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by india 16y ago
This is exactly why I would like to see some new voices on the Indian tech scene. We have got some of the most absurd IT laws and processes of any country. Privacy might as well be absent from the tech debate here. Our record on freedom
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by india 16y ago
This is a very worrying trend. Consider this one from India - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDb_vLZ0wc I find it wrong on many levels. It is a drastic oversimplification of the events of the day and in some sense, implicitly portrays
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by india 16y ago
It's called MRI quenching and dangerous it can be[1]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o
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by india 16y ago
URL shortners break the web in many ways. Link rot, link hijack, it takes longer to reach the page, additional point of failure and domain based algorithms break. In other words, plague.
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by india 16y ago
Cool... It even has fortune.
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Arxiv vs Snarxiv(snarxiv.org)
44 points by india 16y ago|7 comments
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by india 16y ago
In that case, it is already pretty remarkable that 3254 from a group of people who currently can't even use your product want it to be developed for them. If that happened to a product I were making, I sure as hell would begin targeting th
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by india 16y ago
Au contraire, I think if everyone with a demonstrable ability to learn and the demonstrated desire to do so was allowed to do so free of expense, society as a whole would be way better off.
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UTorrent For Linux Is Coming, Finally(torrentfreak.com)
15 points by india 16y ago|27 comments
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by india 16y ago
Google in China, tweeter in Iran and Facebook here have shown three very different responses to local requests for censorship. All three of these have done what they believe to be in the best interests of their business. As individuals, we
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Noted mathematician Rudin dies at 89(host.madison.com)
72 points by india 16y ago|10 comments
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by india 16y ago
I can't find any non wikipedia source for this news on the web though a friend of mine in the math department at Johns Hopkins University says that his dept chair sent out an email broadcast. (For the uninitated, Walter Rudin is a distingui
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RIP Rudin(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by india 16y ago|2 comments
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by india 16y ago
Ummm... it would be nicer to have something where my domain can simply assert that me@mydomain is equivalent for the moment to me2@otherdomain and the otherdomain has to do nothing extra. If the otherdomain has to assert mydomain then I no
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by india 16y ago
This gets rid of delegation. :( Delegation was what sold me on openid in the first place. Why would delegation ever need or get buy in from email providers, ISPs and social providers? Delegation allows me to own my identity without ownin
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by india 16y ago
Or you could simply turn off accept 3rd party cookies and never ever use facebook connect.
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by india 16y ago
> I think the idea that humans are getting smarter and nobler is hogwash. No, there is quite some evidence behind that idea[1]. [1] http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
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by india 16y ago
Is that true? Pages were not always public, were they? Didn't that happen last December[1]. Before that becoming a fan of a page meant getting updates from whatever you were becoming a fan of. Now it means announcing on your public prof
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by india 16y ago
Even though chat is blocked, you can still see pending friends request on anyone's profile. In fact, one can probably use this to add anyone as a friend. Send a friend request, view your profile with their id and accept the request you ju
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by india 16y ago
Proper links: Data Portability[1], New to payments[2] and Use this checklist[3]. [1] http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/data-portabili... [2] http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/services/new-to-pay... [3] http://www.bra
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Effect of Wind on Stock Market Returns(improbable.com)
19 points by india 16y ago|5 comments
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by india 17y ago
Not if your product has a too good to be true factor. For instance, the gmail release worked out really beautifully.
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by india 17y ago
And performance... My non-utf8 1 GB file whose number of lines I need to count thanks Ruby 1.9 for not uselessly and forcefully making an in memory utf8 copy of it.
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by india 17y ago
Ahhh yes... But buyer beware as they say... that story doesn't always have a happy ending. The person I used to look up to as a kid turned depressive and into an alcoholic. It is very painful to see a real-life role model nosedive like th
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by india 17y ago
The Delhi High Court has granted an exparte injunction against askme.in ordering them to stop business and ordering the seizing of their machines and storage after justdial filed a case against them. From what I understand from googling[1]
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Indian court orders seizing a startup's machines based solely on allegations(news.oneindia.in)
13 points by india 17y ago|21 comments
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by india 17y ago
That explains it! It does break the principle of least surprise though...
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by india 17y ago
Love it! As far as I know, they are the only one that officially support slackware which is why I went with them in the first place.
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by india 17y ago
Just tried a few directions from my house... This is a huge improvement! Though one could do a slightly better landmark selection but this is awesome...