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Akram

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About Akram

Co-founder Foundora.com and RapidFeeds.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4552649

    Because the best way to browse the enormous PHP site is via Google search. Type in your query and Google will point you to the specific page you are looking for.

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    Comment #4552643

    Design is irrelevant when it comes to programing sites. We programmers want to get straight to the code and some times design becomes a distraction. I have no issues with the Go si…

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    Comment #4090688

    The article does not focus on how IronSpread is doing a cool or unique job but it focuses on how beautiful Python code can be. Just a few lines of it can do so many cool things tha…

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    Comment #4057505

    I use ConTEXT... it is simple lightweight.

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    Comment #4057490

    var str="hello world"; This looks like xml. It could also be django, though. I'm not completely sure. //--------------------- How come Django is a programming language?

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    Comment #4057485

    It cant even get a "Hello World" C program right. #include main() { printf("Hello World"); }

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    Comment #4053366

    Cant agree more. I almost always have email triggers built into the system for ever critical error or failure of the system. When we are being lean on the core product itself build…

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    Comment #4053199

    Cant agree more. Especially startups should be very careful not to get trapped in an infinite loop of engineering. In my previous failed attempt we did just that. Built feature aft…

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    Comment #4053159

    I wonder how long the program would be if written in Malbolge. http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html

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    Comment #4048262

    The author could have done something useful instead of this.

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    Comment #4042700

    With 1/6th of the world population Facebook can very well release it own currency.

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    Comment #4042684

    Well, Google is also struggling with Social. It doesn't mean that if Google checkout failed no one else can do anything good.

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    Comment #4042314

    Awesome... It might GB of code to write some thing useful.

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    Comment #4042286

    Tablet is just a travel and leisure device for me... But not for work.

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    Comment #4002737

    even in comments a whitlist of markup would save a lot of code on both the ends.

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    Comment #4002677

    Don't really like the Google+ UI... I guess its ok till its contacts and calender... but changing the Gmail UI would be really a suicide.

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    Comment #4002655

    Wow this sounds cool... definitely worth playing with.. Would love to see some nifty Call now from webpage features on sites.

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    Comment #4002644

    I guess the problem is not just about PSD to HTML but anything. The web is getting littered all over by low quality spam articles that have only one intention that is SEO back link…

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    Comment #3992090

    I had clients calling me and don't hang up until i get the problem fixed...

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    Comment #3992034

    I believe Twitter was initially built on ruby on rails ... They had a lot of issue (the unpopular fail whale) . Did they switch to some other platform?

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    Comment #3981634

    I pretty much think the same way. Having funky title like Jedi or Ninja may sound cool but it is not digestible for the outside world. I being a Web developer / software engineer p…

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    Comment #3981614

    I happen to signup for a 30 day free trial for a service using my credit card. Yet I always put it aside to try it until my first payment was sent. I guess shorter trials will forc…