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by ashu 18y ago
yah, sorry about the confusion. i meant the comment reply on TC and not your comment!
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by ashu 18y ago
The obsequious reply to that comment is actually even more annoying. Or, perhaps, I am not catching the sarcasm.
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by ashu 18y ago
The law actually requires that H-1B salaries be above a certain level. Many companies (mostly, shady "consultants") routinely violate the law causing the impression that H-1Bs are cheap.
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Ed Clarke Wins the Turing Award (model checking)(csdhead.cs.cmu.edu)
4 points by ashu 18y ago|0 comments
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by ashu 18y ago
As the "Road to Reality" explains, if you study Quantum mechanics, complex numbers become every bit as "real" as the integers or real numbers. You just can't explain some of the quantum mechanical phenomena or concepts without using complex
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by ashu 18y ago
Heh, this is why manually installing the leaked update before everyone bangs on Apple's servers is good :)
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by ashu 18y ago
The more important point is about advances in genetic engineering. That's been going on for maybe 30-40 years, at best. If the pace picks up a little, what the grandparent says (significantly larger life spans) may well be a reality.
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by ashu 18y ago
The fact that Google said this is much faster than XML does not mean that the IDL might be slower than other IDLs. In fact, the way it is implemented, I see no reason why it should be slow. If you want to find a drawback, it's the fact that
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by ashu 18y ago
Actually the cube is a usability trap. I had to disable it because it increased my workspace switching time a lot even when I had increased its rotation speed. It looks cool, but gets in the way unfortunately.
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by ashu 18y ago
A lot of the value of Twitter exists because it sparks asynchronous conversations.
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by ashu 18y ago
Or I could just assume that all objects fall upwards is an axiom and then try to reason my way around to explain gravity!
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by ashu 18y ago
In a hypothetical universe, if kids weren't exposed to ANY thoughts about religion AT ALL and were taught about what we know about how the universe works, would the concept of God arise? Perhaps, since there are still a lot of things which
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by ashu 18y ago
Keep weakening (or twisting) the definition until the answer to that question is "Yes"? Is there a rationale for doing this?
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by ashu 18y ago
If the Mac can get the apt-get system working really well (not like fink or ports, but really working in a hassle-free way), then I think it will be unbeatable. Right now, I still prefer Linux. It's just a lot better for development work.
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by ashu 18y ago
The downmodders should really explain why they are modding down a perfectly sensible comment here.
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by ashu 18y ago
According to guidelines for this site, you can get rid of the "preface" before the link.
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by ashu 18y ago
You use stuff when it's relevant and applicable and not by applying various "century" flags.
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by ashu 18y ago
libcairo (the new graphics layer for linux) has some amazingly well written and well maintained code.
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by ashu 18y ago
i suspect most of these people had made plans to leave long before. based on hearsay, of course.
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by ashu 18y ago
Apple just has a habit of making a big big deal of almost anything. A few of the things they are certainly justified in touting. But when they claim 10,000 times (within maybe 2 minutes) in the WWDC keynote that MobileMe has ground-breaking
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by ashu 18y ago
indeed. if they could get both url + title in a line (like gmail) that would fix it's horrible visual looks. there's also the fact that sometimes my computer is a bit too slow to lookup favicons for the links in the awesome bar causing thin
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by ashu 18y ago
And what option did we have that time anyway on Linux? Mozilla at least worked correctly most of the time!
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by ashu 18y ago
and what if they do? if you hate it so much, fork it and use / distribute your own version. nobody prevented you from doing it.
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by ashu 18y ago
shadows are useful. just make your block-shapes have a shadow by default (like omnigraffle) and it completely changes how smooth and professional even the simplest of diagrams look.
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by ashu 18y ago
Indeed, that would fix it for me very cleanly for me, at least.
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by ashu 18y ago
this is incredibly slick. i love how easy it feels. one major problem i faced -- once an object is selected, i thought dragging would move it, but of course it doesn't. That created a bunch of unneeded shapes for me.
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by ashu 18y ago
Make sure the logo is professional looking! I am only half kidding. But apart from that, why not just go ahead and try pitching it to them as it is? There's tons of value in here even without adding security. If you later figure out that se
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by ashu 18y ago
The statistics and analytics features serve (IMHO) as initial attraction hooks. For example, a lot of people I know went to GMail because of the 1GB space thing rather than all the revolutionary features inside. They discovered all the good
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by ashu 18y ago
This company will never mend its ways. I hope (and I know it may just be a hope what with its billions of cash reserves) it dies a really painful death for trying to be against progress almost all the time. Control freaks.
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by ashu 18y ago
Who's Ghandi? I am only aware of someone named Gandhi.

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