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vandershraaf

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About vandershraaf

I'm primarily an undergrad computer science student at University of Maryland, College Park. Currently interning at Epsilon.

http://www.ashrafishak.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #21470197

    My applications which are built using Laravel are deployed through Laravel Forge. There is definitely extra charge for it, but having Forge to simplify deployment really save my ti…

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    Comment #17906368

    Not API, but Spark Java ( http://sparkjava.com/documentation#getting-started ) has one of the best Java framework documentation I've ever seen. Fairly concise + it has almost every…

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    Comment #4811311

    I am glad that you have build an excellent business which can grow, unlike some businesses cough in a reality tv show cough . Keep up good job!

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    Comment #4776803

    This is indeed a great initiative. As many people pointed out, we need to teach young kids for them to make sense of computer science and technology in general. What hinders them f…

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    Comment #4749485

    "please teach him something about database normalization"

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    Comment #4684052

    I don't always find weekend project to be as fancy but this one is exception. Good job, I really like its simplicity!

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    Comment #4397167

    (No one does this yet, so I wanna be the first one) Happy birthday debian!

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    Comment #4396296

    Thanks, you just get me the exact term I'm looking for. It's hard to explain to "smart" people without using any computer-ish/science-ish/math-ish terminology

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    Comment #4396267

    Regardless of how different Diaspora is from Facebook, they still tried to do the "social network" better. I'm pretty sure every startup wants to make stuff less suck. By the way I…

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    Comment #4391545

    I think they are delegating the task to app.net

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    Comment #4391497

    I think the size and complexity of the program is the reason why we need to think first before we look at the code. I'll probably look at the obvious indicators (logs, stacktrace e…

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    Comment #4380861

    Yup, they don't have to be big. Then what's the point of developers to develop on top of app.net API while their user base is small? Less revenue, more "freedom" to develop?

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    Comment #4376100

    It is the hype that has changed everything.

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    Comment #4357853

    Exactly. People would consider a mobile apps outside 99 cents mark as expensive, even more so if it costs you $50

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    Comment #4357810

    To be honest, I actually agree with your points, which is exactly what I've been thinking too. Unfortunately the tone of this post would definitely put some bad image to people out…

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    Comment #4355427

    No, there is a lot of better ways to inform the designer about his mistakes than just ranting about them.

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    Comment #4355341

    I thought i was the only one. I'm just so excited to see this ancient site got surfaced again.

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    Comment #4346817

    (I'm saying this from a regular user's perspective and not developer): First of all, what's boggling my mind about this app.net thingy is the vague pitch and description. They shou…

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    Comment #4330800

    That link should be https://makr.io/pro_tips . But thanks though, thats awesome of you

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    Comment #4329565

    I was a skeptic before, and the first time i went into the site I realize "Man, why pinterest cant be this fun?"

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    Comment #4234952

    Out of curiosity: Even if they discover higgs boson, is there any chance for standard model to be changed again later on? (when somehow we discover yet another component)

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    Comment #4229982

    TIL: startups = mobile app + real-time + cloud + social + local

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    Comment #4220338

    Are you saying they 'accidentally' scammed him? Wow