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by aangjie 15y ago
+1 on the static type checking problem.. i am beginning to feel very annoyed by the same... have found that writing and maintaining unit test cases help.. but are a PITA nevertheless...
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by aangjie 15y ago
+1 for the metaclasses example... list comprehension doesn't seem that big a deal, but then am biased way too much.. Also agree with consistency part.... but personally python is beginning to lose some of it's charm with the move towards co
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by aangjie 15y ago
Can't agree more... Getting all the govt. bodies to start using UID could well take 5 years....
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by aangjie 15y ago
Yep... as he mentions in another post ( http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/01/11/seeking-density-in-the-... ).. he has mastered the art of writing dense. Which makes his writing very re-readable...
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by aangjie 15y ago
Ok..from my anecdotal evidence as much i like red wine, i don't like what seems to do to my liver. (am not referring to study but the feeling of nausea/acidity it causes). I have found that grape juice is a good source of antioxidants..
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Social classes-- modern fuzzy boundaries(ribbonfarm.com)
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by aangjie 15y ago
And if hiring for first contact Emergency psych trauma.. count me in..:-P
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by aangjie 15y ago
I don't know why or how they called it fractals.. but am not surprised.... i would have believed them a couple of years ago right out.. Now,i know that am not sure either way.... The point is it's near impossible to be accurate when transla
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by aangjie 15y ago
I agree with that symlink spaghetti for a long time comment.. It seems harsh to fedora to say they feel a need for a revolution.. i really don't follow release cycles/linux versions... close enough.. but my upgrade experiences so far(Fedor
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by aangjie 15y ago
Actually it reminded me of http://xkcd.com/981/ But i do remember seeing /usr/share/bin and /usr/share/local/bin and thinking wtf... But then i play around too much with my OS to reliably blame it on the distro...
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by aangjie 15y ago
I have been programming only since the millennium(i.e 11 years) and already feel really...really...tired...... but that may just be my laziness....
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by aangjie 15y ago
I can vouch for a similar increase in consumer markets in Bangalore.. Been in chennai a few months and am suspecting the same here too....
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by aangjie 15y ago
Thanks for that quote license to consume... No problem.. am already cutting down my consumption and will just not consume.. bye..corporations with big IP portfolio.....
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by aangjie 15y ago
Oops.. simultaneous posts.... .downvoting sounds harsh..but hey life isn't fair.. shrug ...:)
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by aangjie 15y ago
Almost thought it was SOPA.. misspelled article..:-P Agree.. SOAP is way to verbose....and annoying to read manually while debugging...
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by aangjie 15y ago
That's akin to the philosophical "tree falling in a forest, without anyone hearing" it question.. Unfortunately, i haven't come across any approach to the answers i find interesting..:-(
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by aangjie 15y ago
Reminds me of my somethin' my ex-colleague came up with in a discussion over lunch.. Trust is a complex variable. it has some real part/value that both the parties involved can be secure about, and an(two??) imaginary part where both the pa
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by aangjie 15y ago
I just began work on a new project that was half modeled. I initially tried to understand the existing model and wasted quite a few weeks for understanding that incomplete model. My problem is had i spent that time understanding the system
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by aangjie 15y ago
+1 for pointing out the contradictory research.....
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by aangjie 15y ago
+1 for the dating before getting married metaphor
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by aangjie 15y ago
Everyone should be building something employed or entrepreneurs.... Even analysts, are building something a model for his boss to make decisions based on...
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by aangjie 15y ago
Am beginning to go with google nowadays...:-P
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by aangjie 15y ago
///Hacker News to distract myself from work... Can identify with that... try to use a time based site-blocker for the same, but of course have learnt to disable it..:-)
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by aangjie 15y ago
Hmm... interesting idea.. i haven't taken notes in a loooong time but will start now and see how it works out...
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by aangjie 15y ago
Kind of ironic how he mentions productivity posts 3-8 times, all the while giving advise to create more(aka productivity improvement)
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by aangjie 15y ago
+1 to documenting the hypothesis+ prediction and the results.. I would love to see that too.. yep.. am ok with not publishing the hypothesis first too..
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by aangjie 15y ago
Interesting.. I am looking to start with some hands-on haskell.. And DBMS is one topic am fluent with... Will try to contribute once i get it running on my ubuntu box.. Is the TODO the right place to start??
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by aangjie 15y ago
I agree that line of reasoning is not fallacy free. but if you think in terms of probabilities, it may be safe heuristic to make a stance on.. Update: I mean probability of a venture backing a sopa supporter(company/startup) being anti-sopa
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by aangjie 15y ago
Hmm.. Think it is a good idea indeed... But does remind me of Stanford's online courses effort. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-sc...
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by aangjie 15y ago
From the privacy standpoint am still uncomfortable at the idea of having my data on the cloud even if it's encrypted and would prefer to keep it local. Ofcourse, my rational side points out that i don't have any data that is worth my cloud

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