elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Coderbits Vs. Github Vs. Coderwall
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elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a service that will submit an API request on my behalf?
Maybe utility mill - http://utilitymill.com/ is what you need, if you're up for writing some Python code
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a service that will submit an API request on my behalf?
IFTTT does not offer webhooks, so I believe it is out of the running for this usecase
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a service that will submit an API request on my behalf?
Check out [Zapier](http://zapier.com)
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My porn startup
Well pretty much anything you'd not be comfortable being in your bookmarks. Maybe you're a closet gay, atheist or have a weird/embarrassing condition that you're researching and don't want those links saved in your bookmarks.
And the biggest use case - read later! Using bookmarks is a horrible way to save stuff you want to read later. Often times I even forget I had something bookmarked to read later. A nice browser extension that shows if you have any links in the queue. You could probably build on of the xstashed code, and turn it into something more innocuous - maybe ystashed
elssar | 13 years ago
Tells me that my username is invalid o.0
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Procrastination 101 - The Art of Procrastination
Don't be put off by the "Coming Soon", scroll down for the content!
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Sen. Dianne Goldman Feinstein Is Out To Destroy America
Another site like the onion?
elssar | 13 years ago | on: A job posting mentioning the Indian rape case
Anyone with half a brain would now think twice before even applying for that job now.
When I clicked on the link, I thought it was an ad for a company that produces or sells security products - pepper spray and the likes, or maybe for a company making a new security app that would automatically text police/friends with your location if certain conditions were met - and there are a few apps like that. While in poor taste, nay abhorrent, it wouldn't be surprising for a company to try and exploit a tragedy like this for capital gain.
But the thing is, their product has nothing whatsoever to do with security! Who is the moron who thought this up? If it were my company I'd fire the person on the spot - not just for being an @#%@@#, but also for coming up with something so idiotic. And if the founder/owner was the one who came up with this, then I'd get the hell out because I wouldn't wanna work for a complete and utter moron.
Not are they completely insensitive, but they are monumental morons.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Hollywood Studios Caught Pirating Movies on BitTorrent
Meh, the studios will just claim that they were researching torrents and illegal file sharing.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
I found The Dreaming Void a few years ago while wandering a library desperately trying to find a good science fiction book to read - none of the suggestions I got from friends were there. I'm so glad that none of the suggestions were there.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
[Pandora's Star](http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0330518917) by Peter F. Hamilton. A old book, yes, but a part of some of the best science fiction I've read.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: HN top bar is in red
Gah! I hope not
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker
Interesting point. At first I was gonna say semantics, but in this case it matters. Guess they need to phrase it better when they start quashing the convictions.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker
Guilty of breaking the law of the time? Semantics? Guess you could say "he broke a law. There shouldn't have been such a law, but unfortunately it was there, and he broke it."
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker
So isn't this new petition kinda irrelevant?
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker
In that blog post you point out that there was a legislation in the British parliament that would roll back convictions of gays, and that it was close to becoming a law. Whatever happened to it?
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Alan Turing: Scientists call for pardon for codebreaker
Alan Turing's contributions to science and the war time effort were immense, and immeasurable. However, granting a pardon to him and him alone won't mean much. He was guilty. The law which he broke was draconian, no doubts about it, but it was the law at that time. I do not think he was the only Briton who was oppressed because of that particular law.
If there is a pardon, and there should be one, it should be granted to everyone who was convicted under that law.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My HTML5 Game for Github Game Off
Nice, love this game. There is a similar(very similar) game on my cellphone involving a helicopter, but without any enemies or things to collect. This is definitely much more fun than that.
elssar | 13 years ago | on: Google competitor DuckDuckGo says it's getting shut out
Just for kicks I searched for 'search engine' on Google - once on Chrome(logged into my Google account), and once on Firefox(not logged in). Didn't get Google on the first page on either searche, did get google custom search engine though(which is a completely different thing). Duck Duck Go was in the first page both the times, as were Bing, Yahoo, some engine called Dogpile(never heard of 'em but it was #2 on Chrome), the Wikipedia article for Web search engine and a few other links. There was a list of popular search engines at the bottom of the page in Chrome, DDG wasn't there, but lots other were, and it was compiled from other sources.
Don't see much discrimination there. Especially when they don't even list their search engine on the first page
Chrome search screenie - http://goo.gl/HffYt Firefox search screenie - http://goo.gl/nUe7t
I would say Coderbits in in competition with [Coderwall](https://coderwall.com), and from first impressions, yeah I'd prefer bits over wall. And also in competition with Stack Overflow careers.