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Abhishek Biswal.

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Check if Number exists on WhatsApp

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What do startups do with the excessive funds?

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matchr.in 9y ago

Show HN: An app to meet new people anonymously and unlock their profiles

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medium.com 9y ago

Thoughts on the 'chicken and egg' problem

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Back end Developers, what tools do you use to write API Documentation

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davidventzel.com 9y ago

Why crazy founders succeed and clever people don’t

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neuronme.com 9y ago

Show HN: Neuron – Use textual data in the way you see most fit

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Hybrid apps that look and feel like native apps

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Runtastic has multiple apps for the same thing. Why?

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shuffl.in 10y ago

Show HN: A virtual jukebox to allow guests to play their favorite tracks

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Why don't default camera apps scan QR Codes by default?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Let's save Robomongo

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

How much does music licensing cost for commercial use?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Malbox alternative for Android

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Firefox Developer Edition vs. Chrome

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

AirBnB Clone – any stack

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

How to Stream mp3 files while not allowing downloads

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Is it alright to fork an apk and sell it without making much changes?

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Postgres.app 5 years ago

Pretty awesome. I use this along with MongoDB.app and Redis.app makes a lot of small tasks easier.

I sometimes listen to tracks from musicForProgramming[0] website, and I usually download the ones which I like and then play them off the offline music player.

Other than that, I have some Spotify playlists saved (not from me, some links I found on Twitter and other sites) [1,2]

[0] https://musicforprogramming.net

[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlwJYNRdkTfZMALZclyIx?si=...

[2] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2u5h5ZloqSXRuDMTrRincp?si=...

Adding to lm28469's answer:

Depends on the user base as well. Which users are likely to use the app and you're able to retain easily.

Another factor is how well you / developer knows the platform. For example, if you have always been writing React Native apps, then you can do RN but focus only either iOS / Android app. That way you can give one platform your 100% and then quickly launch to the other platform with lesser work.

Suggestion: Mastering Bitcoins [0]

It's great and it was the first technical book which I read so was kind of interesting. You can skip to the actual part, after Introduction to get to know Bitcoins (and Blockchain) works.

Read these if you haven't already:

- Zero To One, Peter Thiel [1]

- Hooked, Nir Eyal [2]

- The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Ben Horowitz [3]

[0] http://amzn.to/2lgnHrS

[1] http://amzn.to/2yMNvR1

[2] http://amzn.to/2lftjCq

[3] http://amzn.to/2gKv3Cl

If I was you, I would have exported these csv along with the header line to mongodb. Excel and other tools have a limit to the number of rows and columns they can display. Now, this has worked for me because I eventually had to process the data and my go-to stack had mongodb. You can try that if you like, or:

You can go with pandas (python) to programmatically read the csv.

Advice: Avoid CSVs for huge amount of data.

Most Debit Cards in India require a PIN to verify the transaction on POS (and sometimes online as well, in case One Time Password doesn't work / not available) which actually makes sense.

Now, the same debit card (if international) would not require a pin/otp in case of transaction happening on a US payment gateway. Now, it really depends how banks (or the country) handles the credit/debit card transactions.

Here's a good read on why US has the least secure cards: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-dete...

If you're delivering what you promised to your customer or end user (without compromising on speed) then great!

As a developer, I avoid Electron apps because of the battery consumption. But that's just me. Your end user might not even know the stack or have no idea about it and only cares about the work being done. So yeah, I guess it's great for something which needs to be there as a desktop app.

From a dev's point of view: It's like how React Native is growing as an easy native app development tool. If a team can focus on one codebase instead of multiple, that's a great thing.

Directly? Nope. Indirectly? I guess.

Google stores information about you to make the ads more relevant to you. If someone is using/have used g+ and have liked a few profile/pages(not sure what they're called) then google surely is more confident about this data than other data, so it might help google drive more business by targeting better.

Again, as someone else pointed out, most of the google products are operating at a loss only at individual product level. You can think of it as another example for 80-20 Principle.