The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @varunkumar ever

June 2015

Amazon Web Services announces 2016 India expansion — on.mktw.net/1HrGd3g

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@psankar I doubt if its a real one. How can one integrate with real world objects without any motors / sensors?

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Nice! Tools like these are much much better than programming contests in helping you improve your coding skills. twitter.com/TechCrunch/sta…

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@sriks7 Yeah. We have started selling our products to external clients with this new entity.

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@sriks7 Arcesium India is a new entity spun off from D. E. Shaw. It will operate from same building to start with. arcesium.com

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A leap second is getting added today. How are yours servers / apps handling it today? Hope all is well.

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Last day at D. E. Shaw India. Arcesium India Private Limited from tomorrow.

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addyosmani Try es6katas.org - learn new JS features by fixing unit tests. Includes Map, Arrows, Generators & more: pic.twitter.com/c0UAUxYhaJ

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Top Ramen pulled off India’s shelves — thehindu.com/news/national/…

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BCCI for Zim: Rahane (C), Vijay, Rayudu, Manoj, Kedar, Uthappa, Manish, Harbhajan, Axar, Karn, Dhawal, Binny, Bhuvi, Mohit, Sandeep

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Stackoverflow developer survey 2015 — stackoverflow.com/research/devel…

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France could offer asylum to Assange, Snowden yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/26…

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Why Is Google opening a new data center in a former Coal-fired power plant? hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/06/27…

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A failure for SpaceX: Falcon 9 explodes during ascension tech.slashdot.org/story/15/06/28…

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Oxford added the word “JavaScript” to its dictionary, June 2015 public.oed.com/the-oed-today/…

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Indian spinners are actually getting the ball to spin in women’s cricket.

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.@flyspicejet reached out to me few mins after this tweet. They’ve agreed to put me in an alternative flight. Thanks twitter.com/varunkumar/sta…

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xdadevelopers Google Open Source Code for Wi-Fi Calling xda-developers.com/google-open-so…

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ibnlive RT @CNNIBNBreaking: Aviation Ministry rejects proposal by low-cost airlines to charge for check-in baggage

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Booked eight tickets in @flyspicejet for next few months. Six got cancelled n one change of schedule. Never gonna rely on Spicejet.

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sama “the world needs more people solving big problems, not building apps, so I’m going to complain about it instead of building something.”

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Explored couple of amazing technologies today. Leap Motion gesture detection. Alexa Skills kit. Hope they reach the masses soon.

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hellogeri OH: “So basically HTML is the shirt you’re wearing, CSS makes the shirt blue, and JavaScript means you can pop the collar on it”

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@psankar Ok. Sysadmins evaluated it for sometime but decided not to go with it due to some security concerns.

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@psankar Do you work with containers?

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Introducing Alexa Skills Kit, enabling devs to create new voice driven capabilities developer.amazon.com/post/Tx205N9U1… Wow, very tempting to get one

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Two rival self-driving cars have close call in California reut.rs/1J8EIWJ

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Experience the OnePlus 2 cellphone launch July 27th in VR flip.it/3BMJV OnePlus Cardboard

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WiFi Offloading is Skyrocketing flip.it/hNwzv

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Griggi: A wifi sharing ecosystem for affordable internet everywhere griggi.com

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Vertical Street View of the world’s most iconic rock wall: Yosemite’s El Capitan googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/06/vertic…

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I see it more as a competitor to AWS CodeCommit and not Github — aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ twitter.com/psankar/status…

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Shady DOM - What is it? Why do we need a new kind of DOM? — polymer-project.org/1.0/articles/s…

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Microsoft officially launches Office for Android phone on.tcrn.ch/l/FsRF

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How Atlasssian does continuous delivery infoq.com/news/2015/06/S…

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@twitty_nvn Thanks da. Wish you the same. :) Cheers!!

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browserstack [NEW] 400 million PCs will have Windows 10 + Microsoft Edge. BrowserStack has it now! Launch a test to check it out. via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:16 AM, Jun 24th, 2015 via Twitter Web Client)

GitLab 7.12: SAML Support, Merge Request Approvers and .gitlab-ci.yml about.gitlab.com/2015/06/22/git…

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Happy birthday my dear twin @arunkumar_n . Wish you the best day ever. Lets rock the world together!! :D

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Amazon Echo looks very solid in the video. Hope it doesn’t turn to be yet failure from Amazon.

