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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud D...
on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:12AM (#9270188)
All cloud storage services offer unlimited storage in one form or another. It will be interesting to see who comes up with the most seamless solution for managing limited on device memory storage with unlimited storage on the cloud. Users may also want different files to be synced on different devices. I have only used Dropbox among all of these services, and its current manual Selective Sync is a clumsy way to manage data.
Re:SaaS: 4 Mistakes We’ve Done During Our Beta And How To Avoid Them
on Friday March 21, 2014 @09:38AM (#7442190)
Everyone starting up should print this out on a paper and stick it over their desk. I have made all of these mistakes myself. Collectively, they suck out usage from your product when you need it most.
Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:34AM (#7269074)
As someone who is a heavy user of both Whatsapp, GTalk/Hangouts and FB Messenger, I find Whatsapp to be much faster than others. So, there could be some technological value to this deal.
Microsoft had its own Live Messenger and Lync too, so the acquisition in both cases was for the user base and the brand than technology IMO.
Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs
on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:26AM (#7269050)
They did for prices ranging from $1 - $2 per month. But text messaging does not do groups remotely as well as Whatsapp does.
Re:I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what reall...
on Sunday December 29, 2013 @06:07PM (#6981931)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley
A terrorist part of the 26/11 attacks on Bombay who was an informant for US DEA.
Which NGO should I contribute to for the DEA to realise that human life has value beyond the territorial borders of United States? White Men's burden is back.
Re:Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction
on Saturday November 23, 2013 @02:03PM (#6787011)
In India, if you deposit more than Rupees 50,000 ( roughly USD 850) to another person's account in cash, you need to provide your PAN card number - which is a unique number issued by the Income Tax Authority. I am sure a huge number of transactions are done illegally beyond this system but the threshold for anonymous legal transactions is pretty low.
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Re:The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree
on Monday September 30, 2013 @04:56AM (#6468472)
Completely agree. The average Indian middle class parent has a lot of other beliefs too which are comfortably side-stepped by their children. In my personal experience, many people use their parents' views as an excuse for their own lack of conviction in what they want to do.
Re:Big buttons are great, but they'd better make sense
on Saturday September 21, 2013 @08:14AM (#6422716)
Those big buttons seem more like a bad onboarding implementation than call-to-action buttons.
Re:Has the time come to kill the Remember Me checkbox? (2009)
on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:10PM (#6342093)
The only major site where I see it checked by default is GMail. Any others?
Re:Has the time come to kill the Remember Me checkbox? (2009)
on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:09PM (#6342090)
This is one of the more ideal scenarios. Aren't browsers doing something similar when they send a "Do not Track header"? I can think of other instances where this kind of browser configuration can be very useful.
Re:Two-factor Authentication
on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:01PM (#6342062)
Okay, I can set an Indian fallback number, but did not get the SMS.
Has the time come to kill the Remember Me checkbox? (2009)
Re:Two-factor Authentication
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:34PM (#6323208)
I cannot use an Indian fallback SMS number. Wonder, what is behind that.
Re:Beyond Flat
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @03:29PM (#6323164)
I have only used Android as my primary phone. But, I am still confounded by the back button. For example, I am using twitter and get a notification ( from say Facebook ) and jump in to the app from the notification drawer. I see the photo, like it and want to go back to the twitter app. I hit back expecting to go to Twitter but it takes me to the facebook feed. This is not "wrong" but seems messy.
I wish that Android makes it more clear to app makers what the back button should/can do, and then make them adopt a similar behaviour.
Re:Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
on Friday August 30, 2013 @09:54AM (#6301710)
I have often wondered about this but never knew this was so universal. The Ryanair example is unforgettable. For someone taking first steps in to UI design, this came at a great time for me.
Re:Bootstrap 3 released
on Monday August 19, 2013 @05:25PM (#6239963)
If you are looking for SASS and Rails, this port works great. https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
Re:Why does Angular.js rock?
on Sunday August 04, 2013 @07:47AM (#6155367)
As someone who made that choice a while back, I can understand your reasons. I was also familiar with Python from my projects at college and so Django was a natural choice for building a web app. But, I struggled with a lot of basics in Django and then switched to Rails. I can speak with confidence that Rails ecosystem is amazing and the learning curve is easier thanks to the bunch of tutorials and screencasts available.
Though, I hear that the beginner resources in Django have improved a lot lately. If that is the case, it should be an equally good choice.
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Re:Martin Luther King Jr. was wiretapped
on Saturday June 15, 2013 @08:42PM (#5886841)
> Recently on HN people have been acting like the government can dominate the world through wiretapping. As if the NSA can find out a few secrets and people will bow their heads and be silent.
In a democracy where we have constitutionally protected rights, why should one need the courage of MLK to do the right thing. Also, why go through the pain of following a constitution if we define right/wrong by "the will of the people at the time".
Statement of Microsoft Corporation on Customer Privacy
Re:The New Google Maps
on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @04:50PM (#5714788)
This and all those other places offering a Google Oauth option prevents me from logging in to multiple accounts on my main browser (Chrome). Although if you do a Google Oauth, it will let you select which email you want to use. I hardly use anything else apart from my personal Apps account, and hence it makes sense to have only a single login on your main browser.
The next Xbox will be revealed on May 21st
Re:Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads
on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:04AM (#5459844)
Apparently, Amazon holds a 40% stake in Abebooks which owns LibraryThing. From Pandodaily, "Amazon already owns Shelfari as well as Abebooks, which bought a 40-percent stake in LibraryThing in 2006, so it owns all or part of three of the top social-reading sites."
http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/28/amazon-bought-goodreads-but...
Re:Shoot down the stars
on Monday March 18, 2013 @04:07PM (#5396790)
One of the things that I believe leads to fewer people rating things is the amount of mental work involved in giving a rating other than 1/5 star. This is where the like/dislike, up/down systems fare much better.
Re:An open letter to the IIT Graduates
on Sunday March 10, 2013 @10:09AM (#5351972)
Indian company laws aren't very startup friendly. Also, if you are looking to raise investment from a US based VC, they are much more comfortable in investing in an environment they know better.
Also, there are quite specific advantages of incorporating in USA. Indian payment gateway providers don't offer the same set of features that the Western providers do. This may have changed lately as more payment startups have started in India.
PS: This is based on what I hear from founders at various conferences in Bangalore, and not on first-hand experience.
Re:Show HN: TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API
on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @02:18PM (#5246396)
This is very impressive stuff. I ran a news article through the demo, and the entity recognition was very impressive. Waiting for them to reveal more details on pricing.