irahul

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by irahul 15y ago
> There is nothing better than Word to collaboratively work on a manuscript in a research environment. Use version control, or wikis.
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by irahul 15y ago
How about attaching text files then?
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I am not. From what I have seen of YouTube, comments are vile, and mostly there are two strangers posting pointless arguments about something equally pointless. For me, YouTube is good for watching videos. If I want to discuss it, I post i
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by irahul 15y ago
> I'm all for patents (bye karma. but keep reading). that's what allow us humans to invent new things and improve our way of life. Yeah. So the guy who implemented the "pull to refresh" totally did it because he wanted a goddamn patent.
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by irahul 15y ago
> But is that really the best practice you want to teach other programmers? Apart from using braces for `for` loops, yes. > Fourfold inline computation? This snippet void *dest = blah blah; void *src = blah blah; s
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by irahul 15y ago
To add to the list, Peter Norwig's lisp interpreter is a short, concise introduction to interpreters. http://norvig.com/lispy.html http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
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by irahul 15y ago
When I was in college, I used to program a lot in Java and read a lot of books on Java. I found most of the text lacking and boring. The only book which didn't seem to insult reader's intelligence was Core Java vol 1 http://www.amazon.com/
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by irahul 15y ago
mark_up and chevas: Looking at your comments history, it doesn't look like you post inappropriate comments, and have most likely been banned by mistake. You can make new accounts, but I would suggest getting your current accounts unbanned.
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Among the books "programmers have read", I have read K&R, Programming Pearls and bits and pieces of Effective Java and C++. I thoroughly enjoyed these books. The other books on the "have read" list are on my "don't bother reading" list.
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> My main concern was that their courses are extremely rigorous and thus would consume a huge portion of time, possibly not leaving enough time to work on awesome side projects. You will have the rest of your life to work on your aweso
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> What's with all the 'Boo! College is bad!' posts these days? It's "Why I am unsubscribing" which is different from "Boo! College is bad!" > Don't get me wrong, if people find good jobs and educate themselves without going to colle
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> The goal of Java was always to be able to "write large programs quickly." That wasn't the goal of Java, not by a mile. The goal of Java was to build a language that runs everywhere, and to facilitate Sun's "everything(your watch, toas
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> Because of the brain's ability to access things which are not exactly constrained to it's physicality, Philosophy and spirituality aren't science. Do you have any citations for brain's metaphysical abilities? Unless proven to be true,
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> Would Apple be so creative if they weren't so profitable? Isn't it their profitability which gives them the ability to spend time and money on R&D? If you take away the profit, don't you take away the opportunity to do R&D? If
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> Wienert is not trying to pass this off as his own work. He's not selling it. He can pass this off as his own work and sell it for all I care. I don't know who created the first blogging engine, but do you believe all subsequent bloggi
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> It honestly perplexes me how you can in the same breath admit that someone has done hard work and imply that you owe them nothing for using it. I am quoting this example for the second time. MS made Office common place. It doesn't mea
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> As a designer, I find it somewhat perplexing that people here demand that code be directly copied for something like this be wrong. Design is more abstract than code, yes, but it's just as fundamental a part of the resulting product.
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> Taking an existing closed system and opening it is a pretty fundamental part of the hacker ethic. However, it must be done in good faith and good taste. 1. OpenOffice.org says we don't like MS. How about we clone Office and annoy the
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> Please take this site down and delete the Github repository. The work isn't yours. Any semi-competent programmer can reproduce it within a day or two(the OP did it in a shorter span of time). That won't help, and you aren't entitled
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> The proper expression is "I was horrified and angered by it," I was horrified and angered by it, and I know very well that assholes who show their bare butt pictures in interviews are incorrigible bastards, and if I happen to meet one
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by irahul 15y ago
sock.sendall() isn't the same as `sock.send(); sock.flush()` sendall will look something like: def sendall(sock, msg): totalsent = 0 MSGLEN = len(msg) while totalsent < MSGLEN: sent = sock.send(
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I hand coded an epoll implementation for Python. https://github.com/rahulkmr/Key-Value-Polyglot/blob/master/m... As far as raw benchmark goes, it runs faster than the go version on my machine: # Go version. Changed test.py to 10000
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Why are you doing `sudo go get`? I installed go under my home directory, and `go get` works fine.
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Configuring tmux is easier than configuring screen. And you can patch screen to do vertical splits. The patched screen has been the one that installs in Ubuntu for some time now.
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> Python, with its "batteries included" philosophy is a poor choice because it misses the original intent. With Scheme, you have to invent everything. With Python, you just have to look up the documentation. Your point doesn't hold. Wit
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> First off, I get that Norvig is a celebrity. Celebrity has little to do with teaching ability. Perter Norvig is a celebrity because of his technical accomplishments and teaching prowess. He is the author of PAIP which is regarded as o
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> I think the point is that everybody could learn something from trying to use different tools. Sure. I have used web2py for small projects, and have used Flask and Django heavily. I like Flask because it doesn't try to be everything an
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I am missing the purpose of this library. When I use Flask, I use Flask-SQLAlchemy for Data Access and ORM, Flask-WTForm for forms and Jinja2 for templates. I don't see what I gain by using the web2py components in Flask.
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> Don't know if it should be a method or an attribute? Python has properties now, the user doesn't have to care. Python didn't have properties when the len protocol was implemented. What exactly will be gained if Python replaces len(a)
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Note that I said believed to be Aryan descendants . I have seen the studies de-bunking Aryan invasion based on the genetic make-up, but I don't believe there is a consensus yet. More importantly, I was pointing out India as a country fragm

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