mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Grunt and RequireJS are out, it's all about Gulp and Browserify
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mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: 75% of techies don’t give regularly to charity. Here’s why.
This is a great idea, but I don't know if I'm comfortable with outsourcing empathy. I donate when I (or someone I trust and like) come across a cause worth supporting. I have very few recurring donations.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Ember.js 1.0 Released
I haven't contributed much to the community or the code, but I've been around the chatrooms and keeping up with the story for around a year now. (also been actively using ember on personal and work projects). The community around Ember is amazing and it blows my mind how so many people have been working so passionately on this project. Congratulations to the team. Really well done.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Ember.js 1.0 Released
There's also some great work going on with cookbooks that should be released soon. https://github.com/emberjs/website/tree/master/source/guides...
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: I'm Building a GitHub for Writers
What about draftin.com? I use that already and I like it a lot.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”
In 9th grade I memorized and delivered the I Have a Dream speech for my English Honors program. I memorized it by reading it over and over again and I also found an audio recording that I burned onto a CD and listened to 10 times every night. It took me 16 minutes to deliver the whole speech (in costume). I have no idea where I found the audio recording now, although NPR sounds right.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise
increase the dynos!
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
I've had this conversation before in different terminology. I was concerned that a majority of service based businesses were building castles in the clouds and creating a bubble. Naval of Angellist recently tweeted something similar [1]. Essentially, it comes down to this: the more layers of abstraction you build, the farther you get from solving real problems. I guess this is the epitome of consumerism though.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Mailgun: new pricing without plans and limits
I had just switched to Mandrill after being unhappy with Mailgun for unrelated reasons. I'm tempted to switch back to Mailgun after this.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
Good luck. My longest streak doing this was 6 days I think.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
This is awesome. Reminds me of the girl who learned to dance in one year by recording herself every day. Also reminds me of Seth Godin who recommends starting the day by producing rather than consuming and follows the practice by writing a new blog post every day, without fail.
Consistency is so hugely important. Quality is born from quantity.
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: MasterCard's Simplify Commerce
Seems identical to stripe?
mehulkar | 12 years ago | on: Website mistakes that are easily fixed
At the end of the day, it's never about what we can do, it's what we can do within the budget and time that we think is appropriate for what we want to do.
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A cool live demo feature
Not a fan of the popups either, but I like the cool demo feature they've built for any website.
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Trying something new with Github. Help make my US holiday awesome?
I live in the city and I will be following this to get suggestions for what I should do too :)
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Do you meditate?
That's great. Are you in the Bay by any chance? I'd contact you offline, but your profile doesn't have contact info. Would love to meet up.
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Do you meditate?
Oh wow, I never thought I'd find a Pioneer on HN :)
I'm an '07 graduate! :)
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Poll: Do you meditate?
I practiced Transcendental Meditation[1] for about 8-9 years regularly twice a day as part of the curriculum in school[2], but then I went to college and all went downhill. I'm disappointed there are no options for this in the poll.
But in all seriousness, TM and the advanced techniques have been one of the best experiences of my life.
[1] http://www.tm.org/ [2] http://www.maharishischooliowa.org/
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Official comment from HN on dead threads
Not really. You just have to get access to one of those services the publishes to all your accounts.
mehulkar | 13 years ago | on: Official Hacker News T-Shirt
I'm sad that this one didn't get quite the same attention. Disclosure, I made it.
http://teespring.com/fundraising
[1] http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2008/11/...