aangjie

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by aangjie 13y ago
I had a quick look, and my first thought was man those screenshots look like they are from old video games. I get the difficulty of creating games that runs on a variety of platforms, and that it will take some time, but I doubt the average
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by aangjie 13y ago
My point still stands. You don't run into Euclidean division when you're running back home. You don't see vectors when you're waiting for the school bus to take you home. You never see Binary trees, when you're out
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by aangjie 13y ago
Really? Have you ever seen kids younger than High school, move about in response to that?
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by aangjie 13y ago
It's a false comparison. Algorithms, and data structures don't have a ready, real-life examples, that a new kid from middle school can already relate to. I suppose, you can point to facebook and google and try to explain the infra
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by aangjie 13y ago
Disclaimer: Am Indian, and have no detailed knowledge of US policies. From a summary of the replies to this one: I personally, would be willing to sign a forfeiture to the effect, if i am medically in a bad state and can't afford trea
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by aangjie 13y ago
See that's the 1% vampire behaviour. Relying on HN readers to comment on an article before deciding to read it. So those of us who read the article would be the 90%. Aha who's the 9% then, mods?
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by aangjie 13y ago
Haha ... i can imagine entire journals devoted to the field of Photography resolution historical changes and it's socio-cultural origins. :)
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by aangjie 13y ago
Indian Government is not known for strong IT security on it's servers. I have a strong suspicion, this data would be brought out very easily.
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by aangjie 13y ago
While i agree in part with the idea of spreading R&D cost via locked functionality, i am not sure it's a good idea to legalize it without any regulatory body. And forming these bodies is no trivial matter, So overall am against this ide
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by aangjie 13y ago
Another excellent resource is serverfault question http://serverfault.com/questions/183821/rm-on-a-directory-wi...
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by aangjie 13y ago
I agree low error rates are the most critical quality measure in aeronautical accidents. Am just not sure i would use that measure for text editors. If i have to operationalize my previous comment, i would say, i care about the amount of ti
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by aangjie 13y ago
Hmm.i couldn't find anything more that the wikipedia page( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India ) and this http://codeformumbai.org/ . But i think it's time for india to revise it's policies from purely caste based towards
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by aangjie 13y ago
Haha.. am still tempted to say that still doesn't ensure a random distribution as it's a lot more likely you picked a link from the first few pages for search results. :P. Either way, your point is valid.
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by aangjie 13y ago
Sometimes i think Sys. Admin profession needs a messiah like NNT(for finance) with perhaps the outspokenness/attitude of Zed Shah. That way, there would be a whole lot of increased awareness for the challenges involved in Systems administra
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by aangjie 13y ago
Am sorry, i just have to reply to this. Disclaimer: I use vim. Anti-disclaimer?: I spent two years studying cognitive science and one of my electives was HCI.(though i wasn't excited about it to be honest :P) By measurement of what? UI qual
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by aangjie 13y ago
That sounds cool.... I would love to see it though understand the security concerns..
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by aangjie 14y ago
Oops sorry guys, last minute personal work came up. can't make the commute from chennai. ah well some other time
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by aangjie 14y ago
I'll drop in. Though i'll be coming from chennai.
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by aangjie 14y ago
+1, i would be interested in a b'lore meetup too.
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by aangjie 14y ago
>because this is a accusation, and it really means a great deal to do so without proof. This is part of the attitude that gets on my nerves really. Public media is not a court of law. And that was by design that goes along with democra
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by aangjie 14y ago
> Just that there was never a reaction that caused her to question her way of responding to these things. If only human minds worked that way.. sigh .. Edit1: Oops just realized out of context "reaction" is pretty neutral, but along
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by aangjie 14y ago
I can't speak for the parent, but i really didn't retrospect at all, infact read the article and just came over here to read the comments. Am not sure what it shows (that my reading habits have become perfunctory or the writing doesn't lend
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by aangjie 14y ago
Councillor Harmann: Of course not. How could they? The idea is pure nonsense. But... it does make one wonder... just... what is control? ~ The matrix revolutions
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by aangjie 14y ago
Honestly it does, but am an incorrigible optimist :-P I see a 100x or more speed up in science and technological innovation progress. I see progress in colloboration,relationships etc. .
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by aangjie 14y ago
> but it is far far more important that all human beings >learn to interact with the natural environment and >understand the basics of food, water and shelter.” This part is my biggest take away from the post. that learn to inte
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by aangjie 14y ago
This one has a highly link-baity title, and i clicked on with suspicion, since techcrunch.com does have a reputation of exaggeration , but data was interesting, the points/hypothesis he makes sound weak, but i am not surprised. it's probab
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by aangjie 14y ago
> You don't start something because you want to. You start because you feel you have to. Seconded. Though i haven't done any new startups, except work at a small one. OTOH, as someone known to have been depressed, i would say he makes a
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by aangjie 14y ago
Seconded.. and it's one of things i miss about college.. and guess i was looking for when i went back to do a master's. I didn't get it though.. due to a bad choice of college.. but you live and learn.. :-)
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by aangjie 14y ago
Reminds of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience Though the context doesn't fit exactly. and is a weak point for the analogy, but still the idea is interesting.
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by aangjie 14y ago
> The basic four methods of proof is quite a low bar +1. Am just a programmer, but have always regretted my falling out with math during my college... Have never heard of proof by contrapositive, and looking up, i am still baffled as t

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