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pranaya_ghon Emotional Attachment to Code

Great post. It's interesting how "emotional attachment" can often create problems in any field of creativity and not just coding.

For Example, getting emotionally attached to a design, startup idea, ...

The most dangerous one is probably the startup idea. If you are too attached and unwilling to yield, you end up going nowhere.

pranaya_ghon Show HN: Everymap – Easily keep, publish and share trips

Looks great. Very clean, simple, great UI.

However, I would be very interested in knowing your strategy to compete in this VERY crowded space (https://www.google.com/search?q=Share+your+travel+experience...)

Goodluck to you.

pranaya_ghon Ask HN: Outside of HN and Reddit what discussion communities are you a part of?

Fastlane forum is pretty good - more entrepreneurship oriented.

pranaya_ghon Show HN: TechBullets

Thanks. I just created to throw something out there. Will get a hi-res up there soon

pranaya_ghon Accelerated Mobile Pages Project

Google says these will be the areas of focus on the AMP project: (from http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2015/10/introducing-a...):

1)Content: Publishers increasingly rely on rich content like image carousels, maps, social plug-ins, data visualizations and videos to make their stories more interactive and stand out.

2)Distribution: Publishers want people to enjoy the great journalism they create anywhere and everywhere, so stories or content produced in Spain can be served in an instant across the globe in say Chile.

3)Advertising: Ads help fund free services and content on the web.

It looks like google is encouraging publishers to join its initiative in the same way how it herded everyone to get "responsive".

pranaya_ghon A Guide to Fast Page Loads

Google just came out with the AMP project. It looks like google is encouraging publishers to join its initiative in the same way how it herded everyone to get "responsive". At the end of the day, good news for mobile web - https://techbullets.com/