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For the searches that don't bring relevant results, I choose the "Give Feedback" option and report Bad Results. Then I add "!g" to the search and continue.

dotmanishon DuckDuckGo Sees Record Traffic After NSA PRISM Scandal

Whose logs?

dotmanishon R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World

Atul ('toolz' on IRC) has been an influence over the tech crowd in India for years - a lot of people (techies / hackers) were introduced to Linux, and Open Source in general by his enthusiastic stage-speaks or writings on web / magazines.

The events Linux/Bangalore and later FOSS.IN used to be the hacker gatherings, and the conversations were fantastic in these events. Atul celebrated hackers, and I recall him calling out Gopal V ('t3rminat0r' - twitter/IRC) on stage who had ported dotGNU Portable .NET to Encore Simputer during LB/2004.

Atul also propelled the concept of small-distributed Linux enthusiast meetings (BoFs) across Bangalore city (this was in 2004/2005), which essentially meant that techies found niche groups to meet up and interact (mostly over tea/coffee, less on beers), instead of waiting for big conferences to happen. He ran a BBS earlier in the 90s, and knew how to get people to interact IRL when BBSes went dead in 2000s.

Atul has been a person who celebrated Technology, and influenced a lot of other people to see the view. Rest in Peace, toolz.

dotmanishon Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

It's all about trusting what that company is saying "now".

They can change later and spam your list or use it for some other purpose. You can shame them publicly if you find it out. But then, it's already too late by that time.

dotmanishon OVH has been compromised

To make it easier for everyone reading the HN Post Title, they're talking about "Their Server(s) at OVH" being compromised, with no evidence of "OVH" itself (along with all customer servers) being compromised.

Now you may go ahead and read the post.

dotmanishon Former Hostgator employee arrested, charged with rooting 2,700 servers

Did these 2700 servers play a role in any DDoS attacks as well?

It would be quite a lucrative stance for the employee to sell access to these servers to one or more groups who could potentially make more use of them.

dotmanishon Mailbox Is Joining Dropbox

Well noted.

If you try attaching any file above 30 MB in GMail, it prompts you to send it "via Google Drive" instead, and automatically uploads it there.

dotmanishon Tern – Intelligent JavaScript editing

I typed "[[[[" and the script became unresponsive (hung).

Repeated by reloading the page. Same result.

FireFox / MacOS.

dotmanishon Show HN: Hackernews for Mac

Is there a way for me to make it default to view the "Comments" tab of the story first (instead of trying to load the story from the source)?

I sometimes judge a story by its comments first.

dotmanishon Zendesk was hacked

There's also Detectify : http://detectify.com

They are in beta.

dotmanishon Ask HN: Whats the best captcha service

You may try Google's reCAPTCHA.

dotmanishon So what happened to the HN server?

More importantly, why isn't there a status page for something that's equivalent to a lifesaving drug for many?

dotmanishon RethinkDB example apps

Heroku Add-Ons are essentially hosted services, just with an automated billing tie-up with Heroku.

What the other comment-er is asking for is a hosted instance.

dotmanishon Ask HN: Are desktop apps dead?

A lot of geeks on HN bought JetBrains' Desktop IDEs during their End-of-World Promo (going by the responses to that thread).

Not Everything Yet.

dotmanishon Using www.domain.com for mobile web app

I can't speak for any issues (are you thinking in terms of SEO?) except for the fact that it would be better if you drop the "www." in your marketing as well. It distracts.

dotmanishon Using www.domain.com for mobile web app

My personal preference as an end-user will be to get a redirect to www.domain.com/welcome (note: not "PC", or "desktop" ... but "welcome"), with a playable slideshow or demo of the mobile site + clear instructions on what I need to do access it on the phone.

dotmanishon VC Money Is Not a Curse

Thanks for writing this. From my conversations with several in the new-company/new-product space (mostly in New Delhi and Bengaluru), I know many of these points will help clear the fog.

That said, there are companies that exist and have been succeeding in their goals across the spectrum (i.e. the spectrum that ranges from "Only Bootstrapped" to "Only Investor's Money") - and what matters in each case are the people involved. Good bootstrappers / Bad Boostrappers / Prudent investors / Good investors / Emotional investors / Hellish investors - it depends on who you get and when.

Essentially, Point #3 in your post is gold. Thanks for articulating this.

dotmanishon One Year After Quitting My Job

"I hired some interns, they were really talented, but in the end, I didn't want them to work with me because I didn't want them to develop a web app in return for a couple of hundred dollars. Because that would be unfair."

My suggestion is to halt thinking on these lines. Even your clients would come to you because their value-perception of the output of your work (web app) would far exceed the money they pay you. That's what you would do with anyone you hire -- the value-perception of the output given by them (e.g. building the webapp) would far exceed the money you pay them. This is how businesses earn profit. If everyone paid their employees exactly what they themselves would be charging the customers, companies wouldn't earn profits.

dotmanishon One Year After Quitting My Job

"Simply because my clients were confused. They would let the product stay alive for a couple of weeks, without marketing it, expect it to convert well and become rich overnight. And when that didn't happen, they would kill it."

This is a lesson for countless others who start with building products for clients on their own (thanks for articulating the situation). Milestones are the key, as well as sticking to the stringent "No further development without milestone payment" policy.

dotmanishon Ask HN: I am looking for a light-weight, fast database

What's the use case? Are you looking for mobile platform compatible database, or for web backends?

dotmanishon Google Flights

Do you sense the big Google conspiracy to deport all US HN-ers out?

dotmanishon Gitlab

The market definition has another substantially big segment other than the ones concerned with "pay" - the ones who are paranoid about keeping their repositories outside their company firewall.

dotmanishon Your Facebook Pokes Are Stored For Two Days. Encryption Keys Then Deleted

The "take a photo of my phone" is the one that non-geeks can easily remember to do. And they will.

dotmanishon Ask HN: Recommendations for screensharing demos with prospects?

There is http://www.screenleap.com/

I have participated in online presentation / demos where this was being used. Trouble-free it was.

dotmanishon Ask HN: What technology should I use for my new project?

My suggestion would be to read up on the capabilities of MongoDB / CouchDB once. May be take a small programming example in the language of your choice wouldn't hurt. It will take half a day for each ("read up" also means look at the typical questions on stackoverflow, read their blogs, and articles on comparison of their usages and performances -- without all this, your "read up" isn't complete).

Secondly, read up on Redis and Memcache, and include one of these in your stack (I personally stick with Redis, but decide on your own).

If you can spend some more time in your "planning", I would suggest looking at Heroku for deploying your app. If you haven't used a PaaS in the past, this _may_ change your entire outlook on how you plan your app and its resources.

Hope this helps.