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ateevchopraon Behind the Pixel: Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

The way I see Google assistant is that it's a combination of many apps (or maybe interface to many). Now I can have Google Assistant Icon on my homescreen and use it to do many things like:

* Set up an alarm

* See the Distance

* Search nearby places/restaurants/gas stations

* Play some song

* Look up facts

* Look up news

* See my agenda for the day

* Search for my personal photos and maybe much more....

I rarely use the voice input. The thing I liked about allo is that I can chat with it. Even when i'm in a crowded bus, I can use my assistant instead of saying "OK Google".

ateevchopraon Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown

Due to missing support of `Markdown` in Blogger, I have been waiting for such tool for a long time. Thanks to the team.

I will use if for some time and see if it can replace my evernote too.

ateevchopraon India blocks Colgate patents for spices

`How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation`

Sometimes its not about innovation. Many companies buy patents and make high priced drugs. These drugs can be made available to the poor for very less price, but patents like these block local makers from doing so.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-tha...

ateevchopraon Taylor Swift wins battle with Apple

I don't liked the title of this submission. It wasn't a battle. It was a request from a potential customer, which the company understood and worked upon.

ateevchopraon GitHub's down?

Notice the change in the favicon.

ateevchopraon Practo raises $30M

Awesome news. Congratulations to the team. Helthcare in India is one vast problem to solve and I guess practo is doing pretty well in the domain.

ateevchopraon The world's hardest CAPTCHA

This was just for demonstrating the idea. It isn't for any use. As I said, it was when I started programming.

ateevchopraon The world's hardest CAPTCHA

Back in my college days, I made this captcha as a class project. This is based on the popular snake game. You catch the bug with snake, you pass. If anyone interested, folk and make its web version.

https://github.com/ateev/Snake--o--Captcha

ateevchopraon Unofficial Atom Builds for Windows

Power of making something open source !

ateevchopraon Ask HN: Google Maps vs. OSM in countries like India

If you open the link provided, you can see that OSM doesn't even have basic road names. So in any app, that would be a big drawback. thanks for your reply. Whats going on my mind is that I will use Google Maps for some time. Cause this will make easy for users. When we will have enough users, we'll make the switch. Porting all our data to OSM. What do you think about this ?

ateevchopraon Programming Is a Dead End Job

I think "Coding" as a job can be best analogous to an old job called "Samurai".

A good samurai's aim is to be the best at skills. His all work is dedicated towards a "kingdom". Every samurai doesn't wants to become a king. They just want to server their king.

And the King's duty is to take care of its army and people. I think king's jobs is highly overrated. In real life its difficult to be a king. In the end its just a job with lots of responsibilities.

ateevchopraon Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"

Thanks. I am learning Angular these days. Do you have something regarding that, I would love to work on.

ateevchopraon Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"

I would love it. I want to work in some open source project, but can't find any small project where i can start. I haven't worked on any, so this can be a way to a great start.

ateevchopraon Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

Dude. You are storing passwords in plain text! and sending it via email. Not cool

ateevchopraon The Unexpected Entrepreneur: Interview with Joe Satriani

Theres alot of "put aside" in the beginning of the article. We just can't put them aside. He was my inspiration to learn guitar. Awesome read.

ateevchopraon Bad Password Policies

I have one question. Even if we use hashing and random salting, then should we make some max-limit on the password. Its not related to the length i want to store, its the length that system will convert to a hash. Will very long passwords be hashed in equal time ?

ateevchopraon Ubuntu 14.04 released

Its great to see another LTS. Finally time to update 12.04 version.

ateevchopraon Atom

Can you share the file ?

ateevchopraon You might not need jQuery

I don't know if i need jQuery or not But your page is seriously a great "Cheat Sheet" for all jQuery Learners out there ! Thanks

ateevchopraon Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

oh thats cool. Well, we are also working on something similar, so i was just curious.

ateevchopraon Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes

Hello @zakn. Great site. I have one question. Can you please share from where are you getting the description of the hikes. For Example: http://hike.io/hikes/salkantay-trek

Are you manually typing out all the data or you hired someone to type all this out. I know you are using community to edit this , but who made contribution for the first time ?

ateevchopraon Best development book I've read, has no code in it

The techniques you mentioned isn't true for just programming, it is true everywhere. Awesome !

ateevchopraon Bing now supports https

finally my neighbour cannot see what i bing ! huh ?

ateevchopraon How to use Photoshop to design interfaces

Thanks ! Really needed this !

ateevchopraon 92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account

Its really helpful. Apps like "What emotion are you" and "where you will be 10 years from now" have permission to read my messages !. Thanks for opening my eyes !

ateevchopraon Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked

They censored the last two digits of the phone numbers. And if you goto google's password recovery option, it shows you the last three numbers of a someone's phone number. Just saying.

ateevchopraon Life’s Work: Salman Khan

All of them, even though they sit on top of empires, go deep and try to understand things themselves. They’re very hands-on. And they’re incredibly curious.

Well a great piece of advice for everyone. The more you are curious, the more you will love your job, the better you perform, more fulfilled life you live.

ateevchopraon Learn Sanskrit Online

Because they say the knowledge of the whole universe is written in sanskrit in the vedas. Thousands of years the Indian sages researched about almost every topic and wrote this vedas. We would have been many years ahead if we could decode those teachings. Many lost, many still to be decoded. If people learn sanskrit, maybe someone will find its life purpose in this and do a big research on the old knowledge. Just saying. Anything is possible. knowledge is never in vain.

ateevchopraon Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics

Thats well quite as expected. But I think out of those 493K, most is from the blogs posting their penalty news. This might go even lower !

ateevchopraon Google Has Officially Penalized Rap Genius For Link Schemes

Interestingly now on searching Rap Genius on google, articles about them getting penalised are coming on the first 3 pages.