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pranayairan

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pranayairan··on Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
I think buying themes or designs from marketplaces like themeforest works best for me, I then improve on those things by taking inspiration from similar apps or companies on how they are displaying certain information, navigation flows and try to mimic as much as possible. This gives great results.
pranayairan··on Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons
Coming from Mobile developers experience :

- Graphql does allow you to specify data you need and make the user experience better but this is only true in theory. Since in graphql it is so easy to ask any data there are high chances of your queries not optimized and you end up doing a complex operation spanning multiple domains because you can do it. In REST since domains are tightly defined chances of non-optimized request are less.

- Another major con with GraphQL on mobile is there are no alternatives than Apollo client yet. This ties you to 1 solution for your entire application.

- There are companies that tried to enable Querying over rest. Though it is not as flexible as GraphQL.

pranayairan··on Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage
i wonder since he started shipping on his own, can't he put a note in the box and ask people to check if they paid more and give bad ratings to ebay sellers ?
pranayairan··on Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics
Indian here, they even started Television ads showing zuke. It is getting out of hand. There VP of Internet org will be doing an AMA on reddit today !!
pranayairan··on Bootstrapping GCM with Amazon SQS for Server-Client Communication
nice are you shutting down the service if queue is empty ?? If not that would drain out the battery, also shutting down service when internet is not available should be good.
pranayairan··on Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only
Completely agree, pushing app only offer is key reason people using there app. It is crazy, u promote app everywhere, give heavy app discounts and then say 95% traffic is from app. The main reason i think is notifications, they can bug users even if they don't want to see the offer, this way they will be retaining more users. I get a offer notification every day.
pranayairan··on Internet.org will finish internet the way we know it, hurt India’s growth
this will create a rat race, there will be big companies like flipkart paytm willing to offer money to Reliance to offer there sites for free. Internet.org is on a path to destroy net neutrality. Reliance has just found 1 way to earn more money without any ethics.
pranayairan··on Why are free proxies free? (2013)
interesting, i never thought about such attack matrix.
pranayairan··on iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions
would love to see similar list for android as well !!
pranayairan··on How movies embraced Hinduism
100 % agreed, not sure why they have written such a bad article
pranayairan··on Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars
such an amazing post. Loved it !!
pranayairan··on SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
can we expect this version to be included in android L ??
pranayairan··on Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India
the numbers are deceptive, TC is reporting 400, Nextbigwhat is reporting 2000
pranayairan··on Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
nice, it will promote more college education for people who drop of due to tuition fees.
pranayairan··on ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit
Awesome achievement, go go go.
pranayairan··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2
yaa, and sharing his experience :)
pranayairan··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2
It is sad to know that even after this much worked he did, he was asked to switch and work on something he was not hired for !!
pranayairan··on Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
we did similar thing in Intuit India, check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intuit.txt...

We have a platform that enables access of internet services over sms, i did the android app which enables accessing all the content offline as well.

pranayairan··on Shutting down Uber in India was unwise
common, all RBI wants is the service provider to settle money in India if paid by Indian customer to an Indian Customer. What uber is doing is using a different gateway to take money and different country bank to settle the same.

Also the requirement of 2 factor authentication is there for all CNP (Card not present) transaction, you need to understand that the number of fraud which is detected due to international transaction is rising and it becomes very difficult for individuals to process the chargeback. I was victim of card theft used to do international transaction on some random site.

I like this decision, and Uber can use a card reader on the device like Square in India or Pre paid wallet.

pranayairan··on [dead]
Try out and let me know
pranayairan··on Tydlig – Calculator Reimagined for iPad and iPhone
beautiful
pranayairan··on Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
this is sad
pranayairan··on Uptime Robot
i am using it from last 6 months, nice service :)
pranayairan··on Push Notifications to Mobile Devices Using Amazon SNS
it is not a direct competition to urban airship or parse, we will still need to use GCM or Apple Push notification, all amazon is solving is to make the backend storing of the Unique push tokens simple and taking care of sending push notifications with queue etc.
pranayairan··on How I Sold Out the Lean Idea Book in 24h
nice work
pranayairan··on Startup Deck is now available for Android thanks to iPG
Hi, I'm the developer of the Android version, if you have any suggestions on how to improve this, please let me know.