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by ankitml 12y ago
Not sure what you mean, Forests are net emitters when they burn, or they are cut, or their top soil which stores carbon is removed. Forests by just being forests do not emit carbon just like that.
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by ankitml 12y ago
An app promising keeping your notes and note data private doesnt necessarily need to avoid analytics. Analytics and aggregate user data cant be avoided if a developer wants to improve user experience. Keeping users and their experience at t
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by ankitml 12y ago
Almost all websites have analytics these days. Agreed, it should be disclosed but making it opt-in would render analytics useless as less than 1% people would agree to it. Most analytics is not even a privacy issue as clickthroughs and boun
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by ankitml 12y ago
Perhaps, you need to distinguish between aggregate analytics and keylogging.
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by ankitml 12y ago
yep source code of all chrome apps is available to everyone yet I wont call it open source. Open source is a step more from source code being available. I second the decision for choosing a restrictive license and putting the code over gith
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by ankitml 12y ago
What strikes me most is that the highly vocal, polarizing negative reviewers are mostly filled with false information.
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by ankitml 12y ago
I find them far superior to google maps (for cities in India)
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by ankitml 12y ago
seriously? They are in hospitality business and such level of rudeness, lack of empathy for their customers and such superiority feeling about themselves should ideally take them out of business.
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by ankitml 12y ago
Somehow he misses few crucial points : 1. Medicine is not getting better. We are losing the war with bacteria. Rate at which antibiotics are rendered useless because of resistance is greater than the rate at which they are being discovered
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by ankitml 12y ago
It is possible that the server admin fucked your particular installation. Moodle is well tested and such a major functionality being broken is not possible. Moodle does eat up substantial amount of resources (CPU/RAM) but usually the s
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by ankitml 12y ago
Students, teachers and administrators everyone hates it. Though I would say this is partly because teachers and administrators arent trained properly. I agree it does have a UI which dates back a decade and consequently not a very good
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by ankitml 13y ago
I cant view anything meaningfull on mobile device. Had to wait till I viewed it on desktop.
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by ankitml 13y ago
Devops is something not included by majority of web dev classes. Yet it is not ignorable in this profession. Do include something on that.
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by ankitml 13y ago
That might be a fair point but a bad argument. Market salaries are notional values which stabilize at an equilibrium where companies who pay and engineers both expectations are managed. This comes from demand and supply. High cost of law sc
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by ankitml 13y ago
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Sounds like MD5 on viagra.
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by ankitml 13y ago
whatever is a mystery is a placebo. That view wont help you mate.
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by ankitml 13y ago
Why are they supposed to adhere to gold standard of western democracy? America seriously needs a reality check. Why such supreme belief in american(western) way of liberty. Rest of the world doesnt kill innocents in drones, guantanamo, liby
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by ankitml 13y ago
Does the rate of temperature change matters? In all those billion years, the rate has never been so steep.
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by ankitml 13y ago
An enterprise guy cannot be a consumer guy is a big assumption. He did well with the previous task he was assigned to - enterprise. It is not so obvious that he will be bad for microsoft's consumer business. The two areas are not mathe
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by ankitml 13y ago
your estimation for employee cost is too much. 100k/quarter is more than double on what you will need to hire an employee/rent/coffee/massage/heathcare all package included.
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by ankitml 13y ago
Facebook already does this in india. I remember seeing an advertisement of a telco that said you wont be charged for data for facebook. Does this means that India already had this non neutral internet? It didn't change the scenario muc
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by ankitml 13y ago
they are trying hard to avoid that by surge pricing. Imagine the frequency of such unavailability in case of flat pricing. I am sure that would be an existential threat.
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by ankitml 13y ago
"India frees itself from polio" Manages , makes it sound like a fluke. They could have used a better verb for an amazing achievement. It was a very big grassroot level movement for decades.
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by ankitml 13y ago
Why are they even asking for it.It is in the public domain. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/Linkto_erollpdf.aspx Some of them might be in the local languages, I am sure google can parse those pdfs.
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by ankitml 13y ago
you are using two different "types of teachers" to judge his argument and construct your argument. A teacher without inclination and ability to better the students would perform bad even with your approach, which is "whatever
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by ankitml 13y ago
ISRO scientists were doing an AMA on r/india
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by ankitml 13y ago
* But what has really changed?* I would say being aware of the problem and its scale is a massive achievement. Awareness of the nature and scale of problem is the first step towards solution.
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by ankitml 13y ago
There can be various contexts of disagreement as well as criticism. ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html ) Our both arguments are on extremities of each.
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by ankitml 13y ago
criticizing : you fucking retard can never do this job correctly. disagreeing : there are other ways in which this job can be done and I strongly suggest you should explore those.
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by ankitml 13y ago
If someone is doing seemingly morally correct thing with a self serving intention, he still takes the credit.

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