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anu_gupta··on Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro
More granular permissioning, and an increase in space to 1TB. Not bad.
anu_gupta··on Attacked By Thugs (2004)
Yes. Being able to find things out for oneself is useful.
anu_gupta··on Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results
If we extrapolate, we would need to take into account the fact that Twitter's losses tripled as their revenue doubled.

That light might well be a train.

anu_gupta··on Billion-Dollar Billy Beane
Selling Suarez had very little to do with making a profit. If Suarez had wanted to stay at LFC, he would still be there.
anu_gupta··on Why do baseball games take so long?
> Can

There are various forms of cricket. What you're referring to is test cricket. However, the shorter forms of the game can last as little as 3 - 4 hours.

anu_gupta··on U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers
Transferwise (http://transferwise.com) is sort of based on this - it matches up parties to massively reduce the cost of transferring money. I've used it a couple of times, and it worked very well, and saved me a significant amount of money.
anu_gupta··on An analysis of Lionel Messi
Yes, very widely known. If you don't think the game was rougher 30 years ago, then you really haven't been watching very closely.
anu_gupta··on An analysis of Lionel Messi
As long as he gets the advantages of modern nutrition, fitness conditioning, and analysis, then I'm pretty sure Bradman would tower over modern day players.

Don't forget, in Bradman's time, there were no covered pitches, leg side theory was legal, batmen didn't wear helmets or much in the way of protection (and bowlers weren't that much slower than they are now).

anu_gupta··on Uber isn’t the problem; taxi regulations are
Who's stopping you? London has thousands of mini-cabs. Just google London minicab, and phone one of the numbers.

Have you actually ever been to London?

anu_gupta··on City of Beijing Data Portal
Chrome's automatic page translation seems to be quite effective here - certainly good enough to register and browse the site meaningfully.
anu_gupta··on Common Server Setups For Your Web App
Most sites and most apps don't need five 9s, and I doubt that OP is saying that a single machine is going to give anyone that.
anu_gupta··on Ask HN: How bad is it to use a self-signed SSL certificate?
One thing that always confuses me is the plethora of options for buying SSL certificates.

I understand the difference between a single domain and wildcard SSL. But, as an example, what's the difference between Positive SSL and Essential SSL (2 types of SSL certs sold by Namecheap) - Essential being about 3x the price.

anu_gupta··on Ousted RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal Promises To Sue His Board
> You were well aware that if I had gone to trial I would have gotten full exoneration. Instead, I sacrificed full exoneration for the sake of the Company’s IPO, and – more importantly – for you and for our shareholders.

So basically, here's a guy who is more than happy to be publicly branded as someone who assaults women in order to get a few more dollars.

Whether he's lying about the above or not, he sounds like an incredibly unpleasant and amoral person.

anu_gupta··on A Statement About Mahbod’s Annotations on Elliot Rodger’s Manifesto
You've basically just tried to excuse rape.
anu_gupta··on 808 Cube
Disconnect (Chrome privacy plugin) breaks this site completely - need to whitelist it to see what's going on.
anu_gupta··on India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
Why do you keep trying to detail the conversation, beta?

Let's recap.

1. You asked for some other examples of disturbing BJP policies. You didn't qualify that in any way. 2. You get provided with an example 3. You're then all "Oh, but other people do that too, why single out my guy?" 4. Your attempts to move the goalpost is called out. 5. You then decide to use the word "fallacy" incorrectly and continue to try to derail.

I think Gandhi was a shit. I think Modi is a shit. I think people like you, who continue to prop up the corrupt power structures in India are directly responsible for the mess that India is in. And I think it's reprehensible that all you can do is try to protect a corrupt, bigoted shit with the defence that someone else was a shit too.

In future, choose your words and questions more carefully, and don't cry when you get an answer that you specifically asked for.

anu_gupta··on India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
You wanted an example, I gave you an example - I guess you need to move the goalposts as you can't actually deny that Modi and the BJP have spoken out against homosexuality many times. As far as I'm aware, the Congress Party have pledged in their manifesto that the rights of sexual minorities will be protected.

If you want to have a reasoned and rational debate, then fine. If you're just going to try to employ cheap debating tricks to win an argument, then I have no real interest in that. Support who you want, makes little difference to me, beta.

anu_gupta··on India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
> If the "BJP has other policies, which are disturbing", please enlighten us. Just lobbing an attack and walking away doesn't do any good.

Well, its stance on homosexuality, for one. It's not really hard to work out why many people are disturbed by the BJP, and even more so by Modi.

anu_gupta··on Static Site Generators
Movable Type does this.
anu_gupta··on YouTube Founders to Sell Delicious, a Social Bookmarking Site
- Efficient search, - tagging, - tag specific pages, - if you pay extra, pinboard will crawl the page and save it.

Basically, if you ever feel like you'd need to go back and find something you bookmarked a couple of years ago, then yes. If you're just saving a few bookmarks in your browser, then probably not.

anu_gupta··on Burying the URL
In the case of spoof/phishing sites, having the base domain be shown as it is in Canary might actually be helpful - instead of a long complicated URL that allows the scammer to camouflage their fake domain, the domain will be explicitly called out.

I don't hate this change so far (especially as clicking on the domain gives the full URL - although that's perhaps not very discoverable if you don't know about it already)

anu_gupta··on Uber – London Tube Strikes or How to take advantage of a protest
Hailo doesn't require cash, the card payment mechanism is incredibly seamless - you literally get out of the cab and carry on with your day. Also, about 13.000 London taxis are (apparently) signed up to Hailo.
anu_gupta··on Uber – London Tube Strikes or How to take advantage of a protest
I don't really understand why people would use Uber in London when services like Hailo exist. A black cab is going to get you around London much faster than a car that can't use bus lanes, there are many more cabs available than Uber cars, and I would guess (without knowing) that a cab is going to be cheaper.

So, apart from Uber maybe having some nicer cars available, what's the deal?

anu_gupta··on CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
As a freelancer, do you often do free work for your existing clients at evenings and weekends after they've told you they won't be using you anymore?
anu_gupta··on The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
Well for me, it's because although they're cheap and dedicated, servers, they aren't particularly good machines and the support is pretty much what you'd expect at that price (very basic).

That being said, I do think they're great value, and I have a reverse bidding dedicated server from Hetzner, that I use as a test and staging server. But I wouldn't dream of using them for production instances though - for the amount you'd have to pay to beef up support and get access to things like out of band console access, you might as well pay for a server from Bytemark.

anu_gupta··on GoDaddy Released My Personal Information to a Spammer Troll
People should just just flag trollish comments like this. Feeding trolls just encourages them.
anu_gupta··on Swiss Post scans your snail mail and sends it to you via email.
> I will trust the post office to open and scan my mail, far more than I will JRandomStartup

Interesting, my feeling is the opposite - I've lost count of the number of envelopes I've received that have been partially opened up to check if there are credit cards etc inside. I seem to remember seeing that one postal worker a day is caught stealing mail in the UK.

I would absolutely not trust the UK Post Office to open my mail.

anu_gupta··on WTF, HTML and CSS?
From the fucking lovely Stephen Fry

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic."

Profanity is an essential and rich part of the English language. It's really only prudes and people who need to feel morally superior have a problem with it, and they can fuck right off, frankly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

anu_gupta··on Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment
> Who will read this and hesitate the next time they're about to hire a woman because they're the best candidate for the job?

Lazy, sexist assholes, that's who.

anu_gupta··on Save more with Google Drive
Well, Google gives you 15GB for free, Seeing as you're only using 10GB, not sure why you're paying, especially as you seem to be quite price sensitive.
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