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iffyuva··on My year with a distraction-free iPhone
i dont have an iphone, but have an andriod one. i generally turn off internet. so, i can't browse, and i can't install new apps. i mostly use it for attending calls.
iffyuva··on Making an Indian agency work for your startup
glad that you liked the blog post. talking about price, india no more falls in 'cheap outsourcing' destinations. what we have learnt from our clients is: if they need quality work, they have to pay decent rates inevitably.
iffyuva··on Before I Die I Want To
whats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.
iffyuva··on Hair
You should know how to draw things first before dwelling into maths. For eg, look at this one: https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair/blob/master/source... and check out drawFinger, its all about drawing an arc. Once you know basics, i think its matter of time that you can produce jaw dropping things like this. coming to maths that you need to learn: learn co-ordinate geometry for all 2d related stuff.
iffyuva··on MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
There is DTrace software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace) whose documentation also disappeared. My friend pointed out while exploring DTrace to profile ruby apps.
iffyuva··on Ask HN: Passive income ideas?
I believe HipChat has this concept of 'Guest Access'. Won't that be helpful, just curious.
iffyuva··on NVidia will license their GPU cores to other hardware manufacturers
talking about mobile space, i believe OpenGLES is used in embedded platforms instead of OpenGL, which is a stripped down version.
iffyuva··on The Facebook experiment has failed
so true. i respect people who put an effort to compose an email to share something, rather than hitting share button. most of the time they dont even remember what they have shared over fb!
iffyuva··on Github is Down
its up for me too..
iffyuva··on LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
That endorsements looks more or less like a poll. People with whom I have barely worked also endorsed me! Very creepy!
iffyuva··on Profile Ruby 2.0 apps using DTrace – Part 1
thanks for your input. indeed, we are going to follow it up with some live examples.
iffyuva··on Dawn of kitchen sink libraries in Ruby
Talking about 'libraries vs frameworks', tenderlove spoke about frameworks providing bare-metal interfaces for libraries and let libraries implement those interfaces in whichever way they want. but its still not sure to what extent that would solve the problem. Recently, bare-metal queue implementation in Rails https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/adff4a706a5d7ad18ef053... has been discussed 'for and against' extensively.