shantanubala

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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   > It's definitely a goofy, pompous, rambling letter written by someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know yet. Further, I find it a bit odd that the kid, knowing that his parents are paying thousands of dollars (I'm assuming) to atte
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   There are some work environments where using "shit" and "fuck" would be a turn-off -- not all places are very relaxed about that stuff. On a more personal note, it feels immature -- titling a section "Oh shit what" just for the sake of iron
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   Instead of using RoR or Django (or something really "opinionated"), try looking into Sinatra or Flask (or other small "micro-frameworks" and libraries) where you can mix-and-match your own libraries from different places. This will get you
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   > 1- A large portion of the marketing industry is based around the "objectifying of women." Women should go out in droves and write long screeds against marketers (pigs?) instead of flooding the marketing companies with their resumes. I
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   He could have been reading HN without necessarily having the confidence to post something until he had something he felt he could contribute (i.e. an app he built). Obviously we can't read his mind, but I wouldn't mind giving him the benefi
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   Except you know that this is an age-old rhetorical technique, right? Examples of Apophasis: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis I'm trying not to be harsh
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   I don't think anyone knows what they really like when they're young, and I believe even more firmly that parents are usually a better source of influence than peers. These are obviously generalizations, but I think Mike Rowe explains it bes
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   What's the optimal solution, and what is "internal motivation" except a sense of discipline?
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   by shantanubala 14y ago

   It says in the article that it's Josh Gad http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265802/
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    I'm sorry, but an iOS app is made for convenience. Nothing more. Email, social networking, instant messaging, collaboration tools, productivity tools, office suites, development tools, and even entire operating systems are available for fr
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Agreed. My main point was just that "doing whatever it takes" in this context does not mean sacrificing your values, because your values are definitely part of your original goals to begin with. If you value being flexible or adaptable, the
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Revising it to "I am willing to do whatever it takes within my existing system of values to get what I want" makes it less pithy.
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    It's just a rough barrier before I set up something a little better, though I already have logging at the transaction level set up. Even using Mailinator requires a little bit of work, so I figured Persona was a good starting point -- I'll
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    The site is down. Unfortunately the "yellow" status of AWS elastic load balancers in my region have affected this as well -- I'm working to get it up and running in a different region, but I'm also waiting on a response from Amazon.
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks for trying it out! I'll take a look into it. EDIT: It appears like Feedburner sometimes improperly links embedded images. I've fixed the issue on my end, though images may not appear consistently.
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks for the help! I'm looking into it, as I think there may be some issues with the extraction of different content types in an atom feed. I think I have a way to fix it, though.
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Yup! That's the next step that I'm working on right now :-) I've gotten in touch with the folks at Readability, and will be implementing their content parser soon. I'm looking to create an easy way for bloggers to publish their content for
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    I understand -- there's a bit of a problem when trying to prevent abuse, though, and relying on the Persona identity provider makes it easier to prevent abusive behavior upfront, especially since the conversions themselves consume a lot of
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    I'll definitely be getting some legal advice before setting up any kind of paid service, but do you have any specific advice or guidelines to follow? I'm assuming that right now, I can just say, "this is an RSS aggregator like Google Reader
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I looked at the resulting ebooks, and it looks fine, but it may be a character encoding issue that is specific to your ePub or Mobipocket viewer or reader -- which device or software are you using? I'll look into fi
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    I'm sorry about the trouble with Persona -- many people have been reporting issues, and it's unfortunately not been as stable as I would have wanted it to be. I'm looking into whether it's my own implementation (though I followed all the re
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I checked your feed, and it looks like your feed only contains the post summaries. Could you perhaps check your settings again? You can also try directly entering the URL for your feed if you're using a service like
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    That's a good idea! I'll look into implementing it. Thanks for the feedback.
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Ah yes. I probably should change the marketing language to reflect that an RSS or Atom feed is required. Sorry about the confusion :-) EDIT: This is a "coming soon" feature, but I've spoken with the folks at Readability and I'm going to be
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks! I'm happy to hear you like it. I'm still working on the details, but I want to create an easy way for someone to sell their blog's content as an ebook subscription that works on any eReader and isn't locked into a single platform (I
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Thanks! I'll take a look. Try adding http:// to the url. I'll fix that in a little bit and make sure it fails more gracefully :-)
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    It uses Mozilla Persona -- were you able to sign in using your Persona/BrowserID account? ( https://login.persona.org/ ) If you don't already have a Persona account, you should be able to create one using the login dialog itself. If you're
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    Hi! I made this as a side project to play around with Elastic Beanstalk and scalable ebook conversions, and it's now evolved into something a little bigger. I'd love some feedback, and it's still pretty experimental, so there will be some b
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    Show HN: Turn Your Blog Into a Downloadable Ebook(ebookglue.com)

    36 points by shantanubala 14y ago|39 comments
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    by shantanubala 14y ago

    I'd be careful not to attribute unexplained aspects of our desires and behavior to biology alone. A lot of it can be a social construction. If you're used to having your privacy regularly invaded from a very young age, it's possible that