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Re:Ask HN: Where can I live off 1k USD per month? on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:59PM (#28335525)
It depends on the city. I am living in Mumbai since 2014 and faced power outage only once which was due to grid failure caused by some cyber attack.

Otherwise, there is uninterrupted power supply 24x7x365.

Ask HN: What are the best SAAS options to set up an online store?

A friend of mine has a designer garment & jwellary business and she wants to setup an online store. I think instead of using a custom made or open source option it is better to use a SAAS provider for a couple of years to see how it goes.So, who are the best SAAS e-commerce providers right now in terms of features & quality of service?

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Like many other verticals there are many technological innovations happening in photography too. This "smartphone attachable lens-style camera" is one of these recent innovations. I can't comment on quality of the lens itself but they must be far better than that of a standard camera installed on mobile phones. These lenses can be used both attached/detached to the mobile phone. They use NFC (if your phone is into that sort of thing) or create their very own Wi-Fi signal to connect with the phone.

I first read about such lenses and other similar products on http://photojojo.com/store/ . They have such products for both android and iphone.

Now, is it worth it? Depends on your requirements. If you don't want to get into professional photography but still want to improve the quality of your photographs you can use one of these. However, remember that these don't replace DSLRs.

1. Mobile Camera : average quality/almost zero creative control/very good mobility

2. Mobile Camera + Lens accessory : better quality/almost no creative control/good mobility

3. Point & Shoot Camera : decent quality/little creative control/good mobility

4. Hybrid/Zoom Camera : decent quality/very high optical zoom/decent creative control/poor mobility

5. Mirrorlesss/Interchangeable Lens Camera : Good quality/Good Creative Control/average mobility

6. DSLRs : Good quality/Good Creative Control/Poor Mobility

I personally prefer to keep [1] in my pocket & [5] in my bag(along with lenses). I also have an old Zoom Camera that usually sits in my home. I occasionally use it together with a teleconverter lens to take photographs of sun, moon & objects/people that are far far away.

Side effects of HN outage : HN Notify service sending multiple notifications

Now that the HN is up & running again I noticed that the HN Notify(http://hnnotify.com/) service I am using is sending multiple notifications of same comments again and again. Is that one of side affects of HN outage?Also, out of 7 comments 5 are gone.Here is the screenshot : http://i.imgur.com/bhSwrOg.jpgHere is the link to thread : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7015082

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Ask HN: Where to begin when learning hardware hacking?

For someone having a decade of experience in software application development(mostly web applications) but not so much knowledge about hardware, what is the best approach to get into hardware hacking?C was the first programming language I learned and while I was in college I did some fun projects like developing a graphics & GUI library from scratch using just BIOS interrupt calls to set...

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What about those in India who traded using localbitcoins.com? Is there any possibility that they too can get into legal trouble or affected in some other way?

Ask HN: I am writing a book on web design. Any suggestions?

I am about to start a new side project and this time I am interested in writing a book on "Web Design". My primary target audience are hackers who want to get better at web design and use the knowledge & skills to develop well designed front-ends for their product. Here are my initial thoughts on how I would like to go about it :1. I don't want it to be a 500 page HTML reference. There are...

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Re:Ask HN: What Should My Little Bro Learn After HTML & CSS? on Thursday November 14, 2013 @09:28PM (#6737314)
Here is what I will suggest :

1. CSS Preprocessing Language : Any one of LESS or SASS.

2. Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.

3. Concepts of UI/UX Design.

4. Let him do some projects and hone his skills. How about making his own website/portfolio or making some HTML templates/themes and try selling it on marketplaces like themeforest?

5. Once he becomes good at UI/UX Design & Development he can then focus on back-end. I would suggest him to go with Python & Flask. Learning Python language will not only help him in web application development but it will also allow him to explore & play other interesting stuff like Machine Learning, Computer Vision, etc.

Re:Is there any theme marketplace that doesn't suck? on Monday November 11, 2013 @11:48PM (#6715904)
My email to founder :

I would like to suggest that you need to improve the quality of feedbacks you provide to theme developers when their submissions get rejected. Theme developers work hard to develop themes and they atleast deserve a proper feedback about what are the exact reasons their submission got rejected. This will help them make changes and improve the design if possible. I understand that to maintain the quality of themes in your marketplace you need to reject some themes but why not do it with a proper feedback? Is it that much time consuming?

At them moment they just get a standard reply that their item must be improved in one or more of the following areas:

- Visual quality and appeal

- Technical quality

- Originality

This is a terrible form of communication and a terrible user experience for theme developers who provide all the themes you sell at your marketplace. I wish you take some time out and do something about it.

Is there any theme marketplace that doesn't suck?

I hate how theme marketplaces treat their developers. Recently I submitted a template and it got rejected. May be it wasn't up to the standards but it was really disheartening to see how they communicated the rejection. This is what I got in my inbox:----Hello,Thank you for submitting your item. Unfortunately, this submission has been rejected.Your item must be improved in one or more of the...

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Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @08:48AM (#6674988)
I don't know how different are the work environment of ISRO and DRDO but I guess it must be same. One of my colleague at Tata Consultancy Services, an ABAP developer, left his job with decent salary and an opportunity to go to UK for an offshore project of 2 years. Why? To join DRDO at salary 4 times less than what he was getting coz he hated his work and was passionate about working on something that is not just interesting but also makes a difference.

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