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narad

1,666 karma · joined February 3, 2011

I am someone who juggles many hats and dabbles in programming, marketing, product dev, project management.
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narad··on Notifying users affected by the DNSChanger malware
On July 9 2012 the replacement DNS servers operated by ISC will be shut down and any victims who still depend on these servers will face new risks. -- http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120327_dns_changer/
narad··on Facebook's Security Enginner ad
A very nice way to recruit.
narad··on Donald Knuth: Happy man since 1990 without an email address
He has email address, but he does not use it to reply. His secretary prints out all messages. For environment's sake, he should start using email and avoid lot of paper wastage.

It's just my opinion.

narad··on Valve Software developing for linux
When I was using Windows, I used to play lot of time-killing games. After switching to Ubuntu, I could not find those games. Some of those linux games were not as good as those windows games. I could try playing via Wine, but didn't.

So, my productivity has increased now. Most of time is devoted to fixing bugs, trying to increase passive income, trying to get some certifications etc.,

Still, I miss those games... AoE, Thief Series, HL, Diablo...

narad··on Time Zones
WorldTimeBuddy helps me in scheduling my meetings for people across time zones.

This tool (everytimezone) does not allow go beyond tomorrow.

narad··on Show HN: Ham, a fast PHP router/microframework I hacked up last night
Can you tell us about the License for use? I do not see the license info.
narad··on Why I'm building Nilai - A simple bookmarking service
"... cool to name the service an Indonesian word. Nilai is pronounced (as best as I can tell) Nee’-lie. It is an Indonesian word meaning mark."

Nilai means "a place" in Tamil, a language in South India. It has also many meanings. http://tamil.indiandictionaries.com/meaning.php?id=12587&...

narad··on Ubuntu vs RHEL in enterprise computing
I am just curious. I see MacOS being used by high traffic sites at this page. (http://w3techs.com/technologies/market/operating_system) -- Market Position image.

Any one have a list of popular websites run on MacOS?

narad··on Email Unsubscribe from Hell
eBay does this same trick. I opened an account long back, now I am not able to unsubscribe from their list as I do not know the password. To get the password, I have to give the answers to the security questions, which I have already forgotten. Phew.

I have marked their emails as Spam and it straight goes to spam folder.

narad··on Twitter sells multi-billion tweet archive
Related: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acq... Library of Congress already has an archive of public tweets.
narad··on Save My House From Apple
You are using Paypal for donations. There have been many horror stories on HN about people doing a donation drive and getting accounts closed by Paypal citing ToS.
narad··on Tell HN: The Government has shut down Jotform without warning
I can see that http://www.jotform.com/ is working fine.

http://twitter.com/#!/Jotform/status/169791387125026818

narad··on Can’t monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action
I have gone too harsh by using that word. I stand corrected.
narad··on Can’t monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action
$6000 a year for a widget - without proper data & explanation is - extortion.
narad··on Site banned from AdSense restored after appeal to regulator
To be frank, Adsense is the best ad network in terms of EPM (earnings per click) . Even my 50 visitors-per-day sites generate a modest income. But, other large CPC networks like chitika pay in pennies for that same traffic. That sucks.

If you rely too much on Adsense, then you are doomed when your account is banned. Better to go for paid advertising on your website itself.

narad··on Goodbye AdSense
It is too sad to notice that Google only serves famous people. All those people who raised their voice on blogs and HN are given priority. What about the people who post on the Google Adsense forums and GAN Forums? Nobody from Google even replies to those legitimate queries.
narad··on AsK HN: What would you do if your coder switched out adsense codes on pages?
1) Ask the coder to develop a system to insert ad code by yourself. 2) View source-code and verify it.

My Question to you... If you do not trust your coder, why do you even allow to code your business logic or what-ever you have?

narad··on What Just Happened? Researchers Demo Time Cloaking
Just reminds me the "Men In Black" movie.
narad··on Ask HN: A credit to site/app's UI designer?
Some good sites employ humans.txt, similar to robots.txt That might be helpful to you.
narad··on Mozilla offline?
Only addons.mozilla.org seems to be down. http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/yjJhHyLWD/addons.mozilla.org
narad··on Show HN: Errorception - High performance JavaScript error tracking
Seems to be interesting. Do you have a demo video? Will this work in all the browsers? Any browser restrictions?
narad··on Ask HN : Any ideas to reduce spam on HN?
Usually some posts are marked as NSFW, if it contains objectionable content. In my experience, bad links never got to the first page at all.
narad··on Names Proposed for New Elements on Periodic Table
flerovium (atomic symbol Fl #114 ) and livermorium (atomic symbol Lv #116).
narad··on Unpatched Apache reverse proxy flaw allows access to internal network
RFC link. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201111.mb...
narad··on Google can search backwards
when I searched that, Google is showing results for "loc state law". :-)
narad··on Ask HN: Is a .co domain worth it?
.co is a failure. They sell very less than a .com Only typo traffic you might get. Since google eliminates typos, chances of getting traffic intended for .com is very slim. Also, .co domains are columbia specific, have not come to mainstream, except a few rare cases.
narad··on My Grand Experiment: Turning Off AdWords
"Stopping the AdWords payments seems to have affected unpaid traffic as well."

Confused. Is this true? Any other experiments have drawn same conclusion like this?

narad··on Hacker News Instant
Not working, when the browser is resized. Chrome 15.
narad··on Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
Hostgator has an affiliate program offering $100 per sales. Will that be used to cover the initial costs? Just thinking.
narad··on The Register accidentally emails 46,524 user details to 3,521 of them
They have published their email to vent. You can try that, but I am thinking that you won't get an answer by email.

Note to self: When in hurry, don't do any important tasks.

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