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prometheuspk | 3 years ago | on: Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies

It's a foundational belief of the social contract we've signed by agreeing to democracy

prometheuspk | 3 years ago | on: Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies

You can object to the law. Petition your lawmaker to change the law. Be vocal about hating the law. But until its not the law, you have to follow it.

prometheuspk | 7 years ago | on: John C. Bogle Has Died

Then you're not the customer for index funds. They are meant to be highly risk averse, and give decent gains to people who want safety of modest to low gains over high gains high risk.

prometheuspk | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Gmail Classic – CSS for Reverting Gmail's New Look

Now that Inbox is ending, anyone know of other clients with the Pinning and snoozing capability?

prometheuspk | 7 years ago | on: Companies Shouldn’t Be Accountable Only to Shareholders

The best way to accomplish all this is to re-strengthen labor unions, but make it explicit that they do not engage in political contributions/campaigns etc.

prometheuspk | 7 years ago | on: College May Not Be Worth It Anymore

Thats what they do for high demand degrees like Engg and Medicine in Pakistan. In Govt. colleges education is virtually free if you are admitted on merit, else you can go for self finance

prometheuspk | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator

Would be really nice if you could add funds & portfolios. Also how are you calculating growth rate? which funds?

prometheuspk | 11 years ago | on: List of Computer Science Courses

I'd go for aofa

prometheuspk | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?

Mostly Android. I was thinking about maybe using Scala just to make something meaningful while learning FP.

prometheuspk | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?

Would you say that FP itself (not the thought process it generates) would benefit me in mobile application devlopment. It's mostly gaining data and then setting it.

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on

Hear Hear

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

Is this now live?

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

I already made a bookmark for this. Posted the code to some places too.

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Pakistani family of drone strike victim gives harrowing testimony to Congress

As a Pakistani I can say that our current leadership has no spine.

In addition to that the general population has been led to believe that everyone is out to get them (i.e. The righteous Muslims). You should have seen the stuff said about Malala. Even she was some kind of conspiracy against Muslims.

The TTP is real, no doubt about that (you'll find deniers here too). But the political resolve lacks because of no majority public support of the army operation in Waziristan.

India was saved from the hegemony due to public resolve to fight for it. Here everyone is either too demotivated or on the wrong side of the equation.

I would factor in self-righteousness too (e.g. Mumtaz Qadri). Once that entitlement mindset ends, only then will things become clear to the public.

EDIT: BTW you should check this (http://on.fb.me/17XcV7p) out to see the Malala bashing & the distrust of anyone but themselves.

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension

It's seems very rude and arrogant to the other party in the conversation.

On the other hand when the 'seen' thing wasn't happening the other party could at least think that you just haven't checked the message yet.

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension

Just added this address to my AdBlock list.

The only thing left to find out is, when will they change this implementation... unexpectedly.

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: New Android app, paid and open source from the start

This is a new idea.

How exactly will this work? I mean opening the code and keeping the app paid. Will accepted pull requests get a cut of the money?

How long before someone takes this code and builds another reader for metafilter?

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: The sad story of Facebook Platform

I apologise for my ignorance, but can you elaborate on how the iOS has a revenue model? Are you talking about the Apple Store?

prometheuspk | 12 years ago | on: Richard's guide to software development

This is quite a description.

But to be honest, I still have not found the best way to keep code flexible so that it never turns into the mutant of what the Statement of Work intended it to be.

Most of the time the clients don't have any idea of what they truly want, but as seasoned software developers it should be our job to keep the bad ideas clients propose out of the requirements.