irahul

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by irahul 15y ago
> It is? Where do you live that this is a normal thing? When I joined my first job, my employer asked for my passport(id proof), college mark sheets(unless you score x, you aren't eligible for the job), high school mark sheet(10th and 1
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by irahul 15y ago
> Given that you pay for the server in advance, a VPS is essentially zero risk for them. I am also surprised by this requirement. I am still not fully convinced, but this post makes some good points. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by irahul 15y ago
I mostly agree with what you say. I was a bit angry because they didn't mention this at the time of signing up. It might be somewhere in the t&c but I think this kind of information should be explicitly told viz. we require your passpor
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by irahul 15y ago
I don't see how your speculations about how they are using the documents relates with your initial claim of risk mitigation and especially, low cost . > Banks might be less likely to reverse a charge if you have a photo of the credit c
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by irahul 15y ago
> No, they would turn you down because you cannot present to them their risk guarantee criteria that enable their low prices. What kind of risks are they putting up with without a photograph of my credit card? Stolen cards? People deact
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I have a question. Do they always ask for passport scan and credit card photograph, or I fall under some special category which makes me suspicious? Going by the rave reviews, I ordered the 512 MB vps to evaluate, and was greeted by an emai
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by irahul 15y ago
> Having 14 gold medals does not prove to anyone that your butterfly stoke technique could not be better. >> Having 14 gold medals means that though his butterfly stroke might or might not need improvement, a random punk on the
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"Michael Phelps sucks. He doesn't know shit about swimming." This criticism should be valid regardless of my identity and credentials?
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by irahul 15y ago
What do people gain by writing ill informed, flame bait artictles? http://docs.python.org/ Official python docs are a class of its own - browse online, higher in google results, download static files, offline searching, well organized, cu
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by irahul 15y ago
> Having 14 gold medals does not prove to anyone that your butterfly stoke technique could not be better. Having 14 gold medals means that though his butterfly stroke might or might not need improvement, a random punk on the internet do
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> I've wanted something like that in Python at different times... thanks! Python's auto-vivification doens't allow Perl's hap hazard auto-vivification. Perl allows you to say: my $foo = {}; $foo->{'blah'}[0]->{'bar'}++
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by irahul 15y ago
> Not sure if this is the case or not, but certain templating systems make it really hard to remove extra whitespace/lines (I'm looking at you Jinja2) Jinja2 is a generic templating engine, and as such can't make assumptions about relev
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by irahul 15y ago
> 2- Removes unnecessary space (empty lines and spaces). Why the extra bits? The extra whitespaces are most probably the template output. If he is using erb, erb is a generic template and doesn't make assumptions about relevance of whit
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by irahul 15y ago
Come now. If you are going to randomly put down people, at least point out why you think so.
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> Or they have too much legacy code that they cannot change? Changing the css isn't some legacy code that can't be changed.
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by irahul 15y ago
forecast := service forecastForDays: 5 format: 'Xml'. The equivalent ruby is shown as: forecast = server.forecastForDaysInFormat(5, "xml") The example is illustrative, and a ruby code in the wild will generally use posit
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by irahul 15y ago
> What is the main USP to dive into Clojure (except the similarity to LISP)? 1. Runs on JVM. JVM is good for long running and/or compute intensive processes, has extensive ecosystem and enterprises dig it. 2. STM and immutability makes
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My bad. Regarding stronger assumptions, is there anything other than independence(thus the name naive) that it assumes?
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> On the other hand, people who know a bit about ML but understand the domain better start by applying intuition to data cleansing and then follow up with simpler algorithms. I find data cleansing(if you are including feature selection
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If you use windows or mono is an option, F# is an alternative to Haskell. F# comprises on purity for practicality, and adds a couple of niceties of its own over the ML core. It also allows convenient OOP, but in now way forces to use it if
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> but the point is that we need to communicate and collaborate. You are missing the point. >> It would not surprise me if notch fails to consult this "standards committee" when he finally communicates how this CPU will interfa
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> However, I’m also with the author in that there are obvious social issues arising from the existence of many implementations. There are issues with competing implementations, but I would say that's not totally bad(options are good) an
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Will it be too much to ask that the lispers build cool shit, and then brag about how lips made it easy? That would be more pleasant compared to this chest thumping. The traits associated with lispers(lone wolves, nih syndrome, not intereste
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by irahul 15y ago
I asked the same question about a year and half ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808568 At that time, you weren't so "perl 6 is not ready" camp. What changed?
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by irahul 15y ago
> Well I should have learned long back to not argue with impolite people. Sheesh. In this thread, there is nothing but platitude in your posts, and you are constantly trying to put down people(everyone else who doesn't agree with you ab
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by irahul 15y ago
> Sorry! I shouldn't have hurt your religion at the first place. In place of spewing this nonsensical shit, you could have quoted me an example of "exponential gains". Out of curiosity, have you actually programmed in Lisp or Haskell? I
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> I am going to neglect the responses 'Bullshit' basically because that means you don't have an answer at the moment. Saying 'python feels like java' or 'exponential gains from switching language' is bullshit , and augmenting it with "
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> Regex support is really bad in Python More verbose than Perl? Yes. Bad? for x in re.findall(r'\d+', '12 drummers, 11 pipers'): print x How is this bad? > file operations are not trivial. File operations are trivia
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> I am attending a very large state school (over 40,000 students) and I am struggling to connect with people. Though the crowd might make you uncomfortable, you can take solace in the fact that you need not connect with all of them. Fri
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by irahul 15y ago
> Imagine if your post was reversed, and described why design-based startups can't find good programmers. All the pejorative "this vs. that" statements you could write about a programmer and what their "environment encourages." I imagin

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