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by irahul 14y ago
> Yes exactly my point. Were you expecting rocket science? I was expecting a logically sound, coherent response - not straw-man appealing to mysticism. My original question was I am having a tough time figuring out what is this Indian h
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> How do you manage to achieve that - instantly stand out on the streets of Bangalore as distinctly "NRI"? Now I will throw a claim which I am not going to back - I would like the other side to back theirs. It is impossible to stand out
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by irahul 14y ago
> Right now? Helping out country men from the north east, and surviving the daily tribulations of India with stoicism, and the ability to be open to all castes, creeds and colors The discussion started from a post talking about Indian
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by irahul 14y ago
> Its a pity that blog posts these get a lot of attention because of their extreme nature. Pointing out that you need to show your id to use a cyber cafe or other things in the article are neither false nor extreme.
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> I'm very careful to adjust my clothing, hairstyle, etc. That is interesting. Did you spend majority of your childhood elsewhere, because considering the diversity of India, it's pretty hard to tell.
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> But are you actually an 'Indian'? I used to work for Infosys, Bangalore. This is what it looks like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Bangalore... (just one of about 50 buildings) I couldn't find the image but the a
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by irahul 14y ago
> one's Indian heritage Depending on your perception, either there is no such thing as India heritage or it's so broad that it's bordering on being indistinguishable from non-Indian heritage. 1. We are talking about a country of over
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> I'd never thought of it in comparison to dynamic programming algorithms. The blog post is using a different terminology. Memoization isn't part of dynamic programming - it's just that the top-down dynamic programming benefits from mem
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> Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source One reason I don’t want to see it: That’s not Neil. That’s Buzz Aldrin. The main objection is that's not a photo of Neil.
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> > What sites out there still use that blue color for a link? >> "that blue" is the default browser blue and if you check Facebook uses a different blue and doesn't use the default underline, neither does Google and neither
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> What sites out there still use that blue color for a link? What do you mean that blue ? As far as using blue for links go, I scanned my opened tabs and Google, Facebook, Github use blue for links. Bootstrap's blue isn't the browser d
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by irahul 14y ago
> I’m sick of seeing the same damn buttons. I’m sick of seeing that same damn toolbar up top. It’s driving me crazy. If only html/css/js/browsers had default decent(or even non-decent) standard gui widgets from the beginning, there won'
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by irahul 14y ago
> Rules aren’t All Bad I don't see http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3223-the-end-of-formality mentioning "all rules are bad". It specifically mentions the kind of business formality they/he considers bad. >> When did you last he
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> This just makes me glad I don't have to write Java any more. You don't have to do it even if you are writing Java. This is a perfect example of clever for the sake of being clever.
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> I had known of this before, and I'm fairly certain I've used it before. I consider myself pretty liberal when it comes to coding standards and being clever, but this is something that will badly piss me off. I can't quite put my finge
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> And I actually enjoy being away from the internet, and news in particular, from time to time. To each his own. For me, the choice between "sitting on a bus impatiently waiting for my destination" and "browsing on my phone" is a no bra
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by irahul 14y ago
> Firstly because I hardly ever use my cellphone, not feel the need to, secondly because when I ask people that do, they have no clear idea themselves why they cannot keep it in their pocket. I don't use it while walking, but I surely u
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by irahul 14y ago
> In fact, Google wants even more such results. See First Click Free: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... . Google wants to index as much content as possible. It's providing incentive to content owners to le
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by irahul 14y ago
> Not only does this shit fly but Google are doing it on their own websites. I am not claiming Google is benevolent. As I mentioned above, if a user searches for "rails select in query" and the user clicks on experts-exchange result su
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by irahul 14y ago
> Quora has gone the way of expert-sexchange, showing up in Google search results for interesting questions, but then overlaying/replacing most answers with blur and "sign up to read". This shit doesn't fly with Google. Delivering diffe
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by irahul 14y ago
> Just a question - would you have reacted the same if I wrote "it isn't bad for you to eat 20 eggs a day", or "eating cholesterol isn't bad for you"? because both of these "accepted wisdoms" (limit egg consumption; dietary cholesterol
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> (You may laugh, but it is not inherently less plausible -- or less supported -- than the idea that fat stores are used exclusively as energy stores). Burning fat for energy isn't an idea . As for your hypothesis, hypothesis doesn't m
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by irahul 14y ago
> You can say these are subjective But they are subjective. > No judge is going to let a non-Abrahamic sham religion impose strange conundrums for the employer. What qualifies a religion as sham? From what I have seen, whatever comp
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I am aware of the fact that whatever you can get away with(what you do doesn't affect others, legal team, political pressure, terrorism) becomes reasonable after some time. Religion is just a ruse. It's not that people adhere to everything
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> It would be somewhat easier to just start your own company if you wanted to work four hours a day. I do own my own company, and I work more than 4 hours a day. Let's say my religion permits working 2 jobs regardless of state laws(they
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> unreasonable accommodations Who is in-charge of making the call, and on what basis? What is to say working while starving is more reasonable than say, coming in drunk to work which my religion mandates. The funny thing with religious
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> If I were an employer, after reading this... There isn't much you can do; at least you can't make religious fasting the reason for your actions unless you are interested in lawsuits and tons of negative publicity. What does it take to
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> Strangely, I usually put on more weight during Ramandan. If you are starving, your metabolism slows down to conserve energy. I assume you eat heavy meals(high carb? sugar? oil?) when you break your fast(dinner? before morning prayers?
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> Ruby also has the reputation of being much slower than Python, and speed is crucial in the scientific community when it comes to handling data-sets in the range of terabytes. If we are talking computation speed, the difference between
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> Never mentioned I disagreed with her. Where did you get that assumption? >> I don't understand what the article is about. Is she trolling for page views? I don't understand why she considers herself "violated" by Apple. Don't

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