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by netvarun 14y ago
Thank you very much for your article. It brought back lots of fond memories of my younger days, spending hours and hours solving past year olympiad problems. I eventually got a silver medal in the Singapore National informatics olympiad. Bu
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by netvarun 14y ago
It seems that Nokia funded a lot of the development behind QT. How is this going to affect the development of KDE?
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by netvarun 14y ago
Its seems like a really cool idea. I have one question: Where do you get all the previous financial data? You scrape from the financial sites? -- Shameless plug: There is a site I recently built which is kinda related. (I just finished it
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Is there a simple compiler for a simple language? (StackOverflow)(stackoverflow.com)
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by netvarun 14y ago
The other two countries with special allotments are Chile and Singapore http://immigrating.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/h1-b1s-chile-and...
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by netvarun 14y ago
"Before I started IndexTank I already knew that people would be willing to pay $$$ for such a service because I'd been making money with search consulting for a while." I started off the in a similar manner, doing lots of consulting work. I
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by netvarun 14y ago
My point is that it will take lesser resources (that includes time, HR and yes of course, $$) to use derby.js instead of meteor due to the former being part of the well-established node ecosytem.
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by netvarun 14y ago
I have to disagree with you. Software engineering 'ideas' regarding modeling and testing have gone way overboard. I have a feeling that that all those who peddle fancy buzzwords such as agile and kanban are either MBA graduates with no real
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by netvarun 14y ago
mac os, since os x leopard, isn't just 'unixy', infact it is a 100% POSIX compliant certified UNIX operating system! gnu/linux is what one would call 'unixy' =)
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by netvarun 14y ago
I am pretty curious on how they are going to compete against other open source 'realtime web' solutions such as derby.js? Especially since derby.js is distributed with npm and can be used in conjunction with the thousands of existing node.j
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by netvarun 14y ago
Google isn't an AI/ML company, it's an ad platform company.
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The Relativity of Wrong (Isaac Asimov)(hermiene.net)
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by netvarun 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your story! It takes true guts to write about your true feelings. off-topic: You have one of the coolest facebook usernames. Completely stumped me for a while!
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by netvarun 14y ago
IHMO, preventing site scraping is really really hard. There are couple of startups that offer products that claim to stop site scraping.[1] 1. Ajaxified paginated data -> With Firebug looking at XHR requests, one can easily reverse engi
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The Unexpected Benefits of Weekend Projects(blog.semantics3.com)
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Be Either an App or a Platform, Not Both(ceklog.kindel.com)
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by netvarun 15y ago
There have been a couple of HN discussion threads regarding your last two questions. 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966716
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SSH Tunneling: We don’t need no stinking VPN software(magazine.redhat.com)
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by netvarun 15y ago
Thanks for sharing your story! I know a thing or two about building web crawlers and aggregators. Drop me a note and I could help you with some of the technical matters. Stay awesome and keep rocking!
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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source(paulirish.com)
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Extreme Pair Programming - Guy Steele and Richard Stallman (cycle-gap.blogspot.com)
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Developing a Modular JavaScript App With RequireJS and Backbone.js(pixelhandler.com)
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Javscript Debugging Techniques by Twitter Boostrap's Fat(wordsbyf.at)
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Differences between GPL and BSD licenses very clearly explained(matusiak.eu)
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The Browser You Loved To Hate(browseryoulovedtohate.com)
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On Becoming a Unix Wizard(csd.uwo.ca)
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by netvarun 15y ago
It doesn't make sense. The article mentions that OMGPOP makes 250 grand a day (that too after after all commissions). that equates to 91.25 million a year. IMHO, $200 million seems like a really small price.
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Functional Programming For The Rest of Us(defmacro.org)
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by netvarun 15y ago
Interesting points: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Comment-Linus-s-daught...
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Linus Torvalds rants about requiring root access for trivial tasks(plus.google.com)
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