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by enitihas 8y ago
I have found org mode to be really useful for free form note taking. Granted, the emacs factor may scare away some users, but I think org mode is worth it even if you are using emacs solely because of it. Org mode has configurable todos(tod
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by enitihas 8y ago
+1 for Simple Mobile Tools. My newest phone didn't contain much vendor installed apps, so I was looking for nice and preferably open source replacements for the basic apps like gallery, and simple mobile tools solved all my problem.
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C# style async await for Java(github.com)
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Just curious, what sort of changes did you make?
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How are new parties formed there? What proportion of funding new parties receive there?
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by enitihas 8y ago
Two that I particularly liked: 1. "How to win friends and influence people" - Dale Carnegie 2. "The seven habits of highly effective people". - Stephen Levy
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by enitihas 8y ago
I think his biggest decision might have been to go mobile first. I used to have a Nokia S40 series phone and Facebook worked really well on that both from the default web browser and from Opera Mini. Add that to the Instagram and WhatsApp a
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Numpy does sorting too.
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by enitihas 8y ago
Headless chrome and selenium are two orthogonal things I think. Selenium offers an API to control browsers. It can be chrome, headless chrome, remote chrome, firfox or any browser supporting the web driver protocol. Headless chrome is just
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Cheerleaders and the NFL(theguardian.com)
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The one advantage college will always have is that it is very difficult otherwise to bring a high number of intelligent people for 3-4 years at the same time and allow them to think freely. This will be difficult to replicate.
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Just curious, was Rome even at its peak bigger than the contemporary Chinese empire? Now if only the Chinese empire wasn't so self sufficient.
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I think this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752
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Emacs is cross platform, and since org mode works on plain files, dropbox or any similar software will provide you cross platform syncing.
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The Chosen One (1996)(si.com)
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Code Complete. I found Code Complete to be as eye opening for day to day work as SICP is while learning in University.
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AFAIK, Flipkart operates under the marketplace model too.
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It will be very difficult for an Indian startup to burn money to compete with a US competitor. Considering that the US is a much larger market, the reveneues of the US based competitor are simply going to be much higher. For example, Facebo
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by enitihas 8y ago
This will make sure the india e-commerce landscape remains competitive. Otherwise Flipkart would have run out of cash to bleed soon. As far as I know, both Flipkart and Amazon had been spending huge amount of money. I think this is very cle
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by enitihas 9y ago
Google+ was given the most importance of any project within Google as far as I know.
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There are various correlations which are very clear, like parents wealth. The question is whether these are ethical. If every school filters for such criterion, would students from poor or uneducated parents ever have a chance at social mob
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by enitihas 9y ago
The root problem is that there are too few institutes offering quality education, and given the limited seats, the competition is sky high. Without going to Kota, there is almost zero chance a student from a small town or village is going t
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Well, some schools even expect the parents to be well educated.
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Google+ was heavily marketed though.
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Indeed, a very special equilibrium then.
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That sounds like exponential reduction in the number of bacteria. How do any bacteria survive with this rate, unless I am missing something.
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by enitihas 9y ago
"Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel." - It says below the image. Isn't he the CEO of the accelerator program and not whole of YC?
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How on earth are paper books faster to search through?
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I am just curious, what about the edge cases? What if a person commits acts of domestic violence with their romantic partners, and then gets Google to remove that record. Don't their future partners deserve to know? What if someone com
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by enitihas 9y ago
There are lots of things people"should" do. But in general, the more indispensable a thing becomes, the more governments try to help people decide better or even try to decide for people, as people will do whatever is convenient t

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