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I enjoy life, celebrate youth, believe in cynical sort of love, dance terribly and spend time coding on a breezy evening. me@tsudot.com

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tsudot··on India Is Too Poor, Snapchat Is for the Rich People – Evan Spiegel
When it comes to content, Indian's don't think of it as something tangible.

The main reason though is downloading content through torrents is considered the way to go.

I feel with Netflix and Prime are out there to capture this market, with TVF being the local player, this change of philosophy is just starting to shift.

tsudot··on Why I Quit Ordering from Uber-For-Food Startups
Don't you need a license to sell cooked food? How do FDA regulations work on such kind of things?
tsudot··on Read Hacker News faster
Which endpoint do you use to filter by date?
tsudot··on Agile in the Enterprise
Does agile or any other software development process matter so much in a startup? I've worked in 2 startups so far and there has never been a formal way of developing software.
tsudot··on Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green?
> design your code to use undo rather than confirmation

I can think of two ways to implement undo.

1. Use flags in the database, this method has its own drawback since the entry is not really deleted but flagged as one.

2. Client side. Delay the actual delete request to the server.

tsudot··on Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green?
Another discussion which got started in the comments[1] is whether to place the 'Delete' button to the left or right.[2]

[1] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/49991/should-yes-delet...

[2] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ok-cancel-or-cancel-ok/

tsudot··on Help me find a site I saw in past few weeks
Is this the one? - http://designmodo.com/startup/

However, these guys are Russians.

tsudot··on [dead]
How do you play against someone who does not follow the book openings? I usually find it hard to tactically have a book opening setup and then develop on top of it.
tsudot··on Chess Opening Moves
I was reading about the Sicilian Defence, which got me deep into another variation - The Yugoslav Attack[1] Video [2]

I'm curious to understand if chess masters have all of this committed to memory, and thats something one needs to excel at Chess.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Defence,_Dragon_Variat...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgYY4c7ijy8

tsudot··on Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks
I've always preferred IMO as a client for all my XMPP accounts. I need to start looking for alternatives now.
tsudot··on A collection of Unix terminal/console/curses tools
I recently discovered netbrake. Super awesome tool to limit the bandwidth used by a process. http://www.hping.org/netbrake/

Also its written by antirez :)

tsudot··on A collection of Unix terminal/console/curses tools
> nethack & slash'em

> Still the most complex game on the planet.

Does anybody know if a HTML5 version of Nethack exists?

tsudot··on Luper – Remember to stay in touch and sustain your personal relationships
I'm curious to understand the use cases. From the screenshots, it looks like a note taking app?
tsudot··on Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs
This is a pretty interesting app to have conversations with friends.

Business calls, I've had a problem with video. It's often too cumbersome and gives too much info about the visual aspect of myself when it's not necessary and when I don't want it to happen. (e.g., getting on a call with a stranger or clients.) Using the "voice" call, I won't worry over washing my face at 9am in the morning.

Which is the reason I created http://voicechatapi.com (shameless plug)

tsudot··on Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
Try the app in Chrome, which uses HTML5 audio. Flash is for other browsers with graceful fallback.

As Firefox and other browsers support and stabilize HTML5 audio a.k.a. WebRTC, this App will support it too.

tsudot··on Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
This uses HTML5 audio on Chrome and falls back to Flash on other browser.

The WebSDK is currently hosted on s3 and hence the request. Will fix this.

tsudot··on Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
Yup. It's a flask app which can be self hosted on any instance of yours and it uses redis to store conference mappings.
tsudot··on Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
I built this. Happy to take any questions. Code is hosted here - http://github.com/plivo/voicechat/
tsudot··on Show HN: We just open-sourced a Skype replacement with HTML5
True, I feel the issue with Skype is that its too personal. You add someone as a contact without realizing that they can monitor your status all the time.

ps. I built this.

tsudot··on Plivo Rolls Out Free Trial Account that Lets You Do Voice Calls and SMS
Thanks for the confidence. We think that decoding/encoding of audio on dedicated hardware works best for call quality and we are really focussed on doing that.
tsudot··on HipChat API and Plivo Integration for Sales Line Bot
Took about an hour to design the phone tree on paper. Another hour to write the flask app and deploy on heroku. All in all it turned out pretty well.

Suggestions and feedback are welcome.

tsudot··on HipChat API and Plivo Integration for Sales Line Bot
This integration posts a whole bunch of stuff to HipChat. The code can be cloned from https://bitbucket.org/tsudot/wrench/ happy to help with any questions.
tsudot··on New cloud phone service for startups and small businesses
Really awesome work on the call flow designer.
tsudot··on How Silicon Valley Fosters Plivo's Cloud-Based Telephony
I joined Plivo exactly a year ago. We've come a long way since then. From supporting a complex conferencing platform, to insane dialer traffic. Its been a pleasure working with the team. Good job guys!
tsudot··on How I hacked my way into CES
The section on your website doesn't mention much about the OS. More details would be great.
tsudot··on Plivo (YC S12) Launches the first SDK that connects WebRTC And SIP
The credentials can be generated dynamically from any server side language like php, python or ruby and sent to the js. Once the call is done or after a certain time these credential can be deleted using server side APIs too.

Edit:

Creating an Endpoint - http://plivo.com/docs/api/endpoint/#create

Deleting an Endpoint - http://plivo.com/docs/api/endpoint/#delete

tsudot··on Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others
Yes we do. It was good meeting you at Pycon.
tsudot··on Plivo (YC S12) raises 1.75 million from Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, others
We also have come up with a new home page redesign.