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by haskal 8y ago
If the request you are talking about actually gets executed once (maybe it gets cached or something), then you shouldn't be pitching the time difference anyway. If it gets executed 100s of times in a day per person, you can say this
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by haskal 9y ago
I can agree that learning Chinese is a stress release. Just learning the characters by itself is very calming and stress-relieving. Also, all that Chinese Internet humor is a reward :-D
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by haskal 9y ago
1. When you exit a terminal it dumps irrelevant stuff rather than just closing the tab. ~ % exit [Process completed] 2. Cmd + Arrow doesn't doesn't move to the next or last tab. (Cmd + number does work however,
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by haskal 9y ago
That is such a weird combination. Most Maharashtrians I know from the previous generation (including my parents) are from Maharashtra, and Maharashtrians have somewhat of a reputation for not wanting to leave Maharashtra.
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by haskal 9y ago
Erik Demaine's lectures are a nice place to start if you are into formal geometric folding theory: http://erikdemaine.org/classes/
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by haskal 9y ago
For a person who is relying on benchmarks, you should know that benchmarks are only a rough indication of how well anything performs for a very specific use case. Your reply is arrogant and ignorant, and you should feel bad about typing tha
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by haskal 9y ago
It is what CyanogenMod used to be under a new name because CM got sold: https://liliputing.com/2016/12/cyanogenmod-dead-lineage-will...
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by haskal 9y ago
Oh, sorry. 道: found it on the Chinese version.
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by haskal 9y ago
What's the Chinese character for Dao (if exists)?
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by haskal 9y ago
My experience with barre chords is that I thought I could never get them right, but I kept trying them with very tiny variations, until one day I just got them. Never thought that I could play them correctly till the day before I got them r
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by haskal 9y ago
> Think about all the amazing memories that are being wasted right now. If you are putting up a story for things that are important, you should probably download those memories separately too. Snapchat allows you to revisit a story and d
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by haskal 9y ago
> guesstimate Stop making up words for which there already are words. "estimate" works just fine in that context.
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by haskal 9y ago
Indo-Chinese is barely derived from/a changed version of traditional Chinese. As an Indian who eats traditional Chinese food from various parts of China regularly, I can confirm that there literally isn't any sauce that tastes lik
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by haskal 10y ago
Weird that you mentioned it today. I just made one for the first time today after visiting the Chinese supermarket (I am not East Asian). Century egg is definitely one of the weirdest smelling things I have ever eaten. It smells like H2S. T
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by haskal 10y ago
Mumbai, India.
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by haskal 10y ago
For people who are getting "Access Denied", I have a local copy. Send me an email at <my username here> at protonmail.com. EDIT: And reply to this message.
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by haskal 10y ago
Such a nice domain name.
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by haskal 10y ago
I would downvote this comment if I could.
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Papers We Love(github.com)
1 points by haskal 10y ago|0 comments
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by haskal 10y ago
I got here through Panda. This app/plugin is well done.
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by haskal 10y ago
To prove: Uber cannot be cheaper than driving your own vehicle. Proof of negation of the TP using counterexample: 1. Monthly insurance cost for own vehicle = a few hundred dollars = $k. Monthly insurance cost for Uber = $0. 2. Assume an ext
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by haskal 11y ago
There's nothing that stops you from uploading the PDF elsewhere, right? Why not just push the file to some free hosting service (or even GitHub in a GitHub Pages repo)?
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by haskal 11y ago
Shit headline. As if being from Stanford makes this worthy of being on Hacker News. Please people. CS has been being used for social good for quite a while. Better headline would be something that says that Stanford has actually started a c