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aravan··on React Native is now open source
But why React Native? Reactjs for web makes sense as browsers struggle with DOM manipulation.

Native apps rendering capacity is sub-micro seconds. Hoping for Appcelerator's dreaming Hyperloop that give us native JS capabilities.

I still plan to use ReactJs (web) within web-view.

aravan··on What Cockroaches with Backpacks Can Do
blue-cross on the way.

Never felt pity on cockroaches until today, it was really heavy, overweight.

aravan··on Ask HN: The rising “Hackathon Hackers” culture
I have been to few hacks to India, I found similar drama held by judges here. Well, I don't go for winning a price, nowadays, hackathan is mainly conducted for hireathon, you need to work on specific domain that company is experienced in.

You wrote next best google algorithm for page ranking, accurate search results, you will be probably get ignored. You will be asked what is the business value? Why people should buy from you. The funny thing is, hackathan is just a coding stuffs, not a VC pitch club.

After few hackathans, I decided to not to compete on the crowd on a similar idea, then I pick my own idea or some algorithm to try, get to the extend of it make it work.

aravan··on Show HN: Understanding public spending – 700 tables of data in one diagram
is that d3 charts, can you talk about technologies used behind?
aravan··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
Definitely not about spending 10 minutes on SQL Schema. It is all about maintenance. MongoDB is right use case, if you know what it will be there in Table.
aravan··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
The article is sort of weird, why Document, no sql, no schema DB to be a schema DB? One fundamental fact that you liked MongoDB in early days (first 5 years) because it was damn easy to handle anything you throw at, you learned to build the business around it. In 5 years, you learned enough, business model matured, not much changes in the data model. Now development progress is matured, you have got team to work on, your worries relies on consistency. You might want to back to SQL. Now you know what schema/table you need, string length, data type, constraint, relationship etc, because you learned that in 5 years time. You don't need to deal with new developers screwing the Document DB (like storing Object ID as string in few places)

Developers, who reads the article beware of reality, you can look back 5 years now, not looking forward 5 years ahead. Don't waste time in dealing with database columns and schemas, instead build the business faster, I found Mongo DB or any Document DB is good fit for agility.

1000's of business move to Document DB because it is schema-less.

While working on Document DB, you should be master in writing stand-alone scripts in Python/Perl/Ruby to run every-time you break the structure, or fix inconsistency.

edit: fixed typo errors

aravan··on Ask HN: Are you planning on purchasing an Apple Watch?
Sun and my hunger are my best time tellers. What after sunset? my wife and daughter calls me every 15 minutes 'when are you coming home?'.

In fact, I need smart-watch/device if that helps me to show me the driving direction during the rush driving in Indian cities on two wheeler (motor bike) when going to new places.

aravan··on Salary for Founders of a Broke Startup
You trade your present time for future return while working on side projects. You might have different outcomes, your side project would have got traction, you can move on with idea to startup. Or it may help you to find early invester or co-founder through that.

If everything else failed, side-project definitely helps to find a suitable technical job that fits your resume, because you spend a lot of hours on working on technology you liked. When you are not succeeding, don't forget to open source your work. That add credit, too.

aravan··on Ask HN: Is startup fever still on?
Is bubble related to economy or a cheer crowd of people for startup reduced now, moved on their own after doing some experiments?
aravan··on USB Killer
What if the voltage kills someone? Is it not too dangerous?

Lesson is not to use/touch the USB stuffs not belongs to you. Good moral story for 2nd grader.

aravan··on RapidShare is Shutting down
I was doing research on anti-piracy, torrent kills all the file sharing portal more than government. File share portals comes directly under law of punishment for hosting and sharing infringed content. Torrent is a general public, mass, there could be many ways to protect innocence against strict law. Hoping that rapidshare made enough money, may try to leave the shit off and spend their time on vocation.

These all hall of fame, rise and fall of empire, giving way innovations and technologies.

aravan··on Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
node remains in the name. community cares only about code. IO.JS is gone forward, we are moving with io.js.
aravan··on Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
You didn't get response because all those 5 companies executives not sure about what you asked, rest who knows that moved to iojs.
aravan··on Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
This is funny ever..thanks for posting
aravan··on Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation
Please get tj https://github.com/tj to node.
aravan··on Salt – Sustainable Alternative Lighting
Great.. Just watched this youtube video Energy from Salt water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMdS65_E_X4

aravan··on Why Nadella's Second Year as Microsoft CEO Will Be a Lot Harder
MS $2.5B acquisition to attract youths?
aravan··on Ask HN: Someone raised money by claiming my project as their own
Sorry bro, You consult them and offer a deal $$$.

If everything true, they raised 1M with just showing open source project, the VC must be funny guy, lol.

Since you are not mentioned what is your project, links to your repository, 100000+ people use jquery, bootstrap etc libraries, they leave the links as it is.

aravan··on Tell HN: Don't work for companies that use hackerrank
You basically code on the browser, which is not meant to be an IDE of your favorite programing language, you have to blame HTML, Web, Javascript, Web Browsers, Internet, your ISP, country, policies, cables, satelite all together, a lot of open source tools used by hackerrank for syntax highlighting, auto-completion etc.

Just because you didn't go through, you recommend whoever cleared not to join the prospective employer?

I see hackerrank and other similar sites are improving overtime, along with technologies & eco-system. You should understand that you might be programming 10000 miles away from the compiler.

aravan··on Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time
In India, salary hike when jumping the job is about 30% to 50% during first 5 years of experience.

Within the company, the high will be about 8% to 20%. There are always exceptions.

aravan··on Show HN: Servus for Mac and Dropbox
You may show an example. Is that dropbox sharelink that difficult? I understand the brand name. You could make some sales while using nice and good looking screen shots. It creates a feel and then a sale. The example you have shown is boring honestly.