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gary4gar

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Ruby on rails Freelance Consultant
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gary4gar··on Ubuntu Releases 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
installed it but disappointed as my wireless doesn't work. Thought it did work on 10.10 but NOT on 12.04.

Poor Quality release!

gary4gar··on Ask HN: Typo in Facebook's HTTP header "X-Cnection: close" intentional?
in the link says

"FYI, the reason it misspells the word connection is so that the internet check-sum (a simple sum) still adds up, this way the change can occur at the packet level. If it completely removed the header, it would have to stall forwarding the response until the header was entirely read, so it could rewrite the headers, recompute the checksum and then send it along."

Wow, I am impressed. it is really a clever hack! Thanks for the link :)

gary4gar··on Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit)
Caused Chrome on my Linux machine to crawl, CPU usage of my dual core CPU is about 100%!!

But its pretty cool as an experiment :)

gary4gar··on Google is now a certificate authority?
It seems google is using self-issued SSL certs which do not generate warnings/promts to the user.

Domain: plus.google.com Browser:Google Chrome 14.0.835.202

gary4gar··on Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
Getting Started with Programming: 100% completed

Please add more courses :D

gary4gar··on Google’s Official Profanity API
here is copy of the post: http://pastebin.com/8C3EXMZ7
gary4gar··on Milestone for MIT Press’s bestseller, "Introduction to Algorithms"
Its an excellent book. I am proud to own a copy. Authors have done a good job!

Anyone who want to learn algorithms & data stuctures should get this & read it cover-to-cover. PERIOD

gary4gar··on Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
You're Wrong! Because

1) Facebook is powered by massive infrastructure which can be only be compared to likes of Google. Visa, Mastercard are too small even to be compared.

2) People at Facebook are Smart - as Facebook hired top talent. those "hackers@Facebook" know their sh!t & together they are better prepared that any of us here for thwarting ddos attacks.

so my message to annon is: Kids, Please don't understand facebook's infrastructure & the smart people who work there.

gary4gar··on Anonymous Pledges to Take Down Facebook
Facebook is too big & has resources to fight off any kind of DDOS attack. I think, Annon's plan won't work. Those kids are going to get disappointed
gary4gar··on An iOS Developer Takes on Android
Still, you will have to wait for around 30s for each refresh; While the new binary gets uploaded
gary4gar··on A few days of programming on iOS and Android illustrates a vast difference.
I would love to see some scripting language in Android AND iOS which is Officially supported. Something like Python,Ruby or JavaScript which will make app development much easier.

Hey Google, Give us a nice scripting langauge. Pretty Please?

gary4gar··on Symfony 2.0 is now available
Congrats to Symfony2 Team!

FYI, Symfony2 requires minimum PHP version 5.3.2

PHP 5.3 which is not something every shared hosting provider will support, most are still on 5.2.series. so everyone should keep that in mind while writing PHP app with Symfony2

gary4gar··on Symfony 2.0 is now available
Does Symfony had Lazy loading? which is the reason behind the performance of Yii.
gary4gar··on PayPal User Charged $4,000 for Mac OS X Lion Download
Piracy is not justification.You should not pirate apps in first place. you are breaking law here.

Now since you were using the app & enjoying all its benefits -- its developers are full rights to get paid for their labour & hard work.

gary4gar··on Pronounceable IPv6 addresses, WPA2-PSK and hashes
Unnecessary! IP address are meant for machines. for Human readable, we have DNS. Further, IPv6 Autoconfiguration will remove the need for humans to manually configure networks.

native IPv6 network "Just works", no DHCP hacks needed

gary4gar··on NYT Skimmer
This look exactly similar to their Chrome App: http://www.nytimes.com/chrome/
gary4gar··on Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?
You're welcome!

About TOS & Privacy policy. I couldn't find these after searching. Maybe place it in Footer, FAQ.

gary4gar··on Show HN: We want to become India's TurboTax. Feedback?
Hello Archit, Fellow Indian Geek here. I must say good job on the site, you have managed to make something that is usable. Here is some of my suggestions:

1) I think you need to get a fancy logo. current one is too plain according to me.

2) You are asking customers some sensitive & yet I do not see "Privacy Policy" which is what stopped me from entering PAN No right at first step1. If its already there, highlight it

3) A Strong TOS would indemnify from liability. so, You should add a TOS & make customers agree to it.

