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by ajays 15y ago
I agree! (another purple-bleeder here)
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by ajays 15y ago
From what I can tell, the patent covers converting a piece of text into a hyperlink using regular expressions. There's a good chance that there might be prior art (especially, Perl books, because I remember doing HTML parsing using Perl reg
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by ajays 15y ago
"Obsession with Kashmir is burning rest of the India." LOL. Nice try. It is Pakistan who is obsessed with Kashmir. The founder of Pakistan, M A Jinnah, wanted to be buried in Kashmir. Every time there's talk of peace between India and Pakis
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by ajays 15y ago
"Why the difference?" That's an interesting question. My view is: cultures which are quick to forget the past find it easy to move on. Cultures which cling to their history, find it harder to forgive-and-forget. Expanding on that: you have
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by ajays 15y ago
"> "some animosity towards Muslims" Selective memory here." You can believe whatever you want to believe, and nothing I can say will probably change your mind, because that's the world view that was drilled into you since birth. But let
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by ajays 15y ago
I am sorry, but I have to disagree strongly with the assertion that Indian Muslims have suffered under "majority" rule. First of all: 3 of the first 11 presidents in India were Muslim. Muslims continue to do well in many spheres of life: al
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by ajays 15y ago
The Tata group is probably the only major group in India which prides itself in hardcore engineering. Think of them like the "Google" of India. Kudos to them for tackling India's problems.
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by ajays 15y ago
17 year software patents make absolutely no sense. The computer world changes fast (insert Moore's Law, etc.). 17 years ago, the Web was tiny. Most people didn't have cellphones. "Broadband" was a 19.2kbaud modem. If we're going to have sof
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by ajays 15y ago
Maybe they didn't care whether it went to the court or not? Maybe the aim was to scare the bejesus out of the victims, and they achieved that goal? Anyone else remember the Steve Jackson Games episode? http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
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by ajays 15y ago
I just got invited to G+ , and found a few friends in there. I noticed that all of their status updates were in the first day or two of their joining G+ ; after that, silence. So people are joining G+ due to the novelty factor; but they see
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by ajays 15y ago
The problem with a lot of dating sites is the spam factor: people with fake profiles, scammers, etc. Why can't dating sites use a SMS-based verification system to filter out the riff-raff?
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by ajays 15y ago
Can someone please photoshop the background image to spell something, ahem, more interesting? http://dragon.ak.fbcdn.net/cfs-ak-snc6/84980/796/hack.jpg
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by ajays 15y ago
This is funny, because I haven't received an invite yet (and I'm a longtime GMail user). A couple of my friends have G+, but never use it. They created profiles with great excitement, but in a couple of days it petered away. Until I can try
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by ajays 15y ago
Ever since OKC was bought by Match, I'm seeing a deterioration in the site; and I'm leery of giving any more information to Match. I detest Match, they're a slimy bunch.
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by ajays 15y ago
Discussion on the same article from a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746481
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by ajays 15y ago
It's funny. I just got a response from Diane Feinstein a couple of days ago too. Apparently, whoever wrote their replies decided to do a batch job? In any case, here's her response to me: http://pastebin.com/LzCB2KMs
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by ajays 15y ago
I would say that especially in fast-moving companies, like in the "Web" space (generalize as you see fit), MBAs have no role. But they do have a role in established companies (like Intel, IBM, etc.) where "processes" have to be followed and
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by ajays 15y ago
Sometimes I think technology just leaves people behind, with no hope of catching up. About 10 years ago, one weekend I drove up to an ATM in Upstate NY, and found an elderly couple standing there, looking confused. After a minute, I stopped
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by ajays 15y ago
These appear to be dead-tree books. It would be nice to have such a list with freely downloadable books. Any pointers?
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by ajays 15y ago
I must be doing something wrong, because I'm getting fairly shitty rendering. I'm on FF5, Ubuntu 10.04. Anyone else have problems viewing their demo paper? Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/hESRv
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by ajays 15y ago
Of course it is still relevant. The Internet can do many things, but it can't spontaneously create information; someone has to put it on the net for you to read. So maybe the Montesinos of the 21st century will revert to bribing (or coercin
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by ajays 15y ago
I remember that episode. Memory's fuzzy, but I think Merlyn wasn't employed by Intel at that time; I think even his consultant gig had just lapsed. I think someone at Intel just got a bee up his bonnet and decided to raise a stink; and thin
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by ajays 15y ago
Things were different then. I remember, a few years after the worm, Sun had just come out with shadow passwords; but our system hadn't implemented them yet. So I decided to run a dictionary attack the passwords stored in /etc/passwd. I want
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by ajays 15y ago
I was a young grad student when the worm came out. The funny part is: Keith Bostic & company (at UCB) released a "patch" for the worm to fix what was broken (so it wouldn't infect the same machine twice). One of my professors was writin
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by ajays 15y ago
The University of Buffalo publishes a list of books called "unrequired reading". The idea is to encourage an undergraduate student to read one book a month for the duration of the (assumed 4-year) course, totaling 48 books. I first came acr
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by ajays 15y ago
Wasn't IBM also responsible for bringing the Giant Magneto-resistive (GMR) technology to the spinning disk drives, thereby increasing their capacity many-fold? It looks like they'll do the same to flash with this PCM memory. Keeping my fing
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by ajays 15y ago
Amazon has it's search engine A9 based in Palo Alto, CA. Amazon refers to A9 as "our search engine" in its own documentation: http://www.amazon.com/gp/xs/sharethepi.html How can it then claim that it has no offices in California?
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by ajays 15y ago
(Sorry for replying again) A better analogy would be: you think porting the Linux kernel to a PDP-11 would be a smashing idea (for the PDP-11 enthusiasts out there). So you painstakingly obtain permission from Linus, etc. and get the kernel
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by ajays 15y ago
The problem with hypotheticals is that there's no end to them. For every hypothetical you can come up with to show your point, I can come up with another to show mine. Please, just use some common sense: BAIO WAS NOT PUBLISHING THE PHOTOGRA
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by ajays 15y ago
I am really disappointed in the reaction of Maisel, and other photographers who're supporting the result of the lawsuit. Even if Baio copied the image pixel-by-pixel, what harm was done? Did anybody buy the Bloop because of the album artw

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