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shwetank

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About shwetank

I'm passionate about the web, and would like to work to make it a better place for all of us.

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    Comment #41692856

    I'm working on Voohy ( https://voohy.com ), a platform for leadership development. It's a leadership development platform, aimed at new managers who want to do it right. I'm solo b…

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    Comment #18263659

    >What's more, because the barrier for entry as well as people's own expectations were that much lower it meant you saw a hell of a lot more individuality in the content posted. Peo…

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    Comment #18250318

    >the Web was far more pleasant when it was about hyperlinked documents and not this cloud-computing-inspired frenzy. The web was far more useful for you . I, for one, am glad the d…

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    Comment #18250284

    > And now, random websites can grab control of my radios? With JavaScript? No. Only the user allows it. >FFS. This is like the battery api. Too much time spent on "can we", too lit…

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    Comment #16814127

    I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can tr…

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    Comment #16722440

    Think more from the inference angle. There are a lot of use cases for ML and many are using native apps or desktop apps. This allows you to run it on the browser on the web, which …

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    Comment #13195041

    With the growing use of Whatsapp in India, SMS is actually quickly dying as a medium of communication between humans here. Poeple who have whatsapp (there's a lot of them in india)…

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    Comment #11542006

    Opera does still contribute quite a lot to blink/chromium (check out https://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/ which lists them), though the gist of what you've said still sta…

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    Comment #11399324

    Maybe take a look here https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/3xb7n6/how_ex...

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    Comment #10810871

    In Opera, you can right click on any tab in the tab menu, and click 'save tabs as speed dial folder'. All open tabs will be saved in a folder on your speed dial. If you wan to open…

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    Comment #10456639

    If you haven't, I would recommend you look into m-Pesa. In some countries (not all countries), M-Pesa uses USSD (like Tanzania I think). Overall, some of the solutions for payments…

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    Comment #10320279

    With the [Opera addons catalog]( https://addons.opera.com ), every update goes through a moderation process to prevent this kind of situation from happening (which is one of the re…

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    Comment #10282996

    Extensions in Opera based on the chromium model, but have a few unique APIs too, like the ones for speed dial and the sidebar, which are not there in chrome.

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    Comment #10228387

    And the sidebar extension for Opera for Hacker News (using Dharmesh Patel's app) https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/hackernews-si...

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    Comment #10098021

    We at Opera have called on for a single (or at leat a shared) API for making browser extensions, which I think will benefit the developer community immensely (instead of making one…

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    Comment #9846721

    Opera already has support for Sidebar extensions, you can check it out here https://dev.opera.com/extensions/tut_sidebar_actions.html

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    Comment #9612690

    The article links to that page. I don't think its absolutely necessery for the article itself to have a play button, as long as it links to a page which does.

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    Comment #9604704

    Also the fact that you can embed youtube videos in other web pages.

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    Comment #9291118

    This more or less should work with Opera extensions too.

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    Comment #9230294

    More than that, its a project which a number of other browser also rely on and contribute to, for example Opera.

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    Comment #8818559

    Firstly, just because someone makes a compile-to-js language doesn't mean they ncesserily "hate" JS ... I mean, it may , but it could also very well mean that they prefer their own…