rajivm

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by rajivm 13y ago
Seriously -- every project I had the opportunity to work on during my teen years has formed the basis for so much of my later "real" career as a developer. Each experience has provided me with invaluable skills.
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by rajivm 13y ago
I use Apps for a personal account -- but there are often odd quirks when Google releases new products that make it slightly inconvenient. In retrospect, I think a better alternative would have been just setting up my domain's email as
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by rajivm 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=... "Your item must be a non-media product (you cannot send in books, CDs, VHS or DVDs without stickers)." It seems Amazon actually n
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by rajivm 13y ago
Yeah -- it's a side project I built and deployed internally that's gotten usage in a variety of scenarios (Git tools, deployment processes, etc.). There's some more info on our blog at http://tech.hulu.com/blo
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Show HN: RestfulGit – Open-source restful API for accessing Git data(github.com)
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by rajivm 13y ago
I'm not too familiar with G-WAN, but there's many more factors than some benchmarks published by the author of G-WAN: 1) G-WAN is closed source. This means you're tied to their paid support for fixes and improvements. Web ser
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by rajivm 13y ago
I guess it depends what you are hiring for... If you are hiring for someone that will just "do the work" and not care what it is, then it seems like this is sound logic. However, if you're looking for someone who is creative and passionate
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by rajivm 13y ago
So in our case (Icebreaker), our site actually does have a good amount of pre-login info, but this gallery is choosing to only link directly to our OAuth login flow.
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by rajivm 13y ago
You could draw the photos in a SurfaceView with a "secure" flag (see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/SurfaceV... ). This would prevent other apps from reading them out of the framebuffer, or even taking a screenshot of
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by rajivm 13y ago
From my experience interning twice at Google, I was very impressed by their standard for privacy and the protections they had put in place. They have teams dedicated to just researching ways to improve information security. Two projects I f
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by rajivm 13y ago
Waze is incredibly powerful if you're in a city with many users / high-density of cars. If Instagram can be worth $1B, I can certainly see Waze being worth at least as much. They have both users and awesome technology. Also, it's really har
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by rajivm 13y ago
In both LA and SF it's pretty much already like that in my experience; LA especially it's traveled by word of mouth - probably because driver's are so desperate to escape the traffic hell. However, I tend to favor Google Maps unless I'm ant
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by rajivm 13y ago
Well if they don't have your source code, why modify the algorithm, you can just use sha1(password + user_salt + site_secret) -- that site_secret just made the sha1 unique to your site. Of course, if they have your source code, then it does
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by rajivm 14y ago
It was not DOA when they first started using it -- it was better than the streaming technology available via Flash at the time - and also the only one with DRM that would meet the the qualifications of the media companies that they license
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by rajivm 14y ago
You should do a "whois" lookup for the domain. The return code for a 'get' request on the domain has no bearing on its availability -- many parked domains do not even have DNS configured, let alone HTTP.
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by rajivm 14y ago
Actually - on Android, if you want to 'verify' that your app was not pirated (i.e. the paid-for APK was not just copied from one device to another), you have to call their licensing service: http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensi
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by rajivm 14y ago
Having a site that 50% links to the real onion, and otherwise is a real site branded like the Onion makes this very confusing for the user. It could be easily mistaken as the real Onion rather than being obviously a joke.
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by rajivm 14y ago
He's not making a parody of the trademark. He's making a parody of their site, and representing it with their trademark. As a random visitor of the site, I could easily mistake this as the 'real onion'. And it's also questionable whether th
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by rajivm 14y ago
If it improves your productivity more than $2 a month, then its more than worth it. For us, it was a no-brainer after we started using it. Giving everyone access to everyone both asynchronously and real-time is so powerful. We used IRC and
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by rajivm 14y ago
Use different rooms (with relavent people in each room), or make your bot smarter (we do both). You could easily make it so a given user could 'subscribe' to a project by sending a message to the bot. i.e. '@companybot subcribe xyz-service'
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by rajivm 14y ago
You have the notification goto the room for the relavent Team/Project. Then only people who are in those rooms (even when offline!) get those notifications.
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by rajivm 14y ago
I think that's yet to be determined. They're taking a non-standard strategy with releasing media, and there's potential that it could just work for them. Sure, normally TV spreads by people talking about it across a season, but normally the
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by rajivm 14y ago
That's true regardless of registrar if its a US-controlled TLD such as .com (Verisign), .net (Verisign), or .org (PIR).
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by rajivm 14y ago
This just made me realize that for the majority of people that use their ISP's router, there is effectively an easy backdoor (with a firmware update) into their private LAN. What would stop a government agency (w/ or w/o a subpoena) from re
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by rajivm 14y ago
Applying for a job doesn't necessarily guarantee a response in many cases. This is mostly a case of companies getting way more applications and resumes than they can handle. Many companies handle this by storing the incoming resumes in a da
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by rajivm 14y ago
Yes, and in fact this happens many times over: Greg gets a loan from the Bank for $5000. Greg gives Stacey the $5000 to buy her car. Stacey deposits the $5000 in the bank. Bob gets a loan from the Bank for $4500. Bob deposits this $4500 in
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by rajivm 15y ago
Create an "Application Specific" password on Google (as the article mentions). This will let you bypass 2-factor in the case of a client application like Adium as Adium does not know how to accept the 2-factor OTP.