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chintanpon Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects

This looks awfully similar to a tool called as radar when I worked at a fruit company in cupertino.

chintanpon Fun With iBeacon

Could you recommend other cheaper options which you have tried?

chintanpon Poll: Do you have your own company?

I really want to know how do you get started in firmware consulting roles? Are you based out of US?

chintanpon Visualisation of the expansion of IKEA

Good observation, was also curious to know this.

chintanpon Amazon Dash

No posts on above tumblr as of now.

chintanpon World’s most photographed places

Does anyone know the data source for this?

chintanpon Basic Data Structures and Algorithms in the Linux Kernel

My favorite algorithm has been the linked list implementation, pretty useful for implementing list on embedded platforms.

chintanpon The importance of side projects, talk by Pulse cofounders

I liked this talk, aptly titled as "What you learn by doing". It reinforced the idea that side projects are very important and, that is what would allow to build a strong technical foundation. The story of Ankit and Akshay is certainly inspiring.

chintanpon Hulu Plus Arrives on Apple TV

plus the missing Youtube channel on Roku makes me want to buy Apple TV.

chintanpon History made in India: Govt agrees to anti-corruption bill

but the citizens of any nation are responsible for corruption. Their leaders aren't alien beings who have descended from planet Z to rule upon their country

I have been thinking about it for few weeks now and was somehow not convinced that by having an anti corruption bill passed would suddenly make significant changes.

This nytimes article from last month, "In Fight for Better India, Best to Look Within" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/world/asia/02iht-currents0... gives candid analysis of what is wrong and some way to fix it.

chintanpon Data Deduplication with Linux

A required reading from my course on Advanced Storage Systems at CMU, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15-610/READINGS/optional/zhu2008.pdf

Really good paper which describes in detail how the deduplication works.

chintanpon There's no speed limit (2009)

"Kimo's high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me the standard pace is for chumps - that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you're more driven than just anyone - you can do so much more than anyone expects. And this applies to ALL of life - not just school".

I wish someone had told me this while I was in school.

chintanpon PIC vs. AVR

One ARM based board which comes in my mind is BeagleBoard (http://beagleboard.org/), its bit expensive 149$ but quite powerful.

chintanpon Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday

There is a record button hidden in second 'g' of Google doodle.

chintanpon PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet

Check these detailed answers on Quora, http://www.quora.com/Why-do-a-lot-of-public-companies-incorp...