irahul

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by irahul 14y ago
> (Yes, the double space after the period is a built in habit from typing class, and a debatable item in the computer age, but nobody seems to care one way or the other.) Well, it does serve a purpose in the computer age - grepping for
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by irahul 14y ago
It's more like I am applying for a programming job, and I don't see why I have to subject myself to your whims. Consider that instead of grammar, I am advocating I will only hire people who can do 50 push-ups. After all, what can I expect f
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by irahul 14y ago
I think it's more phonetic in nature. That isn't a mistake you will see often in India. We say all letters loud and clear:)
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by irahul 14y ago
> But my real estate agent thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing. Anyone have thoughts, experience, opinions, advice? If you (trust|know|have worked with) your real estate agent, and he is vouching for the bag grammar and spellin
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by irahul 14y ago
Saving the google search for people who don't know what an oxford comma is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma "Portugal, Spain, and France" (Oxford comma) "Portugal, Spain and France" (Not Oxford comma)
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by irahul 14y ago
> If the answer is "yes" to both of these then I would assume that the people who pass the test are English majors with minors in Linguistics ;-) I don't know. I am not a native speaker, and am not an English major, but the answer is "y
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by irahul 14y ago
My train of thoughts: > Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a mandatory grammar test. Whoa. Who do you think you are - google? What makes you think I am going to sit through your gramma
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by irahul 14y ago
> You seem to confuse the generic bashing of CEOs with specific kind mentioned by GP: questioning parenting choices. You seem to ignore my whole blurb about "being a father" and "holding a stressful job", and how it applies to the CEOs
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by irahul 14y ago
> I don't like giving citations, because we have this thing called Google, now. But here it is: This thing called Google returns results from the web, and any crackpot can have a page indexed. You are not required to, but the onus of ci
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by irahul 14y ago
> For example, distance from mother during early months has been shown to have negative effects on the child's development. Interesting. Citation please. > The same for not breast-feeding. I believe there are a certain percentage of
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by irahul 14y ago
> Is there a reason why women should take care of newborns full time? Yes, that's what is natural (meaning occurs in nature). A lot of things happen in nature. But is there a reason a women is required to raise an offspring? Apart from
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by irahul 14y ago
> I challenge anyone to find any posts questioning any other CEO's parenting choices. (Bonus points if top voted for on a story). Personally, when I become a father, I would like to either take time off, or take a job which isn't much s
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by irahul 14y ago
Personally I switched because I could read tmux config as opposed to screen's, and tmux is shell friendly. I use ubuntu and the default screen there has vertical panes for a long time, so that doesn't factor in. tmux being shell-friendly me
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by irahul 14y ago
If any screen folks are trying out tmux, here is my .tmux.conf assembled to have screen like bindings. https://github.com/rahulkmr/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf C-a c new window C-a | vertical split C-a S horizontal split etc etc. As fa
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by irahul 14y ago
> The only value add to software development is people who can do software development. >> You just described why projects fail. Developers Developers Developers. Read it again. Software development isn't the same as the whole p
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by irahul 14y ago
> So if I understand correctly, the only value-add to software development is cutting code? The only value add to software development is people who can do software development. If all you do is pull slides out of your ass, you aren't w
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by irahul 14y ago
> In my experience (and I'm being honest here), his colleagues would be high-fiving him for "bangin' the boss" May be. But they sure won't be high-fiving him when the boss lets his incompetence slide, and bestows promotions and other be
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by irahul 14y ago
> I don't think the "male-dominated tech world" would really respect a man for sleeping with the co-founder either. I won't have a problem with it unless that bestows special privileges. > I was under the impression that the benefic
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by irahul 14y ago
> Front line engineers know what every other development group is doing and can integrate their systems in a pinch! Well, no one knows what every other development group does in a company of significant size. And more often than not, no
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by irahul 14y ago
How do you know that? I see no indication that it is a joke.
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by irahul 14y ago
> Why? These two people are clearly idiots. If you aren't deliberately trying to miss the point, TFA claimed "only idiots make buffer overflow error" and the OP is implying it's not just the idiots, but very smart people(look up the nam
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by irahul 14y ago
> From someone who loves Perl, please do not use it in production :) From another someone who has written fair amount of perl, some of them are simple idioms suitable for production use; rest are just an exercise in curiosity. The venus
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by irahul 14y ago
Sigh. Another fluff piece - n things crap, coupled with the know-all attitude. > I get CVs with people with computer science degrees, AI courses, various media and coding under their belt but there's still something missing Yes, sure. I
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by irahul 14y ago
> Vim Script started as a hack and continued that way, with further functions being added on a "as-needed" basis. Why shouldn't adding functions on "as-needed" basis be the case? No body can see what might be needed in the future. All p
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by irahul 14y ago
> The problem with application-specific extension languages is that they may start underpowered and ad-hoc, whilst general purpose languages have already proved their worth and done so in several domains. The embedded language has to be
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by irahul 14y ago
Asking for email for a site which doesn't need it? Instant turn-off. I persevered because I found it intriguing. I wasn't familiar with Indonesian Ramayana, and thought how could they get the names of major characters and facts wrong(Shinta
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by irahul 14y ago
> Isn't it silly to ask a stupid question for the sake of making a rhetorical point? silly, stupid, rhetorical. Three insults in one reply - I am impressed. /s How is your reply any more relevant than his comment?
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you have the chance to choose to invest time in learning either a language to extend your editor or a general purpose language which you can use to extend your editor, which would be your best bet? It's not as uni-dimensional. Sure
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by irahul 14y ago
> "Don't listen to this study, listen to my firmly held belief". That's not how this works. If you want to combat a study you need to do so with another one, not by just saying throwing out untested assumptions. Yeah. Combat the studies
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by irahul 14y ago
> This issue is that studies show us vim's rules are wrong: modal editing is a source of confusion and error. The so called studies show people who aren't used to modes are confused when using a modal editor. > I used vi[m] exclus

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