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First thoughts. Seems neat. Cannot login. Some useful details listed - last update date, minimum android version. much easier to browse the reviews than on the mobile version. search has spell-corrector. related apps listed on details screen. useful.

Ofcourse, they can be submitted multiple times.

Here's what I thought - If you post something with the same external link, the post will deleted if the earlier one was posted within certain interval, say two days.

Duplicate links do get submitted.

But, I thought they are removed. And both of these links were posted at the same time (reads 29 minutes ago).

I got through it easily. I closed my eyes, counted the seconds elapsed in my head and opened my eyes every 10-15 seconds to see how close I ended up.

I do know why this was downvoted, but it was a sincere advcie.

Untrue. They represent only a part of the talented people. I know, we constantly hear about the quirkiness of people at the freelance sites and forums. Perhaps, that's not the best place to look.

If you're not looking for an overtly complicated project, try hiring undergraduate students. Not from any university though. Try the students IIT's and BITS Pilani. These are the foremost technical institute in the country. So, how do get in contact with them? Visit their Computer Science Association websites, contact their student president to help you out. More often than not, you will find brilliant programming talent this way. Some of them will value a letter of recommendation (that may help in their MS or PhD) very highly.

If not that way, always insist on seeing the portfolio/previous work of the guy you'll be outsourcing too. Else chances are you might end up outsourcing, say a e-commerce implementation, to someone just learnt how to echo in php.

The trick is to find the right people in India to outsource it too.

But there cases of those startups that primarily revolve around a tech idea, outsourcing the coding. If the crux of the idea revolves around sound programming, wouldn't it be better to have a tech team onboard than outsource it?

The irony : I am coding for a startup that found me somewhere on the internet.

"Also, flickr has a 200 photo limit on free accounts that makes project 365 impossible unless you upgrade, and even less so if you use flickr for something else."

Incorrect.

From http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/

"When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 2 videos and 300MB worth of photos each calendar month....Your upload limits are reset to zero at midnight in Pacific Time Zone (Flickr headquarters time) on the first of each calendar month."

No ads please. It will ruin the aesthetics.

Could the pricing model be modified to provide some sort of a trial/demo?

Say like, you can use it for free for the first month, then if you like to continue with it, pay $11.

On similar lines, I tried out an album hack.

http://goo.gl/OPNzq

Well, I did send a mail to them listing out the problems and what they could do.

Though, I am skeptic if my mail will ever be read.

Well. Cell phones start coming at INR 500 (~ $12) with really cheap carrier call rates.

Feature Request: Enable me to upload larger images that you could compress-on-the-go. It beats the entire simplicity of the system if I have to manually compress the images to upload them.

Yes, it would be immensely useful. The reason being our proxy/firewall in the university doesn't allow to stream or download videos.

On the other hand, generalizing this, making text copies on videos would enable search not only on the metadata of the video, but its content as well. Imagine trying to search for a movie by a particular dialogue you remembered. Other trivial case would to be to generate subtitles for the video, or feeding the output to a language translator enabling me to watch, say an academic video spoken in chinese without available subtitles.

I still like ihackernews.com on my android.

I would agree to that a lot and history would justify it too, in Indian government's case.

But, making an overall generalization for "all" Indians is a bit hurtful, personally. There is no denying about the job boards things, but that generalization is not true, atleast from my personal experience of college life at BITS, Pilani and interaction with students from IIT's.

Publishing it before the actual confirmation from Hivisons or HCL isn't exactly "the truth".

Let us please not go by deadlines. The Mobile Number Portability in India, was supposed to launch last October. 3G services were supposed to be rolled out on full scale now.

Nice. But, check that some results are repeated. For example, when searching for "android ", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1506909 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332153 are listed twice.

thanks. I am relatively new, and did a reading on the grids only yesterday. I am going to arrange the entire thing into a 960 grid system. But, I think I could be forgiven, given aa month of experience into html and jquery.

Links, http://csa.22web.net/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659020

thanks. I liked minimalist designs on the web, and so designed this on the lines of those.

The idea was to make the currently selected look distinct from others since the URL reflects no changes. So, do I remove the effect and keep the color change only?

Thanks. I do know search engines have problems indexing AJAX, but I ended up doing it anyways because this was going to be very specific to be used mostly within our college and others when technical festivals come around.

Link. http://csa.22web.net/

Sidebar experience similar to Dolphin HD for Android?

Once or twice a month, I keep all accessories at home and just head out in jeans/t-shirt, carrying some amount of money. Not carrying your phone/watch/wallet gives a different sense of freedom and the surroundings.

Home - 10:oopm - 11:59pm. College - 2:00am - 3:59am. Drinking nights - after 4:am.