anupamkapoor

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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   radical changes will flow top down not bottom up. at least not in any organization of yahoo!'s size.
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   another thing to do would be to buy out symbian. with mobile phones threatning to mete out the same treatment to desktops, as was done by desktops to main-frames in the not too distant past, it might prove to be quite useful.
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   i like this one: "Everyone needs computer programming. It will be the way we speak to the servants."
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   i like the joke: Guy Lewis Stelle Jr. - NSF Fellow Gerald Jay Sussman - Jolly Good Fellow
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   what a nice article ! i have had similar experiences (total of 8 years in barbados + us of a), and when my kid came along it seemed unfair (on my part) to bereft him of his roots. after some soul searching, we came back...
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   bottom line : - tex / latex rocks - lp not so much
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   iirc, feynman mentions the name of a calculus book that he used for learning calculus at a tender age. does anyone know which one it is ? thanks !
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   this can be safely described as an instance of "pay less, pray more" syndrome, which seems to afflict a lot of folks from time to time.
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   by anupamkapoor 18y ago

   GEB
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    i have the body of a god ( http://www.huongsengrand.com/images/fat_buddha.jpg ) why would i want to change anything ?
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    mudge's os ... smudge ?
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    i think "ruminations on c++" by the same authors i.e. andrew koenig and barbara moo is also very good. if you can get your hands on "barton and nackman", its nice too. imho, the fundamental problem with the language is the principal of maxi
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    ... for lack of a better term 'humbleness' perhaps ?
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    he adds functionality by removing code :o)
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    actually, exodus from yahoo might be good for ms+yahoo (no severance etc.) and for google too (good talent) and ofcourse as you mention, nice startup environ.
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    edit: did you miss an option "auto post to reddit" ?
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    i don't see / understand how it would, so can you please elaborate a bit on your idea ? thanks !
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    by anupamkapoor 18y ago

    could'nt have said it better: Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs." —Nikodemus Siivola
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    shouldn't narus-networks be up there somewhere ? edit: also, packet classification is quite cool from research perspective. for example, check out the following : "packet classification on multiple fields, gupta, mckewon". also, network alg
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    in another news, adblock destroys online advertising business.
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    better title might be "unreasonable effectiveness of c"
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    apple is the new (or soon to be) windows. the king is dead. long live the king.
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    af08
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    i find this one : http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm... to be quite nice too.
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    i think placing comments on the video's itself is pretty annoying. perhaps you can do it on a scrolling sidebar or something ?
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    i for one _really_ like the lightning conductors built such that the radars on the plane don't get fried during a lightning strike.
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    > a better design would use a motion detector to activate the lights but the amount of space available for movement is too small. probably too small to detect with a motion detector ?
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    indeed. greg-egan's "permutation city" dwells on the nature of reality in such an environment.
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    maybe 'kill' is too strong a word. how about being rendered 'irrelevant' instead by some extreme-tech instead ?
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    by anupamkapoor 19y ago

    what would it make it _much_ cooler would be some way to tie in protocol-state-transitions with packet-structure to have machine generated protocol-parsers.