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virtualmic··on Ask HN: Is it a good idea to build a Single Page App with Django?
Am developing two mid-size apps using DRF and Angular. DRF has proved to be quite easy to work with.
virtualmic··on Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
Building Git on Windows is fairly easy. I am running version 2.1.0. Some instructions here: http://ufasoli.blogspot.in/2014/10/building-and-installing-g...
virtualmic··on Ask HN: Sidework for data analyst/ programmer?
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I wish to contact you regarding business and couldn't find your contact information in your profile. Could you please send me your contact information to my email address: mail@saurabhagrawal.net?

Thanks

virtualmic··on Tell HN: I want out
If you wish, I can help. I am changing my work of line to get more into web development/ data analytics. I am a good manager and a fast developing developer. :)

My email address is in my profile.

virtualmic··on Best Practices For Making Things Happen
Though I agree with 'no substance' part of your comment here, I strongly disagree with the rest of it.

Internet has at last provided a platform where literally anyone can get up to writing and publishing and that only provides it its awesomeness.

virtualmic··on Indian Coders Found Cheating in Google Code Jam?
I am an IITian, specifically from IITB. I can say for sure that the level of research in general is quite pathetic, except for one or two groups. The only thing IITs used to be good were, (in their early and mid years) to gather some good minds together and give them quite a bit of freedom and a nice environment (in the hostels and such) so that they can discuss their ideas, which they used to implement not while there in IIT, but after graduating.

However, in the recent years, the quality of these minds has become a bit questionable (this is purely anecdotal, no concrete proofs). One thing is for certain though, the amount of discussion which was there in years when each hostel room did not have its own computer was quite high, which now in the age of facebook and multiplayer games has reduced by a huge margin. As far as copying assignments is concerned, that is a pretty common phenomenon in case of general course assignments, unless one is really interested in that course and wants to learn.

virtualmic··on Indian Coders Found Cheating in Google Code Jam?
You are the first person whom I have encountered who acknowledges the grass-root and "common man" level of corruption in India.

In the last 5 years or so, I am finding this corruption becoming even more widespread even, as you rightly pointed out, in the tiniest of the day-to-day transactions!

virtualmic··on Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse
Excellent article and nice answers to queries, Sam!

I have one question. How were you able to manage a 23.5 ms time in the mini profiler over Internet? Were there no database queries involved while rendering that page?

Your website does load fast, no doubt about that.. :)

virtualmic··on Org Mode Release 8.0
I have put up my email address. Would love to look into it!
virtualmic··on Org Mode Release 8.0
Yup, me too. I use it exclusively to manage all my ongoing projects, whether related to programming or not. The way it handles contexts (I do it via tags), ToDo keywords, numerous custom agenda views, is just plain awesome!

Just the other day I was thinking of a good web front, which can be made for org files which are in Dropbox or something. Then, when on a computer with emacs, those files can be edited via emacs and otherwise, via the web app. This would also help in bringing other non emacs people on the orgmode wagon.

virtualmic··on Diamonds Are Bullshit
This trend is fast spreading to India. All the traditional jewelers who used to deal in gold and silver jewelry are now shifting to diamond based ones. Of course, the main reason seems to be the huge margin as the article suggests. One group, which seems to be going on the same path as De Beers is Gitanjali Group [1], who have hired services of almost all famous Indian film industry actors to promote their products. [1] http://www.gitanjaligroup.com/home.html
virtualmic··on Git on Windows
Powershell along with posh-git (https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git) works really great on Windows.
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