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October 2012

/me wants location based “Trending on Google+”

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How Udacity uses Google App Engine — Part-1: goo.gl/F36nH , Part-2: goo.gl/cyxcb

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Running NodeJs in Chrome packaged app — youtube.com/watch?v=gkb_x9… Uses browserify and NaCl socket support. \m/

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The new compose window in GMail post.ly/9gmjD

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Looks like Android 4.2 has more user facing features than what was discussed in the blog post yesterday. Check out goo.gl/IKtQj

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RT @tweet4blood: REQ A-VE AT .CONTACT Naresh Wadhwa 9953053525

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Google doodle for “Halloween 2012” post.ly/9gf31

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@ArpitNext: Google adds support for 9 International languages in Web Fonts API, including Tamil, Bengali and Hindi pluggd.in/google-adds-su…

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@SujayKrishna Not yet. Refreshed my browser couple of times.

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@psankar My use case is more like restarting the servers, monitoring the logs, etc from the browser itself.

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@psankar I type in the commands from the Chrome Omnibox and pass it to my local node.js server (via custom search URL).

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@psankar I use something similar for my personal use. I run a local node.js server which will execute all my commands n respond back as html

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@psankar So, basically you want an emulator where you can play with some commands / scripts??

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@psankar You want it to work on top of virtual fs?

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@paul_irish Have been using //@ sourceURL and //@ sourceMappingURL. Is there any special name to this? Or, is it called as a ‘comment’ only?

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Google Now updated to show cards from Gmail. /me likes this update. post.ly/9gPpl

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@arunkumar_n: RT @BreakingNews: Rumors of NYSE trading floor flooding are not true, says NYSE - @politico @CNBC @weatherchannel

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@arunkumar_n @P7h Android updates are named after things u might want to eat. OS X updates are named after things that might want to eat u”

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iInfection and <head>ache. Sleeping early. Good night folks.

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Looks awesome. I am sure this will be part of the next iOS”@vigneshv_psg: Photosphere is super awesome! .2 plus.google.com/u/0/1100237073…

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@Gizmodo: What’s new in Android 4.2 gizmo.do/HjhwMY

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@engadget: Google bumps Android to 4.2, keeps Jelly Bean moniker - engt.co/QQ7fWl

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@TechCrunch: Google Announces The Nexus 10, A 10.1-Inch Tablet With Dual-Core 1.7GHz Processor tcrn.ch/RikoWg by @johnbiggs

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@TechCrunch: The LG Nexus 4 Gets Official: 4.7” Screen, 8 Or 16GB of Storage, Android 4.2 Starting At $299 Unlocked tcrn.ch/S8AXFd

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@jsfooindia @hasgeek When are the videos from JSFoo Bangalore 2012 expect to go live on YT?

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@psankar saw your comment. Thanks. Was traveling and was offline over the weekend. Will reply today.

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Happy birthday @BillGates . Wish you the best day ever. :-) Please continue the awesome work you have been doing.

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@tweet4blood: REQ A+VE AT .CONTACT 9566018585 9566018585”

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@ArpitNext: Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake limpet.net/mbrubeck/2012/… :)”

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@NameetBansal Guess its a problem with ur ISP. Everything is ok here.

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RT @psankar: thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/n… Monkeys that look like Albert Einstein

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@BillGates: Why has India been so successful at helping to ? Great interview from The New York Times: b-gat.es/TH2gpi

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@surface: The man behind the , Panos Panay, just kicked off the Surface press event. msft.it/6013pGo7

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@rathna_k: 50 units of B+ve grp reqd. frnd’s cancer treatment at Ramachandra Hosp. Pls treat this as a personal req RT 9566631230

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@davewiner: How a Google Headhunter’s E-Mail Unraveled a Massive Net Security Hole. 0uu.r2.ly

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RT @sundarasibi: REQ AB-VE / A1-VE AT . CONTACT Sudhakar - 09840552768 @varunkumar @PuneerSoda @WhatteKarvaad @arunkumar_n

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Hyderabad named ‘world’s 3rd best city to visit in 2013’ — in.news.yahoo.com/hyderabad-name… Why? Why??

