ramk

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by ramk 7y ago
Kudos! Very nicely done. It would be nice to have an easy way to see more details about the satellite. For example, I see that tonight I can see CZ-2C R/B, though without a search I do not quite know anything more about the satellite.
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by ramk 7y ago
The official news announced by the ISRO chairman on the live broadcast was "the last signal received from the lander was 2.1 KM from the lunar surface. Data is being analyzed as of now". In all probability indicates a crash landin
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by ramk 7y ago
The series of 4 planned orbital maneuvers are outlined here https://www.isro.gov.in/update/14-aug-2019/chandrayaan-2-suc...
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Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter reading?
1 points by ramk 7y ago|1 comments
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by ramk 8y ago
Yes, they sound very expensive! As I understand, even earlier than that there were Time-Sharing computing businesses in the 60s and early 70s that charged per-hour for computing time which were expensive. I guess we have come a full circle
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by ramk 8y ago
Thank you for your personal perspective and the pointer to Remote Imaging Protocol. When you say you ran a BBS on your PC - how did others access the content on your BBS? Would others have access to the content when you were no longer conne
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Ask HN: Pre-Internet online services architecture
5 points by ramk 8y ago|6 comments
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by ramk 8y ago
Good point that his style and profanity is intentional. But perhaps he uses the non-civil tone to drive home the point which he makes it clearer in the follow up mail [1]. Especially because the original commit message [2] he is complaining
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by ramk 10y ago
Thank you, this worked. I just tweaked a bit to run through crontab and added a notification sound for the extra push :)
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by ramk 10y ago
Thanks for explaining what Jam does. Could you please talk a little bit about user engagement (how often does a typical user use Jam) ? Also how do you (or plan to) generate revenue ? The potential travel related feature you describe seems
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by ramk 10y ago
Sounds interesting. I don't know French, so could not try it out, but can you please elaborate a bit more on how it helps students ?