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ragsagaron United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

Earlier VPN (which is illegal) was required to make Skype->Phone calls, otherwise the calls gets disconnected immediately after the other guy picks up. From last few months Skype->Phone calls are working without VPN in Etisalat elife connection.

ragsagaron United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

I always wonder why Etisalat or Du even bother to give advertisements.

ragsagaron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

Location: Sharjah, UAE

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python/Django, Golang, AngularJS, Swift

Resume/CV: https://github.com/ragsagar/resume/raw/master/ragsagar.pdf

Email: python -c "print '@'.join(['ragsagar','.'.join([x for x in ['gmail','com']])])"

ragsagaron Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams

Wonder why this site is blocked in UAE! :|

ragsagaron A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died

RIP Missile Man of India.

ragsagaron Announcing Starfighter

Your app is not accepting email with the new longer domain extensions. eg: .systems

ragsagaron Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

I use their subscriptions plan to call home from my Nexus 4. Most of the time skype on android shows offline users as online. Sometimes it shows me that I am signed in and online, but nobody could see me till I try to signout and signin multiple times. The worst problem is it reboots the phone frequently whenever i do video calls. Gets updates often, but they never fixed any of these problems.

ragsagaron India's Pointless Search for 'Black Money'

I don't think anyone in India thinks farmers are given any unfair advantage. Actually all part of society is screaming to provide help to these people who still dare to farm instead of selling of their lands to real estate mafia even after all the stories of farmer suicides [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India

ragsagaron The 'Fly' Has Been Swatted

This link is blocked in UAE. :-\

ragsagaron Show HN: Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)

I was looking for a similar app for android. Is there one?

ragsagaron Facebook was down

Down in Dubai, UAE

ragsagaron GitHub is your resume so keep your resume in GitHub

I am using rst2pdf and github for keeping my resume. http://github.com/ragsagar/resume

ragsagaron Rarely Used Postgres Datatypes

Birthdates (which can include times) shouldn't use them.

I don't understand why you don't want to use timezone with birthdates(with time). Can you explain this, please?

ragsagaron The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

Can't blame him for that statement. The number of watchable movies released in Bollywood is very low.

ragsagaron Ramsey Nasser's Arabic programming language artwork

Can't access link. It is blocked in UAE :-\

ragsagaron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?

Remote/Relocation, Full Time/Part Time

Stack: Python/Django/AngularJS

Resume: https://github.com/ragsagar/resume/raw/master/ragsagar.pdf

Contact: python -c "print '@'.join(['ragsagar','.'.join([x for x in ['gmail','com']])])"

Looking for Fullstack/Python/Django development positions.

ragsagaron Show HN: Betatype - A freelance site where clients pay $3,500 for prototypes

If 404 template is absent, in the case of django it will show Not Found The requested URL /whypost was not found on this server.

ragsagaron Space Monkey dumps Python for Go

How does Go makes it easy to scale the maintenance of software?

ragsagaron Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

Your site looks beautiful!

ragsagaron Propose HN: Screenshot Saturday

This is my side project. https://github.com/ragsagar/django-tasklist It is in a very infant stage. We used various task management apps, But most of them were too complicated. Gradually our IT Manager started using google spreadsheet to assign tasks which I didnt like much. So I started this side project, which we are using it now for managing our tasks. Screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ragsagar/django-tasklist/m...

ragsagaron Linux gets frozen, what do you do?

The site is blocked in UAE.

ragsagaron Indian School Girl Creates Washing Machine That Runs Without Electricity

Couple of years before i saw a school kid with a grinder that works by pedalling in Kerala state level science exhibition. It was very similar to this. These sort of machines are common among these competitions.

ragsagaron Show HN: I'm open sourcing Creditly.js, an intuitive credit card form

unable to type card number and cvc in firefox 26.0

ragsagaron How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system

The education system in India is unimaginably worse. 57 out 60 students who completed Btech IT(aka Software Engineering) in my batch didn't knew even to a write a program to check if a number is palindrome or not.

ragsagaron Stuffs that are banned in India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age#Voting_ages_around_t...

ragsagaron Cosmic Sans Neue Mono: Programming Font

Giving a break to Inconsolata, trying Cosmic Sans Neue for a change.

ragsagaron Poll: Where are you currently living?

Dubai!

ragsagaron Programming is a Terrible Job

Even in India startups are not putting any such restrictions. Right after my graduation I joined a startup where we used to play UNO cards, access facebook, hear songs, play guitar etc. But I guess it is just the opposite in software MNCs like TCS, CTS, Infosys etc.