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by random42 14y ago
The thing is, a few weeks back Reader could be considered core Google offerings.
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by random42 14y ago
Is it implemented in Django?
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by random42 14y ago
OT: I want to pitch cloudflare for our CDN needs. Can someone estimate the scale of cloudflare wrt. akamai (current provider), in terms of operations, consumers etc.?
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by random42 14y ago
> One of the things we realized after starting YC is that January and June are 5 months apart, not 6. Yay! I am just 27, non-achiever and already knew that! :) </joke>
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by random42 14y ago
Was "Yawn" snark really necessary to make your point?
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by random42 14y ago
It is * technically* possible. Not sure if FB allows the advertisers to do that or not, but internally they would almost certainly be using this information for targeted ad placements.
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by random42 14y ago
Context for the uninitiated, please.
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by random42 14y ago
HN Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Avoid unnecessary editing of the article's original title.
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by random42 14y ago
you can allow access to finite set of websites in manifest.json while developing the chrome plugin.
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by random42 14y ago
Its all relative.
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by random42 14y ago
lastpass should work.
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by random42 15y ago
"maximizing shareholder value" is the purpose of a public traded company, including Apple. Jobs did it by out-innovating, out-marketing and other stuff. RIM CEO is trying to do it his way. (which may or may not be successful.)
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by random42 15y ago
> EMC must have sold them on something more than just a huge pile of money. Never underestimate the power of huge pile of money. Even for the filthy rich.
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by random42 15y ago
Even if Google joined the blackout, only the web frontend would be blacked out, not the backend crawling.
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by random42 15y ago
From an interviewer's perspective, the whiteboard gives me a chance to intervene to correct, explain, or provide hints, to the interviewee sooner/at the right time, which is not possible in pen-paper solutions, as I cannot see what the inte
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by random42 15y ago
The guy wrote this: http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
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by random42 15y ago
Ted's perspective on this: http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
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by random42 15y ago
I follow the process of file list validation, as mentioned (by me) at http://serverfault.com/questions/337082/how-do-i-prevent-acc...
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by random42 15y ago
This is a wonderful effort, but I dont understand point of the single source approach, as 3.x branches are not backward compatible with 2.x branches. Can someone (Vinay?) explain a simpleton (like me :)), the reasoning behind using the sing
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by random42 15y ago
I _just_ started on Java on eclipse, after 4 years of _IDE-less_ coding in python. Care to tell me what you find better in IntelliJ, as compared to eclipse, so that I dont waste a lot of my time with Eclipse? :-)
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by random42 15y ago
I is simply not true. 2 MBPS is _easily_ available for home connections from all the vendors, and is pretty popular plan.
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by random42 15y ago
One of the good way to make general users/facebook realize the privacy concerns of auto-sharing, if popular Porn websites install the FB like buttons.
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by random42 15y ago
Neither of the aforementioned points are government reasoning. Having servers in India does NOT prevents encrypted communication or gives some magical ability to intercept it. No one even claims that. It just makes the company operating in
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by random42 15y ago
This post is slightly misinformed. The reasoning behind asking BBM to have its server is not to have "access to encrypted communication", but to bring BBM (and similar communication platforms) operations under Indian laws, make them account
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by random42 15y ago
May be a nit-pick, but please consider having a favicon on the website.
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Tata to sell $675 flat-pack house(news.com.au)
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by random42 15y ago
Is there any reason to have a whitelist of characters that can be the part of the password string?
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by random42 15y ago
T-Mobile expected government intervention, hence the breakup fee. AT&T hoped to bullshit their way through the SEC.
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by random42 15y ago
Benefit over using Dropbox (which many people have to use for other files anyways)?
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by random42 15y ago
Beautiful. This is one project I'd like to grow big (so that there is always enough supply of story books.) appstore reviews suggest that it is making few people very happy. :)

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