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Re:Ask HN: I love paying attention to detail. Is there a career for me? on Saturday April 01, 2017 @03:23PM (#14013672)
Thanks a lot for taking time to write a valuable advice. I'd love to learn more from you and your experiences.

I've not yet decided what exactly I want to do but I love computers. I can spend hours and hours trying to do stuffs on it. I also love helping people. I'll tell you what I do mostly, whenever I have someone visit my home, I ask for their phone, connect to my W-Fi and update their apps from Play Store or App Store, enable/disable some settings for privacy.

I don't know but I love doing it. I'm thinking of starting a computer repair business and I'm damn sure I'll rock at it. But somewhere I'm lacking confidence.

I don't play video games but I spend a lot of time watching videos on YouTube, some educational and some just for fun.

In short, I'm just in this world. No idea what to do with my life. Please advice me more on this.

Ask HN: I love paying attention to detail. Is there a career for me?

Posted by ghantila on Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a 23 year old guy. Currently jobless and trying to figure out things for me. I've realised that I love fixing things.By that I mean, I love making things better. I pay attention to the smallest detail in whatever I do. Be it cleaning my room, cleaning dust from CPU, I clean each and every part. I absolutely take care of spacing, new lines, tabs while I'm coding if that makes sense. You know...

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Re:Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight on Friday August 14, 2015 @01:43PM (#10061534)
Instead of skipping the breakfast, try not to eat after sun-set. Trust me, you'll love the difference you'll see after a few months.

Disclaimer: I'm following this principle every single day from past 2 years.

Re:The NoScript Misnomer on Monday June 29, 2015 @03:39PM (#9800393)
Someone is already doing that.

https://hosts.neocities.org/

Warning: Hosts file too large. Could cause problems with Windows DNS Cache.

Re:Nginx 1.8.0 stable has been released on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:08PM (#9422797)
Yeah! Exactly. 1.9.0 is set to release on April 28, 2015.
Re:Nginx 1.8.0 stable has been released on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:06PM (#9422780)
See [1] and [2].

[1] explains which version should you use. (I probably go with mainline).

All the newest features are added to mainline releases. By the time most of the bugs are fixed, their version is renumbered and branch is forked to make a stable release.

[2] is where you see the information about upcoming nginx releases.

[1] http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/ [2] http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap

Re:Ask HN: I have no goal and I don't know what to do next on Friday April 10, 2015 @04:04AM (#9353023)
I don't know about depressed mode but I don't feel like doing anything. I don't have a teacher. I learn things myself with the help of internet. But when someone asks me to make something for them, say a computer program or a script, I feel that I wouldn't be able to do it. I just don't feel confident about anything. My situation is similiar to this [1] and this [2].

I'll try listing all my intersets and locate the things that I can do days and nights without feeling bore.

And about the organizations in India, as far as I know, they're interested in producing "quantity" and not "quality". I just can't work for a company that doesn't give a shit to quality, no matter what the work is.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761134

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710006

Re:Ask HN: I have no goal and I don't know what to do next on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:49AM (#9352996)
No, I'm not in US. I'm from India.

Ask HN: I have no goal and I don't know what to do next

Posted by ghantila on Thursday April 09, 2015 @03:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I can't explain you how I'm spending day and night but something is wrong with me. I read lots of articles about web designing, programming and hacking but that's about it. What do I do with this knowledge? I've no goal it seems. I learned about computers on my own (via Google actually). Friends and family consult with me before purchasing a new computer/laptop/smartphone or if something goes...

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Ask HN: Why are Indian websites designed so badly?

Posted by ghantila on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:29PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I mean, just look at these:http://india.gov.in/http://www.webanalytics.gov.in/http://www.indianrail.gov.in/https://www.irctc.co.in/There's no end to this list. Why doesn't Indian government take some action to hire more capable designers. This isn't the first time it is been told that Indian websites are designed by school kids.Is there any reason Indian government isn't taking care of it?

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Re:Newest version of uTorrent has Bitcoin mining offer during install on Friday March 06, 2015 @05:11PM (#9159920)
Did anyone notice? uTorrent main setup file is packed by UPX and is made unpack-able by UPX itself by modifying some bytes in the packed UPX. Why would a developer do that? Point.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a site to find ppl to work on projects with based ... on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:13AM (#9106535)
I'm a front-end developer from India. Just tell me your email address.
Re:Filezilla at SourceForge is malware on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:55AM (#8850753)
If you really need FileZilla, you can directly download the portable version with this workaround.

Visit http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/filezilla/FileZilla... to directly start downloading

Or, switch to someother FTP client.

References:

List of FTP Server Software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FTP_server_software

Comparision of FTP Client Software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_client_softw...

Re:The First Website Ever Made on Thursday January 01, 2015 @03:02AM (#8822420)
Hey look, even then there was a <header> tag.
Re:India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pa... on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:14PM (#8820647)
I'm on Airtel Broadband, and all the 32 websites are working fine (atlease for now). May be because I'm using Google Public DNS.
Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such mem... on Saturday December 27, 2014 @10:03AM (#8802716)
I uninstalled right after hearing from Mozilla [1] about the effects of AdBlock Plus on Firefox. Since, then I'm blocking things manually.

First I was using this [2] hosts file by Dan Pallock. But now I've switched to this Neocities [3] hosted site. I don't know who manages this site, but the entries are uniquely sorted from various sources, which includes entries from Dan Pallock's hosts file.

Apart from this, I use Privacy Badger [4], Self-Destructing Cookies [5], HTTPS-Everywhere [6] and Disconnect [7].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

[2] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

[3] https://hosts.neocities.org/

[4] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

[6] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[7] https://disconnect.me/

Re:Ask HN: How to refresh on modern features of C++? on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @11:09AM (#8788669)
cppreference.com is a good resource too. It's updated frequently.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/

Re:Using Google’s prettify to add syntax highlighting to code snippets on Monday December 22, 2014 @07:05AM (#8782800)
Prism is a good light-weight alternative.

http://prismjs.com/

Re:Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload? on Sunday December 07, 2014 @04:42PM (#8713684)
I had the same problem. I solved it by trimming down to one thing and doing, learning and reading about only that one thing.

Remember: Jack of all trades is a master of none.

You want to do everything or do just one thing and be a master in it?

I'd say, try following Google's Philosophy #2 https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/philosophy/