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themonk··on How to permanently delete a Facebook account
it would be nice to have some standard method to delete the content.
themonk··on Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information
much less than govt penalties they might end up paying.
themonk··on The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping
Is right supplier best kept secret in dropshipping?

It would be nice if you can provide at least one supplier for any product you wish, this would give us fair idea about suppliers.

themonk··on How I Fired Myself
Why type "TRUNCATE TABLE Raids" every time? Type it once, test it, save as script, schedule that script.
themonk··on MySQL - Do Not Pass This Way Again
> LIMIT OFFSET queries are always going to be hard because you have to generate lots of rows only to throw them away There are ways to avoid that: http://www.slideshare.net/suratbhati/efficient-pagination-us...
themonk··on A Bad Privacy Bug
Implicit type conversion can be evil : http://bhati.livejournal.com/3352.html
themonk··on Sal Khan responds to critic
Mathalicious is doing this just to get popular, I never knew they exists before this debate. Google might improve page rank of mathalicious.com as well due to back links.
themonk··on Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.
hash is know as nosql in modern world.
themonk··on Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki
webring?
themonk··on MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL
Does 'significantly' means '30 times' here?
themonk··on CSS-Only Clickjacking
Command+Shift+N
themonk··on Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
Is there any industry guideline how to crawl ads to avoid the click fraud. There must be some header that crawler can pass telling it is not a human.
themonk··on Google's self driving cars can navigate drive-through restaurants.
True, but car can't see lane marks and can't even recognize where the road is once it is covered in snow.
themonk··on Download Coursera videos in batch
Thanks
themonk··on Download Coursera videos in batch
Thanks a lot, does it skip downloaded videos in next run?
themonk··on Show HN: A PHP parser written in PHP
That is what PHP is.
themonk··on Online MySQL configuration tool by Percona
Don't try unless you are ready to give your email address. 5 screens down it is going to ask you to register.
themonk··on Facebook releases HHVM, 60 percent faster than its current PHP interpreter
mod_perl was there, it performed better but little bit extra memory footprint.

I don't know why mod_perl was known to very few and PHP become popular.

themonk··on Google India gets Income-Tax Dept notice for not revealing correct revenues
On related note Income-Tax Dept is lead by talented officers, you may read subtitles on this 4 minute video interview of former Income-Tax Commissioner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApQlMm39xr0
themonk··on What really happened aboard Air France 447
Should not one pilot say "I Got Her" and tell other pilot that you do nothing, I will take care of it.
themonk··on Coding tricks I learnt at Apple
> These tests were run against a copy of the live database in a production environment.

Read above line twice. He is saying that test is done in 'production environment'. Do not assume there is 'development environment' for testing within 'production environment'

themonk··on Perl 5.14 released
I love Perl, long live Perl 5, thanks to decimal system, we can have 5.99999... ;)
themonk··on Why startups in India find it hard to hire devs
Any India based startup employee here to say "yes, I am millionaire because I joined a startup as a developer".

I am sure, I am not going to get more than couple of yes here. This is what the status of hacker community in India.

themonk··on Why startups in India find it hard to hire devs
Because founder wants to keep all the equity. Very few examples where early developers got share of success.
themonk··on Ask HN: Honestly, why are there so many "how to learn to program" asks?
Person asking such question wants to validate he learned it right way or not.
themonk··on What difference does being a top story on Hacker News make? Stats and Facts...
Thanks for sharing stats.
themonk··on I think tumblr has a huge security hole
No, better words would be: "Putting passwords in php file under doc root, why not keep it outside doc root?"
themonk··on [dead]
>In truth, I could probably afford to just outsource all our engineering

Then you do not need technical co-cofounder.

> He's only working about 7-10 hours a week as far as I can tell.

Was he like this starting on first week? May be something has changed on your side as well.

Don't count working hours, count work done.

> And meanwhile, I don't know what the heck he's doing that's taking up so much time that he can't round the corners.

Did you ask him that directly, he might be solving some other complex problem back of the mind.

themonk··on How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup
Congrats Girish.

Unrelated question: as of now your post is number one on hacker news, would you like to share what does it mean in term of traffic on your blog?

themonk··on Stop Calling Projects Startups
mine one has 2 floors, one more to go.
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