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irfan

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About irfan

CTO & Co-Founder FootMetrics (footmetrics.xyz)

http://i.com.pk/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/irfan; my proof: https://keybase.io/irfan/sigs/MtSoLiEraNSdMn7Ddp-2-6tDeK9u4r1Rd5_Zhl8UVl0 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #17353289

    Ok I had my first horror story with custom clearance today. Going to give nazdeeq.com a try next time :-)

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    Comment #17283100

    I disagree with the last point. Services like MyUS, Viabox etc. are cheaper than Nazdeeq in many cases.

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    Comment #14341357

    Is there a better way to check if an OUI is being used by a mobile phone or a router? e.g. There are plenty of huawei/apple routers and if one of them is in your neighborhood, you'…

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    Comment #10369578

    I had been downloading the zone file for .PK domains on daily bases until they blocked the zone transfers. Based on comparison of these daily zone files I managed to publish the st…

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    Comment #9959679

    What about installing OpenWRT on RaspberryPi with USB WiFi dongle which can be used like any other router? Can they ban it as well?

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    Comment #9425373

    This is how flightradar24.com and flightaware.com work

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    Comment #8256060

    Great effort but isn't wikipedia a better place to make such documents?

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    Comment #8136406

    3 wrong approaches towards UX/Security 1. Extracting username from email 2. Extracting password from email and setting it same as username 3. sending password in plain text email.

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    Comment #8041380

    Just launched @PakistanEdits Unfortunately IP addresses of Govt. owned institutes are not available but its fun to see what is being edited from the whole country :-)

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    Comment #7920302

    This is how their homepage appear in my chrome: http://i.imgur.com/UCfMstr.png

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    Comment #7920200

    The app uses parse.com API for all communication (and probably for all data storage) and I haven't seen it communicating with anything other than parse, getsentry and flurry servic…

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    Comment #6957415

    I moved my personal blog from posterous to pelican long ago and hosting it over heroku for free. Optimized it for exceptional performance and got 99 page speed score: http://www.i.…

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    Comment #6767323

    Interesting point is that no sweet shop owner knows any sweet by the name of 'Jhajaria' in Lahore. Even 'Fazal Sweets' shown in this ad doesnt know about it. Same seems to be the c…

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    Comment #6743845

    In 2007 I did the same level of digging with a facebook puzzle solving game. Game used to post daily puzzles and top scorers (solving the puzzle in minimum time) were shown on glob…

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    Comment #5525488

    Interesting, tried making my version main(O){10 >5*O):10)&&main(2+O);}

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    Comment #5176162

    Cool idea btw "love", "coffee" example doesn't work

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    Comment #5004545

    "take a random photo" might be NSFW

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    Comment #4825365

    There are 975 .Pk domains registered by MarkMonitor. google, visa, PayPal, sony, zynga, microsoft, hp all rely on MarkMonitor for their identity in Pakistan. It seems that MarkMoni…