dthakur

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   by dthakur 17y ago

   You experience is correct. Microsoft tools and platforms are, generally speaking, good. Some things, like making the entire .NET source available for debugging, even cuts into the open source's advantage of deep debugging. The key problems
2. 92.▲
   by dthakur 17y ago

   Mathematics
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   by dthakur 17y ago

   I worked at Microsoft; lot of people had iPhones. Does that matter? No. Rational people choose products based on their merits. This is not new and there is no reason for surprise.
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   by dthakur 17y ago

   I have authored WiFi Hopper for Windows ( http://wifihopper.com ). iPhone development was in the pipeline -- not any more.
5. 95.▲
   by dthakur 17y ago

   Ain't broke, don't fix it..etc
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   by dthakur 17y ago

   I love CodingFontTobi ( http://www.proggyfonts.com/ ). It's all over my system (Visual Studio, vim, cmd/cygwin etc).
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   Ask HN: Good, reasonably priced market quotes provider?

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   by dthakur 17y ago

   Hate to see big corps acquire services and butcher them. Everything used to work great with Canadian numbers on grandcentral. Now I removed one and cannot add it back because it is international. The app looks ok on my Android phone but of
9. 99.▲
   by dthakur 17y ago

   There are a lot of academic papers on detecting things like skin-tones, common shapes etc in photos. Sorry I don't have any links off-hand but search for nude image detector or porn detector etc and you should run into some PDFs. I remember
10. 100.▲
    by dthakur 17y ago

    Speaking of which, my idea was to use the current tech in detecting nude images to create a site like this that ONLY displays the NSFW pics from twitpic. Lost interest in it though.
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    by dthakur 17y ago

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    by dthakur 17y ago

    I agree it isn't wrong to expect a good salary and make a good living for yourself and your family. However, the article is about how American tech graduates are either uninterested or under-trained for work in the industry. Your comment is
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    by dthakur 17y ago

    If someone finds their way back to this thread, I did end up writing the site. Granted it took me a more than the 15 hours (more like a part-time week) but the result is up: http://hogornot.com Is was good to pick up django, jquery etc. I
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    by dthakur 17y ago

    It's a good skills refresher for someone like me who hasn't done any web programming for a few years.
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    by dthakur 17y ago

    Hmm -- all right, I'm on it.
16. 106.▲
    by dthakur 17y ago

    hogornot.com
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    by dthakur 17y ago

    I have 5 computers at my home and I use WHS to backup nightly. It had some issues with a crazy corruption bug a while back which resulted in many corrupted MP3s from my collection. It has been fixed now and in general, using WHS is a positi
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    by dthakur 17y ago

    The print version has everything on one page: http://spectrum.ieee.org/print/8747
19. 109.▲
    by dthakur 18y ago

    This is a repeat from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530086
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    by dthakur 18y ago

    OT: Did it bother anyone else that the site calling it an "MD5 Encrypter" with the "Encrypt Data" button and all. Where is the decrypter?
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    by dthakur 18y ago

    OneNote handles this really well. It automatically saves everything. Very handy when working on notes and ideas.
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    by dthakur 18y ago

    My position was SDET or "Software Design Engineer in Test". What the title means, how it interacts with other titles is fairly complicated and depends on the group. Overall though, the position was technical and involved coding which some p
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    by dthakur 18y ago

    I worked and left Microsoft in the past two years. For some background -- I was always the 'linux guy' in school/college, trying my best to use non-MS alternatives, just out of purse spite for the 'big corporation’ I guess. Anyway, I got a