anuragramdasan

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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Yes. While the mathematics is simple, the relative salary and inflation tell an entire different story. Also over the past year, the value of dollar has increased to Rs 67(or the value of Rupee has fallen, whatever). The point is, it burns
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
As of now, I order books mostly over Amazon. They ship the 'real' edition. Its expensive but that's better than the other alternative. Also, I never claimed all the Indian books are flawed. You wouldn't know until you bu
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Its actually a fun read once you start approaching it sequentially. I haven't read all of it yet, but whatever I have read, its been interesting and not that difficult.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
In response to the Edit/Addendum, the reason it was mentioned was to emphasize on how rare was the chance of me finding an error in the book. My reasons for buying weren't to win a Knuth reward check. I wasn't even sure of be
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Or probably they are reducing the physical page size so everything gets pushed forward. I haven't yet seen the original book so I can only speculate.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Yes. And since most books usually bought are Indian editions, we rarely realize how great the original editions can be.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
I am not sure if judging the value of currency for people is as easy as converting from Dollars to Rupee. I doubt if it is that simple.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Libraries usually keep Indian editions of the book. I haven't checked for TAOCP but that was atleast the case with Kernighan and Ritchie.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Yes you do make a great deal of sense. I guess my initial worry was that if the book would make any sense to me at all. It comes with a reputation of its own. I didn't seem like a good idea to spend 5000 bucks on a book that I might en
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
I understand that it is a David and Goliath situation when we talk about governments corruption and ordinary people like us. Once in a while some country pops out an Assange or a Snowden, but that is not something one can sit back and wait
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Kind of beats the point of having regional editions so that users can get books at a reasonable price, doesn't it?
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
I understand your sentiments here and do not wish to argue much with it. I share similar concerns too. There have been many(and I mean MANY) accounts of rape in India in the recent year, but that still doesn't mean every time you stand
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Haha. No its okay. UI sucks, you didn't like it. That is fine. No need to apologize. I am a CSS handicap. :/ Yes indeed it is disheartening. It is a magnificent book(from what I've read till now) and its a shame to see Dr. Kn
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Sorry about putting you through that. Will fix it. Ctrl+ for now please? :)
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Yes. CLRS I had ordered almost the same time as TAOCP and although I was skeptical at the beginning, I was surprised that it was a good edition. The biggest problem is though, once we've bought the Indian edition, we wont buy the origi
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Probably. But still printed books are going to be the most widely used approach and giving such a treatment to education related books are never good for students.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Actually almost all the Indian editions of the book are much more cheaper than its US based price in Dollars. And when you look at the paper quality, it feels like the price is justified. Also not to look over the fact that both are publish
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Eeek, sorry. Fixing it at the moment. :)
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How The Art of Computer Programming was ruined for me(anuragramdasan.com)
194 points by anuragramdasan 13y ago|113 comments
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Emacs (Uncyclopedia)(uncyclopedia.wikia.com)
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“How can they be so good?”: The strange story of Skype(arstechnica.com)
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
This is amazing. Actually anything that allows people to ask help without being treated badly by other users or mods is something i find amazing. It would have been much better if there were any way to ask for help without twitter. A simple
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Actually I wouldn't totally agree to that. Some things will have to change. Now that Nokia is not a separate entity but a part of microsoft, it will have to fit within the microsoft way of doing things. This could probably mean more re
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Its as if Ballmer wants to screw things up as much as he can before he leaves. While the behaviour, as you mentioned, is borderline criminal, this only means Microsoft wasting ridiculous amounts of money and time into a mobile platform that
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What every programmer should know about memory(lwn.net)
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Yes that is one annoying feature of quora. But sometimes that site does produce some interesting stuff to read.
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Quora: how to approach dynamic programming.(quora.com)
2 points by anuragramdasan 13y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Has your book ever been messed with?
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
Well usually its either Algorithms course or Analysis of algorithms course. The latter, I presume is the one that you had to take, thus giving more importance to the computations over the implementation, I suppose.
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by anuragramdasan 13y ago
MIX again is cool. The more lower level the language is, the better you understand the algorithm. Scheme maybe not so much. DS&Algo is one of the important things that need to be taught in low level languages.

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