irahul

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by irahul 15y ago
What about this one http://www.bingocardcreator.com/ That doesn't look that good looking to me.
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by irahul 15y ago
> Also, since it appears to be a new & custom irc server, i'd not really be willing to trust corporate communication on a platform known for attracting hackers. > Obvious troll. I wonder why did the popular media portray IRC as
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by irahul 15y ago
I have my phone on all the time, regardless of if I am on vacation or not. When I take a vacation and I have spare time, I work - sometimes billable, sometimes not. Vacation for me doesn't equate to switch off the laptop. I spend a lot of t
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by irahul 15y ago
Yes, indeed it should be $7 instead of $6. I didn't run it when I posted the comment. I just copied it from the article.
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by irahul 15y ago
b = a[:] This happens to be fastest, and language recommended way to copy lists. I really don't buy the argument about languages being intuitive to people who don't know the language. Languages should be optimized for people who k
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by irahul 15y ago
> It's not an analogy, it's a parody. Whatever it is, it's fundamentally flawed. People studying to be theoretical physicists know it's a long and hard path. Also, they are eligible for a number of quant jobs. > No education makes y
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by irahul 15y ago
> I could've become a journalist/blog writer, novelist, advertising copywriter, movie or TV show writer, academic, etc. That's what I am trying to say in another thread here. You picked a major, now pick a job which is backed up by it,
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by irahul 15y ago
> Study "Theoretical Physics" if you are inclined to. Everybody will be happy if you acknowledge: I realize you are posting an analogy. I would still like to point out I am yet to meet someone who studies theoretical physics and doesn't
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by irahul 15y ago
Study "History of art" if you are inclined to. Everybody will be happy if you acknowledge: 1. It isn't relevant to most of the jobs. 2. You aren't entitled to a job. 3. Your well-roundedness and other things you bring to the table is your
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by irahul 15y ago
The awk version looks idiomatic to me. Except that I will take the FS out: awk -F: '$6=="/sbin/nologin" {print $1}' /etc/passwd
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by irahul 15y ago
> I needed to spell my first name (David) out to them using the NATO phonetic alphabet. Did you just say "Delta Alpha..." or "D as in Delta, A as in Alpha"? I can assure you the first one would confuse the hell out of most of the India
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by irahul 15y ago
I don't know about the paid accounts, but my free account works fine on my Android. I don't see why the native app shouldn't work fine for Apps accounts on iOS.
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by irahul 15y ago
What phone are you using? I use a Samsung Galaxy S I9003, and when I set up account sync, it starts a background service for syncing my gmail and google apps accounts, and is syncs and notifies just fine regardless of whether I have the mai
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by irahul 15y ago
I see that you have been around for some time, and you tend to post "totally agree" style comments. Just so you know, the general etiquette here is to upvote if you agree, and don't have anything else to add.
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by irahul 15y ago
> (or maybe it means something else?) I think it mostly has to do with loaded terms. If you company is called "cool.com", it's a loaded term and searching for something related to the company will yield a lot of false positives - e.g.
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by irahul 15y ago
English isn't my first language, but I believe "hoe" means prostitute, and doesn't have any positive connotations in any context. Your remark doesn't have anything to do with the context, and is offensive.
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by irahul 15y ago
That "brogrammer" part was ambiguous, and it wasn't clear whether it was meant as a compliment or a complain. Reading the next paragraph about her going to meetups and advancing her career does make it clear that it was meant to be positive
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by irahul 15y ago
> free markets tend to punish companies, over the long term, that intentionally deny themselves access to talent due to bigotry. Conversely, companies who acquire talent with rational screening procedures will have a competitive advanta
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by irahul 15y ago
> "Brogrammer," is not a unisex term, no matter how they try to spin it. No one sensible would try to spin it as unisex. I think it's simply an oversight on their part - more stronger than addressing a gathering "hey guys", but on the
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by irahul 15y ago
I am saying since there is no welfare, and she needs money, she might be going through a job which doesn't pay enough. I don't know how does the minimum wage calculation work, and it might be more than 800 INR for about half an hour of work
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by irahul 15y ago
My maid does the job because the job is pretty light weight and takes about half an hour on an average day. This setup enables her to work at other places. Maids aren't paid highly here because there is no welfare, the general income is qui
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by irahul 15y ago
> Wait.. you're saying by working in US, you can support yourself here AND support your family back home Considering that 1 USD is 49.5 INR, why does this come as a surprise to you? For context, 1000 USD will be around 49000 INR at curr
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by irahul 15y ago
PLT Racket has implemented languages with different semantics within Racket - http://docs.racket-lang.org/ See the other languages section.
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by irahul 15y ago
And the way of thinking isn't constant. It changes over time. A 15 year old you, a 25 year old you and a 50 year old you are all different people. A 500 year old you will most probably be a different person. There are people who resist chan
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by irahul 15y ago
> By your own statements, you don't look at resumes, and you apparently don't ask any particular questions about work history or education during your interview process. This thread is already a bit too long, and I haven't read through
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by irahul 15y ago
> I find that people that have the hardest time writing tests have poorly-architected applications that don't lend themselves to easy testing. It's generally good to start with some framework which provides capabilities to easily mock m
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by irahul 15y ago
> orly? Oh, really? Yes. > Alcohol is a very large problem, not least keeping people isolated and stuck in their lower self, see Timothy Learys writings on drugs and Chakras. http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa38.htm Alcohol
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by irahul 15y ago
> Tell that to the women who started the prohibition movement because they and their children were being beaten while their husbands drank their earnings away. And how prevalent is that "wife beating" today? Alcohol exists, and "wife be
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by irahul 15y ago
> A society with so many ppl that rely so much on alcohol is just a symptom of even bigger problem. It's common for people who don't drink to assume alcohol is a big problem - it's not. > Give people a sense of purpose, or better co
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by irahul 15y ago
Why the downvotes? Though the comment is snarky, it's simply saying not everything can be made accessible to everyone. The visualization of maze generation in the presentation is pretty neat, and is meant to demonstrate the running algorith

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