gingerjoos

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by gingerjoos 14y ago
It is simplistic to assume that it's all the political parties' fault. They can take advantage of these things only if the people let them. They are able to exploit deep seated feelings and insecurities because those exist.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
By being a foreigner and by travelling to touristy places the author is immediately in the high risk category. There are a lot of people trying to fleece tourists, especially foreigners. This colors some of his prespective, for eg. >But
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
bad example. Relatively speaking, Kerala has pretty low amount of corruption. I'm not sure that high literacy is the cause. I have a hunch that the high literacy is a byproduct of the common cause (whatever it is). Most people in Kerala hav
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Giving money to a beggar provides a sense of having done something. Even when it's actually not helpful it allows the donor to carry on with their lives with the undeserved feeling of having done something useful.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
> Mughals came, captured, and stayed here and contributed a lot They came as Central Asians (Uzbek?), but stayed on and became Indians. > British just belong to Ghazni kind of invaders who went back Yes, but they did stick around fo
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Wikipedia on S N Bose : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
IMO, more important than the language itself are the frameworks built on the language. Ruby might be _the best_ language ever, but without Rails it wouldn't have gotten famous. It wouldn't have mattered so much that Python is a beautiful la
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Colorising git diff(j-query.blogspot.in)
2 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|0 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
> Nearly everything they touch has ugly short and long-term consequences spanning from financial to millions of people dying err.. you're talking about the Wall Street and big pharma types, right? Oh wait, no.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I doubt kamaal was trying to be sexist. It's unusual in most parts of India for women to work outside their home. Hence no income if you're a sick man with only daughters.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Thanks, bmelton. Decided to go with nginx + gunicorn. Was a little hesitant to use virtualenv, will go ahead and use it based on your recommendation. Thanks again! :)
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Thanks, iamsidd2k7. That was helpful.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
takes time for the full thing to load, wish it had lazy loading. That said, it's nice to have :)
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Ask HN: Host multiple flask and django apps on single server
5 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|6 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
The Guugu Yimithirr are possibly an extreme case, but humans have always relied heavily on directions. The loss of stress on directions seems to be somewhat a modern phenomenon. At least till my grandfather's time it was fairly common for p
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Jekyll vs. Hyde - A Comparison Of Two Static Site Generators(philipm.at)
1 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|0 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Pebble was probably the first to bring eInk display to the watch. But as georgemcbay notes, they weren't the first to bring out a watch like this.
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I often find it difficult to talk about problems to some sysadmins because they don't understand how the MVC model works (I am a web dev). They point to a URL and ask me, "So where is this file/directory" and I have to oversimplify rather t
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
Does it take someone at random? I thought it would use some algorithm based on, say, frequency of contact.
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The Internet must die so the Internet can live(gingerjoos.com)
1 points by gingerjoos 14y ago|0 comments
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I'm learning A1 level French now and thought I would give this one a try. Put it on "novice" mode hoping to improve my vocabulary. The problem with it is that rather than translating nouns it ends up translating verbs. This is not really a
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by gingerjoos 14y ago
I run both as desktops. I generally don't find that big a difference. However, lately I find some people releasing their packages only via Ubuntu ppa. In those cases I have to build from source in Debian - which isn't always that inconvenie
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by gingerjoos 15y ago
felt my chair shaking in Bangalore, India
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MPAA’s Paul Brigner moves to Internet Society directorship(dmwmedia.com)
3 points by gingerjoos 15y ago|1 comments