gautamc

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by gautamc 13y ago
There are a many of news articles and youtube videos which present HFT as a bad thing. Since large orders are filled by different markets, anyone who has studied the mechanisms via which these orders are full-filled can theoretically arrive
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Frequentism and Bayesianism(jakevdp.github.io)
1 points by gautamc 13y ago|0 comments
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by gautamc 13y ago
http://www.lib.ru/GIBSON/neuromancer.txt_with-big-pictures.h...
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by gautamc 13y ago
When I was in India I got antibiotics OTC a few times for myself after I self diagnosed using the internet. Because my mum went to med-school I was always very aware about the need to complete the course. I am sure that not everybody is as
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What I learnt when implementing the word cloud at data.worldwewant2015.org(blog.quineloop.com)
1 points by gautamc 13y ago|0 comments
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Telegram no more STOP 100 STOP(thehindu.com)
2 points by gautamc 13y ago|0 comments
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by gautamc 13y ago
What is "A MBA running Debian for doing most things" ?
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US spots $120M for lab to tackle rare earth shortages(networkworld.com)
2 points by gautamc 14y ago|0 comments
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by gautamc 14y ago
Yep. I see what you mean. activesupport-3.2.11/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb has a -- DISALLOWED_XML_TYPES = %w(symbol yaml) -- which is used by its def typecast_xml_value to raise the exception. I don't see these lines of
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by gautamc 14y ago
On a patched server I see a Hash::DisallowedType (Disallowed type attribute: "yaml") exception raised by activesupport. As a simpler test-case, I modified the rails_rce.rb ( for CVE-2013-0156 )and passed a simpler yaml that creates a Time o
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by gautamc 14y ago
On linux I used espeak. ping google.com | ruby -ne '$_ =~ /time=(.*)/ && system("espeak", "-s 120", $1);'
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by gautamc 14y ago
I saw the /gigapans/ in the URL and googled for it, thinking it must be a super intelligent panoramic "image sticher"+"image viewer" written in flash - but found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigapan
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Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away(news.sciencemag.org)
38 points by gautamc 14y ago|18 comments
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by gautamc 14y ago
My first real programming job involved building web apps using OpenACS - http://openacs.org/ . OpenACS was all Tcl executing in AOLServer and used postgres or oracle. It was awesome. I Learned a lot from "Tcl for Web Nerds" and its compani
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by gautamc 14y ago
Someone told me that Accenture build it in India - poetic justice, I'd think, if that was indeed true.
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by gautamc 14y ago
There was an article in linux-journal that described how linux was being used at JPL : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7570 From what I understand, Linux runs the rover simulator environment - known as RSVP. It consists of a DSL that
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by gautamc 14y ago
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/
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by gautamc 14y ago
I recently discovered an old chemistry book that is supposedly banned from publication, but since it's not under any copyright anymore we can download it with breaking any rules : http://openmaterials.org/2010/03/18/banned-the-golden-book-
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by gautamc 14y ago
The idea of detecting change in the amount of light is also used by the PulseSensor - http://pulsesensor.myshopify.com/blogs/news/6326816-anatomy-...
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by gautamc 14y ago
I haven't used airbnb but after reading some of the comments here, I looked up the airbnb site to check if they have tools/features which try to address the "I am renting to a total stranger/I am renting a strange place" issue - http://www
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by gautamc 14y ago
For me FB is the proverbial ghost town - because I am no longer interested in the contents of activity feed I get on FB :-p . I am sure my opinions don't matter much, after all, I don't have thousands of friends on either of the two service
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by gautamc 14y ago
I am from India and I am pretty concerned about terrorism, but I am assuming that the people/businesses who will end up following such rules would most probably be the people who aren't planning any thing nefarious. Meanwhile, the real bad
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by gautamc 15y ago
==> Is it implied that since the average American doesn't like some work, America is being afforded a chance to uplift "Chinese farmers" and whole bunch of other poor people? Is it? ==> Isn't such a thought ridiculous? Such a though
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MacOS passes linux as favored software development environment(eweek.com)
4 points by gautamc 15y ago|0 comments
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by gautamc 15y ago
I don't consider myself a "real" assembly programmer. I can, however, try to debug compiled c code via gdb disassemble and not get totally lost. I managed to pick up this ability after getting to know assembly programming, and the subsequen
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by gautamc 15y ago
Here in India, I was able to get an Android smart phone for half the price of an iPhone. I can also build Android apps on my Debian Linux machine without incurring any additional costs. The fact that the devices cost lesser(even before the
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by gautamc 15y ago
What's it got to do with people being white? Long before the existence of the east India company Pusyamitra Sunga did more than his bit to undo all that Ashoka did to create a united India. While the British did not rule India for the sake