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amitamb

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About amitamb

Working on http://www.castbin.com/

Homepage : http://www.amitamb.com/

Blog: http://blog.amitamb.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24663375

    When cars were invented, producing them in large numbers, operating them efficiently and comfortably would have been a major concern while anyone talking about safety would be ridi…

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    Comment #22481960

    Nothing to do with that. This was Supreme Court decision and government will probably challenge it. Even if Cryptocurrency helps in some dire situation arising out of COVID-19, fac…

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    Comment #19715402

    Apart from that Common Crawl respects robots.txt (which makes sense) so many sites you expect to see there are not indexed. Netflix, Facebook LinkedIn and many more. If common-craw…

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    Comment #18796125

    Relevant Key and Peele skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6iC0Vi1yEg

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    Comment #18737913

    India's Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/indias-supreme-court-u... These are new powers and they are intrusive bu…

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    Comment #9023702

    I built something similar. Though you need to sign up to use it http://www.castbin.com/ Great for an effort for a day though. Apparently I don't see mouse movements in playback.

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    Comment #8782898

    I may have meant demo as a loose term meaning walkthrough of capabilities. It is definitely better than a screenshot. According to Google demo (v) : demonstrate the capabilities of…

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    Comment #8782719

    Check out this demo http://www.castbin.com/casts/rdcTPbRz (It is made using my own tool.)

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    Comment #8715437

    I understood these concepts by reading this book. It is great book for anyone wanting to go from intermediate to advanced or may be even beginner to advanced level http://www.manni…

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    Comment #8710884

    I am just trying to understand the difference. But why not consider Javascript extension of server side code. I don't think, anybody is stopping use of websites just because their …

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    Comment #8348105

    Minor issue but "Edit your files locally to updated the site." should be "Edit your files locally to update the site." One positive point is I got basic idea on what the site is an…

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    Comment #8245533

    I don't know how you are giving results so fast but as other comment is saying, design doesn't do justice to the usefulness of the app. Good luck.

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    Comment #8219077

    I think it looks useful. But I could not edit the existing project.

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    Comment #7990430

    This is really novel concept and I hope it catches on as it presents many advantages. Although, you have pointed it out in the comments, can't you enable iframing of the response s…

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    Comment #7538201

    It is Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit I assume( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orbit ) (but wiki article's suggested apogee doesn't match) as there 5 more orbit …

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    Comment #7352862

    Probably not exactly similar to what Stripe did but I recently released a tool for creating demos http://www.castbin.com/ Would like to get feedback on what you really liked about …

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    Comment #7339537

    I saw your submission on /r/startups and was going to suggest the tool I just released but here it is http://www.castbin.com/casts/ruGwZPcv Do let me know your feedback.

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    Comment #6222349

    Since nobody mentioned ruby version ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000

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    Comment #6081088

    I haven't tested it fully but what if https is running on different port i.e. 443 (It is possible.) I believe marking cookie secure will only save you from MITM attack, not from at…

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    Comment #5856384

    If using chrome try executing following from Console (Right click > Inspect element) $("#TB_overlay").remove();$("#TB_window").remove();

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    Comment #4817810

    Although you might be right about DuckDuckGo and similar search engines, the article is not claiming that DuckDuckGo is best search engine in the world since it is subjective. It i…

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    Comment #4817792

    Is it PR bullshit? It probably is, but are their claims entirely wrong. If you see my comments, they are not entirely baseless. Let's not kid ourselves, Google is a good company bu…

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    Comment #4817633

    But they are using legitimate means to provide search results. And feed(/API) providers are not shutting them out. Same argument can be made about Google, they do not produce their…