sankara

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by sankara 14y ago
I'm sorry, can't refrain from correcting you. It's Gandhi not Ghandi. And I see this mistake very prevalent.
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by sankara 14y ago
In general it's a fine balance of what makes a v1. It's a huge challenge to identify those features that are must have vs those that are good to have. A poor v1 experience will chase your early adopters away and I doubt many people give a s
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by sankara 14y ago
Is there a reason you chose to do this as an app instead of a webapp?
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by sankara 14y ago
How does it matter if I use data for my phone or my computer? To some extent I agree that this would end up costing higher when the carrier has unlimited data. But even there, if more people start "misusing" the connection (download songs,
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by sankara 14y ago
I think it's all about demand. You can compare the following two links for yourself. It's really easy to get a laptop without any OS in India. Amazon: http://amzn.to/OasYWz Flipkart: http://bit.ly/Q72mcV
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by sankara 14y ago
What you say makes sense for the screening rounds - resume shortlisting and a phone screen. These are centered around rejecting candidates. But face to face interviews are supposed to be the other way. As far as I know, Google asks for the
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by sankara 15y ago
This is one of the most careless mistakes devs make especially those not so experienced with security. Not without a reason it is there in the fourth spot of OWASP top ten: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-A4 I really love Gith
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Securing DNS Requests(opendns.com)
2 points by sankara 15y ago|0 comments
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If You Interviewing Programmers Like This, You Are Doing It Wrong (thecodist.com)
2 points by sankara 15y ago|2 comments
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by sankara 15y ago
Anyone who remembers the initial events would remember very well that the Nano was overbooked initially. So it is not the price point that led to lowered sales. Cheap in price is in general associated with cheap in quality as well - market
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by sankara 15y ago
India is doing good in software patents and drug patents as well. Software cannot be patented and drugs have to be innovative (incremental is not good enough). http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-13/india...
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by sankara 15y ago
May be someone could answer a question I have for a long time. There are two different modes of operations wrt the mobile phone industry. US and most other European countries package phone and services together. Whereas in a lesser sophisti
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by sankara 15y ago
>> Bad position Bad sitting posture, bad chairs and anything that could strain the spinal cord could result in serious issues. A friend was just short of a disk slip because of his sitting posture. He had a bad headache and after a
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by sankara 15y ago
If they are using number of questions as the benchmark I would buy your argument. It doesn't matter if pageviews is considered. Developing for Android and searching for a solution related to android need not happen from an android device. M
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by sankara 15y ago
"Now isn't that cruelty" - was meant at the species going extinct. Just a pun. Not a literal comparison with slaughter.
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by sankara 15y ago
Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.
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by sankara 15y ago
>>but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so. This is a hypothetical statement and there are n different ways our world could have diverged. Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward. In a
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by sankara 15y ago
Exaggeration and over generalization. You should check with a decent CA on the number of people availing their services to file tax. And just so you know there are 30 million people filing tax returns every year. Quite a low number (in comp
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by sankara 15y ago
You still have to file tax returns. There are many reasons for that. Just to state one, capital gains doesn't come under the ambit of TDS.
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by sankara 15y ago
Actually you don't even need photoshop. Firebug would do.
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by sankara 15y ago
Amazon has created new markets. The article mentions Kindle and AWS. The ebook reader and ebooks did not (really) exist before Kindle. Same with AWS.
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by sankara 15y ago
My first phone was a Nokia. My subsequent phones were Nokia too. All these phones predate the iPhone era. Nokia's phone were rock solid. One even survived a fall from the first floor with minor scratches. But their interface was one of the
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by sankara 15y ago
The concept is great. Kudos to that. Just a minor quirk - there is no timezone information in the create new call page. Even if timezones are not supported, indicating the current timezone would have helped.
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by sankara 15y ago
Introducing Cleartrip Enamel - http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2011/4/1/introducing-clear...
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Microsoft takes Google complaint to EU(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by sankara 15y ago|0 comments
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by sankara 15y ago
Apple should follow suit.
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What Women in the US Could Learn from Indonesians(techcrunch.com)
2 points by sankara 16y ago|0 comments
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Walden invests $6 mn in BankBazaar.com(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2 points by sankara 16y ago|0 comments
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by sankara 16y ago
This is not new. This has been there for quite sometime.
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by sankara 16y ago
You should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre "Since 1983, it is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second"

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