Arun2009

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A Dust Over India(postmasculine.com)
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by Arun2009 14y ago
Freelance on sites like elance. Seriously. As a developer, you never know what kind of applications people need or are looking to create, but you get ideas from the projects that are posted. Most projects I'm interested in are clones with a
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by Arun2009 14y ago
I too have had interviews at both these companies for software development positions. Totally different experiences. With Microsoft (for their Vancouver office, 2007) - the interviews were pretty technical, but not severely challenging. I w
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by Arun2009 14y ago
Thank you for the great work you're all doing at Khan Academy. Also, I'll take this opportunity to give a small suggestion :-) I was wondering if you guys could make Mathematics more problem solving centric (see www.artofproblemsolving.com
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by Arun2009 14y ago
My reliance connection allows TPB, Vimeo and Pastebin. I can confirm that at least vimeo and TPB were blocked till a few days ago when I checked.
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by Arun2009 15y ago
I'd like to see online "textbooks" that can be bookmarked, commented upon, annotated etc. The textbooks will have animated graphics and interactive exercises inlined along with the text (i.e., the ideal that applets tried to achieve in educ
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by Arun2009 15y ago
When I read something (mentally), I can see that there are two parallel processes that take place: 1. The "physical" aspect of mental reading - mentally sounding out the words that are in front of me. This is quite fast already and is prett
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by Arun2009 15y ago
The trouble with trying to arrive at any single definition of Mathematics is that Mathematics is different things to different people. A research level Mathematician might see it differently (finding patterns, abstraction, theory - axioms
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by Arun2009 15y ago
Plenty of publications by Robert Bjork here: http://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/RABjorkPublications.php
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Servlet History(weblogs.java.net)
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Dissecting shared libraries(ibm.com)
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by Arun2009 15y ago
The early modern texts site ( http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/f_why.html ) contains works that have been translated to contemporary English which could alleviate the archaic language problem. From the link: <QUOTE> My versions are f
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Pyramid is too damn easy - a success story(danielnouri.org)
6 points by Arun2009 16y ago|2 comments
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Discussion on Human Empathy and Love on reddit.(reddit.com)
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The Decline Effect and Why Scientific 'Truth' So Often Turns Out Wrong(abcnews.go.com)
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Abandon resolutions. Stop looking for a soulmate. Reject positive thinking.(guardian.co.uk)
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Upholding India on teh Internets(buildabetterindia.blogspot.com)
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by Arun2009 16y ago
You look at things differently when you consider that for most of us, stuff costs us our liberty.
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by Arun2009 16y ago
I'm yet to read the article, but on this: > Summarizing the article: "Genius is just hard work? Prove it, you have 10 years to produce genius level work. Any takers?" two examples that leap to mind are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jud
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> Some people would like nothing better than shoe horn every Indian student into "them stupid Indian" and feel smug. I don't like it very much either, because in real life I have to pay the price for the stereotyping. However, stereot
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by Arun2009 16y ago
Trivia: Deepavali is not that big a deal among the Hindus of Kerala. For us the fire-cracker day is Vishu.
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Tricki - A store of useful Mathematical problem solving techniques(tricki.org)
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> As an Indian person you will have to probably over come a significant amount of resistance in order to even be allowed to attempt to chart your own path, but even that permission is not theirs to give. It's... not that easy. Most peop
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Journey to Ithaca(worldhum.com)
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China's Internet 'spin doctors'(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Jayaprakash Narayan on Politics in India [video](youtube.com)
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Games India Isn’t Ready to Play(nytimes.com)
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by Arun2009 16y ago
> That took the systematic leveling of a good chunk of Germany, just for starters. The parallel was not between the specific route and methodology used, but the eventual outcome: the religious extremists must come to be viewed with the
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by Arun2009 16y ago
It's inhuman and unwise to target civilians when they are mere puppets of agents higher up in the hierarchy. It's simple, really: the US is killing Pakistanis, and when they find that their people are being culled , the likes of Faisal Sha
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by Arun2009 16y ago
My own expectation is that China will become a Singapore with 1 billion people. The west stands no chance.

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