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by sandaru1 16y ago
Russia and China has surprisingly low number of members. Any theories?
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Those improves your coding ability a lot. For example, If your application needs to scale well, you should always consider implementing efficient algorithms. Yes, you can use some open source libraries, tools, etc but someone has to write t
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Controlling iPhone using your brain waves(engadget.com)
1 points by sandaru1 16y ago|0 comments
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Participating in programming competitions like IOI, ACM, Topcoder, GCJ, etc
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by sandaru1 16y ago
> more than anything, this seems like a feeble attempt at a rich person to do something they consider "crazy" so they can have a cool story to tell their friends over caviar. "oh wow, look how dirty i was! ha ha!" this guy needs to get
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4Chan Founder Moot's Weird Testimony In Sarah Palin Email Hacking Trial(businessinsider.com)
8 points by sandaru1 16y ago|0 comments
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Thanks for spreading the word. Sure, we'll let you know the results.
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Nice idea. We should try to reach some teachers. Actually, the background image may not be a bad idea, but the problem is that we currently have about 100 sentences for the Free version and keep adding new sentences for the Pro version. So,
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Ask HN: We realised one of our pet projects. How to market this?
2 points by sandaru1 16y ago|4 comments
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Show HN : Review our product for conducting online coding tests(blog.techtestnow.com)
8 points by sandaru1 16y ago|1 comments
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by sandaru1 16y ago
It would be pretty easy to write a simple greasemonkey script for this.
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by sandaru1 16y ago
I have a quite good experience with feedly. It's a firefox extension which integrates with google reader. The integration seems to have some bugs with new "shared items", other than that it's perfect.
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by sandaru1 16y ago
- don't even think about running it on the hardware you already have - only use specifically built systems (such as those linked) As far as I know, hackintosh works well in laptops. I'm running it on HP Pavilion dv5-1010us. The o
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by sandaru1 16y ago
TTN has quite a few more features. The key ones would be : 1. Viewing a playback of how the candidate coded the question. Even a bad candidate might be able to 'prettify' his final code (or even craftily cut and paste code while solving the
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by sandaru1 16y ago
go through one of the test link and create an account. it'll take you to the test. I gave the recruiter login which was used to create those tests because it's easier to check it out.
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Clickable Links http://beta.techtestnow.com/ Java : http://beta.techtestnow.com/en/user/testLogin/secret/TTN4c24... Ruby : http://beta.techtestnow.com/en/user/testLogin/secret/TTN4c24...
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Tell HN: TechTestNow, an app to help you hire the best coders
11 points by sandaru1 16y ago|20 comments
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by sandaru1 16y ago
We have the same thing in Sri Lanka called a "Web Card". You don't even need to have a bank account to get a Web Card - just pay some amount, and get a card for that value. Then you get a temporary VISA number which can be only used in inte
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by sandaru1 16y ago
You can use espeak for voice. > espeak "Hello World"
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by sandaru1 16y ago
Following is what I understood while writing a Tornado like server implementation in PHP. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ----- If you consider a normal application/process, the computation done there is usually very fast. For example, take
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by sandaru1 16y ago
If anyone is interested, I wrapped OpenCV face detection into a gstreamer plugin. http://github.com/sandaru1/smartcut/tree/master/gst-opencv/
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by sandaru1 16y ago
> The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack Linux. No wonder people think "hacker" is a bad thing.
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Soundation - Create music on the web(soundation.com)
1 points by sandaru1 16y ago|0 comments
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Internet Problem Solving Contest(ipsc.ksp.sk)
9 points by sandaru1 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How many of you are doing algorithmic programming competitions?
11 points by sandaru1 16y ago|2 comments
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Producteev : A nicely designed task management tool(producteev.com)
2 points by sandaru1 16y ago|0 comments
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by sandaru1 16y ago
You don't have to sign up to checkout. It's mentioned just below the "checkout" link. However, I agree with you. They can make it easier. It's a good idea to use GEO-IP location to track the country and let users know right away.
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by sandaru1 16y ago
TL;DR
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by sandaru1 16y ago
speaking of (relatively) low budget films, "The Man from Earth" is awesome (it's low budget relative to Hollywood, not relative to Primer; $200,000) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth
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by sandaru1 16y ago
How come iPad is popular among facebook users when [farm]ville apps don't work?

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