4) Any Particular reason Pricing is hidden from Homepage?

5) In welcome email that you send. add few details like name, userid etc. It makes it more original & less fake.

6) I understand you want a "Lean UI" but I think more naked than Lean. so spice it up a bit - add some fancy transitions, better typography(Try webfonts) etc.

7) For entering Date,javascript validation message says: "Please enter date of birth in format: 25/10/1984". isn't giving specific format DD/MM/YYY more accurate. Further, Any reason you are not using Date Picker?

8) Make Login Button more prominent. so user won't try to register again. Your current homepage encourages to everybody to click on that big orange button which is not something you want your existing users should be doing.

9) Taxes aren't something that most people understand. so even after such Intutive UI, people will have questions. so highlight your support methods available(Phone, email etc).

10) Last & most important: Don't just be a pretty interface to official Website. You never know when incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in becomes irctc.co.in. That's too risky business model. Try to add more value to service.

Hope it helps

gary4gar··on Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love
I never knew all this was possible with CSS. Amazing! Good work :)
gary4gar··on Ewww, You Use PHP?
A big shout out to Yii Framework - its really fast!

check benchmark: http://www.yiiframework.com/performance/

gary4gar··on Firebug lead developer now working on Web dev tools at Google
I am Sold. I am switching to WebDev tools. If anyone needs an intro, here is video of session done during Google I/O 2011

-> Google I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8SS-rUEZPg

Btw, Paul Irish is co-presenter ;)

gary4gar··on Estimate your English vocabulary size
14,000 Words

I am non-native speaker. I guess that's a excuse for such poor score. Need to improve :(

gary4gar··on Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way
Why is everyone making this Ruby vs Python? which is unproductive discussion.

I think the article has some good tips for people learning any new language(it can be python,ruby or anything). The tips most useful according me are:

1. Dedicate fixed time for learning

2. Find Good mentor.

3. Use recommended development practices from Day1

4. Learn Core Language first, then try frameworks

5. Write Code(that's the only way!)

gary4gar··on Bad News For Android: ITC Rules HTC Violated Two Apple Patents
this ruling isn’t final, and Apple’s victory isn’t terribly meaningful in the long term.

Source: http://thisismynext.com/2011/07/15/preliminary-ruling-finds-...

PS: that's a real lawyer reporting, so I guess he know what he talking about. Rather than some random reportor

gary4gar··on IPad 2 JailBreakMe (3.0) now available
I guess the actual shell code starts from line 40 ">>stream..."

It must be using some other encoding, only if we knew which!

gary4gar··on Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript
All just because of twitter :-(

Warning: file_get_contents(http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_n...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/twitter/twitter-cacher.php on line 86

Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/content/w/i/l/willieohwillie/html/header.php on line 319

gary4gar··on IPad 2 JailBreakMe (3.0) now available
I decoded base64 & got this: https://gist.github.com/1067129

bunch of random gibberish?

gary4gar··on MIT 6.006: Algorithms in Python
Hmm...Not sure how useful they would but here are 3 suggestions:-

* Try Adding some more lesser known but useful data structures like Trie,Bloom filters etc.

* Covering recent industry topic - explanation of core concepts that drive bigtable,hadoop, nosql etc.

* Mobile programming from algorithmic prospective.

gary4gar··on MIT 6.006: Algorithms in Python
Does the new ones are based on python as supporting language? what all things have changed in this new set? And lastly, any timeline?

Btw. I am Super Excited to hear this :D

gary4gar··on Ask HN: What do you wish your non-technical cofounder understood?
Just 3 things:

1) Things get broken all the time: so instead of playing the blame game & doing name calling.Expect that things will break & assume there will be bugs. Focus should be fixing the problem ASAP & _then_ doing an analysis on what went wrong. so corrective measures can be taken so the same problem does not reoccur again.

2) 9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month: If you had more capital, could you finish things faster? NO, look what happened to Color(about 200employees, IIRC) & compare that to instagram(10-12 people) . In software eng, More resource does not necessarily mean better product.

3) Don't bother about coding, but test the shit of product to provide honest constructive feedback. Plus, be the public face of the company. technical people prefer doing programming rather interacting with random bunch of strangers.

These are the main three ones, I could think of top of my head. Hope it helps :)

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