aniketh

Re:What people are googling in real time on Thursday June 13, 2013 @01:00PM (#5875142)

And it looks like everyone in India is searching for only a few terms continuously : http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&ncol...

Re:ICANN Approves Dot-XXX Domain for Porn on Friday June 25, 2010 @11:41AM (#1461061)

more likely free.xxx

Re:Web prototype of Mail.app on Sunday May 23, 2010 @03:54AM (#1372004)

Have you looked at mailplane http://mailplaneapp.com/ ?

Re:23andme for only $99 today only on Friday April 23, 2010 @12:47PM (#1288612)

Wouldn't they be tied to the agreement that you had when you signed up for the data? I always thought that you'd have to agree with new "terms-of-use" whenever they change

Re:Piracy is a Market Correction. on Monday January 25, 2010 @03:25AM (#1074713)

The currency market in India for exchange rates in the black market till sometime ago gave better rates than legal conversion.

Re:GDrive is coming, 1GB free storage on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @12:59AM (#1049555)

Skydrive explorer [http://skydriveexplorer.com/index.php] offers integration with Windows Explorer

Re:How to detect a page request from Safari 4's Top Sites feature on Saturday January 09, 2010 @02:30AM (#1041181)

This was AVG antivirus link checker

Re:Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt on Friday October 16, 2009 @11:18AM (#885511)

wouldn't that just be defeated if the form post was intercepted?

Re:Joe Stump: Why I switched from PHP to Python on Saturday September 05, 2009 @11:42AM (#806639)

Wouldn't it be possible to write any additional functionality as a PHP extension in C/C++? This effectively becomes low entry with immense power...

Re:Eye candy is a critical business requirement on Monday August 24, 2009 @06:25AM (#781856)

Reminds me of someone else's problem fields :)

Re:Ask HN: Favorite board games? on Thursday February 05, 2009 @07:48AM (#467691)

you can try out kdice. pretty similar to risk

Re:Hello World Executable Sizes in 18 Languages on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @08:06AM (#453705)

don't forget you would have to add a shebang line to make it truly executable

Re:Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing y... on Friday January 09, 2009 @09:34AM (#426606)

Leechblock partially solves that I think https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

Re:Ask YC: What kind of corporate structure would never fire people? on Friday January 09, 2009 @07:30AM (#426504)

sole proprietorship?

Re:Twitter Hacker Says Admin Password Was 'Happiness' on Wednesday January 07, 2009 @07:00AM (#423325)

didn't realize an alternative to akismet existed... quick question : how come mollom says 78% of comments are spam, but akismet says 85%?

Re:Ask YC: Where do you buy domain names? on Friday November 28, 2008 @02:09AM (#379164)

How is the uptime of the websites? I've always wanted to try dreamhost considering they have amazing packages, but there are a lot of scary stories out there

Re:Distribute Your Content With Amazon CloudFront on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @06:51AM (#368147)

from the pricing table, I noticed that the cost in Japan was the highest. I always thought that Japan had a lot of bandwidth.

Ask HN : Which should I learn : C# or Java

Posted by aniketh on Sunday November 16, 2008 @12:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have been lurking on HN for some time now, and I have noticed that the languages of choice are python, lisp and ruby. However, I would prefer to learn either C# (and thus asp.net) or java. which one would be better? For the record, I have used php a lot, and code in c, c++ on the day job.

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Re:If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know? on Monday August 04, 2008 @09:30AM (#266238)

searched for bill clinton, and most likely this is not the right one, but the offense is amazing (EATTING ALL OF THE HAMBURGERS) : http://criminalsearches.com/details.aspx?id=53330029

Re:Favorite IDE for PHP? on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @07:01AM (#253152)

Komodo Edit

Re:Ask HN: How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still ... on Friday July 04, 2008 @10:21AM (#236225)

why not try http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html and http://www.dotomator.com/

Re:21 Laws of Computer Programming on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @06:26AM (#220655)

How true. I'm sure the laws will seem funny to people not used to programming...

Re:Ask HN: Do you want to touch the screen? on Monday June 02, 2008 @06:50AM (#206608)

how about optimus maximus : http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/9836/

Re:What to do if you are a good developer but no designer? on Friday May 30, 2008 @04:58AM (#204165)

why not pick up a readymade template? something from template monster; or maybe even some free template (oswd.org, freecsstemplates.org)?

Re:Ask HN: What are some good biographies to read? on Thursday May 29, 2008 @03:07AM (#203091)

Iacocca: An Autobiography He was responsible for the ford mustang, and later went on the revive Chrysler.

Re:A YC Clone in India on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @06:21AM (#158710)

i guess that is how it is. a lot of people trade the joy of work for job security.