RajuVarghese

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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
There are 11 million millionaires in the US which is approx 3.3% of the population. Polls show that many more people expect to become millionaires real soon. In fact, 60% expect to become wealthy during their lifetimes. The optimism that on
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
Thanks for that pointer! Fascinating to see the multiplication method invented by the Babylonians being used on a microprocessor.
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
True, that does remove the necessity of the table. However, I was checking how the Babylonians did it and the article that I read seems to indicate that they used base-60 tables. On a different note, does anyone know if this method has been
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
I spent some time looking at the geometric 'proof' in the photo. Was still wondering why this method would have any advantage over our conventional way of multiplying numbers because squaring would need multiplication too. Then I
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
You are spot on. Swiss males having gone through military training at the age of 18, are used to guns. Though they keep their weapons in the basement or under their beds they do not treat it like a toy. When soldiers go for their training i
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
And the fact that they are expected to "speak with one voice".
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by RajuVarghese 6y ago
Hats off to you, genedangelo! I retired last year after about 40 years of work but I am still programming. I think that we as programmers are lucky to be in a profession where our personal interest and professional work can coincide. More i
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
I have the official AMD design handbooks still with me. It's been in the basement for over 30 years. I remember calling AMD and requesting the handbooks when doing my master's in CS as my major was microprogramming. The ALU (the 2
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
This article is interesting because the current debate about using Huawei's 5G technology or that of Nokia or Ericsson is a red herring. We should be looking at software systems like that of Rakuten. If we split the hardware dependent
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5G network infrastructure with virtualized software (Economist.com)(economist.com)
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
Ah yes. This article does resonate. I've been living in Europe for 40 years but I learned to drive in the US. I loved the wide open of the country and the fact that everything is setup with cars in mind. Classic rock radio: that's
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
He does mention the Fertile Crescent and the modern-day countries but seems to suggest that agriculture then moved to Mesopotamia. Not true.
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
Reading through the article there were a few things that irritated me: referring to the Indus valley civilization as India/Pakistan, the city of Kolkata didn't exist until the 17th century and Kochi on the Western coast of India g
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
It may have been a mistake but it did add an important innovation: Postscript in the display system. This would be an innovation even now, having an interpreter for an embedded language right in the windowing system.
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
It also requires a certain willingness to compromise. In Switzerland one sees is all the way from the local government (gemeinde) up to the top (the federal level). Compromise is not a dirty word here; when politicians do it they are not (u
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by RajuVarghese 7y ago
Looking through the discussion here I am thrilled that it is conducted in such a civilized & positive way. No one shouting others down as Nazis. I am inordinately pleased to see that people want to learn and are open-minded enough to re
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by RajuVarghese 8y ago
There are some really curious things there. Interesting!
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by RajuVarghese 8y ago
My experience entirely! As a science and engineering student I was drawn to the rules, laws and preciseness (precision?) of the STEM subjects. As I got into the 50's I began to take delight in European history and now I can't get
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by RajuVarghese 8y ago
Realistically, things don't change around you in a matter of days. They usually take years. Harari is saying that you may need to jump ship several times in your life, dumping your past skills. You will need to retool and go into hithe
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by RajuVarghese 8y ago
I remember Bangalore in the 70's: mild temperatures, light drizzle, uncrowded roads (I one could walk across MG Road with a kid on either side), laid back, and generally a comfortable place. What will the next 20 years bring?
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by RajuVarghese 8y ago
Microsoft used to threaten PC manufacturers that bundled any other OS other than Windows or no OS at all. They claimed that not bundling an OS was the express purpose of installing a pirated copy of Windows.
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by RajuVarghese 9y ago
I was in the Systems Lab at UTSA in 1979 when a professor came in with a tape and said that he got it from Bell Labs with a thing called Unix. We had studied about Multics and the word play wasn't quite obvious to me them. In any case,
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by RajuVarghese 9y ago
Modula-2, one of the early languages with coroutines, had a pretty simple implementation. With NEWCOROUTINE a new coroutine was created (including the heap memory that would function as a workspace for that coroutine), TRANSFER to transfer
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by RajuVarghese 9y ago
They will if it becomes a standard way of broadcasting. They will save quite a bit of network load.
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by RajuVarghese 9y ago
One thing that I do not see mentioned here is multicast. Are there any advantages? Watching a live sports game, for instance. Since multicast is connection-less and sent only over UDP, the more distant discussion about introducing multicast
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by RajuVarghese 10y ago
You may be interested to know that the word 'Coromandel' is a anglicized corruption of the 'Chola mandalam'. The Cholas had a sea empire that stretched all the way up to Vietnam. You probably know that there are Hindu te
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by RajuVarghese 10y ago
Malayalam, the language of Kerala, is similarly curvy. Same reason. I have several old palm leaf 'books' with Malayalam script.
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by RajuVarghese 11y ago
I am currently doing this course and love every minute of it. The course is more of a history course than architecture per se. You will get a grand ride through the centuries all the way from 3000 BCE to the present.