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sparaker

171 karma · joined January 30, 2015

Entrepreneur, designer and developer

talha a.t fallentech.com Twitter: @tal_asad

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sparaker··on NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
Shows how much we are interested in finding another earth.
sparaker··on Tota11y
Yeah spot on. Accessibility is not something you show an award for. It's expected it will work on its own.
sparaker··on Tota11y
<h4> under an <h2> has nothing to do with accessibility. Its just some people think it makes sense to have smaller headings after bigger ones and not the way around. I for one think that it sometimes is important to use an h2 after an h4. This has nothing to do with semantics btw.
sparaker··on Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?
100% agreed.
sparaker··on Section 215 Expires For Now
Keeping a log for 20 years for each and every person is practically impossible at the moment, regardless of how advanced you think to seem technology is. Storage is not free and i think its stupid to keep tracking everything without a reason. If you keep logging on everything in the hopes that you may find a connection or something of that sort in the future, you'll need a lot more people to go through that sort of stuff to begin with.
sparaker··on Startup Aims to Make Silicon Valley an Actual Meritocracy
It highlights a similar unrelated idea.
sparaker··on AdBlock Plus wins in court
I don't use AdBlock Plus but i do use AdBlock. I think its my decision to choose which ads i watch and which i don't. It's not stealing, Webmasters can detect if someone is using AdBlock or not.
sparaker··on My Experience in Tech and Its Reflection on Women in Tech in India
I think learning to program is good for you in other aspects of life as well. You are able to make more informed and logical decisions due to your knowledge of programming.
sparaker··on Startup Aims to Make Silicon Valley an Actual Meritocracy
Hiring isn't just about how people code. Alot of times you run into other disconnected problems, like team members not getting along, people working in opposite directions, and so on.
sparaker··on Python bug: Can assign [] = (), but not () = []
This is what i see in javascript:

[] = (); VM105:2 Uncaught ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment

() = []; VM114:2 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token )

sparaker··on Fake Diplomas, Real Cash: Pakistani Company Axact Reaps Millions
I don't think it has anything to do with ISI but i believe they do alot of shady stuff, not just novelty degrees. I have heard about this in particular from ex employees of this company.
sparaker··on Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3
I would like to see that too.
sparaker··on Applebot, the web crawler for Apple
I am hoping this will change the tide and trend on "Considering Google alone as the master in search". Pretty positive apple engineer will come up with good algorithms to keep them in par.
sparaker··on Introducing Hello
I think they just matched it with the messenger color and it somewhat became a very close match to the Local Businesses UI.
sparaker··on Four days of Go
> features like formatting, no unused imports, etc.

I personally think these should be configurables turned on by default so you kind of push the new comer to write good code and build better habits but there should be an option to disable it, make it hard to find but it should be there, especially for the people like OP and other small over-the-weekend projects.

sparaker··on Elevator.js
I don't see why you would create a javascript lib for such a simple task, perhaps a jQuery plugin would have been sufficient. Oh wait, it already exists. Perhaps you were just bored?
sparaker··on Rails API is coming to Rails 5
Rails has bigger community and they are pioneers for alot of things that each new framework takes inspiration from. Practically i think ruby wasn't going to be this famous without rails. So its cool that Sinatra had it early on, but now we have it in rails.
sparaker··on Nginx 1.8.0 stable has been released
Been waiting for this: "backend SSL certificate verification". Thank you nginx team.
sparaker··on Internet Archive: What’s new with v2
I really liked using archive.org back in the days when it was actively indexing pages. I am happy to see the people behind it our working to improve the user experience. Its a great idea one that goes unrecognized.
sparaker··on This man just claimed a new European nation. 160,000 people want to live there
Well i just applied to be a citizen, lets see if i get a citizenship before my children our born.

Edit: Got the activation link in SPAM, perhaps google didn't recognize the new country sending emails :P

sparaker··on Going “Write-Only”
A pretty good article, i agree with most of the points made. However i think there are times when the creativity inside you needs some fuel and looking around and browsing the internet is a very fast way of acquiring that knowledge. The key is to have a rule like 30/70. So if you write 70% of the time, you should be reading for 30% to charge your batteries.
sparaker··on NGINX open sources TCP load balancing
HAProxy offers a better DDos mitigation configurables in comparison to nginx. Thats it.
sparaker··on New GPU Optimized EC2 G2 Instance, the G2.8xlarge
This is very good addition. Thanks a lot.
sparaker··on Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
A pretty impressive product, good going!
sparaker··on Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released
I have done this in the past and had no problems with it, besides it felt a bit slow.
sparaker··on Elementary OS 0.3 “Freya” is released
This is one of the linux flavors i actually like using. Great going guys.
sparaker··on Void – A website creation tool
No demo, no screens? Atleast have the courtesy to display your work properly.
sparaker··on Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms
Stalking often could make you feel depressed. But facebook in my case helped me meet with very old friends without any effort so thats a plus.
sparaker··on Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
Awesome! I have always wanted to work on Unreal Engine 4, but have almost always been a bit skeptical on the pricing.
sparaker··on 5G researchers manage record connection speed
Yes very true. But i think mobile data has to be cheaper as increased data speeds are achieved and users are promoted to make more use of the excess speed on portable devices.
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