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by vinayan3 12y ago
They must have an army of trolls who are typing in tags.
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WIRED: "The AI Startup Google Should Probably Snatch Up Fast"(wired.com)
4 points by vinayan3 12y ago|0 comments
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by vinayan3 13y ago
Flash is the most distributed piece of software in the world. A few years ago it was installed on 1 billion devices. A very nice security target.
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by vinayan3 13y ago
Only developers would read that title and be certain of the meaning :). I agree with the bit about developers looking at software skeptically. Most of us do indeed think it doesn't work, it's a gimmick, and it could have been buil
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by vinayan3 13y ago
Terribly efficient.
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by vinayan3 13y ago
Yes! Let's save some bandwidth. It is great that there is no licensing involved. What is also wonderful with the speed that browsers are being updated we can get a high percentage of adoption of new codecs without depending on proprietary b
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by vinayan3 13y ago
If I use Adium on my Desktop and Hangouts on my phone will I see the group chats / google hangouts?
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by vinayan3 14y ago
[quote]I don't think a DOM tree is necessarily all in memory. For performance reasons you might cache the tree in memory, but that's not a requirement.[/quote] Yes it is not a requirement. What browser have you heard of storing in the tree
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Despite it rising who in the right mind would hold bit-coins besides for speculation? The exchange rates are so variable. As a very risky investment great idea but day to day currency? I suppose it isn't a bad way to pay people abroad a
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Level 5 is super hard
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World's first Startup Decelerator: XDenominator(thetechbeet.com)
2 points by vinayan3 14y ago|0 comments
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by vinayan3 14y ago
I wonder how much data the iOS app uses for it's vector based tiles compared with the Google maps one? Google Maps does seem a lot quicker than before.
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[Show HN]: Satirical Tech News; BondAngel: Kiva for Bail Bonds(thetechbeet.com)
1 points by vinayan3 14y ago|1 comments
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Indians copy Hacker News with HackerStreet India(hackerstreet.in)
3 points by vinayan3 14y ago|2 comments
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by vinayan3 14y ago
My concern is portability because that is the largest benefits of C at-least. C++ portability is less true however it is more portable than most languages.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
The housing unit looks very sterile. Almost like a hospital room. Some of the character of SF wil be lost.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Cool stuff! I don't use tmux but I might try it out just to see this :).
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by vinayan3 14y ago
One would wish these distinctions could be forgotten with calling the Win32api from JS. However, that is a pipe dream and could have an impact on performance.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
I don't see much of a downside as long as Reddit gives a price quote in bit coins and convert it the main currency Reddit uses, probably USD. The main problem for main-stream business using Bitcoin I think is the volatility. Losing money be
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Venture capital picks up the Moneyball strategy(venturebeat.com)
3 points by vinayan3 14y ago|1 comments
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by vinayan3 14y ago
I write a crawler for stats related to instagram profiles. This will make life much easier because soon enough all the other web profiles for Instagram will become less popular.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Have you ever thought of making a trading system that would buy tons of stock when a flash crash happens? It is going to happen again. If your system is ready and you buy before they shut the market down or roll back orders you could make a
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Callbacks do lead to hell. The back traces half the lead you now-where. I have been writing a scrapy crawler and sometimes when an exception happens it takes some grepping around to figure out where the value that is wrong actually was gene
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Yes. A side note the NFL office pushed the trading deadline to Thursday. It seems that deadlines across the board are being pushed back. We honestly don't know how the storm could have affected applicants.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
This thread could be social engineering to get someone to show some code in their editor which is 'secret sauce' to the project. :)
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by vinayan3 14y ago
I'm switching from Consolas to Source Code Pro Font!This font works in Emacs on Mac OS X! Let the fixed width font war begin. Apple Vs. Microsoft vs. Adobe.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
:( I've been living with roommates for a few years in SF. I want to move to a 1BR place I guess it won't happen till the bust happens.
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Hmm if you statically link everything gcc needs would cross-compiling from another computer not feasible?
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Good work but I have some issues with the concept. I mean using all the keyboard shortcuts must be a pain. Did they try to make it use the touch interface at all?
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by vinayan3 14y ago
Great article. Did anyone go to google finance and notice that Zynga took out a 100 million dollar loan? http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-30/zynga-gets-100-m... Have they blown through a ton of cash and are worried about dipping i

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