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nirav

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About nirav

Tech Enthusiast.

  email :: ${hn username}   
  dot   :: "."
  last-name :: "thaker"
  domain :: "gmail.com"
http://blog.nirav.name

Twitter: @nirav_thaker

http://github.com/niravthaker

Recent public activity

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    "lots of people looking at source code" is contemporarily a weak argument against audit and review by experts, I really love spiped.

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    Comment #26176056

    Abstract thoughts are conveyed with a class of language, this has not worked well in its predominance historically ( only math survived) similarly how music is communicated but not…

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    Comment #25602113

    સાલ મુબારક! Thanks to everyone on HN starting with pg and dang for providing this incredible discussion and a learning platform!

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    Comment #23307249

    Personal thoughts for ammon, hoping @dang hides me, please hide me @dang. Ammon, You single handedly destroyed something you created but I can relate and feel what you might be goi…

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    Comment #23307122

    Why are people using this crap instead of portfolios and filtering crap jobs? You don't want to be working for these types; you can own and operate as a business.

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    Comment #6486670

    I created this website and I would love to get some feedback!

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    Comment #5796315

    Demo: http://demo.danielmclaren.com/2013/constellation.js/release/...

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    Comment #3293477

    It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious P…

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    Comment #3078620

    R.I.P. Steve, You inspired many of us to rise above and beyond what we would have been otherwise...

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    Comment #2286712

    Wow, just experienced how difficult it is to find source on SF.net. Whoever made this change might be running shareware sites like download.cnet.com in his/her past life.

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    Comment #2286697

    You probably didn't see what kind of crap SF.net was before this redesign. I think they did a good job of redesigning homepage but project pages stlll look like they are work in pr…

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    Comment #2158339

    There's no "somehow", it is almost like telecom companies can force govt to form regulations in their interest.

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    Comment #2158329

    This is called Oligopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly in half-assed capitalism. Note that this can be worse than monopoly because few competitors can essentially create i…

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    Comment #2158192

    This is really a worrying level of monopoly by Bell.

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    Comment #2137251

    Nice tool! One thing I would like though is Image from a URL.

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    Comment #1573356

    Writing MS-PST parser to centralize all my emails over the years in a single database: http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst

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    Comment #1555779

    It appears that his primary assumption, NPE prevention, on Options is based on blogs rather than actual good quality code. If you look at how Options are used in Scala core lib, yo…

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