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Government proposes income tax benefits for debit/credit card payments — ecoti.ms/X7IbHY

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Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and others team up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for the web — on.tcrn.ch/l/qG1k via @psankar

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@psankar Would rather love to see languages that are natively supported by browsers. Not languages that pre-compile to JavaScript.

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@psankar As I’ve said before, I’m not a fan of languages that compile to JS. A nice initiative though. Its too early to predict its success.

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The Internet of Things is the password killer we’ve been waiting for it.slashdot.org/story/15/06/17… May be.

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The Imposter Syndrome in Software Development — blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2014/08/16/the… Nice read.

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Skype For Web Beta Goes Worldwide tech.slashdot.org/story/15/06/15… Not clear if its using WebRTC though.

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Apple’s new not-quite-favicon syntax causing problems in other browsers lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi… Shows the arrogance of APPL.

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Docker meets the IDE domeide.github.io Editor / IDE plugins for docker

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Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powered web contencloudstitch.iogR Not a new concept but this one is quite good.

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App Engine for PHP is generally available. Build scalable apps, faster. googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/06/App-En…

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Google Play prepaid vouchers now available in India — googleindia.blogspot.com/2015/06/google…

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Passengers push start a train when its engine stopped in India po.st/qIafKI

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deepa_subash @PMOIndia 8 days since my husband Subash Suresh pilot of CG791 missing. Request your attention pic.twitter.com/PAt8HEHq3m

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Google to work on improving battery performance in Mac while using Chrome — plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/…

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Amazon wants you to unlock your next phone with your ear tnw.to/j4vz4

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UK firm launches emoji alternative to Pin codes bbc.com/news/technolog…

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Google Sheets updates charting, filtering and pivoting features to take on Excel tnw.to/j4vzV

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Favicon bug github.com/benjamingr/fav… Browsers must set a cap on the favicon size.

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firstpost Scene from Jumanji? Zoo Animals escape and roam streets after flooding in Georgia. bit.ly/1JNTODY pic.twitter.com/jX3iPaiiXi

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Surrey-Sussex game suspended following a collision between two players on field. Three ambulances attending to them.

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willis_macp Got a situation at Arundel. Henriques and Ansari (I think) have collided in field. Both not moving much, medics on. Looks v nasty

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willis_macp Pleased to report henriques is in an ambulance and waved as he was moved on. No news on burns yet. Looks more serious

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Using my Android watch as a replacement for Phone display. Can get 90% of things done from there.

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Looks like I have broken the display on OnePlusOne. Anyone here changed ur display??

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Will India declare and force Bangladesh to bat again even if they can’t enforce follow on?

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A computer that operates on water droplets flip.it/3lRBe

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Google has a beautiful new website designed to help you choose the perfect Android phone businessinsider.in/Google-has-a-b…

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Celebrating with cake cutting at Oracle, Hyderabad.

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BlackBerry may put Android system on new device: sources reut.rs/1ILyoHo

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BloodDonorsIn B-ve blood for heart operation this week end at MMM hospital. Donors pls cont Sathish 9952490199 , 9994653368.12Jun. via @KLKANTH

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Are you making a payment to a non-resident? - Livemint livemint.com/Money/hBxc33LN… Be aware of this when you make payments at foreign sites.

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Security is no more a luxury but a necessity for startups. Learn frm recent Zomato, Ola, Gaana.com hacks yourstory.com/2015/06/securi…

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Java Micro Frameworks: The new trend you can’t ignore blog.takipi.com/java-micro-fra… Interesting.

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Kubernetes on OpenStack — blog.kubernetes.io/2015/05/kubern… Never knew that this happened.

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Just looked at the console message on Polymer site. Cool stuff!

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Failed to get train ticket confirmed? Convert it to air ticket — timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Failed-t…

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‘Clean My Coach’ app will help you get your train coach cleaned in 15 mins firstpost.com/india/clean-my…

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One more thing.. Apple music.

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Looking at ur schedule for today / tomorrow is called “Time travel”

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Time lapse watch faces are pretty cool.

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App store has crossed 100 Billion downloads.

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Swift is now open sourced. I don’t really know what it means to us developers.

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For a company which was hating multi-tasking, this is a great progress.

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Multiscreen experience looks very smooth though. Unlike Samsung experience.

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For the first time ever, multi app multi touch. But, why??

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engadget Multitasking is here for iPad. In “Split View” both windows side by side are active. engt.co/wwdc2015 pic.twitter.com/lbSAFbKuxj

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Flipboard like app from Apple — News.

