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by akv 15y ago
Is it possible for you to share the awk tarball you mention?
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by akv 16y ago
It is a bit long, but you can also use Python for parsing the json files from command line: echo '{"a": "hello", "b": "world"}' | python -c"import sys,json;j = json.loads(sys.stdin.read());print j['a']"
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by akv 16y ago
A way to export the list of articles in 'Saved Stories', either by way of an export function or an RSS feed (public/private) of the page. After many years of enjoying Hacker News I now have a long list of great articles that I have liked, u
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by akv 16y ago
If you are looking to work on a Python (or for that matter any language) project, why not start contributing to one of the many libraries that you use daily. That will give you an opportunity to understand it better, as well as fix any bugs
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by akv 16y ago
Your thoughts seem like an over-reaction to me. I think your problem is not race related, its that you are not able to explain your decisions properly to those involved. People complain when they think they are a victim of injustice. Showin
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by akv 16y ago
This is just opinion, not based on any facts or circumstances that the companies might have faced.
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by akv 16y ago
Path Intelligence in Portsmouth, UK: http://www.pathintelligence.com We think of ourselves as providers of analytics for the real world. By identifying the patterns of mobile phone movements we allow managers of shopping centres, airports
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by akv 16y ago
Its not a bad phone. I have an iPhone 4, and I am really impressed with it, actually I can't put it down. It has really great screen resolution, is much faster than other phones I have seen and combined with iOS4, multi-tasking, etc it make
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by akv 16y ago
Isn't that part of what the Semantic Web is supposed to be?
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by akv 16y ago
and step 1 is already done for you
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Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft is 'number five' in the mobile market(telegraph.co.uk)
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by akv 16y ago
Good points. But it is harder to make yourself not do something, rather than to do something. You could set a daily time or long goal for something that you want to do, but not doing something requires constant vigil. Thats why it can be pr
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by akv 16y ago
The author is Chris Bishop...
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After Facebook, Pakistan blocks YouTube for 'sacrilegious content'(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Pakistan blocks Facebook over Prophet Mohammad online competition row(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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LinkedIn is finally opening up their API(developer.linkedin.com)
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How Google Earth helped Mumbai attackers(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Edinburgh Hacker Meetup wednesday
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Zimbabwe to issue 100m dollar note(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Edinburgh Hacker Meetup (Nov) wednesday
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by akv 18y ago
The point here is not whether India is developed or not. Nobody in India realistically expects India to become a "developed nation" for another 30 years. The point here is progress... Going to the moon wasn't even thought of 10 years ago...
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India prepares for its first moon mission(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by akv 18y ago
Sorry, this is stereotypical and stupid generalization. How can you attribute the characteristics of a bunch of programmers you met in a small outsourcing company, to a whole country of 1.2 billion people? There are more entrepreneurial and
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by akv 18y ago
Appleton Tower, 8th Floor at Edinburgh Uni (entry from the back entrance).
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by akv 18y ago
I don't know of a Glasgow one. Would love to have people coming from there though. If you email me, I'll add you to the mailing list...
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Edinburgh Hacker Meetup wednesday
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27km long, £5B Large Hadron Collider powers up today(news.bbc.co.uk)
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First Edinburgh UK Hacker Meetup tomorrow
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by akv 18y ago
neither.. try using a language does dynamic memory allocation and garbage collection... it would save you a lot of headache...
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by akv 18y ago
I ran some experiments with this. The results are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232882

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