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mpunaskar··on Ask HN: Browser Address Bar is my text formatting remover, What's yours?
Notepad & browser address bar
mpunaskar··on YouTube two hours advertisements with Asian folks?
On mobile youtube app i have to wait for 2 ads to finish. I have to wait for both ads to finish to continue watching. I can skip only one ad. And this is happening for kids videos eg peppa pig, littlebabybum videos.
mpunaskar··on U.K. National Grid status
My client argus media sells this data via product called fundalytics. Get in touch with sales.

We scrape power and gas data from various sources - we are also working on to get fertlizers , bio fuels and other data from across globe.

mpunaskar··on U.K. National Grid status
I work on collecting (ETL) data of European power data sources and supply them to clients via web service (in almost real time). For the client i work on - wrote cloud based distributed ETL system to collect data from approx 100 importers and exporters of power, gas, wind, nuclear. Its quiet possible to collect this data in real time as EU regulations asks each of them to provide data on their websites. For some of the websites - i use selenium which is much better than using webrequest via http/s
mpunaskar··on My mom is dying, and my bank account is dry. I need help
Can you let us know your paypal account where ppl can send money or any other way to send money to you?
mpunaskar··on Africa’s Mobile Explosion
Friend(s) of mine in Mumbai are easily accessible using WhatsApp on their android phone than they were on their home desktop machines and Instant messengers.

Just like other developing countries, I think Next generation of India will be skipping whole desktop and Laptop and move straight to mobile and tablet based computing devices.

mpunaskar··on Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs
May be im wrong but why not set LIMIT of only X no. of mails can be Sent/Minute via user account.

Find out how many emails people usually send per minute/hour and just DENY relaying anything else over that limit. That way it'll be less profitable for spammers to acquire user account details if he/she can only sent X mails every minute.

mpunaskar··on Supercell is bigger than EA in terms of monthly iOS revenue
I do think that clash of clan is much better than other games i have played so far. I have played other games (dungeon hunter) which asks me to pay up for virtual coins, gems if i have to progress in next set of levels, but with COC i can do just fine without spending any money.

Love COC ;)

mpunaskar··on File manager ideas
While we are at topic of file manager - is there a file system manager for ios devices? I mean i want to browse disk of my iphone & see where and how it arranges files

Is it even possible?

mpunaskar··on Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours)
Any idea how to open non-US requester account?

Right now amazon will only let you signup - if you have US billing address :(

mpunaskar··on The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
I started with VB6 Back in 2000. It was easy to pickup as my first programming language was gwbasic/qbasic. I really loved event driven development, IDE and easy Compile and run procedure.

IMO VB.net offers almost everything that VB6 has plus extra features of .net libraries. It can also do project conversion from VB to vb.net (upto extent) but as fellow commenters have mentioned there's cost of jumping from VB to VB.NET based windows app. Therefore VB6 will continue to thrive until corporation justify that cost.

mpunaskar··on Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed
I have asked one of my friend who works in Bank of baroda to look in to this. Hopefully BOB will shut their account(s).

But even if Bank of baroda closes their merchant account they'll go somewhere else & open new account and continue their bad activities.

mpunaskar··on UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit
As per statement from O2 - They share data with their "trusted partners" for age verification purpose.

Does that mean they share my birth date with their "trusted" partners?

mpunaskar··on Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats
I'm not sure about taxi companies data. may be you can scrape it off yellow pages like sites.
mpunaskar··on Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats
On side Note : If someone decides to build train timetable site - it would be highly useful to add Local taxi hire company numbers (near destination station). It will be highly useful as people would love to pre-book taxis as well.
mpunaskar··on Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats
Excellent & highly useful database. Its always helpful to get such type of data in public domain. This way independent developers can build useful apps for community.

+1 for efforts.

mpunaskar··on Backify responds to LiveDrive contract termination
Just saw on backify home page :

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Backify is no longer in service. LiveDrive has terminated Backify's reseller account, and Backify.com is no longer in service.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Enough of this nonsense.I have uninstalled livedrive client from my desktop. Any one knows how to delete backed up files from livedrive?

mpunaskar··on How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas
@dberube

I have used same method to collect beta tester for one of my idea. Google adword has given amazing reults so far. Thats why i am interested to know if cost factor the only reason to choose microsoft adcenter over google adwords ?

Does it give more ad impressions for less price + better click through rates?

mpunaskar··on LayerVault boasts over 1,500 users just two weeks after launch.
>>>>>>> Did you have a portion of those 1,500 users lined up before you started implementation? Before launch? How did you <<<<<<<

I would like to know the same.

mpunaskar··on Symfony2: 2.0 RC1 released
I like both codeigniter & cakephp.

codeigniter is super easy and joy to work with. 1> simple 2> great documentation (most amazing docs i have seen so far) + forum 3> you can not go wrong , its so easy to write apps using it

cakephp because of 1> "bake" utility to generate code from looking at table 2> easy to access database using models classes 3> built in auth component (and few other components at cake bakery)

never needed to look at anywhere else ;)

mpunaskar··on Facebook autobot going berserker
True, It can happen on any platform, but at least you will get time to improve your app + add new features + fight with biggies while they are trying to copy from you.

On facebook and Apple they will just kill your app in a day.

mpunaskar··on Facebook autobot going berserker
Thast why i would never rely on closed platform.

I will never waste my resource in build apps that solely rely on closed commercial entities like facebook, apple. If they choose to ban/block/delete you then all of your hard-work is gone in a second and will leave your users unhappy.

and this can happen to any of us

mpunaskar··on Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business
first thing that comes to mind is saving on bandwith.imagine sending same amount data down the line with less bandwidth.
mpunaskar··on Banking site stores passwords in plaintext. Coworkers think it's no big deal.
Systems can be and will be hacked. Nothing is secure in this world. Redirect them to recent Lulzsec hacks, it might put some light in their heads.

If i were customer of your bank i would withdraw all my money & ask to close my accounts.

mpunaskar··on Ask HN: Beta users flocking over to competitor
Add free survey widget by kiss metrics and ask visitors what do they want from your web app. This way you'll be able get insights from visitors

Get it here : http://www.kissinsights.com/

mpunaskar··on Infosys, TCS or Wipro?
Company i worked for in India sold very innovative products plus usual IT service. Because of products, Sales team cross sold IT services to product users and vice versa

An good example of utilising human resources and generating revenue when you dont have many clients using your IT services.