irahul

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Small functions to functionally augment ruby.(github.com)
33 points by irahul 15y ago|7 comments
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by irahul 15y ago
> though I am somewhat dubious of IIT grads being better programmers than the average tech talent even in Bangalore. I believe it's more like given a choice between someone `who is most probably a good athlete and may or may not be a go
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by irahul 15y ago
Why is fogus being downvoted? I don't see anything wrong with his comments - he is being civil and rational.
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by irahul 15y ago
VimClojure doesn't have any s-expr manipulating shortcuts, does it?
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by irahul 15y ago
> Bad trend in the open-source community. Please don't ask your users to install stuff this way. Not that you can't be trusted, it leads to people dropping their guard. And what will be the right way to do it? The way people don't drop
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by irahul 15y ago
> If you install a package via the package managers on debian, ubuntu, fedora, and other major distros you can be reasonably sure that the packages aren't malicious because they've been security reviewed before they made it into APT/YUM
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by irahul 15y ago
Cutting edge means "latest or advanced stage of development". Rails was miles ahead of existing frameworks when it first came into scene. Rails was cutting edge, and it needed a stable application server - mongrel filled that niche. And a s
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by irahul 15y ago
> which is actually an 8.67% improvement (60% + 60% * 8.76 / 100 = 65.2%). Yes, it is 8.67%. Illustrating the calculation is better served by: Initial: 60 After: 65.2 Increase: 5.2 % Increase: 5.2 / 60 * 100 = 8.76
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by irahul 15y ago
> Can you name off the top of your head some of the core developers of FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hadoop, Gnome and a dozen others more important FOSS projects? I can't, and yet this doesn't say anything about both the significance of
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by irahul 15y ago
> Oh, and this was similarly obnoxious (if not said tongue-in-cheek): Your developers stare blankly or say 3 "Hail Marys" when they hear the name "Zed Shaw": Scala == Hard That basically means if you follow technical news, and cutting e
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by irahul 15y ago
> Honestly, this advice applies to anyone anywhere. A good university teaches you things in a systematic manner, and teaches you things which you won't learn by yourself. It's not that you can't - most likely you won't. Universities lik
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by irahul 15y ago
You sure can't learn CS by only reading a book - the keyword here is only . Following through good books is an excellent way to learn programming. I don't believe anyone who has followed through K&R would have any difficulty getting
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by irahul 15y ago
> It's a flavor of Linux? That doesn't disqualify it from being an operating system.
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by irahul 15y ago
> Ubuntu is not an operating system. Ubuntu seems to disagree http://www.ubuntu.com/ "Ubuntu is a fast, secure and easy-to-use operating system used by millions of people around the world."
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by irahul 15y ago
What makes you think it's GWT? The blogpost doesn't mention it.
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by irahul 15y ago
It is inaccurate and only shows the tip of the iceberg. I have the Chromium extension FWIW, but I don't trust it at all. It shows me one of my GAE site as a ASP.net site.
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by irahul 15y ago
> Embedding an iframe with the url in a html page will cause all visitors to the page to get the affiliation. Won't a simple <img src=...> work? Why go the iframe route? I don't think this is going to be the final affiliation im
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by irahul 15y ago
What's the technology stack?
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by irahul 15y ago
I need a notification option where I can opt out for receiving mails for needs I raised, and not for needs I responded to. Since it's a package deal, I turned it off completely. Had there been an option not to receive mail for needs I answe
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by irahul 15y ago
I think you meant "registered" instead of "registering". I clicked it after I already had registered, and it showed me notification about being part of hacker news group. > You are now a member of Hacker News Reader. Other Hacker News R
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by irahul 15y ago
> (there's a reason there's a vi/vim mode or plugin for every major editor except emacs Viper? Vim mode? That's another story that these vim modes in emacs are hated by both emacs and vim users. I don't know who exactly they cater to.
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by irahul 15y ago
> a text editor whose interface was already far behind the state of the art when I started school? And what exactly is this state of the art you talk about? If it's the IDEs you are talking about, saying that they suck at text editing
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by irahul 15y ago
That is totally uncalled for. I am sure you can and should articulate your differences with a lot less sarcasm, and a lot more substance.
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by irahul 15y ago
> Rubinius and PyPy take quite different approaches to solving the same general problem. > However, it's not breaking new ground like PyPy is. I know about the differences. My response was to the parent post "if there is something l
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by irahul 15y ago
> but PyPy is one of the few things I envy Python developers for. Depending on your needs, there are others - numpy, scipy, matplotlib, nltk, gevent. > I wish something similar could be developed for Ruby. Isn't http://rubini.us/
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by irahul 15y ago
If your fb id is raptrex, https://graph.facebook.com/raptrex There might be another way, but this is the one I use.
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by irahul 15y ago
I don't know about US, but here in India, you can re-incorporate. I don't see how that can be an issue - operate as a LLC(if you have reasons to) - re-incorporate later when you are becoming a potential acquisition target. I don't think who
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by irahul 15y ago
> How are you going to convince folks in their 60s and 70s to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in something completely unproven if, at the very least, you haven't studied corporate finance and corporate strategy at HBS or Wharton
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by irahul 15y ago
> start a wireless company then I think having an MBA would make a pretty big difference. How would an MBA make a pretty big difference for a wireless company?
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by irahul 15y ago
> We always had plenty of time to spend with our family and > friends. > If you cannot say that, I's say you failed. Doesn't "not having plenty of time to spend with our family and friends" follows directly from not winding u

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