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by blr_hack 16y ago
Okay. This is mostly my final comment here. Sort of replying to all the various comments here... Typically, I don't have a tough time. As I talk to people on the Internet, as if I would talk to them in real life. I don't take advantage of t
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Yes, I don't like the elitist negative voting policy of this forum. So I want to quit. The community by and large is good, so I will be a lurker still. But I shall not be down voted. PS: Would hate to bother PG with this. Have a lot of resp
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Ask HN: How do I delete my account here
11 points by blr_hack 16y ago|14 comments
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by blr_hack 16y ago
I agree. Actually, at my age (approaching middle age), that 'retirement' word, doesn't sound right ... it may mean either 'resigned', 'lazy', 'tired' and other negatives... and success can indeed make you 'lazy' and 'fat'... so may be I rea
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Thank you, for reverting the decision. Or it could be a two other high karma, good people, voting for me. Either way, I am happy.
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Also I think, its quite cowardly, to down-vote without giving a reason, when there is no obvious spam. Look at my profile, do I even give a link to my website? Come on show some guts. Give me the reason for down voting. I deserve a reply.
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by blr_hack 16y ago
May I know the reason, why my above comment was down voted? Its quite insulting to be done so, after having written the comment, with the best of intentions. PS: If I don't get a satisfactory answer. Will quit HN. It may not matter to you o
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Loved the story, as of course, so many of you did. At the risk of being sounding judgmental on other people, I will still say, that his now leading a retired(ish) life doesn't jell well with the story of a person, who can do such heroics (l
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Some of my good friends, have suffered, from the problem of stutter. To the best I know (we never discussed this), they overcame it, by simply stop getting embarrassed about it. Its hard to acquire that feeling in one go. It needs to be cul
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Some thoughts: 1) Am I the only one thinking, that some of the terms used to describe introverts: "guarded," "loner," "reserved," "taciturn," "self-contained," "private", have since long been stopped to be considered as negatives? 2) Think,
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Man, very rarely do I get water in my eyes!
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by blr_hack 16y ago
So far, I have been a advocate of the cloud in general and EC2 is particular, to all my tech friends. Many of them look up to me. for tech advise/views. But in this Wikileaks incident, all indications show them to be 'spine less' to say th
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My bullishness on Cloud has taken a beating. Feel bad as an EC2 customer(bt.com.bn)
2 points by blr_hack 16y ago|1 comments
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Here's one in Hindi :) http://translate.google.com/#hi|hi|%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%AE%20%E0%...
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Steve jobs may be a much greater innovator. But surely, can learn a thing or two, on integrity, from Derek Sivers. Also this is a lesson in on how to have only loosely-coupled relations/dependencies with other companies (particularly, i
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Hi! Thanks for reading my suggested approach. I can understand how Map-reduce can be used to process the things faster (by processing them in parallel and later using reduce to aggregate the results??) But can't imagine how reduce (of
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by blr_hack 16y ago
One way of doing this: 1. Get some million tweets from twitter API (each tweet is exactly like what the article describes as a 'document') 2. After ignoring common words (e.g. 'a', 'an', 'the' ... ) in a tweet , start assigning some kind o
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Not exactly BS, I think. I think they are all well intended but naive points (first two of them) and some over-idealistic and simplified - "Do not go into any competition". To grant him some benefit, in his last point he did say, to take hi
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Isn't the Demand Media world, an outcome of the inherent shortcomings of the Google search engine? -- There will be people to exploit every loophole in any system. In mid-late 90s (for all non-google search engines) you had the problem of l
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Say, you want to let people know that you are going to be in their city. Email will be too intrusive. So indirect communication is advantage (which social group allows). A contact in the city can see it and choose to ignore it. Another one,
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by blr_hack 16y ago
Think it may go in cycles, for both search engines and social networks. For search engines: First we had specific directories (Yahoo, others), then a single search engine (Google), followed by need of vertical search engines For social: Fi