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Advice From An Old Programmer(learnpythonthehardway.org)
649 points by FraaJad 15y ago|220 comments
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by FraaJad 15y ago
s/Majaraca/Maharaja/g
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encourage her to go and get the best job available for her qualification. She will come to a more grounded opinion.
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Google faces $50 million lawsuit over Android location tracking(arstechnica.com)
1 points by FraaJad 15y ago|0 comments
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Congrats. Times of India is world's largest circulating English newspaper [1], however "The Hindu" carries the banner of "India's national newspaper". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_circulation#World_new...
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RTA: DB-like API for Daemons(linuxappliancedesign.com)
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by FraaJad 16y ago
thanks for the citation. I had a feeling that 1700 was too low a number.
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Sorry for being a little harsh there. At the height of British occupation , there were not more than 1700(!) British people at the same time on the Indian subcontinent. Which itself is a fantastic testament to the British Raj's bureaucratic
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Definitely not. They were not here long enough and did not interact with enough people to have that influence. Most of the sarcastic comments, the tone and the nature of sarcasm does not even parse for a westerner. In fact you will see a lo
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by FraaJad 16y ago
how else will they make use of all those fancy and accurate watches then?
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I'm from Bangalore. I know about Austria (and it's infamous son), Israel and it's formative years and it's current influence on my country and middle east. Also, as a South Indian, I know that Jews have lived in my part of the country for n
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by FraaJad 16y ago
I really get what you are saying. Most of the recent immigrants to US from India are "economic" immigrants who have no bones with their motherland. They just came to a place with more headroom. So, a lot of Indians are not eager to get rid
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Nothing that I can disagree with. And that's one reason why I have become a little bit of an American myself by not giving a hoot about what Americans think about India.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
I agree with you. My own "disappointment" is not with 'regular joe' Americans, but with educated Americans. Being from a large city in India, I know from personal experience that majority of the people with college education, especially tec
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It's even bigger for Indians :) "maha" means great/big. Big-O-great or Big-O-Big. take your pick.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Gitit -- http://gitit.net does most of this except the WYSIWYG part and simple layout. And you can host gitit on your own servers. Gitit is based on pandoc, which allows you to covert to and from rst, markdown, latex, .. and a dozen more
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Elastic-R: Collaborative Environment for Data Analysis in the Cloud(kdnuggets.com)
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Come on young rubyist. embrace the dark side. You will like it. /jk I went through the fist couple of chapters and all the python code I've seen so far is quite close to "pseudo-code" than deeply-idiomatic Python. Considering the fact that
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The article is behind a registration wall. :(
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Written by a desi (ABCD even) who has seen her motherland only through the lenses of western/english media. No Indian, especially those outside the English media, thinks that India is better than the US in material quality of life.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
s/where/were/
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The Curious World of Android Enthusiasts(roughlydrafted.com)
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Antirez from pre-redis days(wiki.tcl.tk)
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The B-1 Visa is a Business and Pleasure visa. http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html
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If you prefer Python, look at http://blogofile.com
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Business as usual (on Qt)(blog.forwardbias.in)
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PayPal Restricts Payments To India, Bars Purchases; Why They’re Right(medianama.com)
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This is not accurate. India has agreements with various countries around the world to avoid Double Taxation. I don't pay taxes for the monies I send to India to my parents because I've already paid taxes on my income in the USA.
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Clever Algorithms -- 45 algorithms from the the field of AI (free book)(cleveralgorithms.com)
4 points by FraaJad 16y ago|0 comments
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Roadsend is an implementation of PHP that produces native binaries.(roadsend.com)
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