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by cgopalan 11y ago
Thanks for the offer. I am excited about this, and would love any help, even if its just in the form of feedback. And yes, I am vegan. I wouldn't dream of taking something up as a cause, if I wasnt already doing something in my life th
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by cgopalan 11y ago
The point is we can have everything we currently have without resorting to that torture (killing of cows and pigs in slaughterhouses, de-beaking of chickens). Thats what I am trying to eliminate or abate. Animals preying on other animals is
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by cgopalan 11y ago
Just reiterate what you just said and see how it sounds. If everybody looked at atrocities and tries to "make their peace" with them, you can imagine how the world will turn out. I feel at this point you are just trying to defend
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by cgopalan 11y ago
Yes, I have a general idea. I will be polishing and refining it in the 2nd quarter of this year. As of now, it will mostly be a website that provides info about how to inculcate a cruelty-free lifestyle (hopefully without being too preachy)
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by cgopalan 11y ago
Are you seriously comparing animals killing and eating other animals for food with what we do to animals and birds in slaughterhouses? Have you watched videos of slaughterhouses? Have you seen how fur is plucked off rabbits for angora, and
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by cgopalan 11y ago
Btw I couldnt find your email in your profile. I would love to get in touch. If you can send me a quick note, (my email is in my profile) that would be great.
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by cgopalan 11y ago
Good question. I am not opposed to the killing of animals, just the torture involved in the killing. If you see videos of how animals are farmed in slaughterhouses and warehouses, you wonder how humans have degenerated into something so vil
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by cgopalan 11y ago
You are right, I dont have a lot of experience freelancing. And I agree that the differential between rents in different places in the US large enough that one can decrease or increase it significantly by moving. I do however think that &qu
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by cgopalan 11y ago
"Do you really need a basic income implementation for this to work? Can't you simply downsize your expenses to x/10 what they are now, work x/10 as much to pay for them, and do whatever you want for the other (10-x)&#x2F
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by cgopalan 11y ago
"Count me in as someone who, given the support of basic income, can and will live frugally and give my working self 100% towards ethical objectives, as I understand them." Amen, brother/sister, amen. Exactly how I feel. Also
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by cgopalan 11y ago
I concur. I have noticed that people that initially come into the industry as "object bigots" (Fowler's phrase to describe himself, not mine) end up discovering patterns inherent in functional programming or other paradigms a
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How to interpret your own genome using (mostly) Python. – PyCon 2015(youtube.com)
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LinkedIn is down(linkedin.com)
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by cgopalan 13y ago
Just read the essay. Very informative. It basically lays down most of what I think about TDD, except that IMO, writing some tests first (which I know about) is better than writing tests last. But thats exactly my point. The workflow for sol
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by cgopalan 13y ago
Thanks for the link. Would it be possible to elaborate as to how doing TDD made the algorithm evolve for you? "TDD/BDD in one form or another". Theres the rub. That form mostly doesnt involve red-green-refactor and make the a
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by cgopalan 13y ago
Thanks for your input. It does seem difficult to find projects that have been successful in the public sphere that have solely adopted TDD as a design method (besides junit and fitnesse, which seem to be somewhat simple solutions to simple
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by cgopalan 13y ago
Thanks but fitnesse is also a testing framework and none of the other repos seem to be well known, IMO. So it would be good to see other examples.
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Ask HN: Examples of famous OSS created using red-green-refactor TDD?
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The Analytics Edge – from MITx(edx.org)
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A 2D Portal into a 3D World(msdn.microsoft.com)
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General concepts: concurrency, parallelism, threads and processes(learn-gevent-socketio.readthedocs.org)
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Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems(coursera.org)
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by cgopalan 13y ago
> Also, we should strive to have the best system and I don't think that's possible with single payer (eg Canada/uk vs France/Switzerland/Singapore/japan) The system in Canada and the system in France are clo
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by cgopalan 13y ago
> Single-payer is inappropriate for the USA. Care to elaborate?
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I, Health Insurer(charlespetzold.com)
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by cgopalan 13y ago
Not clear about what you are saying - what situation? I had a choice - keep working on .NET or take another job at a below market salary to work on Python. So I did the latter because I loved Python. This was with the goal that I would gain
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by cgopalan 13y ago
I worked for below-market salary for a year and a half just so that I could get out of .NET development and start working on Python. Now after a year and half, armed with more Python experience, I have switched to another Python job at what
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by cgopalan 14y ago
I have been using it for sometime and while initially jarring at first, I found that I like it better mostly because: - Its small but not tiny. - It allows me to reference previous emails while composing a new email. I think this helps a lo
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by cgopalan 14y ago
By default, I go with the inclination to put code in functions when I tackle a project, because most of my projects are just products and applications without a public API and testing or debugging the flow in a functional paradigm is much s
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by cgopalan 14y ago
For people who are not satisfied with knowing just Numpy and want to delve into its applications, I would recommend Wes McKinney's book "Python for data analysis": http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do I have the book and its b

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