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RT @rameshsrivats: In a crucial away match in Sri Lanka, Rama took all 10 Sri Lankan scalps to post a thrilling victory. Happy Dussehra.

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Arduino Due, new board in the Arduino family — store.arduino.cc/ww/index.php?m…

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Github: Latest commit per directory bit.ly/Rexo2F

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Chromium Blog: Do more with Chrome Developer Tools blog.chromium.org/2012/10/do-mor… >> Canvas inspection and live object observation — Cool!

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Google App Engine 1.7.3 Released bit.ly/RUui0Z >> Adds support for Java 7 finally.

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Having issues w/ flashing custom built kernel n system image onto Galaxy S2. Any experts here? Heimdall: ERROR: Setting up interface failed!

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Enough. Show us the price.

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Dei Apple… wtf. Why are you comparing a 7” device with 7.9” device on screen size.

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@nirmaltv: Probably compare Galaxy Note 2 with iPhone 5 and say 100% larger screen than iPhone5!”

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@SathyaBhat Don’t agree. Nexus 7 and kindle are better.

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@dannysullivan: iPad Mini 7.2 mm thick, width of pencil, weighs .68 lbs or pad of paper, black & white bit.ly/X9olSH

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@slackerninja: Apple Fusion Drive = Seagate Momentus XT. Nothing more, nothing less. Yawn.”

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Fusion drive - Flash and HDD. Awesome. Only if the OS can handle this better.

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“Absolutely incredible”

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@Gizmodo: 13” MacBook with Retina starts at $1700 live.gizmodo.com

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@dannysullivan: Surprise. MacBook Pro 13” with Retina screen. 20% thinner. 3.57lbs, 1 lbs less.”

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Will they talk about iOS 6 maps??

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Setup Tweetnest on my server. Now you can search my older tweets here — tweets.varunkumar.me

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@tweet4blood: REQ AB+VE AT .CONTACT Indira Please call 08026604159”

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Launch in Indian market?? :O RT @AndroidSPIN: New confirmed by @lg Exec, Android 4.2 on board - bit.ly/RXEgC9

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@avranju @gthandavam Sorry, my bad. I mistook it for Pointer lock API.

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RT @mohanstatsman: Since scoring 58* for MI v RajR on 20-5-2012, Tendulkar’s scores: 11, 19, 17, 27, 5, 16, 7, 2, 22 (126 runs, ave 14.00)

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Downloaded Android source in minutes. Thanks to Beam!! \m/ post.ly/9d3IQ

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Ashier: Automating Terminal Interactions with Templates google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/10/ashier…

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@sanand0 Using any custom bookmark service?

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@sudarmuthu Its hand-rolled. I have an empty template and just filled the slides manually in there.

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Slides from my talk (“Tools for debugging JavaScript”) at slides.varunkumar.me/js-tools/ cc: @hasgeek @jackerhack

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Have been carefully avoiding Homebrew so far. Now, have to install it alongside MacPorts. Its gonna be like swimming with the sharks.

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Send Self-Destructing Messages with Google Docs bit.ly/SYcS2j Thanks for the tip @labnol

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Adding ‘Dartium’ to my ToDo list — dartlang.org/dartium/

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Celebrating Dart’s birthday with the first release of the Dart SDK bit.ly/V8DuW2

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TED Talk: Ryan Merkley demos Popcorn bit.ly/OOKXWt

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@haspcs208cs There are some spam DMs being sent from ur account. change your credentials and revoke access to apps.

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@newsycombinator: Hackathon Hacks for Organizers j.mp/TBCsL9

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@psankar If the special glyphs fall under an unicode range, we can use regex to split the characters.

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@mohanstatsman: Lasith Malinga now has the unique distinction of claiming a 5-wkt hauls in Tests/ ODIs/T20Is/IPL & tonight in

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@newsycombinator: Simplify your life with an SSH config file j.mp/hZUBTS

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@newsycombinator: Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7 j.mp/RQ6xdR

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@tompraison sure da. Will post the video once it’s available.

