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swapsmagic··on What happened to pocketpod podcast app
Wondering if the pocketpod team is here and see it. I loved their personal podcast but seems they have pivoted to build the studio for creaters. Wonder if they can share their learnings and reasoning behind the pivot. Also if anyone has suggestion on alternative of it which can be used for personal news podcast, please share.
swapsmagic··on [dead]
Google podcast is going away next year. :(((
swapsmagic··on Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower
it's not that difficult and no need to use pestisides. As long as you grew healthy plant in good soil, they can resist pests. And yes, some times you do get failure, but if you grow enough stuff, some failures won't be noticable given you have other stuff growing. And gardening is also a skill, the more you do, the better you get at it.
swapsmagic··on Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower
Pretty much every vegetable seeds bought from store are viable, it just for some vegetables (i.e. bottle guard, okra), store bought vegetables aren't ripe enough and so those seeds won't able to germinate. To germinte the seeds of any vegetables, the fruits has to be matures (some times on the plant, sometimes on the shelf) before seeds become viable to germinate. I don't know a single vegetable that will be sterlite. I know some Mangoes (coming outside of US) do get sterlite and so their seeds won't produce plant even if the seeds are mature.
swapsmagic··on Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower
that's how exactly it works. We got one Italian Tomato (heirloom, indeterminate) from a neighbor and grew it. It grew 10-12 ft tall and bushy. My wife loved it so much, she saved seeds from couple of tomatoes and next year, we grew only that Tomatoes along with other vegetables. And we grew enough to store for the entire year. We are still eating those tomatoes (Frozen) and hope it will last till our this season tomatoes will start coming.
swapsmagic··on Steps to start homesteading from an experienced grower
When we bought home, we got it with bunch of fruit tress (cherry, peach, orange, strawberry guava, lemons). And our previous owner grow 3 tomato plants for us before they left. It was a big yard with lot of fruit trees and plenty of empty space. In few years, we started growing some vegetables starting tomoato, okra, egg plant. And now in few more years we stop buying tomatos from grocery. we build bunch of raised beds and started growing more and more food and got bunch of okra and bottle guard. This year we build more raised bed by replacing/transplanting existing flowering plants and put raised bed there. And almost all the work done by us. You never believed but when you cook food from home grown vegetables, it tastes a whole different than the bought one. Give it a try and you can feel the difference. As long as you enjoy doing it, you won't feel all the pain that it comes with (i.e. hard work). Start small and as you go ahead, you will add more and more as you find it more manageable. But worth trying as long as you have space in your home (you will find time)
swapsmagic··on California to Introduce 'Right to Repair' Bill
We just upgraded our Apple 6 to Pixel 2, due to it having some Network Not Found issues. Tried all tricks available on internet, but none worked. Eventually asked Apple and they aggreed to replace it with similar phone given we pay $300. I said, why buy again the same phone which probably have some hardware issue which apple is not agree to resolve. As ppl know, they are having the same issue with higher version. I asked the customer representative, and they mentione, hold the phone. If they get enough complaints, they might look into it and offer a free repair. I think most of the users of old phone might have upgraded to new one and so i am guessing not enough ppl will compain and all those phones will go to waste.
swapsmagic··on Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
I forgot to mention, Turmeric is a natural antiseptic. Can be applied to small cut wounds and protects from infection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92752/
swapsmagic··on Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
Try mixing it with honey and have it, it will be much better.
swapsmagic··on Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
Instead of taking tablets, try adding as an ingredient into your daily food. I think that will make it much easier to eat. Try cooking any Indian curries and turmeric is 90% of time default spice.
swapsmagic··on Curry spice turmeric boosts memory by nearly 30%, eases depression, study finds
For bad throat, I usually had it in night, raw (if you can) (1/3 tbsp) and in the morning you will see the difference. Most of the time, my bad throat gets much better in morning, which usually opposite if i didn't take it.
swapsmagic··on AMA: NY AG Schneiderman on net neutrality and protecting our voice in government
It's so easy to identify those fake comments by just looking at few. I figure this is one of the comments that seems fake. Why is it taking long to identify there are lot of fake comments in it?

'The unprecedented regulatory power the Obama Administration imposed on the internet is smothering innovation, damaging the American economy and obstructing job creation. I urge the Federal Communications Commission to end the bureaucratic regulatory overreach of the internet known as Title II and restore the bipartisan light-touch regulatory consensus that enabled the internet to flourish for more than 20 years. The plan currently under consideration at the FCC to repeal Obama's Title II power grab is a positive step forward and will help to promote a truly free and open internet for everyone.'

swapsmagic··on Show HN: Echo Podcasts – Goodreads for podcasts
Allowing duplicate podcast episode in the list. Looks like bug.
swapsmagic··on India is rolling out trains with solar-powered coaches
One more thing to consider is: Stones or other obstacles thrown on the train (which happens sometime due to protest and theft attempt) and can damage those panels. I don't see that being handles in any way.
swapsmagic··on Mobile App to listen to emails
Hello, is anyone aware of such app?
swapsmagic··on Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India?
One question: How can we get age from the railway ticket number? I don't think indian railway discloses passenger age on their website.
swapsmagic··on Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India?
Thanks for the details. Will contact them for the advertisement.
swapsmagic··on Ask HN: How to monetize free SMS notification service in India?
I think, i didn't provide much information in the question. We have a website where user subscribe with their Mobile No. and Indian Railway PNR. We send them their PNR status updates via bulk SMS package which we have bought from some third party service. Now each SMS cost us money, but we didn't figure out how we can make money by sending SMS to thouse users. (i.e. putting advertisement in SMS, but didn't find any Ad network provide such feature for SMS).
swapsmagic··on [dead]
Is it just an experiment or what, as this url is only for second page. Starting 3rd page its normal url.
swapsmagic··on Facebook IPO Livestream
is it right that they are opening at 11 et?
swapsmagic··on Z Kombinator
what the ....
swapsmagic··on ASK HN: Facebook Trending Articles shows article read by self
One thing i notice it, it shared the news read by me to myself. Is it a good or unnecessary feature? I know by trending article means, it shares all the articles which are in trend independent of whether you have read it or not, but still i feel it should not share the same article to me.
swapsmagic··on Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck
Search as a service, awesome.
swapsmagic··on Tips to succeed as a programmer (Facebook engineering Notes)
For me it's the other way around. Reading and understanding others code is easier for me rather developing it from scratch in the beginning. Though now i have improved in the later part.
swapsmagic··on Show HN: Hacker Polls, an aggregator for polls on Hacker News
Looks nice. Looking by timeline, last week it's almost 1 poll/day rate. HackerNews is going to become Daily Poll News if it's going to be like that.
swapsmagic··on Ask HN: Since when Google started showing how many times you have visted a page?
Yes i have it enabled. And i can see it has details of all those pages which i have visited and when i have visited.
swapsmagic··on Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
Why github is not showing json files correctly? https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/client/s...

I can see only "{", to view the full i need to go to Raw format. I think Github should provide support for formatted json.

swapsmagic··on Notepad++ 6.0 Released
Why updating existing version shows "no update available" message?
swapsmagic··on Ask HN: As an Indian, how do I sell an app on the Android market?
Looks like there is a place for a company who can upload apps on behalf of developers from none supported country.
swapsmagic··on Ask HN - Companies sponsoring H1B in USA
This might be useful for you. http://hnhiring.me/
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