kalyan02

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by kalyan02 6y ago
Sometime back, I worked with a colleague who was completely blind. As I was introduced to this new would-be-teammate, I instinctively tried to thrust my hand forward for a handshake, only to stop myself short with a horrifying realization t
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by kalyan02 8y ago
Absolutely. Corporate/Enterprise accounts can opt-out of it.
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by kalyan02 8y ago
If you post them somewhere, I'd love to read.
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by kalyan02 9y ago
Brilliant. I love indian railways and keep wishing for frequent open data set releases. Looking at your notebooks, my interest has rekindled again. What are your thoughts on geocoding names of stations, to obtain GPS coordinates with better
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by kalyan02 11y ago
I left India 3 years back and from what I gather, salaries at reasonably good places have pretty much doubled and in few places tripled. Am not even talking about Google/Fb.
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by kalyan02 11y ago
There is no way they would reveal their most precious secret sauce for the sake of satisfying one country's law and I can only think of one way this can end - Google pulling off another Google News Spain, by shutting down Google.fr. Fo
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by kalyan02 11y ago
It was introduced on 1st of April and was definitely on the frontpage for few days. They also have a blog post [1] about it. [1] http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html
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by kalyan02 12y ago
> The only way to know if you love drawing at a competent level is to reach that level. In a sense it begs the question: how can you tell if you will enjoy doing something until you have the ability to actually do it? I have had such a r
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by kalyan02 12y ago
The phone itself is not capable of receiving the aircraft broadcasts/transmissions as they are sent at very specific radio frequency. All of what you see is actually being aggregated by a remote server from a number of receivers across
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by kalyan02 12y ago
Majority of these questions seem to be Trivia, which can be looked up. I don't see any need to learn them. They are probably nice to know but are not helpful in objectively evaluating a developers iOS skills. The important thing while
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by kalyan02 12y ago
The least they will need to stuff in there are the life support systems (food,air,etc) to deal with delays/emergencies
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by kalyan02 13y ago
Right time is when you think your project solves the same problems others may be facing and you think you need an extra help in furthering your efforts or when you have lost interest in the project From a completion standpoint, an MVP suffi
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by kalyan02 13y ago
I am 24. Oldest code online is from 2006 - I was 17 at that time. PHP web counters - http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?tx... And some open source web designs - http://www.opendes
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by kalyan02 13y ago
Self-Taught myself when I was around 14; Joined a CS course at 17; Am 24 now; I started learning c/c++ because I found books lying around and found the compiler installed on my windows 98. I later fiddled with some HTML at school and p
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Show HN: Flowr.js - jQuery plugin for flickr like flowing content(kalyan02.github.io)
1 points by kalyan02 13y ago|0 comments
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by kalyan02 13y ago
I guess, I misinterpreted. Its a pretty good idea. I wonder if there are any existing forums/groups already out there.
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by kalyan02 13y ago
While I appreciate the initiative, I dislike being asked for feedback for a closed product in an open forum. There is nothing to do on the site other than subscribe with twitter/email.
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by kalyan02 13y ago
Even 3 years back, competent programmers, fresh out of college, capable of doing half as good as work required to develop exploits and attacks, get paid atleast 5-8 times as much. While I understand the point you are trying to make, your ex
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by kalyan02 13y ago
You should be able to run it on windows as it is, by checking out the source and executing ./run.sh script or simply 'python main.py'. Building the standalone shouldn't be hard to do it with py2exe.
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Show HN: TumblrThemr - tool to develop tumblr themes offline(github.com)
4 points by kalyan02 13y ago|2 comments
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by kalyan02 14y ago
That is some ingenuity in sneaking the easter egg in, under the watchful eyes of so many others. I always thought, easter eggs were a mutually agreed upon things with a company and never occurred to me that they may involve having to go gre
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by kalyan02 14y ago
Build something. Anything. Small or big, doesn't matter. Just build - in your free time. If you don't have free time, make time. What to build? Pick something that you wish software/hardware did, but you don't know any that does.
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by kalyan02 15y ago
Seems to be heavily inspired from Gmail and all the latest Google's new design hoopla! Awesome nevertheless!