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by arocks 14y ago
I am not sure if those numbers hold good anymore. The starting salaries have gone up to 10-25K, thanks to growing cost of living in India. That hardly gives you a few months to survive. Even if you were willing to sacrifice a decent paychec
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by arocks 14y ago
You are right, I assumed it was installed by default because it syncs wherever I log in. Sorry about the confusion.
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by arocks 14y ago
It is quite simple in Chrome. Just click on the RSS icon at the corner of the omnibox. Then there is a drop-down showing a list of RSS readers that you can subscribe with. Can't think of anything simpler.
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by arocks 14y ago
Apparently, a similar crowd-sourced spreadsheet was also gaining popularity on Twitter: http://t.co/omAAsMYhkB
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by arocks 14y ago
The iterative version's magic can be explained by Tail Recursion Elimination. Python creator Guido's post on why he left it out of Python might be an interesting read: http://neopythonic.blogspot.in/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimin...
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by arocks 14y ago
It is not just fans of Google Reader who are shocked, the fans of Google would be too. It goes against their "Don't be Evil" mantra which, as many would interpret, puts common good before sheer commercial interests. Google might be able to
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by arocks 14y ago
I am sorry, but Google+ sharing is not the same reading long-form content from a set of selected sources. Google Reader helps me choose to follow certain good bloggers who posts good content within their website. I don't expect all of them
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by arocks 14y ago
Agree. Probably the only valuable statistic here would be of user preferences. Again, it reflects the biases that reddit users might have. But it is likely that they are more techsavy than the average population and likely to be an opinion
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by arocks 14y ago
From the book: > This is a book about hacking in the traditional sense: about the process and methods of exploration. Probably HN is the most appropriate forum to post this. Thank you bunnie for making this excellent work available to a
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by arocks 14y ago
The article probably should have stated the obvious - it is cheaper! When it comes to buying a thin client for enterprise applications, there must be sufficient feature parity between an iPad and Galaxy Tab. As the article mentions, they di
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by arocks 14y ago
I think I should explain my point a little more. Chef and Puppet are a different category of tools compared to Fabric. It is comparable to the difference between a Makefile and a shell script. Chef/Puppet are like Makefiles, it would rebuil
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by arocks 14y ago
IIT is a brand in India and in most parts of the world. It opens several doors. In the past, IITians have been highly entrepreneurial and continue to do so. Some of the companies [1] started by IIT Alumini like Infosys, Flipkart, NIIT are q
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by arocks 14y ago
Some more tips to maintain your sanity once you are past the beginner level: * Use South before you start deploying * Use an automated deployment tool like Fabric or more powerful ones like Chef/Puppet * Get a better debugger and other nice
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by arocks 14y ago
Yes the SWF format has not been fully documented [1] by Adobe to make it easy to develop an implementation. But so was the case with Office documents, but several open source projects can now successfully read and write them. EDIT: It seems
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by arocks 14y ago
Will be happy to answer any specific questions :)
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by arocks 14y ago
They could have also included some technical parameters like framerate, memory consumption or battery usage for the sake of comparison. Even if all browsers gain universal support for HTML5, we must remember that Flash can exist outside bro
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by arocks 14y ago
In India, you will find an equal number of women and men in computer science engineering. There is no stigma associated with being a programmer either (It was never extremely uncool). In practice, I have found that there are women who are a
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by arocks 14y ago
A case of Worse is Better?
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by arocks 14y ago
It took me several rereads to understand that what the author was referring to in the first few lines is a demo[1] say the 4K intro, where a few bytes in assembly language can create some interesting graphics often accompanied by music; oft
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by arocks 14y ago
This is great news. Haxe is an excellent language that extremely cross-platform with a fast compiler. NME gives a Flash like runtime on most of these platforms. In fact, it took less than 48 hours to port NME for the BlackBerry PlayBook. De
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by arocks 14y ago
Even though this is an example, the mobile version with 100% width can be easily achieved in CSS itself by changing "width" to "max-width"
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by arocks 14y ago
For additional context: PEEK and POKE were commands used in the BASIC programming language for directly reading and writing to memory respectively.
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by arocks 14y ago
What makes you think I didn't? The author seems to agree with me. He even concludes that we should improve the implementation rather than the language for optimisation.
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by arocks 14y ago
It is almost time that people stop referring to Languages as Fast or Slow. It is an implementation that is fast or slow, not a language.
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by arocks 14y ago
Great article, but not quite sure about the final bit of advice. Even if you gradually build your software in layers you might be faced with exponential complexity. If you are releasing early, then you also have the "legacy data" issue alon
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by arocks 14y ago
> Unfortunately, Heroku’s guide on using Django and static files has no actual details on how you should configure Django to serve static files This is of course because Django should not be used for serving static files in production
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by arocks 14y ago
We have been using Trello for about two months and it is amazing how even the non-technical users could now finally "visualize" the project life cycle. Trello is disarmingly simple and like (early) Twitter, does one thing and it does it rea
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by arocks 14y ago
Actually the .Net world has benefited from Delphi. Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of Delphi, moved to Microsoft and became the chief architect of C#.
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by arocks 14y ago
> People are used to gently flicking computer mice and grazing keyboards and tablet screens; do they really have the stamina to reach into their computers and flail their arms around? That's not the key question. Traditional interfaces
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by arocks 14y ago
Honestly, I am happy that you took a more pragmatic view of this. Whenever I try to write in literate style it never seemed as good as a naturally written documentation; never as good as Django documentation, for instance. I used to think

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