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rounakon Setting Up a Document-Based App in Swift

So the footer becomes more accessible in case of lengthy pages. In case of news websites, it's to better surface ads, in this case it's to surface recommendations

rounakon Why America Needs India’s Rockets

Somewhat related. Three ISRO scientists did an AMA a couple of years back. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/1ujcmo/we_are_three_...

rounakon Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay

I thought H1Bs weren't locked to employers. Can't you transfer the visa?

rounakon Apple has published a great free learn to code course for on GitHub

With Swift going to be open source soon, I think your concerns would be addressed, there wouldn't be a lock in

rounakon Shutting Down a Service with 500M Requests per Month

Twitter and Facebook also have similar solutions. Have they been shut down too?

rounakon Implementing a Virtual Machine in C

You're being unnecessarily harsh. If you got frustrated means it wasn't targeted towards you.

Would appreciate if you did an advanced version of this writeup :)

rounakon Implementing a Virtual Machine in C

Any pointers/links/tutorials for this? Thanks.

rounakon Show HN: 2D PID controller simulation

Can anyone explain what is this?

rounakon Ask HN: What is wrong with Reserve Bank of India?

don't think Apple Pay is a "wallet", in that you can't store money, it's just your CC that's being charged.

rounakon Show HN: Current – The missing Facebook app for Mac

So is this an unofficial API?

rounakon Show HN: Places iOS App – Find beautiful destinations around the world

Good stuff. Explore the use of custom navigation controller transitions. Tapping on a cell can expand into the new view rather than the default slide in animation.

rounakon iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do

scrollview.keyboardDismissMode =UIScrollViewKeyboardDismissModeInteractive

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/...

rounakon Geohot presents an evasi0n7 writeup

MobileTerminal (the app he's running) hasn't been updated with iPhone 5 support

rounakon Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS

I don't think Apple would allow this in the App Store. It disallows apps that have their own apps/widgets.

rounakon Facebook in talks for its first acquisition in India

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-11-07/news...

rounakon Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

Under the assumption that you're a developer, how do you deal with the lack of a great Terminal/Command line interface on Windows?

rounakon Ask HN: Best ways to accept donations?