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anandpdoshi | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

Firefighter Zen by Hersch Wilson

Nine lies about work by Marcus Buckingham

How to know a person by David Brooks

anandpdoshi | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

Ah I should have been more specific. For some context, I learned software development on the job and later studied Human-Computer Interaction. I want to be at the intersection of software and design.

Software Engineering at Plenty involved a lot of creative problem solving. But I wanted to work on visually creative projects. Some of my initial projects at Plenty did involve interactive UIs, but as I gained better understanding of our stack, I was required to do a lot more back-end work which wasn’t very exciting to me.

anandpdoshi | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

I wanted to do more creative work, whereas the work at Plenty was more about problem solving.

anandpdoshi | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?

Plenty (https://plenty.ag) is trying to scale hydroponics using plant science and automation. (I worked here till a few months ago.) Indoor agriculture is going to supplement our nutrition needs in the future. Plenty is focusing on flavor as its selling point, and after eating Plenty produce, everything else seems like eating cardboard.

anandpdoshi | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost

I have used localtunnel over https for this: https://localtunnel.github.io/www/

anandpdoshi | 10 years ago | on: Useful Python Libraries for Startups

Disclaimer: I am one of the developers that built this.

Try Frappe Framework (https://frappe.io). We have received feedback that it is really good to quickly build internal projects or prototypes.

Also ERPNext (https://ERPNext.com) is an open source erp that is feature rich and has a good UI. It can help any startup to manage their business without resorting to complicated excel sheets based management.

anandpdoshi | 10 years ago | on: Indian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets a Cease and Desist from Injectors

AFAIK Mozilla is trying to make https certificates free for everyone.

Edit: Here's the link: https://letsencrypt.org

anandpdoshi | 10 years ago | on: Indian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets a Cease and Desist from Injectors

Doesn't using HTTPS prevent such an injection?

anandpdoshi | 11 years ago | on: Google I/O 2014

Consider that a $100 phone can have a reasonably well designed OS

anandpdoshi | 12 years ago | on: Does anyone find it creepy that gmail also tracks your mouse movement?

Thanks. I didn't know this. I get that they need to monitor clicks for revenue, but mouse movements!

anandpdoshi | 12 years ago | on: Odoo: The new OpenERP

ERPNext - https://erpnext.com

GPL v3 - Python, Javascript, MariaDB

Github - https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

(I am one of the developers)

anandpdoshi | 12 years ago | on: Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming

I am finding the new version to be snappier than usual. I like it. Now please make the developer tools as good as chrome's.

anandpdoshi | 12 years ago | on: Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses

Have you looked at ERPNext? It is Open Source - http://github.com/webnotes/erpnext

Though it is an ERP, you can just use the accounting and sales modules and hide the rest.

(I am a developer at erpnext)

anandpdoshi | 12 years ago | on: ElementaryOs Luna released

I've been using Elementary OS since beta 1 and I have found it to be the most usable Linux distribution. Don't get hanged up about them copying mac os. Even a novice user would find it easy to use. Let's not forget the soothing feel of the UI. It feels light.

Even android has some parts copied from ios, and yet you don't want to complain about it because it lets you get similar experience within your budget. It gives you a likeable option, copy or not.

Just give it a try. Don't judge from the video alone.

anandpdoshi | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project

I was wondering who is going to make this first. Salute to you :D

anandpdoshi | 13 years ago | on: OS X emulation layer for Linux

pixelmator!

anandpdoshi | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

great initiative. very useful.

anandpdoshi | 13 years ago | on: Apple's New Pinch-To-Zoom Monopoly is Bad News

Has anyone used Aldiko ebook reader on android? It uses the right edge of the mobile's screen to change its brightness. With your thumb, trace the right edge towards the top and brightness increases, down and it decreases. I wonder if something similar could be used for zooming. You don't need two fingers to zoom!

anandpdoshi | 13 years ago | on: Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses

We have been using termcolor for getting formatted output. This seems much more powerful and intuitive.

anandpdoshi | 14 years ago | on: Git: fetch and merge, don’t pull

git is deep. And you can do the same thing using different steps and different number of steps. I think this post provided a good tip on how to go about merging remote changes into your local. If one finds that git pull requires a lot of cleanup activity, git fetch and git merge is a good way to go..