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subir

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About subir

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/schowdhuri; my proof: https://keybase.io/schowdhuri/sigs/ol1y5OOwL185DtLzBe7D_dFlAyfKOOeeA1Mzf7Cp2UQ ]

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    Comment #23715034

    Imo, those were the times of unbounded creativity. With the limited, primitive tools, devs (webmasters?) of that era achieved great results. A big chunk of modern websites lack cha…

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    Comment #20929934

    I love it! Thanks for sharing under-the-hood stuff!

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    Comment #18114400

    Polymorph | Lead Engineer (Frontend) | Full-time | Bangalore, India | Onsite | ₹20L-₹25L Polymorph ( https://getpolymorph.com/ ) provides a machine-learning driven revenue intellig…

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    Comment #17969195

    Yeah, I guess I started off the hard (wrong?) way. The first few websites I built was typed out on notepad. Progress was slow and excruciatingly difficult. Then, I discovered Front…

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    Comment #17966607

    FrontPage 97 was the first WYSIWYG tool I ever used, since graduating from the humble text editors. IIRC, I got a free upgrade to FrontPage98. Coupled with Visual InterDev, it form…

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    Comment #17966576

    > Visual InterDev Haven't come across that word for over ~15 years =)

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    Comment #17966553

    Affiliate links from the 90s :) And what a wonderful tool Flash was, before Adobe crapped all over it. Those were the days!

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    Comment #17966465

    Ah! Those were the days when there were no admins, there were 'webmasters'! They were the people behind building and maintaining the website. Think webdev + ops. Nothing today comp…

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    Comment #17664851

    Jasc PSP 5 was the first full-blown image editor I ever used. Those were the days when I was taking baby steps with web design. Absolutely loved the no-nonsense, workflow. Not to m…

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    Comment #17291921

    I consulted for a certain 'unicorn startup' based in India during their stealth stage. I joined another (now defunct) startup as employee #2. Worked my @$$ off for 3 years before I…

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    Polymorph | Python/Django Engineer | Full-time | Bangalore, India | Onsite | ₹10L-₹15L Polymorph ( http://getpolymorph.com/ ) provides a machine-learning driven revenue intelligenc…

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    Comment #10645466

    Per my understanding, a component is meant to be a re-usable unit which can be included in one or more views. A View can be thought as a single 'page' of the application, (eg: Logi…

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    Comment #10072547

    Can I have some of the stuff he is smoking? I doubt if this article will help your cause. Given his outlandish beliefs, I doubt whether this co-worker of yours is open to any scien…

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    Comment #9915091

    Performance was fine for me and I am on a dated machine (Lenovo Z560) running Firefox with about 20 tabs open. I discovered this game some time ago, from the CopperLicht engine hom…

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    Comment #8594899

    This takes DIY to the next level! Can someone point me to more of this person's works? In retrospect, was resurrecting the dying board with a "transplant" the best solution? Harves…

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    Comment #8583028

    Same here. Try these: http://material-ui.com/#/components/left-nav http://material-ui.com/#/components/inputs http://material-ui.com/#/components/dropdown-menu http://material-ui.c…

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    Comment #8571912

    Fascinating!

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    Comment #8207006

    Whoa! Jasper posts to HN!

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    Comment #8172597

    This particular one had me in splits (:

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    Comment #7964603

    Gem of an article! Echoes several thoughts and notions I have acquired over the years, the hard way. Here's hoping it reaches grad students, young researchers and the like.