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narayanb

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About narayanb

"A bot like human, who loves music, art and binary"

I have been technophillic since my childhood days, and have enjoyed spending time with machines more, than with humans.

As the founding CEO at Dexetra, I work with a bunch of super geeks to build a very niche mobile suite called Friday. I love creating stuff, learning languages, reading manuals & wikipedia.

Apart from technology, I love creating music, art and real tasty food.

And yeah I super-love to blink my eyes in morse code.

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    Comment #12628129

    I don't think so. This is what my billing statement says - App Engine Backend Instances: 8146.607 Hours (Source: [h -5 6])

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    Google App Engine fiasco :-(

    Never used App Engine before, was always on AWS. Recently for my Andriod app, I thought of giving GAE a try. The app was on Firebase, the only "Server" I needed was to send a push …

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    Comment #8808137

    Happened to me as well. I was scared initially if it was hacked or something. - Got notification on phone saying I am signed out. - Couldn't sign back in from app or mobile web. - …

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    Coding rehabilitation plan?

    I have been writing code ever since I was 5 years old. Was pretty good at it. I became an entrepreneur 5 years ago and since last 3 years I haven't been coding. I have to take care…

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    Is it possible to post a project both on Kickstarter and Indiegogo?

    Is there any exclusive clause on these crowdfunding websites? If not why don't people do that, it could hedge their risk.

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    Comment #8014496

    Thanks for the tip. We will update the page. The basic idea is that 70% of the calls we make daily can be replied with a yes/no/location (Where are you?/Should I bring milk?/Are yo…

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    How does Whatsapp verify your phone number?

    I see most of the times whatsapp does not even send you an SMS (I don't see any SMS in the messages app). Then how do they verify the phone number?

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    Trending news topics around the world API?

    Is there an API which provides the real time trending news topics at this time? I have seen trendingtopics.org but it is mostly popular topics in Wikipedia and doesn't make much se…

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    Comment #5428702

    the clock - shows the time of the events in the list. - doubles as a loading bar. - "Pulls" to refresh.

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    Comment #5399547

    But from a pure legal standpoint, any API developer can face jail term if they suddenly change their terms/conditions.

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    A "GET" request can land you in Jail

    After reading through the judgment of Andrew Auernheimer case, I feel really taken aback and scared! How could calling 'public' GET API be unauthorized action? How could the judgme…

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    Google Play portal down

    Google Play portal is completely broken. - The homepage is incomplete. - App search is yielding totally irrelevant results. Search "Google" and you get a complete random list with …

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    Scoble's post on our app just surged our daily downloads by 2.5x

    I always loved to read Scoble's take on future of technology and his open support for the "age of context". So when we got a chance to talk to him and show him our friday app we we…

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    Nexus 4 wireless charger slipping off?

    Just an hour back got my "orb" charger, 2 of them (I have 2 Nexus 4). With lot of excitement I placed the phone onto the orb surface, in 10 mins I found the phone lying on the phon…

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    Comment #5204662

    I didn't mean that you implied. I meant the general assumption, especially the Google designers discourage you specifically from being skeuomorphic. they call it bad. I agree with …

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    Comment #5204610

    I disagree to the general notion that 'skeuomorphism is bad'. it is just harder to focus on both the texture and the other subtle parts of it and still not focus on the usability, …