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by waqas- 6y ago
never using docker again...
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by waqas- 7y ago
This is the most important comment. Whenever i hear about someones saying that "XYZ should do something about fake news" i understand that they really dont understand the depth of the problem. Solving "fake news" is a no
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by waqas- 7y ago
most tech companies are bubbles or at least unrealistically over valued. its just that if you keep believing the myth long enough, it starts being true.
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by waqas- 10y ago
> "You should not be down here, but hello" this line sent shudders down my spine. does this happen to everyone?
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by waqas- 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303154
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by waqas- 10y ago
yes we have permanent 301 forwards set up since day 0. but still it happened in the short run.
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by waqas- 10y ago
im talking about when microservices expose apis consumed via ajax. then https-http connections dont work.
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by waqas- 10y ago
im a lead dev for a large publisher. when we switched over to https we faced the following non-trivial issues: 1. a lot of third party advertisers/ad servers still run on http, these ads need to be embedded via DFP usually, which you c
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Google asked for money to remove blasphemous content: Senate Committee Chairman(en.dailypakistan.com.pk)
1 points by waqas- 11y ago|0 comments
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by waqas- 11y ago
a kill button comes later in the process. on android apps start in the background without being initiated by the user. windows had the simple "msconfig" to change that, linux doesnt even lets apps get startup permissions without a
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Why do we accept bullshit from Android/ios?
5 points by waqas- 11y ago|3 comments
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by waqas- 11y ago
they DO hire more call center agents than engineers
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by waqas- 11y ago
if your clients cant understand the difference between post and page after 5 minutes of explaining, they are clearly nincompoops and no cms will ever be able to put them out of their misery.
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by waqas- 11y ago
i really believed in Symbian, but they fucked it up didnt they
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by waqas- 11y ago
this makes me a little wet
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by waqas- 12y ago
why isnt this exploding all over the web? this is highway robbery from google
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by waqas- 13y ago
hey. The good thing about a one man operation is that you dont have any overheads. I started my startup with 4 people, but later learned that one was enough to start off with and i should scale according to the profits im making - instead
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by waqas- 13y ago
wow!
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by waqas- 13y ago
facebook has explicitly stated its policy that if a page or a person is involved in violence, or offers a credible threat of violence the page will be shut down. i did not make those rules, facebook did. and these people have nothing to do
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Facebook says Taliban's page 'doesn't contain credible threat of violence'
1 points by waqas- 13y ago|2 comments
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by waqas- 13y ago
well, that escalated quickly...
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Bradley Manning's latest speech reminds me of how 1984 ends(pastebin.com)
3 points by waqas- 13y ago|0 comments
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by waqas- 13y ago
is it cool if the startup is in Pakistan? :P
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by waqas- 13y ago
hmmm..thats a very good point. also, i didnt notice that about RoR. altho, they do mention it once, ure right that they dont make a big deal out of it. so, we can change our homepage copy to be more focused on the clients and problems/solu
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by waqas- 13y ago
also, that is an interesting thread, will look into it more.
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by waqas- 13y ago
we will do a/b testing on the landing page soon so we will try a couple of things. we want both clients and freelancers so will mix it up :D yes, that is a good idea. we will definitely include those networks in our outreach efforts. what c
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Ask HN: Some advice for a startup from Pakistan?
1 points by waqas- 13y ago|5 comments
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by waqas- 13y ago
how awesome are you? thanks
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by waqas- 13y ago
sorry if i wasnt clear, im talking about pagination of lists on HN
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by waqas- 14y ago
north korea in not capable of complex engineering and manufacturing. developing a nuclear weapon does not illustrate anything in that regard, what it does illustrate is that any nation with enough paranoia (or valid external threats even) a

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