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by copper 16y ago
I believe the banks do offer an alternative to go online and generate an OTP. Of course, this does defeat the purpose of an IVR transaction :) For what it's worth, I'm optimistic: the banks might listen to customer complaints and actually d
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by copper 16y ago
This was instituted when I was still at IIT because some people just /stopped/ studying, quite literally. I suppose it was a simpler solution than offering counseling for what could (I suppose) be called 'net addiction'. Ahh, memories :)
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by copper 16y ago
It usually is :) but cleartrip might just be right here to blame the banks. Asking for more secure authentication is a good idea, particularly in India where on more than one occasion, I've had to stop people from writing down my credit car
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by copper 16y ago
I played around (rather ineffectually) with David's Haskell code, back when the whole "Yacc is Dead" stuff was here, and I still tend to believe that Haskell results in less code when laziness is involved :) That said, I think I really like
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by copper 16y ago
For what it's worth, the stuff that passes for discussion on the AfD pages makes me wonder if something like the Scholarpedia model for articles is the better way of doing things.
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by copper 16y ago
I don't do webdev, so I fully agree with that :) FWIW, NumPy supports python 3 (for quite a few months now, IIRC), and I imagine that SciPy does too.
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by copper 16y ago
The important thing would be restoring the articles. As far as I can see, that isn't happening (yet). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemerle I might just be seeing a cached version
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by copper 16y ago
From the changelog for tar 1.25: Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect Fix extraction of device nodes
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by copper 16y ago
> I speak 3 and read another 3 Doesn't that mean you can speak 6? The Indian subcontinent usually gets complicated, as there are usually a /lot/ of local dialects that people speak, and some of them may arguably deserve to be separate l
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by copper 16y ago
> it works on the same principle as a the 'worm' in Office Space (geek reference) attempting to make very small amounts of money in mistakes, miscalculations and very short-time discrepancies in valuations of financial instrument. Just
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by copper 16y ago
Heh, I used to work at one time for someone whose products were cordially detested in the semiconductor industry because they were considered (with some reason) to be bug-ridden ad-hoc implementations of things the semi industry thought the
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by copper 16y ago
Isn't that data available if you're willing to pay enough for it? For example: http://nseindia.com/content/research/res_histdata.htm
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by copper 16y ago
Since this article doesn't mention it clearly, the demo is really nice, and worth a look: http://edwardworthington.com/
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by copper 16y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. It's funny that you can't use a test to select people for a job, while you can use the same test to select people for college (though perhaps I'm extrapolating, since the wikipedia article only mentions that y
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by copper 16y ago
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/IN/CA I /think/ that the way likelihood of HIV/AIDS is calculated needs to take population into account in a better way. Fun comparison, though!
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by copper 16y ago
Why isn't it legal, out of curiosity? I get to see quite a few CVs that include the rank the applicant got in the IIT-JEE exam (for most purposes, I find that to be a rather useless metric.)
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by copper 16y ago
If it helps, he's the author of a rather nice series of science-fiction books.
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by copper 16y ago
Lee Spector has made a Forth(like) language, called PushGP, which, in my opinion, handles syntactical correctness in a nice way. There's even a JS implementation, which wasn't there the last time I checked. http://hampshire.edu/lspector/pu
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by copper 16y ago
Thanks (both you and InclinedPlane), I guess that makes sense. I thought there were some theories that early-universe physics were very different from what they are now, though I'm not sure how that would help.
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by copper 16y ago
> the Universe should be 50% matter and 50% antimatter Out of curiosity, where does this come from?
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by copper 16y ago
I thought they switched to TSMC for sub-45nm processes, because retooling (or building a new fab) is prohibitively expensive.
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by copper 16y ago
Racket's 2htdp/image module is arguably more fully-featured implementation of the same thing (though it should be fairly simple to add colors to Frank's code)
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by copper 16y ago
I assume from this - one of the earlier comments by lsc: Having poor friends is /incredibly useful/ - need help moving but don't want to reciprocate? call up your highschool buddy who works at home depot. He'll be happy to help you ou
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by copper 16y ago
Experience, in my experience :) is measured by how many serious mistakes you made, and then went on to fix. As far as the authors posts are concerned, though, it seems weirdly appropriate to quote Erik Naggum: "If this is not what you expec
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by copper 16y ago
It's not a lack of libraries - there are probably too many libraries, and all of them subtly (or blatantly) incompatible and difficult to use together. Clojure, though, is a nice option.
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by copper 16y ago
OP: this could be a vote, maybe? I use glasses. Higher-n glass for them would be really nice, and light, but it's above my budget, and apparently too fragile for clumsy people. I don't like them, but given the alternative, there isn't reall
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by copper 16y ago
I have a very warped model of browser usage, which in practice has translated to using: * IE for two banks * firefox+adblock for gmail, github and chesscube * chrome for facebook * opera for everything else, which inc
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by copper 16y ago
If anyone wants to try out APL after reading that, NARS2000 is a pretty good free option: http://www.nars2000.org/
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by copper 16y ago
Remember, though: only about half of NASA's budget is spent on space exploration (I assume that mostly goes on STS/ISS, and that will probably change if/when they retire the shuttle.) They do a lot of other good science too. None of that c
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by copper 16y ago
The mail Theo forwards has a vague description of what has been done (not that I understand it, mind you): "My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors

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