LolCat page could get 250k likes on Facebook easily, but could it consistenly get 5,000 likes a week for a year? Maybe staying power should be more important than overall popularity. Exhibit A: The Cheezburger Network. That said, if
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by mds101 15y ago
Well the Marwadis and Gujaratis have been traders and businessmen since ancient times. It's kind of like the son of a farmer being a farmer himself. How many daily wage labourers have started their own businesses? Or for that matter, how ma
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by mds101 15y ago
How many people have you heard stealing 1,72,00,00,00,000 rupees? And how many have you heard stealing 10,000 rupees? My point was that we get worked up for one time theft of XXXX rupees, whereas we consider thousands of class C government
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by mds101 15y ago
I believe you misinterpreted his words. Being an 'Indian businessperson' itself is not done much because of the 'play it safe' attitude. Yes, Indians are that risk-averse.
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by mds101 15y ago
>the reality is that we are a dirt poor country with not just deep institutional problems, but also moral and psychological ones. I was searching for the words to express this for more than ten minutes before I read your comment. The ke
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by mds101 15y ago
>Eventually someone is going to iterate their software past Apple Actually somebody already did. Microsoft gets a lot of flak for its design skills, but I think they did splendidly with WP7. Having used a Lumia 800 for a week I was extr
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by mds101 15y ago
And just like that it's disappeared.
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Ask PG/HN: What is the spiral thingy on the frontpage?
7 points by mds101 15y ago|3 comments
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by mds101 15y ago
Yes, it would definitely have been lesser work to just use Cocoa. And yes one of the main reasons for choosing mobile web apps is that they are cross platform. Having said that, I still applaud the guy taking the time and ploughing in so mu
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by mds101 15y ago
Actually you cannot downvote submissions on HN. You can only downvote comments.

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