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vishaldpatel

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vishal@cabanalabs.com
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vishaldpatel··on Apple Updates MacBook Air With Haswell CPU, Claims All-Day Battery Life
So, no Haswell for Macbook Pro, and no Retina Display for Macbook Air. Seems like neither laptop is built to be everything for anybody.
vishaldpatel··on Zhang's Prime Result Being Improved Everyday
So, what are we looking at here?
vishaldpatel··on Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts
It would be interesting to learn how they account for: "No, not that way, I was just kidding."
vishaldpatel··on HTML5 Features you need to know
The RegEx input checker on the client-side is not a replacement for server-side validation. It doesn't prevent someone from sending requests to the server with bad data, so don't forget to make sure that all requests have valid data.

What it does is help the interface to be more responsive so the user doesn't have to wait for a round-trip before finding out that they forgot to put in an email address / other valid input.

vishaldpatel··on Ask HN: Tips for coding with one hand?
You will get faster. I sometimes eat with one hand and type with the other. I'd say I get 25 to 30 wpm... which isn't too bad. Mind you, I'm not really trying to improve my one-handed typing speed. You just need to let your left hand gain some dexterity and this will take time.
vishaldpatel··on In China, Hacking Has Widespread Acceptance
A friend told me that in China, reputation is very important. To do business with a reputed company, you have to have a good reputation. As the company that you're working with's reputation gets worse, so do your chances of getting work done / getting paid. Of course, well-reputed companies are probably in higher demand from both suppliers and customers, just like everywhere else, compared to say, cheaper firms.
vishaldpatel··on Kiera Wilmot receives full scholarship to U.S. Space Academy
How do I get to page 2?
vishaldpatel··on My one talk with Marissa Mayer
Come on, folks, time to relax with the name-calling: he was using his experience to convey a wider point: when you sell something, it belongs to the buyer. They can do what they want with it. Expecting some part is foolish - we can, at best, offer our services to help them make their newly acquired purchase even better.
vishaldpatel··on The Three Kinds of Laziness
Put all your choices in a hat and pick one. Your time runs out even faster when you lay there immobilized by choice.
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: My seven minute workout timer evening project
Love it! The suspense is fantastic - it forces me to concentrate on the current exercise and not worry about whats coming up next. Really great! I hope you will add more exercises, more compound exercises, lots of body weight exercises, from beginner to advanced, logins, tracking.. etc.. etc.. all while keeping the core simplicity of it all intact! =)
vishaldpatel··on The Startup Story I Want To Hear
For anyone interested in such a story, I highly recommend Richard Branson's autobiography - "How I lost my virginity."
vishaldpatel··on IRS targeted groups critical of government
Many of these groups would like the IRS to go away entirely. Many of these groups would like to not pay taxes at all.

Why would the IRS spend an equal amount of time investigating everyone, when certain groups go out of their way to paint big targets on their backs?

vishaldpatel··on Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed
Hopefully it's by choice and he doesn't blame his parents for his beard and fatness anymore. I don't know anyone with perfect parenting and we all have our demons.
vishaldpatel··on Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed
How is being a pro gamer different than being a pro athlete? Lots of people try and some finally make it. I bet all those who tried and failed are happier for trying.
vishaldpatel··on Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed
You know, unless Junior wants to go pro.
vishaldpatel··on Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grades, are more depressed
I have a feeling that there's a certain crop of high-school overachiever who, upon finally being free, ends up failing for the first time and in a spectacular fashion after they go to college.

How has your life evolved since 25? Did you end up losing the weight and the beard? Did they finally leave you be to pursue your own goals?

vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Yup! =)
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Thanks!! Yes, I'll make all of these happen in upcoming updates. =)
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Thats the plan! Simple and clean. Thanks =)
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Yup! Same idea. Easily create playlists and share them. I decided to go with updating the address-bar instead of storing playlists server-side. That has it's limitations but saves me from storing anything on the server, for now.

Yours looks like you're going with accounts creation instead, which might end up being something I'll have to do.

vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Oh man.. mobile compatibility. I have a nexus 4 coming in soon, so I might just give it a go. Making the video go away would make a few people happy for sure.
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
LOL. That is something I did not think about! =). What do you use right now to create them? Thanks!
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Your's is pretty slick too. Are you going to keep working on it? Why did you create your particular player?
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Sweet! Thanks :).
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Thank you =)
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Wow. Yes, 1 through 5 are in the works!

About accounts: Right now, everything is entirely client-side. What it does do though is update the address-bar whenever you add / remove a song to the playlist or rearrange the playlist, etc. This means that you can simply bookmark a playlist after creating it!

Previous / next: For now, we can double click on videos in the playlist to play them.

vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
This is a side-project. I made it for me and my friends and anyone who appreciates the limited scope of what it does - quickly look up videos, create playlists, share them and bookmark them.
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
That particular feature is pure eye-candy =)
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Yes, for sure. I'll have nicer buttons with title tags soon.
vishaldpatel··on Show HN: I made this simple YouTube playlist maker. What do you think?
Yes, I can see how it would annoy some content creators too. I'll check out the TOS for sure, thanks.
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