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garindra

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garindra··on Finally a unified Python solution for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 (oh and Ofly) consumers
I'm guessing this is only for implementing an OAuth consumer; is there any good Python solution for implementing an OAuth provider?
garindra··on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Support for PHP, with Git-based Deployment
So, is AWS starting to carve into Heroku, EngineYard, or PHPFog's territory then? Yes, I understand they offer completely managed dynos so I can sleep well and all that, but easy Git deployment is one of the major reasons why I use Heroku.
garindra··on Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
If everything has to go through their servers and then downloaded by the Mac/PC, then it basically defeats the whole purpose of tethering.

The real trick is that they found a way to pipe data from the iPhone to the Mac without going through the internet, all using a good ol' browser web page.

garindra··on Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
It did get me and I'm sure a lot of other people thinking. Would you mind answering this Quora question that I set up so I can sleep tonight?

http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Tether-HTML5-app-work

garindra··on CSS4 Preview – Selectors
What about LESS-style nested selectors? I've been using it in my projects and it improves my workflow tremendously. I'd be thrilled if it's finally integrated into the CSS specification.
garindra··on Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing
An interesting video about a Google VP who was saved by his Mercedes car : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XXypu3dVPM
garindra··on Comparing PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby
I'm pretty sure the companies that you mentioned know enough about recruiting that they won't hire people solely based on the languages that they know. Skills transcend programming languages; especially among those similar-enough scripting languages.
garindra··on The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds
Relevant : http://www.quora.com/Why-does-gravitational-acceleration-dif...
garindra··on Cdnjs - the missing cdn
I don't think it's possible. CDN by its very nature is to send content in low latency manner to users in different geographical locations by having multiple servers also spread in different geographical locations. Users from different parts of the world might get identical CloudFlare URLs resolved to different IP addresses based on where they live, to make sure they get their content from the nearest CloudFlare's CDN server.
garindra··on Cdnjs - the missing cdn
Asynchronous script loaders like LAB.js (http://labjs.com/) also help alleviate the latency cost of having multiple resource requests by loading them asynchronously.
garindra··on Cdnjs - the missing cdn
Yes, but having no HTTP connection is better than having fewer HTTP connections. If it's already in the cache (and the resource expire header doesn't signal resource expiration), the browser won't open another HTTP connection.
garindra··on Cdnjs - the missing cdn
The other point of a (public) CDN is to have more websites using the same kind of resources (JS/CSS files) to load them from the CDN's URLs, which in the end benefits the users by having the browsers reuse the cached version of the resources across different sites that use the public CDN.
garindra··on What have you developed in your spare time?
A question : are you in the Computer Science field?

While I think that the way you would answer may work beautifully in other fields, we also have to think about the employer's best interest and the field we're talking about here.

Employer's best interest, across most if not all fields, is primarily to hire people that have skills that will be useful in creating advantage of the company as a whole. In the case of Computer Science field, then, having an employee that answers that particular interview question with how he/she has contributed to open source and/or created side projects will have higher probability to create more value for the company than an employee that answers with how he/she is a great parent or how he/she's working in a non-profit of unrelated field.

garindra··on Optimizely (YC W10) Increases Homepage Conversion Rate by 29%
Kinda out of topic, but I tried out top websites that use long-polling (like Quora), and it always fails. I guess the app waits for all the resources to load completely, which for long-polling websites, happens rather long after the DOMready event.
garindra··on Air France flight data recorder recovered
I believe the cost of installing reliable data drives will be significantly minuscule compared to the actual price of the aircraft and their inherent value of holding extremely valuable data.
garindra··on Steve Wozniak says would consider return to Apple
The first question that came to mind: Does his early computing technical whiz still live up to today's Apple and industry standards?
garindra··on Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?
The problem with this approach is that then the users will instead choose to save up their points to submit their OWN stories, instead of spending them upvoting (and downvoting) threads and comments which help improve the content curation on HN (and is one of our main goals here).

This approach may work if there is additional points given by the system to the upvoter (or downvoter) if there is significant number of other users doing the same thing as that upvoter (or downvoter) too, which means his/her action is indeed valid and objective.

Users would then be more willing to vote, with the hope that other users will do the same thing as him/her too, and reap more points than what he/she spent for upvoting/downvoting. This enforces more thinking and evaluation of comments or stories before even upvoting or downvoting them.

garindra··on PushState + ajax = pjax
You mean doing Ajax without changing the hash and all that the related crufts?

I guess that's because most browsers used by people out there today do not have support for direct url path changing without causing a reload. It's only been possible since the introduction of the HTML5 History API, which solved that very problem. Unfortunately, it's only supported by the newer browsers.

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