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by ajitk 14y ago
The attribution text (partially visible) suggests the source to be CarAdvice.com. Interestingly, the image on attributed caradvice.com article has same image as the one in the linked article. CarAdvice in turn seems to have taken image from
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by ajitk 14y ago
VPN and SSH[1] have been means of evasion. But there have been anecdotal evidence of "unstable" VPN[2] and SSH connections before. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall_of_China [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may
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VPN access being disabled in China(rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com)
75 points by ajitk 14y ago|59 comments
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Libabc README(git.kernel.org)
1 points by ajitk 14y ago|0 comments
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by ajitk 14y ago
I like it. Saw a similar approach in Firebug's domplate. dom-o looks cleaner. I really like the pitch to "Reduce the number of moving parts" at the cost of small learning curve.
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by ajitk 14y ago
I too have found quite a few usable offers from lowendbox.com (LEB) and lowendtalk.com (LET). Searching the websites bring up quite a few attractive deals. However it may be tricky to pick a good host. It is usually a good idea to look for
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by ajitk 14y ago
That is true. Amazon has been in cloud hosting space for a long time to cover almost all areas required to run a server. I am rooting for competitors though who could offer more services. That should bring interesting services and drive dow
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by ajitk 14y ago
Recently stumbled upon very competitively priced DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/price-comparison-chart They have APIs to manage on-demand instances as well.
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by ajitk 14y ago
I wonder why they choose not to use native input element for a checkbox. Was it for a consistent visual theme? Using custom widgets instead of native often leads to usability issues. In this case, when the a checkbox gains focus, a SPACE BA
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by ajitk 14y ago
There was a period in 1920s during which alcohol was banned in US. It was based on morality of the time. This shows that authorities can decide to ban something based on morality of the time irrespective of how deep the association of the s
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by ajitk 14y ago
Recently read http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a... where Yanis Varoufakis, an economist, is studying in-game economies. And now this where South Korea bans trading virtual goods since "The main purpose of the ga
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by ajitk 14y ago
From the draft: > ...network A, B and ... are AIP networks; Domain node "www.yahoo.com" in network B is expressed as "www.yahoo.com.B" for its external domain name. It mean that www.yahoo.com can co-exist in AIPs A and B. The "external
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by ajitk 14y ago
On the contrary, wouldn't OP's solution be an example of more generalized implementation of multiplication? I can see that it is similar to (X * 2) where X defines behavior of __mul__. Yes, there is chance that arbitrary objects can provide
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by ajitk 14y ago
Now that you you mention labels, I see the similarity to C. I might have been influenced by OP's reference to use indentation to make code more readable instead of using braces.
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by ajitk 14y ago
My mind parsed the first code block as a mix of Python and C. IMO, the later would be more readable since it involves parsing only one rule that the eye is already used.
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by ajitk 14y ago
What I like more about Backbone is loose that it provides loosely coupled small components. Small components that work well independently . This is a great feature. It makes it easier to adapt them according to an application's model/archi
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by ajitk 14y ago
Concur that a switch to either Chrome or Firefox is a win. Both have been competing with each other after Chrome raised the bar. In either case winner is the user. Personally, I have been using Chrome and Firefox both. Firefox being the pri
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by ajitk 14y ago
It is interesting to note why Thorium is not being used as widely as it should have been. Most of the nations chose to invest in development of Uranium since it can help them build nuclear weapons whereas Thorium does not. On the other hand
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by ajitk 14y ago
Till now I had never seen Ellipsis. It seems very similar to slice notation [:]. Found an StackOverflow comment [1] that has more details about usage of Ellipsis in slicing higher dimensional array numpy. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/quest
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by ajitk 14y ago
In addition to mentioned suggestion I will add some here. Make difference layers difficult to understand and use (which will affect real user too!): 1. Script delivery. Use dynamically loaded modules. 2. Content delivery. Use websockets to
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by ajitk 15y ago
Clicked on the subtitle "purveyor of impossible dreams" shown below his name "BRET VICTOR" till I had a `screenquake`. Cool!
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by ajitk 15y ago
Or a deliberate link bait to get eyeballs.
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by ajitk 15y ago
I did not say Google is not a big corporation. The emphasis is on patent system being used for by big corporations (against big or small entities) for a purpose that is not "good".
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by ajitk 15y ago
In a way, I am happy that Google was outbid in its bid for Nortel patents. This highlights how broken this system really is. It is being abused by big corporations to maintain their hegemony. It is allegedly a protection racket: http://pai
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by ajitk 15y ago
Email is the open social network that has managed to work for decades. Will I ever be able to install and host these alternative social network apps on my server. Can I modify and re-distribute them? There are a few but they are too differe
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by ajitk 15y ago
Quoting from the article: Thurner and co found that positive behaviour intensifies after an individual receives a positive action. "The probability of acting out negative actions is about 10 times higher if a person received a negative acti
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Virtual World Study Reveals The Origin of Good and Evil Behaviour(technologyreview.com)
3 points by ajitk 15y ago|2 comments
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by ajitk 15y ago
These "tests" are hardly a measure of competence. A good quantitative score to measure competence should be measured over a longer period of time. There are good programmers in India. But the signal to noise ratio is very high. IMO, this is
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by ajitk 16y ago
Is "Pandorama" in title an intended invention? Pandora+Panorama == Pandorama I like it.;) However, the official name is Panorama.
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by ajitk 16y ago
This is done using Steganography. The bytes in a binary file are change to store the hidden message. Though not very secure, it serves as a very simple tool to fool human eyes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

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