shwetank

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by shwetank 2y ago
I'm working on Voohy ( https://voohy.com ), a platform for leadership development. It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who want to do it right. I'm solo bootstrapping it. It has a combinati
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by shwetank 8y ago
>What's more, because the barrier for entry as well as people's own expectations were that much lower it meant you saw a hell of a lot more individuality in the content posted. People would literally put a website up about thei
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by shwetank 8y ago
>the Web was far more pleasant when it was about hyperlinked documents and not this cloud-computing-inspired frenzy. The web was far more useful for you . I, for one, am glad the days of IE6 and the lot are over.
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by shwetank 8y ago
> And now, random websites can grab control of my radios? With JavaScript? No. Only the user allows it. >FFS. This is like the battery api. Too much time spent on "can we", too little time spent on "should we". The
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by shwetank 8y ago
I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can translate well on film.
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by shwetank 8y ago
Think more from the inference angle. There are a lot of use cases for ML and many are using native apps or desktop apps. This allows you to run it on the browser on the web, which significantly broadens the amount of people who can use it.
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by shwetank 10y ago
With the growing use of Whatsapp in India, SMS is actually quickly dying as a medium of communication between humans here. Poeple who have whatsapp (there's a lot of them in india) seem to use that to communicate instead of SMS (which
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by shwetank 10y ago
Opera does still contribute quite a lot to blink/chromium (check out https://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/ which lists them), though the gist of what you've said still stands.
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by shwetank 10y ago
Maybe take a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/3xb7n6/how_ex...
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by shwetank 11y ago
In Opera, you can right click on any tab in the tab menu, and click 'save tabs as speed dial folder'. All open tabs will be saved in a folder on your speed dial. If you wan to open them again, you can right-click the speed dial fo
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by shwetank 11y ago
If you haven't, I would recommend you look into m-Pesa. In some countries (not all countries), M-Pesa uses USSD (like Tanzania I think). Overall, some of the solutions for payments and banking being implemented in some developing count
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by shwetank 11y ago
With the [Opera addons catalog]( https://addons.opera.com ), every update goes through a moderation process to prevent this kind of situation from happening (which is one of the reasons why we encourage everyone to install extensi
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by shwetank 11y ago
Extensions in Opera based on the chromium model, but have a few unique APIs too, like the ones for speed dial and the sidebar, which are not there in chrome.
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by shwetank 11y ago
And the sidebar extension for Opera for Hacker News (using Dharmesh Patel's app) https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/hackernews-si...
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by shwetank 11y ago
We at Opera have called on for a single (or at leat a shared) API for making browser extensions, which I think will benefit the developer community immensely (instead of making one set for each browser). I think now the time is right to tak
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by shwetank 11y ago
Opera already has support for Sidebar extensions, you can check it out here https://dev.opera.com/extensions/tut_sidebar_actions.html
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by shwetank 11y ago
The article links to that page. I don't think its absolutely necessery for the article itself to have a play button, as long as it links to a page which does.
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Synthesising Drum Sounds with the Web Audio API(dev.opera.com)
59 points by shwetank 11y ago|8 comments
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by shwetank 11y ago
Also the fact that you can embed youtube videos in other web pages.
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Electronics for the JavaScript Developer Using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE(dev.opera.com)
76 points by shwetank 11y ago|11 comments
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by shwetank 11y ago
This more or less should work with Opera extensions too.
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by shwetank 12y ago
More than that, its a project which a number of other browser also rely on and contribute to, for example Opera.
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by shwetank 12y ago
Firstly, just because someone makes a compile-to-js language doesn't mean they ncesserily "hate" JS ... I mean, it may , but it could also very well mean that they prefer their own language instead of JS, but not hate JS per
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by shwetank 12y ago
Encryption is mandatory for WebRTC. It uses DTLS for it - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6347
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Getting to know CSS Blend Modes(dev.opera.com)
1 points by shwetank 12y ago|0 comments
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by shwetank 12y ago
It's still pretty popular even now. More than 250 million people use it worldwide.