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Show HN: How HN's upvote link works
11 points by asto 14y ago|6 comments
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How much can I expect to pay a programmer for this?(reddit.com)
1 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
I don't know why this has been downvoted but it's true in many parts of India. Don't know about other Asian countries.
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by asto 14y ago
You are right about the shift in Turkey's trade to the middle east. Turkey still exports something like 25% - 40% of its total exports to EU countries (not sure about exact % right now). If the EU imposed trade sanctions on Turkey, it would
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by asto 14y ago
In turkey, you will be thrown in jail simply for dissent - http://www.npr.org/2012/01/26/145844105/for-turkish-journali... In Morocco, a court ordered a teenager to marry her rapist. She killed herself. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/20
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by asto 14y ago
I voted this up before reading it assuming the title was correct. How stupid of me.
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by asto 14y ago
Eric Shmidt's opinion on this topic has no value. People like him are treated way better than ordinary people in Muslim countries. People like me can be arrested/executed for the silliest of reasons [1][2][3] I wouldn't ever go to a Musli
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by asto 14y ago
Pakis have been brainwashed since birth by "education" to hate Indians and Hindus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_textbooks_controversy Interestingly, here in India too we have had controversies with textbooks. Our current ruling
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by asto 14y ago
Posted the wrong link. My mistake! The original has been posted and discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4132931
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Nvidia responds to Linus(engadget.com)
1 points by asto 14y ago|1 comments
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by asto 14y ago
You would in India where I'm at!
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by asto 14y ago
That's no excuse, there needs to be a stiff penalty for such mistakes. If I ended up automatically DDoSing a site when all I meant to do was scrape, I'd still get arrested right?
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by asto 14y ago
Indian copyright law is the same. Copyrightable works are copyrighted by default.
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India's new IT Rules will allow *anybody* to take down *any* online content(prsindia.org)
5 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
I find it funny how he skips an introduction to Go saying there are many such introductions already available but explains networks and the internet in great detail!
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When bad tech ideas don't fail(computerworld.com)
1 points by asto 14y ago|0 comments
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by asto 14y ago
Calligra Sheets allows scripting with python, ruby and js! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligra_Sheets
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by asto 14y ago
I'm quite relieved to hear it. Constantly referencing is what I do to get around my inability to remember things too!
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by asto 14y ago
Working on it!
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by asto 14y ago
True. To clarify, I was just simplifying by calling my memory poor. I just have an attention deficit. So technically, I'm never committing to memory in the first place!
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by asto 14y ago
Is memory really that important? I'm just starting out with programming right now and I have rather poor memory.
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by asto 14y ago
What stops me from asking a friend to help me? Or worse still, if this is used as a campus recruitment tool, someone might mail working code to the entire college!
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Ask HN: Has anyone put thought into the degradation of online communities?
35 points by asto 14y ago|38 comments
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by asto 14y ago
Turkey and its people look really nice on TV shows/documentaries! It sucks that your government is the way it is; anybody who values their freedom and exercises their right to free speech against anybody/anything would be too scared to visi
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by asto 14y ago
Is there such a thing as a Muslim dominated country that's secular?
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by asto 14y ago
Haven't tried it. I'm using postgres on a project right now and was looking at this as an option if I need to replicate my DB based purely on a description of its features (that was dumb, I know). I guess I'll have to rethink that now. Than
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by asto 14y ago
Bucardo - multimaster postgres replication under BSD license http://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo
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by asto 14y ago
1. Many founders in India found a "startup" just because they have money to capitalise it and nothing better to do. They have 0 tech skills and 0 management ability. The few startups that are doing well here are those founded by technical g
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by asto 14y ago
Employees are contractually obliged to pay the employer a certain sum of money if they quit before the contractually agreed period. Usually ranges from 1-3 years and the sum from 2,00,000 - 5,00,000 ($2000 - $9000) Although, one of my profe
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by asto 14y ago
I had a bit of wrist pain too earlier. I stopped resting my entire hand on my wrist and it stopped hurting in a few days. I raise my hand up over the keyboard like a magician saying abracadabra or a DJ with a turntable. It's a bit weird at

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