Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Google is eating Microsoft’s lunch, one tasty bite at a time
its all hunky dory in the echo chamber
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Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Fake Steve Jobs: Why I'm Switching to Android
Why do you want to use your phone as a wifi hotspot ? It'll drain the battery. The telco's in the US are the worst of the lot. Android and iPhone are 2 great platforms, Im happy that both are here.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Why Diaspora will fail
the article has no merit, younger people get the technology and are open to try it out.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Google Previews Chrome Web Store — An App Store For The Web
so its a browser extension implemented in javascript ? how is Chrome Web Store different from https://addons.mozilla.org ?
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: PostgreSQL 9.0b1 with built-in replication support
really excited about this, having dealt with slony-1 built-in replication is a welcome feature.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: American Ice Trade
I have been to the ice house in madras, its now called the vivekananda house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivekanandar_Illam) - in honour of swami vivekananda
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Visualizing Time Zones
You can find tons of web-apps/apps that show the timezone(s) in a traditional form, but this one has a different take on presenting the same data. Why change the one unique feature ?
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Visualizing Time Zones
its awesome and super easy!, it took me exactly 30 seconds to figure out that I can move the slider. Pls don't listen to the old farts here who say that the site is "shiny" or "Can't figure out".
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: The Trachtenberg System for mental arithmetic
I have an indian edition of this book - http://www.amazon.com/Trachtenberg-Speed-System-Basic-Mathem.... I highly recommend exploring this method - its quite easy and the rules are simple to remember.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Poll: Are you getting an iPad?
No
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: The Dark Side of Zipcar
I cancelled my zipcar account - its very inconvenient in Jersey City as the cars are booked atleast a month in advance on the dates you need it.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
simply untrue - its easy to communicate between javascript and native cocoa code. Take a look at the UIWebView and UIWebViewDelegate documentations here - http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi... and here http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/UIKi...
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN - What's your best startup idea?
haha Thats from Remington Steele - I loved that episode.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Archaic Perl
what is a "parser combinator library" ?
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Archaic Perl
I have been programming perl and php for many years now - I don't agree with rbranson here. Its not that perl is the best tool , if it solves your problem use it , otherwise please stop whinging about it. If you really feel so strongly about the issue, you are welcome to fix it.
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: The Founder Visa Ignores Immigration Reality
Im planning to move back to Bangalore to my roots. Anyone have an idea what the tech scene in Bangalore is ?
Ionic_Walrus | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my app - SimpleStats.net
I like the no javascript tracking. Im struggling with Quantserve (to track our iphone app usage) - which, although supports the no javascript tracking, doesn't clearly work.
The site looks neat and simple - the graph is quite nice. Congratulations.
Ionic_Walrus | 17 years ago | on: Web Applications Should Be Compiled
the blog misses a central point - its not the choice of language thats a bottleneck. I'll trade performance to large number of users any day because I know I can solve the performance issue.
Personally I'd go with perl - as thats the language Im most comfortable with.
Ionic_Walrus | 17 years ago | on: Get Your News *Without* the Nonsense
show the same result for any queries.
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