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Transits come to Apple maps. Bus, train and ferry.

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Why is a lame notes app featured in a keynote?

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Apple Pay coming to UK this July.

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Deeplink to apps from search in iOS9.

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Siri can never be Google Now. Dot. Apple should focus more on services to get there.

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OSX ElCapitan developer beta starting today

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Snap feature has been there in Windows for years.

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Some sort of NLP built in to improve mail search and spotlight search.

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Safari finally gets pinned tab and audio notification.

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Experience and Performance will be the biggest features.

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Next version of OSX will be called OSX EL Captain.

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New version of OSX??

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Phandroid OnePlus One receives a permanent price cut to $249, Dropbox Pro bundle announced ift.tt/1QFBc85 pic.twitter.com/SCcYfN3Hsh

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So, whatz Apple’s equivalents for giant whale and ping pong?

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Mahatma’s great-grandson to Rahul: Stop fooling people, you’re no Gandhi — firstpost.com/politics/mahat…

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isro Mars Orbiter Spacecraft is under ‘solar conjunction’ at Mars - isro.gov.in/update/08-jun-…

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mathias Git repository containing the ~300 metro stations in Paris as Git branches: github.com/vbarbaresi/Met…

`git log —all —graph` plots the map.

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njnrn Ola breached? reddit.com/r/pwned/commen… cc @makash @Nullblr

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RT @slashdot: Microsoft tries to guess relatives with “Twins or Not” flip.it/vIL7O

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RT @slashdot: Chinese doctor performs head transplants on mice flip.it/H0hXN

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is happening today. What is your expectation from it?? /me wants a bug free Mac OSX.

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Finally setup a RAID 1 with an SSD and a HDD for my Mac. Feeling safe and secure now.

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Dravid to coach India A, U-19 teams - BCCI espncricinfo.com/india/content/…

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Heavy rain. Fully drenched. Need of the hour is a pack of . :|

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The git repo interface of Visual Studio online is not so good. M$ could have done a better job with it.

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/me likes the debugging and intellisense features of Visual Studio Code. Default theme also looks neat.

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MS should get better at naming their products. Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio. Can u guess what are these products?

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You can now Skype from your browser in the US and UK engt.co/1F03pQa No WebRTC yet.

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“Free unlimited private repos from Microsoft” visualstudio.com/en-us/version-… M$ is trying everything to get back into the game. Nice move though.

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“Quick answers to quick questions” chrome.blogspot.com/2015/06/quick-… Google Now on Tap??

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RT @slashdot: US bombs ISIS Command Center after terrorist posts selfie online flip.it/m52xn

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Scientists beam power to a fitness tracker via WiFi flip.it/WsiVv wow.

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Why are mobile phone towers being targeted in Kashmir? flip.it/7caeT

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What a way to start the day. Great work guys. Feeling proud of our work. :) @amit2bharti

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robertnyman I wrote an extensive blog post about Google I/O, together with the most important videos, pictures and links - goo.gl/PUmIee

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Now that Maggi and few other brands are banned in Tamil Nadu, can we expect Amma noodles soon?

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BloodDonorsIn ‘O positive’ blood needed at LB nagar- Global hospital.
Contact 9391431616 via
@ksurya700

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IIT-Madras project to supply low-power DC — ecoti.ms/7VEkJa Interesting.

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Nice. Finally, switching between native and mobile web would be seamless. Why not for the desktop web? twitter.com/Paul_Kinlan/st…

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@addyosmani @ChromeDevTools @ChromiumDev Is Promises tab a native feature? or, is that an extension? I dont see it canary n stable builds

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Never knew about the “Promises panel” in Chrome. Wil be landing in Chrome soon. Will be quite handy in debugging. plus.google.com/u/0/+AddyOsman…

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@vigneshv_psg How are things with you?? whats going on??

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@vigneshv_psg Thanks da. Things are going good. Hope u have heard abt Arcesium. So, getting to do some cool stuff on that front.

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@vigneshv_psg No devbytes this time??

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HydConnect Charminar becomes India’s first Wi-Fi enabled tourist attraction — thne.ws/1SVLJ2Ohpic.twitter.com/46sOiqX11jj

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@abhishekdelta dude, u r spamming. U might want to reconsider syncing every photo link from FB to Twitter.

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Kiwis draw the series 1-1. Good show.

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I have a feeling that Eng will be saved by the rain today.

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Happy birthday Telangana. :)

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Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29 blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindow…

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