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Nice talk by @sudarmuthu on “Controlling robots with JavaScript”

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@sudarmuthu are you going to talk about Johnny-Five as well?

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@gauravl thanks. I can show you offline if interested. I am sitting in the last row of Audi 1.

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@ArpitNext it’s recorded. I will point you to it once I get it.

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Sudar (@sudarmuthu) getting his weapon (Arduino bot) ready post.ly/9c8d2

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Will be missing @sanand0 session today. Have my session at the same time.

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You know who scored 100 of it”@mohanstatsman: Most 100s in international cricket:Aus 918, Eng 902, Ind 617, WI 587, Pak 481, SAf 427, SL 330

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@jackerhack don’t think he will talk about the solution.

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Really loved the contents of WebRTC session. Nice stuff.

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@jackerhack: Two sessions with technical issues this morning. Broken VGA ports or loose contacts, killing the projector. VGA must die”

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@gthandavam who said it’s from Microsoft? Chrome supports it for quite sometime.

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@sankha93 dude, can you pls share your presentation?

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Microsoft believes Windows 8 app is the most significant developer opportunity ever. Guess I will agree given the reach of Windows.

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Happy birthday Viru. “@arunkumar_n: Happy birthday @virendersehwag 119, 219, 319”

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Windows mail app on Windows 8 looks cool.

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Disney Tron on IE 10 or Ramayan on Chrome

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@arunkumar_n yeah, had to unlock the iPod to test something. Didn’t know that the stream was up then.

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Damn, My mobile pin just got livestreamed.

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@psankar @sangeeths @vvijaybharath @arula ok, let’s meet at China Pearl at 7 PM. No delays please. Have to catch the bus at 9.

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node.js on the wheels. Node.js running on Raspberry Pi mounted on a robot! post.ly/9bgEv

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First thoughts on TypeScript: JavaScript + ActionScript = TypeScript

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Next on stage at is our Gaptun. Thanks again to @hsivaram

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Ohh ho hoo.. thatz TR at Thanks to @hsivaram

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heavy downpour here in Bangalore.

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Happy birthday to Galaxy Nexus. :-) “@AndroidSPIN: Galaxy G+ post updated with hint at multiple Nexus Devices - bit.ly/R7a32M

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@rakesh314 have a question: how do you manage the upgrades of your node modules. Finding it tougher than deployment.

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@rakesh314 yeah, I started using naught.is recently. It seems to work quite well.

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@harry_sistalam @SujayKrishna yeah, I know. But, I wanted to listen to underscore

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Awesome. “@zainabbawa: @varunkumar no live streaming from Audi 2. Recording in all auditoriums.”

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Firefox OS UI looks totally different from what I have seen six months ago on emulator — goo.gl/s8yLY

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@zainabbawa does it mean no live streaming or no recording at all?

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@vigneshv_psg yeah, it was called as Boot 2Gecko initially.

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Why Firefox OS? why not Mozilla OS? Lots have changed in the last six months.

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@hsivaram: One more round of rehearsing my demo and off to . .”

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“Scaling = changing all parts of your car while you are driving at 100mph.”

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@jackerhack: Who’s watching the livestream? RT if you are, or RT anyway. ustre.am/qwd4

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@vigneshv_psg @arunkumar_n Tools for debugging JavaScript. Remote debugging, etc.

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@yuvipanda: Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark. AND HENCE YOUR SOUL POWERS LARRY ELLISON’S YACHT”

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@vigneshv_psg @arunkumar_n it will be there. My talk is scheduled for tomorrow. Hall 2.

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@harry_sistalam: Browser history , mostly what covered in “Then there was javascript”! yuiblog.com/crockford/

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JavaScript LiveScript Mocha JScript

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@jackerhack: We’re live streaming from hall 1 of . Watch online: ustre.am/qwd4

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@gthandavam: @varunkumar and this was how the pic was taken :-P pic.twitter.com/nxAe00Ud

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@rameshsrivats happy birthday. Wish you the best day ever.

