ananthrk

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by ananthrk 16y ago
True. I had my cellphone picked from my jeans when trying to board a bus. My attention was on ensuring whether i was boarding the right bus and i was relieved off my cellphone in a matter of couple of seconds.
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Trusting data, not intuition(technologyreview.in)
3 points by ananthrk 16y ago|1 comments
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Can you name some spectacular failures after MS partnership?
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by ananthrk 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm Most recently, one of the creators of Arc (along with pg), the language used to create/run HN.
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Pjd - Java bytecode disassembler in Python(tkte.ch)
1 points by ananthrk 16y ago|0 comments
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20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups(readwriteweb.com)
12 points by ananthrk 16y ago|0 comments
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6 Books to Inspire Creativity in Programmers(repeatgeek.com)
2 points by ananthrk 16y ago|0 comments
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Blog post announcing the same: http://skookum.com/blog/simple-game-physics-barcampclt/
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Physics for Lazy Game Developers(labs.skookum.com)
5 points by ananthrk 16y ago|2 comments
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A Plea to Amazon: Fix Mechanical Turk(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
64 points by ananthrk 16y ago|21 comments
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Check out http://postabon.posterous.com/a-simple-lisp-webapp-for-begin...
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by ananthrk 16y ago
(Slightly related to the poll topic) I used to follow a technical blog and had also exchanged couple of emails with its author. Though the author of the blog does not use his real identity on HN, I was able to easily recognize the author ba
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Good comment. In the same vein, not everyone handles being bullied the same way. A related article ( http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/07/very_off_topic_why_... ) where the author remains angry even after a long time has passed and ho
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by ananthrk 16y ago
"I donated the entirety of my early sales to charity and chalked up the experience to the importance of rigorous QA, no matter how trivial a change seems." WOW. Respect.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
There was a similar thread in HN long ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670453 ) and an awesome comment from 'plinkplonk' on this subject ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670795 ).
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The dirty little secret about Google Android(zdnet.com)
1 points by ananthrk 16y ago|0 comments
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No, seriously, why Scala?(drmaciver.com)
9 points by ananthrk 16y ago|2 comments
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Python for Fun(openbookproject.net)
71 points by ananthrk 16y ago|1 comments
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Can you please elaborate why you want to focus on the professional under-graduate courses? I share the same anguish and thinking on it led me to believe that the process should start much early (High School and Higher-Secondary). This provi
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Not to discourage you, but have a look at this comment from mahmud http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=538241 Infact, that whole thread is awesome.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
His come-back blogpost ends thus: I used to have lot of open, long-standing concerns about the future of programming and productivity, but my sabbatical last year finally brought me some clojure. Take what you will from that :)
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by ananthrk 16y ago
WOW! 800 days old account? ( feels stupid for the suggestion ) That said, would be glad to see more of you around.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Steve, in case you are reading this, do consider getting on HN as well. We don't mind long (and opinionated) rants.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Thats a very good perspective (& attitude) to have. Go for it. My best wishes!!
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Thanks for the link. My current structured procrastination is reading HN and lot of technical articles. I think I should stop doing that and start coding more.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Becoming a better programmer. Roadblocks: Lack of self-discipline and commitment (day job providing good money)
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Three good books that can get you started: 1) Natural Language Understanding - James Allen 2) Speech and Natural Language Processing - Jurafsky & Martin 3) Statistical Foundations of Natural Language Processing - Manning You can brush u
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Interesting analysis. It would be interesting to track this after we give some time for web-based Office 2010 to catch up.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Thanks. The article was very good. You should submit that as a separate entry.
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by ananthrk 16y ago
Please avoid mixing your response with an attack on the author

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