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by copper 15y ago
I /hope/ Ayush's PAN info in the video is fake :) In my opinion, your prices are too low on the higher end. A normal tax return preparer charges something like Rs 250 (negotiable, particularly on bulk deals) to around Rs 500 for a simple IT
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by copper 15y ago
Just curious: how much would I have to pay to get cleartax pro? Also, you might want to fix the Mr Bose example: "ClearTax (an Income Tax website) rode to his resuce". I'm not entirely sure that I consider the story to be a positive endorse
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by copper 15y ago
I assumed he referred to the PE file format, but it looks like Microsoft actually makes a spec available for it.
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by copper 15y ago
It's actually rather fun to watch in person, though I can understand why you think it's bizarre. It's, as far as I can see, really ceremonial - though it remains a big deal for the security forces personnel involved.
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by copper 15y ago
Oh, they're very much real, (mind you, I don't know what a a splarge is) except that they don't turn up in daily conversation.
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by copper 15y ago
Perhaps the most interesting part of how they're doing it is that they have an algorithm that doesn't rely on the results of other test takers, except for the eventual statistics. Also worth seeing: http://testyourvocab.com/hard.php
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by copper 15y ago
Indeed, though in my case that's purely from geographical considerations :)
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by copper 15y ago
Sadly, that website says that he's on vacation and not accepting new clients.
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by copper 15y ago
fwiw, that's true for cs and stat, and I assume for math too. What I refer to is something like this: http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/AND+AND+ti:+riemann+ti:+hypothes... This is a particularly egregious example; but if I'm looking for somethi
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by copper 15y ago
According to this explanation, the behaviour isn't completely specified: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/558#comment-2698
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by copper 15y ago
Downvoters should probably know that she's the one who wrote the article.
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by copper 15y ago
A better model would be something like what the Real-World Haskell book used when it was under development: allow comments (anonymous or otherwise) on each paragraph, and refine the content based on those comments. Of course, this does have
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by copper 15y ago
Well, if you really want an undergrad option, there's one in Delhi :) http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/textile/public/department.php
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by copper 15y ago
Ah, well - we /do/ come from different worlds. My initial reaction to the word "codes" is to look for the "plz send me the" somewhere before it. That said, at least (some kinds of) EEs seem to have it better - the basic Spice simulator was
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by copper 15y ago
Coverity's Prevent[1]? I use it for C++, and while it's not free, the pricing is /very/ reasonable. [1] http://www.coverity.com/html/prevent-for-java.html
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by copper 15y ago
Well, for example, how about sorting out a lot of pdf documents I have in a folder called papers/ ? I do use Mendeley now but there are some leftovers from before that I really don't want to sit and sort through (not to mention the fact t
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by copper 15y ago
> The Nokia 1100 isn't just the biggest selling mobile phone ever, it's the biggest selling consumer electronics device, having sold over 250m units. It was also the most sturdy phone I've ever had. As anecdotal evidence, it survived be
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by copper 15y ago
Mind you, there have been people working on clearing up trapped charges. I doubt there's been much usable progress (IIRC, the methods involve some kind of irradiation of the dielectric, which is difficult to perform in situ.)
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by copper 15y ago
textfiles.com would have quite a lot of ascii art from back then. Memories :)
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by copper 15y ago
You also need to keep 32-bit and 64-bit shared libraries, and then keep them (more or less) in sync - admittedly, linux distros do manage that more or less invisibly. Mind you, when it comes to nvidia cards and the claims that newer version
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by copper 15y ago
It's what happens if you use cedet/ecb on lots of code. I like the code completion and other features they give me, but it is just too slow to keep on always.
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by copper 15y ago
Isaac, do you think you could add this problem to the shootout? I believe (and am therefore almost certainly wrong) that there isn't any benchmark there that derives almost purely from compiler theory.
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by copper 15y ago
The initial code was supposed to be written in a straightforward way. That said, I was playing around with the code, and using tcmalloc with the original C++ code gives a better speedup (something close to 40% with the provided example.)
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by copper 15y ago
The final list of changes is supposed to be with the internal version, and roughly seem to show a 20% change over and above what the basic std::map -> ext/hash_map replacement. I'm not sure if I should add the percentages, or multiply t
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by copper 15y ago
The most instructive part of this are the listings from the changelogs alongwith the resulting improved performance. I'm really enjoying the C++ tunings. I wish they did show the results with the google hashes, though.
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by copper 15y ago
Isn't SiFT still patented, though?
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by copper 15y ago
> lasted for well over a day I've never had the spare money to buy a smartphone, but isn't that /ludicrously/ low? My cheap little nokia brick lasts (under normal usage) for a bit less than a week. Admittedly, the power drawn is not com
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by copper 15y ago
Factor, Racket, and Lua all have ffi's that are very easy to use. I've never quite liked Lua's metaprogramming, though (macros are very useful when you're writing bindings.) and my least favourite Lua quirk would be the lack of integer ty
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by copper 15y ago
Intel recently let Achronix use their fabs for 22nm FPGAs , so this is not really a new move by them either (that said, Achronix was a /tiny/ deal. This one may not be.) http://www.achronix.com/products/speedster22i.html
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by copper 15y ago
FWIW, Buzz has a far better S/N ratio than twitter: I find people like Terence Tao, in particular, to be particularly insightful when they're not hampered by a 140 character limit.

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