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by slaxman 13y ago
I think it's very difficult these days to browse the web with noscript. A lot of sites are heavily dependent on JS without a fallback plan. It's only going to get worse as per Atwood's law.
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by slaxman 13y ago
While that is one way of looking at it. It also encourages other companies to put in effort in finding different processes to produce the product. Whether the amount of effort involved is substantial or not is a different matter, but the en
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by slaxman 13y ago
May be I am over reacting, but I feel that he has no respect for the laws of the country where he wants to do business. I am sure Bayer knew how the patent system in India works before they entered the market.
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by slaxman 13y ago
I think one thing that India has got right is the patent system. As I understand, you can't patent as product in India, you can only patent the process. Thus multiple companies can have multiple process patent on the same product. This
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by slaxman 13y ago
1. cheap low level marketing campigns such as distributing flyers or putting up posters work well at the start 2. lesser the features your product has more customers love it. 3. taking an office space is much larger expense than it appears
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by slaxman 13y ago
I am a ployglot and know several indian and foreign languages. My favourite is Sanskrit. Why? Once I learnt Sanskrit, esp. the grammar, learning other languages was really easy. You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit.
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by slaxman 13y ago
In India. We are calling the Aam Aadmi Party (transalated to Common Man's Party) as the startup of the decade. They were formed just 9 months ago, with a single goal - to have corruption free politics. The founder Arvind Kejriwal did s
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by slaxman 13y ago
we have been experimenting with whatsapp for user engagement and I must say it's not too bad. folks are more likely to see your whatsapp message than your facebook post. I believe that if they open up their api it would do wonders for
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by slaxman 13y ago
This is brilliant. This means writing software that interfaces with real world physical items is going to get much simpler, quicker and more efficient. Awesome work.
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by slaxman 13y ago
I have heard that Play store rejects apps that are just a web browser. Is it true or just a rumour?
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by slaxman 13y ago
Thanks. That would take too much time though. Currently priority is to get the app out of the door asap.
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by slaxman 13y ago
Thanks! We already do serve mobile optimized content. I will checkout Phonegap for creating the app. Would it allow me to store data locally?
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by slaxman 13y ago
OP here. yes, creating APIs is not an issue. However I have never made an android app. I was therefore looking for a tool that will help me create one quickly (even if it wasn't perfect) than write the android app from scratch.
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Ask HN: What's the quickest way to port a Rails app to Android?
10 points by slaxman 13y ago|14 comments
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by slaxman 13y ago
We use trello. But it seems to become redundant since folks end up sending emails to other to update them on a task.
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Ask HN: Which is project management software do you use? And why?
2 points by slaxman 13y ago|6 comments
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by slaxman 13y ago
i dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list
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by slaxman 13y ago
Suprisingly, I have never even thought about compiling on Coffeescript since my rails app does that for me. Personally, I love using Coffeescript because it's just so much easier to write compared to javascript without thinking about b
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by slaxman 13y ago
great. Thanks!
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by slaxman 13y ago
Wow! This is great! One question: Why is this free. I think this should be a paid app.
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by slaxman 13y ago
I am not too sure that would work. in my experience having something hanging over your head tends to make you go harder at your startup once you have made the decision to do it. on the other hand, when things are comfortable, you are okay
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by slaxman 13y ago
I am a rails developer and recently shifted to using postgres. it's stuff like this that I love about the rails postgres combination. It makes writing code so easy. agreed that it may do 80% of functionality of current gems but with
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by slaxman 13y ago
I know a lot of friends of mine who have C/C++/PHP background struggle with rails at the start, primarily because of the magic of convention over configuration that happens (they aren't used to it). It takes a while to unders
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by slaxman 13y ago
37signals is one of them. They were in the software consulting business and built applications for in house use to manage their projects. They later realized that their clients need those applications as well. I believe tumblr was a side p
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by slaxman 13y ago
I agree. The explanation seems so obvious on an after thought. Unfortunately, mainstream doctors will take a while to change 50 years of opinion. I am especially surprised that sunflower & soya oil are bad for health. Almost every one s
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Stop cribbing about the ecosystem(slaxman.com)
1 points by slaxman 13y ago|0 comments
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by slaxman 13y ago
The thing is you don't know how the site is going to playout. IMHO their biggest advantage is having artists annotate the lyrics. It gives fans an insight in to the song like never before. Monetization will come in time. But first, the
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by slaxman 13y ago
Yes, the noscript tag can be used. In fact if you see Rails' implementation of unobtrusive javascript, the application defaults to its html behaviour in case javascript is off. However, not all frameworks take this approach. Moreover t
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by slaxman 13y ago
well said. The fault lies in assuming that the rest of the world works like the way we (hackers) do. The fact is that they do not. Further, many of end users actually do like some of those animations that we find shitty. JS makes the web fe
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by slaxman 13y ago
May be that works for you. But a significant number of web developers are moving on JS frameworks for web development such Angular, Meteor, Node, etc. Most sites built on these frameworks will break is javascript is disabled. As an end user

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