easternmonk

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by easternmonk 14y ago
India's Police system and the laws such as Criminal Procedure Laws were formulated by British. The objective was to keep citizens completely depended on goodwill of police and politicians to be free and safe. The exact same laws have contin
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by easternmonk 14y ago
India is already a banana republic.
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Three simple steps. 1. Read Douglas Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts (Alternatively you can watch his lectures on Yahoo Theater) 2. Read Nicholas Zakas' Maintainable Javascript and Scalable Javascript. Trust be both these books will m
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World's smallest petrol engine(geeknizer.com)
1 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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India lobbies for Bureaucrats to run WWW(dailymail.co.uk)
4 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Looking at the larger picture in this context we are moving to a world where Browser == computer.
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by easternmonk 14y ago
May be the fight is not worth anything to me personally. But look at the larger picture. By asking you to like their product they are enforcing their opinion on you, in aspects of life that they have no right to control. If we exaggerate th
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Well, we have come to a point where no one actually cares about IE. Everyone wishes this browser wouldn't exist and most of the people use it as a tool to download Chrome and Firefox. Having said that Microsoft's new policy is either aimed
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Yes.
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Ask HN: My employer forces me to like company product pages on Facebook
7 points by easternmonk 14y ago|10 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
That is India for you!
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Absolutely. They have obscured this simple fact in unnecessary details. Also the phrases like "You dont need boilerplate code anymore" are highly misleading.
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Stanford's class2go is said to be open source but where is the source?(engineering.stanford.edu)
2 points by easternmonk 14y ago|1 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Hindus and Buddhists ? Evidence ?
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Note the Cow in the Song!
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by easternmonk 14y ago
The article is only feel good. The fact is the Indian film industry or rather the Hindi Film industry is believed to be in a grasp of Mafia in Pakistan. May be not entirely but there is some truth to it. The reason why America is not able t
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Right premises wrong conclusion. Most of the things PG says about Java are true but his conclusion that it wont be successful is completely wrong. Java is not a darling of hackers for all the reasons he has mentioned but it is embraced by l
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Indian government jails a cartoonist for drawing cartoons against corruption(thehoot.org)
3 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Building a geeky home
7 points by easternmonk 14y ago|2 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
India currently has the so called "right to information" bill. That Bill outlines what information can be withheld. Now using the same bill government should ideally come up with "Duty to report" bill.
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India's passport service that is open for only one minute a day(goanews.com)
2 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
As per the plato's allegory of cave, one wise man managed to escape the cave with lot of hardship. He climbs up towards the light and once he realizes that there is a reality beyond the cave Plato argues that it is his moral responsibility
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Ask HN: Does Dark Knight Rises represents Plato's allegory of cave?
5 points by easternmonk 14y ago|3 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Incomplete without including YUI3 App framework.
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Ask HN: Any Javascript based tool that helps combine videos and slideshows?
1 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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by easternmonk 14y ago
No Big deal actually.
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by easternmonk 14y ago
Meteor I believe is not using the asynchronous nature of Node.js it is using it sequentially. Single reason why I am not using it yet.
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by easternmonk 14y ago
ant ?
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The man who wore sanitary napkins(youtube.com)
2 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments
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A letter that deals with trademark violation(brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com)
1 points by easternmonk 14y ago|0 comments

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