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   by adharmad 13y ago

   Indeed very nice....which is the colorscheme on the site BTW?
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   AAP (Aam aadmi party)'s performance is unprecedented for a 1-year old party taking on national parties that were 50-year old with far more money and resources. Its a stunning debut for the AAP!
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   Possible typo. Maybe the author meant $2000/year
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   There is no evidence that the cancer he got was related to his work on the Manhattan project.
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   One can only hope :) Sunil Tripathi had no clue that an unrelated incident would turn a hoard of rabid redditians on his scent.
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   Kamangar is from Iran
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   7. In general, don’t start a startup you’re not willing to work on for ten years. Best piece of advice he gave, and I think more important than "built something people want" (both are important). But did he take the advise himself with Lo
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   You are right. It is not a real choice. But aren't the political and economic conditions in China the responsibility of the Chinese Government and at some level the Chinese people? Maybe the "choice" that they made is not the hideous workin
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   by adharmad 13y ago

   She could have given as much meaning to her life as she wanted without racking up > 100K in debt. All this does is encourage people to not take responsibility of their own voluntary actions. (And no I am not referring to the children).
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    by adharmad 13y ago

    Here is Tumblr user's reaction to being acquired by yahoo: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/yahoo
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    by adharmad 13y ago

    I was hoping that Dropbox acquires Crocodoc and use them for online document editing. That would free me from using google docs for anything.
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    by adharmad 13y ago

    Psychology being an inexact science, it is difficult for someone else to repeat the same experiment and check the validity of the results (such as in the physical sciences). Even if someone does get different numbers, the validity of the re
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    by adharmad 13y ago

    Sorry to be "that guy" but why is this on HN? The last few days I see HN get more CNNish.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Cultural problems cannot be solved by throwing money at them.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Makes me wonder...who are IDs 1-3?
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Relatively more recent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu_Chi_tunnels
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    "When 3.0 is released, upgrades will be available for $30, or $15 for users who have purchased recently." Why different prices based on when the purchase date?
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Its almost become fashionable to have an out-of-context quote by Einstein or some such famous scientist to support a religious position or intelligent design.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Punishments in the US are not proportional to the crime committed, nor are they deterrent. They are simply a factor of who lobbied the government at that time to pass those laws. In some sense, they are random. Sometimes, punishments for vi
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    _why the lucky stiff
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Hi Thomas, I never claimed that the two cases are the same. Just that Aaron's case reminded me of it. You are right, Randal never had a motive remotely close to Aaron for any greater good of any sort. [In fact I will go on and argue that th
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Concur. This case reminds me of another public case: Randal Schwartz's case. Randal's case was fairly black and white since he did not deny running the password-cracking scripts. He also had a harder time since Intel decided to twist the kn
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    The GPL "free" refers to the freedom of end users, not developers.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    But why should a valid notice be charged? Isn't it similar to paying to report a theft[1]? [1] I know I have used the word theft loosely here.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    So where do customers and early adopters fit into this whole thing?
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Yes. I was subscribed to LKML around the time the Bitkeeper sage was in progress. One thing that I do remember was just how arrogant Larry McVoy was about whether a replacement SCM could be developed and have feature parity with Bitkeeper.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Can't upvote you high enough! Same can be said about any subject, mastering of which requires applying it to problems with objective answers. (Physics, Geometry...)
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    That is true, but Facebook's reputation would suffer seriously if they were ever caught. What they (Facebook) are doing now seems to be some version of DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell).
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    Not to mention their recent move of asking employees to return unvested options.
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    by adharmad 14y ago

    The syntax seems very similar to Lisp's with-open-file macro.