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Just checked in at . They are using NFC based registrations. :-) post.ly/9bSkL

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@varalu Everyone has a solution if the problem is not theirs. :)

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RT @arunkumar_n: RT @dannysullivan: Google Announces Android Event For Oct. 29 bit.ly/TvOPIU

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@gmanka dude, need some info about Facebook. Is it good time to talk? DM me your phone number.

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RT @rameshsrivats: Congratulations to Sachin for winning the Oder of Australia. Now waiting for VVS to be awarded the Disorder of Australia.

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RT@htTweets:Tendulkar to be made member of Order of Australia - Hindustan Times hindustantimes.com/Cricket/Cricke…

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@jackerhack You should try it out sometime. The interface is not very exciting though. Not sure why they are spending so much many on TV Ads

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@cowboy Just had a look at your dotfiles. Its pretty amazing and really useful. :)

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Tab management: I should get better at this.. post.ly/9Zipv

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Upgraded to Android 4.1.2 post.ly/9ZfwX

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RT @ppk: JavaScript library poll results at quirksmode.org/blog/archives/…
1) jQuery
2) Modernizr
3) underscore.js
4) backbone.js

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Yet another amazing Google doodle!! post.ly/9ZF63

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RT @BaumgartnFelix: RT if you’re watching me right now

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RT @TechCrunch: Google Actually Considered Sending Felix Baumgartner To Space With Google Glass tcrn.ch/T2EIRm by @thatdrew

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Naught.js is a handy tool for Node.js deployment — github.com/indabamusic/na…

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HTML to Jade converter — html2jade.aaron-powell.com This saved my day.

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My talk on “Tools for debugging JavaScript” has been scheduled right after the lunch break. See u there. @jsfoojsfoo.in/2012/

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Kumble to head ICC’s cricket committee espncricinfo.com/ci-icc/content…

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:D RT @arunkumar_n: After Onions, Bhajji, Uthappa, Cook, its Kitchen now!

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@labnol @KishoreBhargava Guess this doesn’t include imports of Tablets from US, Singapore of other countries.

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Making Deliveries Faster – the Flipkart cache clusteshar.es/5keCUiQ vi@flipkart_techch

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@vigneshv_psg You can manage it better with lists. I do that for important tweeps. I meant to FB doesn’t even show certain items on Newsfeed

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@vigneshv_psg FB uses ‘its’ intelligence to hand-pick the updates for you which is actually very bad than Twitter which is stream based

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@ryah Cont to my prev tweet: I feel that nginx proxying will give more flexibility. Not sure how it will scale with Nodejs though. Any docs?

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@ryah For running two node.js apps on prod, do u recommend a nginx server proxying the requests or express vhost m/w goo.gl/x1HwM

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@arunkumar_n @ESPNcricinfo Ok, live stream is not available in India right.

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Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Others Launch Web Platform Docs, A Web Standards Documentation Site techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/goo…

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Happy birthday to the HOD of Bowling @ImZaheer

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RT @rameshsrivats: Q: What came first? The egg, or the chicken? | A: Dunno. But Sri Lanka came second.

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Thanks for the entertainment. “@cricketicc: Congratulations to the West Indies on defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the @cricketicc

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@cricketicc: Congratulations to the West Indies on defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the @cricketicc

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Me too. “@msdhoni: Waiting for the West Indian team to dance”

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Lol. True. “@arunkumar_n: RT @_fakeiplplayer: Man of the match should be the guy who sent out the D/L sheet into the middle.

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@arunkumar_n: RT @halftracker: Is that drizzle or Tony Greig’s tears?

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:-P “@Raina_Nephew: No point putting besharam tweets tonight for either teams. So instead - Rohit BeSharma”

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RT @cricketicc: The most expensive four over spell in a T20I is 1-64 by Jimmy Anderson v Australia in 2007

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RT @cricketicc: Lasith Malinga finishes with figures of 0-54 off four overs! West Indies is 122-6 off 19 overs

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Authors at Google: Salman Khan | The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined : youtu.be/WUHRaoD7d34

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