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New comment by amalakar in "The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary"

amalakar — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:46:02 +0000

> There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can't visit temples or public places, they're not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.

Note that in earlier times getting water in certain region might mean traveling for miles and then bringing water home, which could be pretty heavy. Same is true for cooking, an Indian joint family could be very big (20/25 members). And cooking for the whole family in open fire is not an easy feat either. So most of household work in a big joint family could be extremely strenuous. Some of these traditions let the woman avoid strenuous work during the mensuration.

Though I am speculating here, some of the tradition indeed could be meant for the well being of the woman. It may not be very relevant in the modern world though.

New comment by amalakar in "Show HN: Find a mentor, Become a mentor"

amalakar — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:34:43 +0000

It is an excellent idea. Congratulations Nitin/Sumit and all the best!

New comment by amalakar in "Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age"

amalakar — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:06:15 +0000

Guessed 30, I am 28.

New comment by amalakar in "Hacker News Parody Thread"

amalakar — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:28:49 +0000

If you want to know more about laughter here is the wikipedia article[1]. Also HowStuffWorks explains how laughter works[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter

[2]: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/laughter.htm

New comment by amalakar in "Favorite Unix Commands"

amalakar — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:12:47 +0000

I find this site handy for clever commands: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

New comment by amalakar in "Always “hover” before you click? Wrong."

amalakar — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:35:38 +0000

Well google search has been doing this for ages. If you hover over the search results links it would show the url of the page, but if you click on that it goes to a google url which then gets redirected to the url you see. Google does this so that they can keep track of which link you clicked. Other search engine probably does the same, I haven't verified though.

New comment by amalakar in "Show HN: 5000 best movies"

amalakar — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:45:19 +0000

A link to the canistrea.it would be helpful. It aggregats availability of movies in streaming/renting sites. Example: http://www.canistream.it/search/term/The%20Shawshank%20Redem...

New comment by amalakar in "YouTube Moves API Discussions/Support To Stack Overflow From Google Groups "

amalakar — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:11:49 +0000

Well google's guava library[1] has been on stackoverflow.com for a while and they encourage users to post question in stackoverflow rather than posing it to the google group[2].

"To get help on a specific question or problem, post a question to Stack Overflow with the tag "guava". We monitor these questions using this RSS feed.)"

1. https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/ 2. https://groups.google.com/group/guava-discuss/

New comment by amalakar in "Show HN - We just built a site that saves lives"

amalakar — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:16:47 +0000

This is brilliant idea and one that is perfectly executed. I would love to contribute whichever way I can and the way it brings down the barrier to contribute is remarkable. I would love to contribute in a personalized way than to donate to an organization where I don't have any clue what happened to the money. Wish you all the success!