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by prayag 14y ago
I agree that a lot of websites store passwords in plain text. Mostly it's because these companies are not technical. They have IT departments but are companies like a bank (As in the case of Discover, or hardware manufacturers or govt. agen
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by prayag 14y ago
Despite of the state Yahoo! is in I find it very hard to believe that a company like Yahoo! would store it's passwords in plain-text. In addition, doesn't yahoo voice uses the Yahoo single sign on, that would mean that there is a very good
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by prayag 14y ago
> I'm fortunate enough to work for a company that has a fabulous suite of cafeterias that host a huge variety of foods, but in the startup world, free food just felt like the NYC power lunches of the 80's Am I the only one who find you
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by prayag 14y ago
This was my guess but I wonder if they will let 3rd party accessory developers to provide the missing piece. They can't be sued for that and it makes their offering much closer to the iPad.
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Google's Nexus 7 discovered to have Smart Cover-like magnetic sensor(engadget.com)
52 points by prayag 14y ago|10 comments
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by prayag 14y ago
> My point is that if people think constructive feedback is negative and they get butt hurt over their poorly received Show HN post, they probably aren't fit for entrepreneurial endeavors. Constructive criticism is fair but most of th
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by prayag 14y ago
> is largely due to the ballooning of this community and a bunch of half-baked, unoriginal, crowded-market ideas with uninspired product designs being posted. It seems everyone thinks that just because they use NodeJS, mustache, coffee
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by prayag 14y ago
This has been bothering me as well. HN has gotten into a habit of shitting all over new ideas, innovations and technology start-ups. It's not just android or iOS, nor is it about taking VC money or not. It's about trying to do something dif
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by prayag 14y ago
>Even comparing your present self to your past self is fraught with numerous biases. This is definitely true. But you probably have a better idea of how successful/happy you were 2 years ago than your peers right now. >Moreover, on
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by prayag 14y ago
Dave's dilemma is far too familier to a lot of people in the tech scene in general, and bay area in particular. Bay area attracts the brightest minds from across the globe. All of them have been at the top of their high school classes. They
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by prayag 14y ago
There are no issues presented here that can't be fixed by pushing a software update. It is definitely not a finished product but the design looks pretty unique and once the software is finished this can become a good product at least in ter
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MobileWorks is looking for Platform Engineers and Front-End Developers(mobileworks.com)
1 points by prayag 14y ago
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by prayag 14y ago
Super meat boy was already there but cost some 6 dollars or something. Ubuntu software center seems like an alpha. I am glad you guys integrated with this because I want the software center to be a successful product but are you as frustrat
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by prayag 14y ago
I hope they show up in the ubuntu software center. They are pain to find (after installation) using the .deb files.
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by prayag 14y ago
Care to elaborate. I have never worked on php but I am concerned by settings.py clutter.
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by prayag 14y ago
I would agree that it is more of life skill than say learning about European history. Or calculus. But so is basic electronics and basic electrical engineering. Where do we draw the line in the modern world?
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by prayag 14y ago
If you are insinuating that I didn't read your article. I did. That is why I made the comment. I didn't think much of it. The tangent about Atwood's son was completely tangential and unrelated. Atwood's argument was not about computer scie
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by prayag 14y ago
>I'm refuting his statement that other people should not become programmers, and that only a few chosen few should. But Atwood didn't say that. All he said was that it's a trade like Plumbing and not a life skill like being able to read
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by prayag 14y ago
Even if he personally approved of this opening. There is nothing wrong with it. The problem is that these reporters that Peter Thiel is anti-education or at least anti-higher education. He isn't. He has a problem with the current model of e
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by prayag 14y ago
This is exactly my experience. When we were writing the first version of the API for MobileWorks I chose django-tastypie. Within a few months we had overridden most of the default behavior and a lot of my time was spent studying the code-ba
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by prayag 14y ago
The article fails to mention one thing. James and Andrew are both just really nice people. Kind, generous and just all round fabulous! Kudos! Excited about where Firebase is going! Kudos!
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by prayag 14y ago
One of the stars of the New Delhi start-up circuit! Kudos to the team.
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by prayag 15y ago
I don't know what exactly you are doing but it seems like you don't understand what pricenomics are doing. They tell you how much your stuff is worth if you are trying to sell it. It is not a social shopping site.
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Design for good and reinvent crowdsourcing at MobileWorks(YCS11)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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by prayag 15y ago
Patrick and team are amazing. All the best with Ark and penguins.
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by prayag 15y ago
"If we'd had enough time to do what we wanted, Y Combinator would have been in Berkeley." As a co-founder of Berkeley based company from YC S11 batch. Darn it! Berkeley would have been a great place to start YC. With Berkeley campus supplyi
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Help us help the world! MobileWorks is hiring Front-End Developers/Interns(mobileworks.com)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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MobileWorks(S11) is looking for awesome front-end developers/interns(mobileworks.com)
1 points by prayag 15y ago
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by prayag 15y ago
Just wanted to give a shout out to dotcloud. We have been using dotcloud for our django hosting since django 1.2.6 and are very happy with the results. Their support is excellent and their platform is very easy to use. Most importantly the
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MobileWorks(S11) is hiring full-time employees and interns(mobileworks.com)
1 points by prayag 15y ago

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