piyushpr134

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by piyushpr134 11y ago
circuit breakers are there both on upside and downside. Circuit breaker is being triggered everyday at the start of the day
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
C-130 Hercules is a very reliable plane. Don't worry
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
They are not. Apps are not like websites. Thats what I am trying to say here.
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
I want the web to win too.
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Is the app-only economy going to kill the Internet ?(pranjan.blogspot.com)
14 points by piyushpr134 12y ago|17 comments
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
You have been droned
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
I am sure it is insured. However, PSLV, ISRO's rocket has the best success record in the world. It has launched 71 satellites so far. 40 of these where of non Indian so this is not the first time ISRO is launching a non Indian satellit
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
How do you know ? Do you work there ?
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
Merb started as essentially a wrapper on top of mongrel handler. Merb = Mongrel + erb. Mongrel had concurrency and it was super lightweight. However, it did not have goodies like routing or templating engine. Ezra write Merb as modular fram
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
:(( What happened ?
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
This could become big. Imagine celebrities tweeting buy link for their album or donation links when some calamity strikes or AMZN/Flipkart launching an exclusive deal/product on twitter or imagine launch of a new book/phone&#
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
To give some background on this case. He was barred from entering into equity markets in India as market regulator could not get a good idea of how he made his money. Basically his business is taking money from un-organized retailers on a d
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
For the uninitiated: Flipkart is AMZN of India. They are doing tonnes of sales here. FK is getting so much valuation as India does not have a big enough organised retail (roughly 5%). This means there is a generation which would move on fro
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by piyushpr134 12y ago
One of the most stupid things I have ever read on this side of the screen
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
Please please atleast file a consumer court complaint.
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
umm...never had any such issue with my books. May be I was lucky :)
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
In India, at least at IITs, we get assignments and course material on email or as hardcopy kept at campus photocopy centre from where students can get copies at cheap rates. We hardly bought textbooks. The once we bought were very cheap. I
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
Tragic as this story is, I would like to raise a point that could make life easier in event of untimely death i.e. term insurance. Term insurance is something that one should always get after getting married (or even before if your family i
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Flight MH370: Passengers' Mobile Phones Ring But Not Answered(ibtimes.co.uk)
1 points by piyushpr134 13y ago|1 comments
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
Adzerk ? Seriously!
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
I am already using it...everyday. Thanks for your assumption though!
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
This is not really a new thing. In India, fasting is a like a culture. More common with females though. Some of them fast like once every week. There are festivals which are based around fasting. Like Karvachauth, in which girls fast for th
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
For a lot of these links, I am not able to find the pdf as they are behind signups or paywall. sad state of affairs
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
For those wondering why this is relevant to HN: AAP or Common man's party (translated literally) is like a crowdfunded startup. This guy is a rookie in politics who managed to get significant number of seats in this election using crow
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
whenever it rains heavy during monsoon in Maharashtra.
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
This is a seasonal issue. During the rains shelf life of Onions decreases as they start to sprout. So the onion stock is sold off in may, just before the monsoon. After May, monsoon rains start and they are heavy rains with lot of humidity.
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by piyushpr134 13y ago
I am from India. I think one major cost factor is price of medicine. In India, you can get medicine at very low cost compared to the west. Salary and dollar conversion/PPP are also major cost factors. For instance, a urine test costs