arjungmenon

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Should US relinquish control of ICANN?(pcworld.com)
1 points by arjungmenon 17y ago|0 comments
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by arjungmenon 17y ago
He was 45. (according to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Motwani )
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China bans Twitter(features.csmonitor.com)
17 points by arjungmenon 17y ago|18 comments
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by arjungmenon 17y ago
Programmers don't suck at CSS Design, it's Stefano's stereotype of programmers that do.
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by arjungmenon 17y ago
Apparently, this guy seems to be a long time troll: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5032989/journalists-do-it-for-th... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html
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by arjungmenon 17y ago
We recently discussed ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=556399 ) a similar [2009] article by the same publisher ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1890387,00.... ). I find the publisher coincidence (?) interesting.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
The comment: If you are male, the best "drug" for social anxiety is weightlifting. (No, you don't need to be a huge-ass body-builder-douche, if you don't do 'roids you probably won't be one, you'll look normal and athletic.) I think probab
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
I think at least for the initial startup period it would be a good idea to rely on Paypal or some similar service. The hassle of getting a merchant account might in some cases eat up too much of the founder(s)' precious time. Some successfu
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Close to NYC: Long Island.
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Dying? I don't want to do that again.(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|0 comments
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
I actually happened to use a website Cooltext ( http://cooltext.com/Buttons ) recently, and it also created buttons for you. Comparatively, your website's interface is definitely much better (more dynamic - buttons reflect changes immediate
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Ask YC: Good domain registrar & web hosting provider
6 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|10 comments
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
All of this begs the question: What is the meaning of life? If you think of it, everything people do is quite remarkably purposeless. Why does life exist? Why do you exist???????
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Because M&M is a tasty chocolate that is especially popular with children, the creators of X# want to send the message that their language is delicious toy suited for tots.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.?
2 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|7 comments
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
I'm in.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
How did these guys (pastie.org) get hold of he Zune source code? I don't think Microsoft gives away any of their source to the public (except for some programs covered by MS's shared source license).
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Do both. Learn new languages and new habits.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
I wish it had been so when I wrote the SAT.
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Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patent(news.zdnet.com)
2 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|0 comments
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
That's a very nice song.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Now on Slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F20%2...
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Quote from the article: By controlling the software that can be loaded and the hardware that can be attached, Apple's device will be simpler, easier to use and more reliable than a PC This smells like the dreaded "Trusted Computing" with
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
A very similar situation exists in India. There are literally thousands of cram schools all over the country that prepare students to get into engineering colleges, med. schools, e.t.c.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
Short Answer is: Depends on what language you want to compile.
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
There's also BitC: http://www.bitc-lang.org/ Quote from their website: BitC is a new systems programming language. It seeks to combine the flexibility, safety, and richness of Standard ML or Haskell with the low-level expressiveness of C
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BitC, a Lisp-based systems programming language with the low-level expressiveness of C(bitc-lang.org)
1 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|0 comments
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by arjungmenon 18y ago
I use Windows Server 2008. It's an excellent operating system. It's very fast, very stable (has never crashed), e.t.c. And above all I can run 90% of all the apps in the world (I'm guessing over 90% apps are for windows). If you want to use
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Thousands of New Species Discovered on Tiny Island(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|0 comments
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Fermat's Last Theorem [video](video.google.com)
2 points by arjungmenon 18y ago|1 comments

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