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sunilkumarcon Ask HN: Is it good idea to take protein supplements in your diet?

Because I fucking care about this community. And there are people here to fucking helping each other!

sunilkumarcon Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India

A couple of months back I wanted to try Razorpay for receiving payments from my app users. Just like donate button in PayPal. But Razorpay was not supporting independent developers at that time.

While Stripe supports this feature beautifully, it wasn't supporting in India. Now I'm excited to hear this news.

sunilkumarcon Freelancer.com has ruined my life

"unskilled indian labour" huh? There are tens of Indian entrepreneurs who have set up Billion dollar companies in US. Don't forget that Microsoft and Google CEOs are Indian too!!

sunilkumarcon How many people are in space right now

From where are you getting this data?

sunilkumarcon Structor – React UI Builder

This is awesome!

sunilkumarcon Mastodon – an open source alternative to Twitter

Previous discussion of Mastodon here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303346

sunilkumarcon HackerNews Grid

How are you getting the thumbnail images?

sunilkumarcon Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

I have been developing side projects for fun since my Engineering days(from past 6 years). Below are the ones worth showing:

1. Track Courier - This was developed to learn the tech-stack Node.js + Backbone.js + PostgreSQL (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/track-courier)

2. Form Filler - This was developed to solve my own problem of having to type common fields like email id, username etc again and again on different web pages (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/form-filler)

3. Subtitle Corrector - This is a linux command line utility to correct subtitle files. Using this one can adjust the entire file by +x or -x seconds (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/subtitle-corrector)

4. 100 - This is a project I started to learn to solve Algorithms and DS problems for my interview preparations. The plan was to solve at least 1 problem everyday for 100 days. But I couldn't do it everyday. Still whenever I solve a problem I put it in this repository (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/100)

5. Desktop Commentary - This is again a linux utility which shows Cricket scores every 10 seconds on your desktop as a Notification Bubble. The problem I was trying to solve here was to avoid going to Espncricinfo website every now and then to check scores when a match is going on (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/desktop-commentary)

6. Alarm Manager - This is one more linux utility to set multiple alarms (up to 5) on your linux machine (https://github.com/sunilkumarc/alarm-manager)

sunilkumarcon Stackblitz – Online VS Code Editor for Angular and React

Neat!

sunilkumarcon Stackblitz – Online VS Code Editor for Angular and React

Are there plans to add react-native?

sunilkumarcon Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game

This is really cool!

sunilkumarcon VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

What are the technologies that have been used to develop this?

sunilkumarcon VisuAlgo – visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

Cool. I wish this existed when I was in college!

sunilkumarcon Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers?

My account was recently suspended from Upwork because I was applying for more number of jobs without landing at any. When I sent a mail to Upwork support, they said they cannot help me once it is suspended. Currently I'm trying to find some work on freelancer.com. Do you know any other similar websites for freelancing for beginners?

sunilkumarcon MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua

That's a lot of work you've done alone :)

sunilkumarcon Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?

Because we are curious!

sunilkumarcon Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?

I don't think we should consider celebrities in this context. I feel the author of the question wanted to know about freelancers.

sunilkumarcon Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

Wow. This looks amazing. I have always loved atom's UI. Now, the git and github integrations are really cool too.

sunilkumarcon Show HN: Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online

I had forgotten about Golf. One of my favorites video games! Awesome stuff this is.

sunilkumarcon Emacs 25.2 released

I wonder how HN allowed posting a duplicate article!

sunilkumarcon Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done

This definitely will not work for Software Engineers, especially developers. We constantly go online looking for solutions to problems we face in everyday work.

sunilkumarcon Introducing Twitter Lite

The same link mobile.twitter.com works on desktop browsers too!

sunilkumarcon Introducing Twitter Lite

Where exactly? I couldn't find it.

sunilkumarcon A chrome extension to track all of your mutual funds with just one click

This is my extension :)

sunilkumarcon Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

When they say 'full time' in the job description, how many hours do they expect us to spend time on those projects?

sunilkumarcon Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)

Github version of this would be awesome! To fork this and keep. Is it available?

sunilkumarcon Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

Your last sentence made me upvote your comment :)

sunilkumarcon Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore

I'm glad to have found this comment. Most people today die today without even approaching a problem like Newton, Einstein and many others did who were obsessed with 1 single problem for years and decades.

sunilkumarcon Google is acquiring Kaggle

According to the article, Google mainly wants the Kaggle community.

sunilkumarcon Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

Why do have a randomised button click to continue without a license?