gingerjoos

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by gingerjoos 13y ago
I saw "Utah Datacenter" linking to a wikipedia domain and I thought Wikimedia had set up a new datacenter in Utah. Turns out I was wrong.
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by gingerjoos 13y ago
s/Mac/Linux :)
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by gingerjoos 13y ago
The problem is reversed for those of us learning French. Tough pronouncing the 'err' :)
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by gingerjoos 13y ago
It's a sign of our times. Indian English follows more or less the British pattern (colour instead of color etc.). However, recent times have seen a marked shift towards American spellings and pronunciation. I would imagine this is the case
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
>>> It seemed like we would have to choose between cutting significant features from the app or only shipping our new version to the newest Android phones (ICS and up). Neither seemed acceptable. We needed a better solution. Th
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Trivandrum is what the English called it. Bombay = Mumbai, same way. Let's not nitpick :)
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
It's the way numbers are written in India. 1,00,000 ( = 100,000 ) is 1 lakh and 1,00,00,000 ( = 10,000,000 ) is 1 crore. Millions and billions are not used a lot, but most people know what they are. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_A
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Cucumbertown does this very well. They allow you to take a recipe and fork it – called “Write a variation” (on the left) [1]. IIRC quite a few recipes there are created this way. [1] http://www.cucumbertown.com/recipes/55228/baked-mac-chee
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
> understanding why the film is structured the way it is (and why Nolan does smaller things like naming the children as they are), is a genuine revelation Could you expand on that? I had to google for the names - Philippa and James. Wha
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Page speed really does matter(gigpeppers.com)
66 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|52 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
So the referer is a local Selenium server? How did you figure out it was an EC2 machine?
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Oh yes, English is terrible at denoting the pronunciation with its script. Not so for French (or from what I hear, German). Most of the time you are able to predict the pronunciation based on a set of characters. Words in Indian languages w
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Quite often you can figure out the essence of the sentences even if you don't know all the words. Of course, you do need to have a basic vocabulary. While speaking/writing it is possible for you to convey what you want to without using comp
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Learning words != learning a language. Most of the posts I see on HN mostly revolve around learning languages. In my opinion that's only part of the problem. It's more difficult to get the structure of sentences and tenses correct. I person
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
How does learning pangrams help? I don't get how the author has benefited from learning all the letters of German when they mostly correspond to the English alphabet. It does sound like a cool thing to learn, but I can't think of any use be
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Yes, there are. A previous comment by TeeWEE [1] mentions 2 tools. There are others as well - Siege [2] and Apache Bench [3] come to mind. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847949 [2] http://www.joedog.org/siege-home/ [3] http:/
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I think the author wasn't just looking at a launch per se. He was looking for feedback and HN is arguably the best place for feedback w.r.t startups > HN community’s remarks and constructive criticism are pearls of wisdom
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
The blog mentions that they did have caching on with nginx (which is what Varnish does, isn't it?). The problems were because of nginx not caching the frontpage (configuration issue) and because there was an unexpected hit on solr.
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Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch(gigpeppers.com)
150 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|101 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I'm wondering if the backlash might actually be a good thing. If this sort of backlash becomes common, there will be a disincentive for artists to sign up with records who indulge in such nonsense. Perhaps the system will adapt such that pr
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
+1 to that. Among all the people I've ever known (in India) only 2 people are lactose intolerant. Indian society has, historically, placed a lot of importance on the cow and milk. Indian mythology has rich references to milk and other dairy
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I find, sometimes, that doing an #apt-get -f missing fixes many of these post-upgrade problems. YMMV!
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
True. A lot of good companies recruiting from big name colleges (IITs, NITs etc.) are wasting their time. The people from those colleges more or less end up studying for CAT and leave to study for an MBA degree within an year. Increasingly
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
> because of the complicity from professors (it is trivial to figure out whether someone has done the project or outsourced it, but they don't care) "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." A lot of p
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
One thing that could help is a surge of tech-oriented startups. Startups in India tended to be copies of well-established models in the U.S. Things are beginning to change. I've personally seen a few startups which have innovative and tech-
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
1. It doesn't pay much. The people it employs are engineers who did not get jobs in software companies. 2. No. More often than not, students end up doing projects "suggested" by these project-making companies. They already have a bunch of "
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Definitely! At the very least some labs where hackers could come and make stuff with Arduino boards or write IRC bots that did crazy, but useless things. All for the sake of learning.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
The sorry state of education is a distraction, the real problem is something else. Most students in India are not given much of a choice when it comes to choosing their career path. Most of the students are forced to be doctors, engineers o
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
It's, unfortunately, a common mistake.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Few annoyances I noted in the FAQ "What Google search sites does it support?" section. google.co.in is by default in English, you would have to explicitly set it to another language [1]. "Indian" is not a language (Hindi, Malayalam, Bengali

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