atuladhar

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atuladharon Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple

The blog post appears to have been removed.

atuladharon HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning

Whenever there's a tech-related thing (product, framework, company, or what have you) I need to know more about, one of the first things I do is google "site:news.ycombinator.com <thing>." Almost always fetches a lot of insightful content that I doubt can be found anywhere else as quickly.

Happy birthday HN!

atuladharon JSDB.io - A Database of JavaScript Libraries

Looks useful. Some comments

- I wish there were a way to sort by name

- How are the ratings calculated? (Just realized that if you hover on a library's rating it tells you the rating is "derrived (sic) from combination of the other metrics": would be good to know how exactly + "derived" is misspelled.)

atuladharon Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

I use vim a lot, but as I was reading this, I realized that unless I was in a vim session (or pretended that I was in one), I couldn't remember which of the hjkl keys mapped to which direction.

atuladharon Google Shuts Down Patent Search Homepage, Picasa for Linux & More

Why not link to the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-sp...

atuladharon JSONLint, The JSON Validator

Thanks; that's good to know. Thank you also for jsonlint.com; great tool.

atuladharon JSONLint, The JSON Validator

Also worth mentioning is the pure JavaScript implementation at http://zaach.github.com/jsonlint/ for people worried about sending data to the jsonlint.com server.

atuladharon New version of Apache HTTP Server released

From the announcement: "Performance on par, or better, than pure event-driven Web servers."

Is there any more information on how they arrived at this conclusion?

atuladharon New version of Apache HTTP Server released

There's http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/ -- not sure if it works with 2.4.

atuladharon Plan 9: The way the future was

Except that Plan 9 was designed by the people who built UNIX. Are you implying that the people who built UNIX don't understand it?

atuladharon The quiz Daniel Kahneman wants you to fail

I recently read Kahneman's 2011 book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" -- it should probably be required reading for everybody who's in charge of making decisions that affect a lot of people.

atuladharon Microsoft team submits Redis patch to enable Windows support

Not sure what they're going to do regarding fork, but they say this at the end of the gist:

TODO

    Snapshotting (Fork and Write) is not perfect, right now we simply block requests while memory is dumped on disk. We are working on a solution that will give us better performance. An update will be released soon.

atuladharon ØMQ: Mission Accomplished

Are there any hosting services out there that currently support using ZeroMQ?

atuladharon Show HN: My weekend project, QR-codes for everybody

Pretty cool. One downside I see of the easy way of integration (as opposed to having to use a site-specific URL) is that the browser cache cannot be used (and as expected, the image comes back with a "no-cache" header), since the browser might end up using the same image for multiple sites using the feature. Is there any caching on the server to avoid having to generate the image every time?

atuladharon The most minimalist commercial website you'll ever see

Isn't the email address highly vulnerable to harvesting for spamming purposes?

atuladharon Show HN: Our app built at the Startup Weekend SanJose in 48 hours: Shout A Tweet

I agree that it needs an About or an FAQ page describing the service. I sort of guessed what it does by the tagline "same tweet, same time," but I shouldn't have to. If I'm right about what I think it does though, it's really neat idea.

atuladharon Sudoku Solving

I wrote one in JavaScript a long time ago, again using a simple backtracking algorithm.

http://www.amrittuladhar.com/projects/sudokusolver/

EDIT: Just realized the "load puzzle" feature doesn't seem to work on Chrome, but it does in other browsers.

atuladharon JavaScript Garden

But then, "native prototypes should never be extended unless it is for the sake of compatibility with newer JavaScript features."

atuladharon Google C++ Style Guide

Does Google have style guides for other languages? Are any of them public?

atuladharon Httpstat.us: API for generating different HTTP codes.

Yeah; it's sending back text/plain...

http://httpstat.us/404

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: nginx/0.7.67 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:13:09 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * X-Varnish: 651017685 Age: 0 Via: 1.1 varnish Transfer-Encoding: chunked Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Encoding: gzip

atuladharon Poll: Where do you work?

What's the difference between "Non-web company" and "Other"? I work in the financial services industry, for example.

atuladharon Show HN: cubeduel (our side project)

"Whom would you rather..."

atuladharon Algorithms take control of Wall Street

Except that I see no indication this is a Wall Street Journal article. The site is Ars Technica; the by-line says "By Felix Salmon (wired.com), Jon Stokes" and the end of the article says "Felix Salmon (felix@felix salmon.com) is a blogger for Reuters."

atuladharon Facebook Google in 2010 in visits. wow.

As more people start using browsers that support searching from the address bar (e.g., Firefox, Chrome), this should not come as a surprise in my opinion.

atuladharon Top 250 cracked Gawker passwords

Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but those are the beginning terms of the Fibonacci sequence[1], without the leading zero.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

atuladharon Fun abstract image generator using SVG and hashes

http://blotbot.co/#1bfac680

By the way, "innate" is misspelled on the front page.

atuladharon Did you know: In NYC, yellow cabs are required to take you anywhere in NYC.

Somewhat OT, but I'm wondering why you felt the need to mention that the guy who was refused was white along with "non-threatening" and "well dressed". I appreciate your posting this and would like to thank you for it, but it made me feel really uneasy when I came to that part.

atuladharon Things in MySQL that won't work as expected

As another comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1880981) pointed out, this is part of the ANSI standard for SQL, and not exactly due to MySQL's handling of NULLs strangely (there, also fixed the apostrophes for you).

atuladharon Use Vim Like A Pro

Thank you!

atuladharon Really Slow Site for Testing HTTP Caches.

http://github.com/rconradharris/reallyslowsite.com/blob/mast...

One of the "slower than" expressions has an unnecessary "than."