saurabh's comments

On: PG Casts – Postgres Screencasts

[saurabh]

+1

On: Ask HN: What do you think of Tim Cook visiting temple in India?

[saurabh]

What does visiting a temple have to do with anything? Maybe he likes temples.

[throwawayappl → saurabh]

Do you really think that's true? Let's say it is then is that the best temple to visit for viewing and learning about temples in India.

On: Show HN: Sublime Text Database Client

[saurabh]

Get dbext.vim if you are a vimmer.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356

Current databases supported are:

ODBC / Perl DBI

Mysql

Oracle

Oracle Rdb (VMS)

SAP HANA

SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere (SA/ASA)

SAP Sybase IQ (ASA)

SAP Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)

SAP Sybase UltraLite (UL)

Microsoft SQL Server

IBM DB2

Interbase

SQLite

PostgreSQL

Ingres

Firebird

https://mutelight.org/dbext-the-last-sql-client-youll-ever-n...

Working with SQL in Vim, by Kris Jenkins

https://vimeo.com/76005855

On: Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)

[saurabh]

Railway oriented programming; Error handling in functional languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvD1VjRvGIk

On: Ask HN: What are your note-taking techniques?

[saurabh]

Plain text files and indentation.

[krapp → saurabh]

Ironically, one of my final projects was a personal organizer/notepad in C# that was going to be awesome... until I realized just having a tab open in Sublime Text was just as good. So now I just have a ton of text files on my laptop about random things.

[suprjami → saurabh]

Y'all need Markdown

On: Youtube-dl

[saurabh]

This is the best video downloader. It has downloaded videos from every site I've thrown at it. It even downloaded videos from Comedy Central!

Edit: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

On: SlimerJS – A scriptable browser for Web developers

[saurabh]

I use this to login to my ISP without opening a browser.

On: Ask HN: How to convince my boss to use Angular.js

[saurabh]

Create a reusable directive that you can embed anywhere in the app and just enough API's to drive it.

On: Which project should be “the one” to work on?

[saurabh]

Whatever you need to use yourself first and most.

[pypetey → saurabh]

That's a good idea :) Thanks!

On: Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

[saurabh]

Thanks, I missed that XKCD.

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1205:_Is_It_Worth_...