Arun2009

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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   I don't think I'll ever understand the psyche of the typical American school-goer. From outside at least and from what we see on films, they seem to be leading quite colorful lives! My own school-life in India was fairly monochromatic. Bein
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   I myself have thought quite a bit about the better representation issue. I once read somewhere that all human concepts are fundamentally associative in nature. If you see the halftone image of an apple, you don't have to work through pixel
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   Questions: - Will the fMRI patterns for the same image be the same for two different people? - When I think of images, the vision I have in my mind are not as vivid as when I see them directly. Given this, will the fMRI patterns be the same
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   Ask HN: What websites do you regularly visit?

   4 points by Arun2009 17y ago|4 comments
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   I actually keep a blog to keep track of my fitness related activities - I call it the Nutrex (Nutrition and Exercise) Log. It may be useful to have an SMS app for heavy mobile users, but it wouldn't be very valuable to me.
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   Maybe we're just programmed by evolutionary forces to work? Perhaps doing something creative releases endorphins (or something) that causes us to be addicted.
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   My key takeaway from RDPD was a confidence that getting rich is not as hard as the typical middle class person is often led to believe. His entire attitude towards money is infectious. That alone makes the book worth the read. Also that fac
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   by Arun2009 17y ago

   Thanks! It didn't quite strike me that this would be a recurring topic on HN.
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   Ask HN:How do you become a really good web designer?

   13 points by Arun2009 17y ago|10 comments
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    This is a topic I'm really interested in, and I do sympathize with your situation. I have no advice for you, but here's my experience. I hold a Masters in EE (control theory). I have never really found studying Mathematics formidably inti
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    See the following for general pointers. They may not be the exact material you want though. http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Art-Craft-Problem-Solving/dp/047113571... I wish I had access to people who were real
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    "Tweeting, inverted". From my knowledge of twitter (have NEVER used it), it allows one person or entity to publish messages for everyone to see. What if several people want to publish messages TO someone or some entity (like a company), and
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    I wonder if there might be an entrepreneurial opportunity in this. It'll be basically a ping service, but an automated system will ping you - via SMS or email - to see if you're OK. If you're, you respond back saying yes. If you don't, your
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    My last job was quite an eye-opener as far as TDD was concerned. I was a C++ developer in my team who also coded in Java as the need arose. The Java team lead would absolutely INSIST that we write the JUnit tests before coding the actual im
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    I don't get it. Why does the possibility that you may not wake up be terrifying? If you're dead, you're dead. No less dead than a dead chicken. A peaceful death while you're unconscious is one of the nicer gifts a human can get in life. Tha
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    Relax man. Chill a little. No one doubts that US universities are the best and that Indian universities and graduates have quite a long way to go (to put it mildly).
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    Dude, you can start by creating your own new stuff. There's nothing stopping you.
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    Has anyone considered the possibility that maybe the workhorse technologies in software development have begun to stabilize? C, C++, SQL, Unix etc. has been around for some time. Java and .Net aren't going to go away anytime soon. We may ye
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    I have the same problem. I have TONS of Mathematics (mainly) and Physics books, but I've not really worked through most of them. I've spent a fortune on them so far. I always keep saying that I'll take a couple of years off to concentrate o
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    by Arun2009 17y ago

    I recently left my full time job to concentrate on developing a prototype application for my idea. What I intend to do is to complete a kick ass prototype and website, run it by a few potential customers, and THEN scout for angels if there'