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Re:Why Blog? on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:51PM (#758696)
The reasons for Why One should blog are not really pointed out. Its a very personal article. But I like the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons in there.

Ask HN: Which site's APIs use/need oAuth protocol for authetication

Posted by amit_pradhan on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I know that Twitter API requires oAuth. I want to know if I implement a generic oAuth library in javascript (mostly for firefox extensions), which other site API developers might find it useful.Please dont reply with sites which using something "like" oAuth but not really oAuth (e.g. Yahoo's BBAuth)

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Aks HN: Bing's search strategy is different from MSN?

Posted by amit_pradhan on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:43AM
from the self-post dept.

I understand Bing is from microsoft who until few days back was pushing MSN search. I have started using Bing and have realized that it doesnt really suck like MSN. I also read news about Yahoo and Bing coming together.I just wanted to know if the search algorithms used by Bing are different than what was used for MSN. Because the results are pretty good with Bing.

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Re:Political Game Theory [pdf] on Monday June 22, 2009 @03:33AM (#668397)
This is classy. A very very useful link on Game theory.
Re:Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman on Monday June 22, 2009 @03:25AM (#668388)
I had read this book few months back. The link just refreshed my memory. The book is an amazing read.
Re:Virtual Companies, Virtual Teams Real money on Monday June 22, 2009 @03:24AM (#668387)
The concept of VCE is really amazing. Applied to freelancing concept it does have potential to change the outsourcing concepts upside down.
Re:Calvin and Hobbes Giant Collection (A strip ever published) on Friday June 12, 2009 @06:50AM (#654449)
What about the copyright dude?
Re:Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:44AM (#647010)
The only similarity between C&H and Garfield is that most of the time they share the same paper space in the daily newspaper.

But then Porn Ad and Obama's speech too share the same space yet they are different :)

Re:Life through a progressive 5 year old Calvin and Hobbes on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:42AM (#647009)
I would agree with this. The part that I really like about this cartoon was that despite being Calvin's despise for education and he being termed as dumb by conventional educational standards, he comes across as a boy on unusual intelligence.
Re:Ask HN: Does immense pain and sowrrows lead man to the ultimate truth? on Saturday June 06, 2009 @06:45AM (#644683)
its that people remember god only when they are in trouble. When it comes to Christian missionaries, they catch people in sorrow and try to preach them their religion as they are soft targets.
Re:Ask HN: Does religion have a future on Saturday June 06, 2009 @03:42AM (#644603)
This is very interesting observation. Over last few centuries we have seen many religions evolving drastically, I guess the far future will have religions but they will evolve in such a way that I and you may not be able to find resemblance between them and todays religion