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praveenster··on Origami Studio – Design Prototyping
Nope, refreshing doesn't seem to help. examples seems ok but http://origami.design/learn seems to have the issue like the screenshot I attached above.
praveenster··on Origami Studio – Design Prototyping
This looks like a very powerful tool just by browsing through the examples for few minutes on the site. Minor issue with the documentation, however, is that there seems to be issues with pages of the site rendering incorrectly on both Safari and Chrome on the iPhone.

http://imgur.com/PRDR2j1

praveenster··on Ask HN: What good open source projects written in React that I can learn from?
The new Wordpress frontend code seems to be utilizing React:

https://developer.wordpress.com/calypso/

https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso

praveenster··on Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
I suspect it is this one based on the summary at Amazon "Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required listening for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0887307280

praveenster··on Ask HN: How do you manage your personal software projects?
I took the overall concepts from StrikeThru http://striketh.ru/ but instead of using a paper notebook, I use OneNote. It works really well across desktop and mobile. Plus, since it is in electronic form, searching is very easy.
praveenster··on The going rate for self-driving talent is $10M per person
It's probably not the only place but they may be way ahead of the others. I recollect attend a robotics workshop in 1998 where Dr. Takeo Kanade (http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=136) from CMU gave a presentation of their work on self driving cars and recollect being amazed by their work and their demo video of US coast to coast driving. They have definitely been working on this for a long time and hence may be way ahead of the others.
praveenster··on Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
I believe it doesn't. They acquired some assets from Microsoft Bing maps team:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-acquires-part-of-bing...

praveenster··on Amazon Vehicles
Where does this leave the likes of Edmunds, AutoTrader etc.?
praveenster··on NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA
Nicely written article with good detail about the problems in the older architectures. One thing that I'm still a little fuzzy about is on the Linux kernel side of things in the context of multi core multi socket. Which CPU does the kernel actually run on and how does it dispatch the process/threads on the different cores/sockets?
praveenster··on Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions
Strange, since a couple months ago Didi, Lyft and Ola (Indian incumbent) launched a collaborative service …

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/lyft-and-didi-kuaidi-launc...

https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/lyft-didi-ola-and-grabtaxi...

praveenster··on Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 released
This is awesome! Kudos to you and your team. I love using Visual Studio, been using since 6.0. It gets better with every update.
praveenster··on Announcing Kubernetes 1.3: Bridging Cloud Native and Enterprise Workloads
Is the open source work on Kubernetes at Google being done directly on the GitHub repo or is there an internal mirror where work is first done and internal issues tracked separately, similar to Android?
praveenster··on Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
There seems to be a lot of negativity in this thread. So, I'll attempt to provide a positive spin.

I think of this (and other open source hardware and software projects) similar to how I think of mathematic theorems or tools at Home Depot. These are good building blocks to learn, prototype and build. If you want to take it commercial, then you have to bear licensing costs etc. but it is a great way for hobbyists to build things on top of these blocks rather than start from scratch.

praveenster··on Apple launches Swift Playgrounds for iPad to teach kids to code
In addition to the the ones mentioned above, my 7 year old enjoys codecombat on the PC (or Chromebook which a lot of elementary schools use these days):

https://codecombat.com/

praveenster··on The app boom is over
In fact many of the banking apps seem to have stored usernames, passwords etc in the clear.

http://www.cnet.com/news/firm-finds-security-holes-in-mobile...

praveenster··on Leaving the Nest
Everything. Free units, install and configuration. Additionally, during high consumption periods, SDGE will offer incentives if you shut your AC. It is super convenient to do this even if you are not at home.
praveenster··on Leaving the Nest
SDGE is offering free Ecobee installs. Check with your local electric company, they might be offering it for free too. We got two units installed and really love it.
praveenster··on BMW to Let Car Owners Rent Out Vehicles Like `Airbnb on Wheels'
Zipcar was acquired by Avis for $500 million in 2013.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873243740045782171...

praveenster··on $10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack
"The hackers aimed to steal $1bn but made mistakes that led to the theft being spotted and stopped."

"A spelling mistake in one of the transfer orders alerted bank staff and meant the hackers only managed to steal $81m."

Boy, hackers need to be good at spelling too!

praveenster··on Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about their development”
Meet Bob and Bob.
praveenster··on Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
Will there be relevant ads on the side for gmailified email from other providers?
praveenster··on How the Internet will disrupt higher education’s most valuable asset: Prestige
Not entirely true. Granted, you might be able to gain a lot of knowledge via MOOCs, however, I feel that the experience of human interaction with other students and the professor cannot be replicated via the internet. Additionally, I think the issue of prestige is a self fulfilling prophecy in that good schools get bright students and the interaction between them increases the overall intellect of the student community in that school.
praveenster··on Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?
I am surprised nobody seems to mention indiewebcamp.com and withknown.com as alternatives to Wordpress or Ghost.
praveenster··on os.js: JavaScript Cloud/Web Desktop Platform
As indicated by the title of the link, I think it allows you to build a "desktop" metaphor in the browser. ExtJS used to have some similar demos but I think their license is pretty restrictive. One use case for this is something that I happen to use regularly - the web interface on the Synology NAS.
praveenster··on Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs
All the responses to this thread on Quora (many of whom are ex Oracle employees) seem to suggest that they are disliked:

https://www.quora.com/Whats-so-bad-about-Oracle

praveenster··on Holiday Gift Ideas from Y Combinator
L better not a beta product.
praveenster··on Yahoo open sources Anthelion web crawler for parsing structured data
Just curious. Wasn't Yahoo using Google and Bing for search? Is this crawler being used at Yahoo internally?
praveenster··on -2000 Lines of Code
I was surprised when YC asked something similar in their application:

"If you've already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written?"

My response ... "I personally believe that using "lines of code" is a crude metric as it favors the sloppy programmer who doesn't write compact code and discourages code reuse by utilizing libraries and frameworks."

praveenster··on It’s open-source software that’s eating the world
rethinkdb https://www.rethinkdb.com/
praveenster··on Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox
You can probably include Go alongside Rust.
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