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ktharavaad

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About ktharavaad

My experiments

http://blog.kpicturebooth.com

contact:

karthik UNDERLINE tharavaad AT yahoo DOT com

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    Comment #866062

    If you want to know more about forking processes vs threading. You should look at TCPServer.py in the standard libary. You can look at the ForkingMixin class and the ThreadingMixin…

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    Comment #860366

    I've had some experience using drupal and while it can be frustrating at times, my overall experience with it is pretty positivie. I've used it mainly to build websites for clients…

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    Comment #855158

    >>>Chicago Boss is fully asynchronous, using one single process to handle hundreds or thousands of simultaneous requests >>>All other web frameworks will break down and cry if you …

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    Comment #748897

    Well, its like saying that you should sue the police when your house got robbed instead of the robber. Scribd is the one with the intent of gaming the system, Google just wants to …

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    Comment #748859

    upped because I hate it when every time i try to search for something, there's a scribd link for something TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to what I'm looking for on the front page of google ma…

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    Comment #746358

    Ok. So we've had Thinkature, Yvew, Dabbleboard, dimdim..etc..etc and a bunch of others. Did any one of them really make MONEY after webEX was sold? So whats so different about this…

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    Comment #744073

    Well, posting on YC is a good place to start. There are also a lot of events tailored towards geeks, startups, programmers which you can attend and try to make some friends. Also, …

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    Comment #737250

    My suggestion is to chop it up and develop it piece by piece. Looking at your app, it seems to do a lot of different things such as: - Form Editor - Calendar - Permission based fil…

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    Comment #731913

    I'd stop peddling your HotOrUnderaged app here since your other links were already killed. Granted its not your fault but sometimes that just how things are. If you want to promote…

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    Comment #729099

    Its kind of unfair that only big companies can get this sort of competitive advantage while smaller startups are stuck paying taxes through their nose under the draconian tax polic…

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    Comment #717392

    Some feedback and thoughts on Picurio after playing with it for a bit 1) Sweet interface, looks very iPhoto-like 2) I like the fact that the interface is built with Objective-J/cap…

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    Comment #714484

    I think you should be a little more specific in order for people to give you any real advice. From what I can see, all of the ideas which you have listed deal with viable markets. …

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    Comment #699416

    His advice on - giving music out for free at un-DRMed format in exchange for email - and using the email address to sell premium goods such as signed personal items..etc sounds rem…

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    Comment #695758

    As I've mentioned here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=684343 Since many think I'm being disrespectful towards the hardwork of others, i've abandoned cloning SO and decided to…

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    Comment #695581

    >>>>when he overheard one of them say “well even I could do this”. I guess I'm not the only one to make the "shitz easy" blunder ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501 which …

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    Comment #693704

    For an example of what the chromeOS might end up like, take a look at this: http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html Ironically, its called gOS which implies strong google connections an…

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    Comment #693079

    Actually.... If you look carefully enough. This was posted 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=684343 That being said, yes, I did learn my lessons. Thanks for keeping m…

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    Comment #684343

    I'm sorry if I came across as disparaging. I mean no disrespect to either the Fog Creek employee, Stackoverflow or anyone else. I read both Joel and Jeff's blog and I have the utmo…

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    Comment #682694

    Yep, thats me and I'm still going to try do it this weekend =) I think some people takes things way too seriously like the fog creek employee who posted in the original thread whos…

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    Comment #682260

    I think you missed the point, their key innovation is to use a content preserving warp on a frame-by-frame basis to recreate almost ANY motion path they like ( provided that the pa…

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    Comment #678775

    I'll update here as I make progress: http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/ I'm aware of the chinese solutions done in Django but after looking it over, I think I can do better. …

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    Comment #678704

    Alright, This will be my project this coming weekend! I'll try to live up to the challenge!

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    Comment #678501

    Seems really pricey for a relatively simple software like this. Someone write an opensource alternative? it looks like something that can be thrown together in a weekend.