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by FraaJad 16y ago
Before you attack someone's name you should do your homework. 1. he has his name on the book. That is sufficient to claim copyright. There is no need for additional copyright notices. 2. The source to the book was not on github. The marti
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by FraaJad 16y ago
I put up a HTML version of his book when someone here requested it, but Zed asked me to take it down and I did [1] It is his book and he can do whatever he wants with it. You are being overly aggressive and acting as a victim here. You did
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Something on these lines is being done under the #PragProWriMo tag. Also see [1] [1] http://praglife.typepad.com/pragmatic_life/2009/10/prag-pro-...
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Shabda, don't bother to feed the troll next time. If you go back and look at this "known" person's history, he repeats same asinine sentences over and over again.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The COO is italian, not American. They all used to work in America, that's all.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
People tend to think of India as one single entity, which is a mistake. As a South Indian, there are not many things common between me and a Pakistani.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The IT majors have looked beyond US to de-risk their portfolio. IIRC, Infosys' dependence on US market is < 50% of their revenue. They are expanding aggressively in Europe etc.,
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The difference is, India is clawing it's way out of those conditions. We can only go up.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Actually, IT labour is not cheap in India. It is quite common for IT workers to expect 15% minimum yearly increase in salaries and not less than 30% hike in salaries when switching jobs. The Rupee-Dollar arbitrage is the biggest advantage I
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by FraaJad 16y ago
This sounds like a press piece by NASSCOM and Indian IT majors.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Fossil SCM: http://fossil-scm.org/ Fossil is a DVCS + Wiki + Bug tracking, though you can choose not to use the DVCS part.. * Light-weight? yes. it's just a single executable <1MB * Robust? maybe. Projects using Fossil: SQLite, Mongre
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by FraaJad 16y ago
I understood that from the article. But, in the light of recent discussion on Cython, i though it was interesting to note a "2.0" company like yelp using Cython.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
What is the point of `unless you have "X" you can't have Y?` Why shouldn't the poorest of the poor have access to telephones? The cell phone market in India is a free(er) market and people have access to cell phone service for less than $5/
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Nice to see one more production use of Cython.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
http://directory.myminister.info/ The addresses of the MPs of Karnataka state, many of whom reside in Bengaluru. Also, using javascript everywhere breaks linkability, as evidenced by my inability to link to the exact page in question :)
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Are there any widely used Python packages that can use the performance boost offered by Cython. I'm unable to come up with a project of my own which can use Cython, but I'm curious enough to try it on an open source project if it benefits d
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Can you please spell check city names. s/Bangaluru/Bengaluru/g.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
that looks quite nice. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Share your C wisdom (a.k.a C programming redux 2010)
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by FraaJad 16y ago
This was recently on reddit (maybe even HN): http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=Why+ar...
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by FraaJad 16y ago
How is it better than using a hosts file like this one? http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Well executed. There are a lot of books on the list I'd never heard of, but look interesting. Also, nice monetisation idea, jacquesm! Do you intend to use this site for profit (nothing wrong with that..) or have some ideas to promote "hacke
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by FraaJad 16y ago
I thought HN already did that. When my account was fresh, i could not find the down button for a long time. I believe there was karma threshold i had to cross before I could start down voting, habit I have since mitigated in favour of lett
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Learn it from the masters: http://www.johntreed.com/HTWP.html He maks his money by self publishing Real Estate newsletters, which are information dense and there is a niche market for that kind of stuff. He has a lot of sensible tips on s
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The Mahindra trucks just cleared EPA tests in the US.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
which Russian pick-ups are scheduled to be sold in US in the coming future?
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by FraaJad 16y ago
Keep an eye out for the Mahindra&Mahindra(India) Diesel truck which should land in the US by 2011Q1.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
The difference between him and you, if I can make the generalization, you spend like a north-Indian, he spends like a south Indian.
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they use a ceiling/pedestal fan to circulate the air. ACs are too expensive to own and operate.
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by FraaJad 16y ago
This is not the first time or programming language he has taken pot shots at. See http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2009/10/python-vs-clojur... . His whole blog post is about showing up the deficiency of Python (which is fine), and repe

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