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sharmanaetor

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sharmanaetor··on Firepoker.io - Planning Poker built with AngularJS and Firebase
Very nice. A post about the technical details of how this was created would be really appreciated.
sharmanaetor··on Ask HN: How do you store and organize your startup ideas?
I maintain a Google Document of the format

Summary:

Inspiration:

Description:

Trello was another place I considered storing my ideas, but Google Docs was just easier.

sharmanaetor··on How a 5'5" Basketball Player Trained Himself to Dunk
How is upper body training helping him jump higher?
sharmanaetor··on How to Write a Book
I think the part about giving the book idea a month before actually pursuing it can also be translated to the way any business idea should be approached. If after a month of thinking about the idea, the idea still looks good, then it's a good idea to pursue.
sharmanaetor··on Ghetto Tracker - A rating system to help people avoid the bad parts of town
Looks like the creators are on Twitter @GhettoTracker
sharmanaetor··on Trext – Software that engages large groups in interactive texting
I just signed up. One suggestion. Improve the "Phonebook" feature. Entering one contact per line? No excel/csv import? And no way to bulk add contacts after a group has been created? Not fun when I need to add 2000 contacts.
sharmanaetor··on Trext – Software that engages large groups in interactive texting
This looks like an excellent idea!
sharmanaetor··on Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
Integrating with SendGrid requires me to share my Sendgrid username and password. When asking for the password, a plain text field is being used as opposed to as password field. Anyone else find that insecure?
sharmanaetor··on Concept to Customers in 24 Hours: How We Did It
Nice!
sharmanaetor··on Chinese app aims to translate what your cat is trying to tell you
There seems to be no "Contact Us" link but if the creators of the site read this, there is no such language as "Hindu". I think you mean "Hindi".
sharmanaetor··on Town Living Under a Rock (literally)
‘Solid as a rock’ Setenil.
sharmanaetor··on Town Living Under a Rock (literally)
Nice!
sharmanaetor··on Prevent users from sharing their login information
That's the only thing I could come up with as well.
sharmanaetor··on Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
Bug Report: Clicking the initial countdown clock 2-3 times messes up the entire timer.
sharmanaetor··on The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP
"both your friends"..I think I might have more than 2 friends :)
sharmanaetor··on Larry Page posts about his voice
Yes. I just thought I'd mention this because I remember reading about it first via Scott Adams blog.
sharmanaetor··on Larry Page posts about his voice
Scott Adams had blogged about it on Nov 8, 2012: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/larry_pages_voice_update/
sharmanaetor··on "Programmer. Come Work For Us"
Work "for" us? How about work "with" us?
sharmanaetor··on Seriously? Ads?
You know you don't actually have to click an ad for FB to make money? Companies pay money just to get that ad in front so many eye balls!
sharmanaetor··on Dropping out - how does it affect you later in life?
I'm not in college anymore. I graduated 4 years back and have been programming ever since. I've based my views on candidates that I have interviewed over the past few years.

Without exception, when a candidate comes in with no graduation and having done a basic 2 month programming course from some private institution, he lacks of a programmer. He may have some idea about his core specialty, but deviate even slightly from there and he is lost.

Alternately, a person with a graduate degree is much more likely to be a well-rounded programmer and has his basics in place.

I'm from India and I believe that the country you come from matters here. In India, society gives a lot of importance to a persons qualification. I guess this affects my views on the matter too.

sharmanaetor··on Dropping out - how does it affect you later in life?
Like I said, there are always exceptions.
sharmanaetor··on Dropping out - how does it affect you later in life?
If you don't have a college degree, it's highly unlikely that you will get into a reputed company, assuming any company is willing to hire you. This means lower experience and probably lower pay as well. So this means you will spend about 4 years not working to your maximum potential. A person who graduates will easily catch up 6-8 years after graduating. There are, of course, exceptions to the scenario described above, but usually I think what's described by me is most likely to happen.
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