wizardofmysore

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Do you need to move away from Java?(medium.com)
2 points by wizardofmysore 7y ago|0 comments
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by wizardofmysore 7y ago
Same here in India
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India's second moon mission take off / launch video(isro.gov.in)
2 points by wizardofmysore 7y ago|0 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
As mentioned "I am gathering the best practices around technical documentation.". This is for my tech company and we are looking towards improving the way we do documentation.
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Ask HN: What is the technical document format that you use?
6 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|5 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
It depends on which conference you are looking at, if Brian Goetz had a talk on concurrency best practices then it would definitely be something to think about.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
1$ has a purchase power of ~18 rupees. So 140rs in India is equivalent to 7$ if you do a PPP conversion. This is based on 2016 rates. https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/india/ppp-conversion-factor
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
When did HN become Reddit?
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Ask HN: Would you participate in an advance Java forum?
2 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|0 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
I suggest you read "how to talk to anyone, anytime and anywhere" by Larry King. It is not a bs self-help book. It is written by an expert in a very professional way. There are actionable insights in it. I am a senior engineer, I u
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Having built products from scratch I know for a fact that selling to the first 10 users is really hard but if you give it to them for free and get the feedback on what didn't work and improved on it - it makes selling to the next 100 p
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Have a trial for a period you think is enough for the company to know they'll get value out of using your product and post that ask for a licence fee. To start with I suggest you give the MVP product for free. The users will be paying
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Dev here. I worked in the company that used Jira. Used it for 4 years. It was really useful. It is anyday better than getting tasks over email. We had very minimal customisations. A simple set of swimlanes that we update throughout the prod
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Ask HN: How do you validate a product idea?
1 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|1 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
No. If the customer is at fault there is no problem in blaming them especially if they run a smear campaign.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Do they ask for direct bank transfer? US government should educate citizens about the only accepted ways of payment to US gov.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Hahaha the landing page quotes the creator of the app.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Seems more like the XKCD comic on standards. I really loved the tenets given, ie.. Useable Readable Composable Testable Contributable Shareable But post that the article really failed to connect how the new language is going to do the abov
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Ask HN: Do you follow utilitarianism? If not what is your moral framework?
4 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|2 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
ag was a development over grep.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Couple of things to look for * Language preference * What is present out of the box * How easy it is to extend * Performance I'd pick one among Django, Rails or one of the popular Js stacks for the backend. For the front end the same c
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Java is a great language for larger companies which need to focus on performance, cross platform support and high code quality. I have worked with python and Java for a living and when there is a project that is going to last for couple of
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
That'd place java at the top. I wouldn't recommend java for a starter website though.
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Why would you put rails over Django? I have used Django in the past but don't have much idea about rails or ruby, could you shed some light?
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Ask HN: What are the best practices for an open source project?
1 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|2 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
This is Mi Max 2 in India. I can see the option to disable those notifications blocked. There was no need to say the "do not cry wolf" part but I guess some people don't know how to be civil and uncover facts before jumping i
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MI forcing notifications without ability to disable them
1 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|2 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Exactly. I am in India and I frequently get SMS and calls about web hosting services, they use the name and number I provide while registering the domain. It is definitely not shady if I want my info hidden from these spammers.
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Ask HN: What music helps you code better?
35 points by wizardofmysore 8y ago|50 comments
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by wizardofmysore 8y ago
Disagree. Amazon.in teams sits here and all of the India related initiatives are done here, which include lucrative initiatives as well - which I won't delve into. However it is also true that some of the US operational burden is sent

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