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by avinash 2y ago
Possibly. The treaty has not been signed yet. Things will become clearer in the coming weeks.
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by avinash 2y ago
I'm a citizen of the Republic of Mauritius and, when this news was announced today, there was a general sense of relief. Mauritius has been fighting for its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago (with Diego Garcia being the largest i
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by avinash 2y ago
This is an awesome read. Really enjoyed the level of detail and the various tries before things work.
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by avinash 3y ago
Cool. I would suggest to make it multilingual as the T, M and J labels are not easy to understand by those who don't speak German.
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by avinash 4y ago
Thanks. This is an excellent read. His journey from Latvia to the United States via Germany is very interesting. His seminal paper on the Complexity of Algorithms is truly fascinating.
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by avinash 5y ago
Aha. I wrote this post 15 years ago after explaining to my wife (who is a Language major) how this "regular expression" works. It has been discussed a few times on Hacker News, Reddit, etc. over the past 15 years...
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by avinash 5y ago
Same for me. What a coincidence!
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by avinash 5y ago
Read the book, which I obtained from the British Council library, when I was around 15. I have to say that the book made quite an impression on me at the time.
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by avinash 6y ago
For Chrome users, this open source extension will tell you what protocol the browser is using for each website being accessed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-indicator/hgc...
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by avinash 6y ago
https://www.avinashmeetoo.com/ I'm a computer scientist in Mauritius, an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, I've been working as an adviser in Government. Before that, I ran my tra
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by avinash 7y ago
I am quite impressed by the image quality and the sharpness for something that was used in the 60s. Of course, digital screens are better now but whoever invented the Eidophor at that time did extremely well.
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by avinash 9y ago
I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath. Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before the conclusion.
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by avinash 12y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is a post I wrote way back in 2007 and, even though, as many have pointed out, the algorithm is very inefficient, it is still a good illustration of how powerful regular expressions are. When I am explaining the bas
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by avinash 13y ago
RIP Atul Chitnis. Met him during a conference in Mauritius around 2002 and we had a great conversation about open source software in poor(er) countries.
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by avinash 18y ago
I think this is an excellent article and it's clear that the guy who wrote that did a lot of research.
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by avinash 18y ago
How does reading on a 3" screen compare to reading to 6"? Personally, I had a Sony Clié a few years ago with a small screen (2.5" I guess) and I didn't have lots of problems reading technical docs from it. But then, they were mostly ASCII t