irahul

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by irahul 13y ago
"real books, utility books, classics"...Really? Again? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4527506
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by irahul 13y ago
> Another way of wording that would have been to say that window manipulation (including scroll and resize) have always existed on the right side of the window and moving some of those controls to the left is not only a flaw in Unity, bu
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by irahul 13y ago
> . And in torture friendly areas, it's better to have the option to give up your password and be killed quickly than to have the adversary believe that there's a hidden volume they haven't beat out of you yet. How will gi
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by irahul 13y ago
> Do experienced java programming concatenate a bunch of strings together, or is there a format method? If you just want to append strings, use StringBuilder(not any different from C#). If you want to format strings, use String.format(an
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by irahul 13y ago
> With this release, can we immediately start using version 3? You should stick with 2.7 As mentioned in your linked blog post, porting Flask to Python 3 wasn't the issue. The issue is the other libraries which you will use to build
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by irahul 13y ago
He is implying with the evidence that werkzeug which he wrote is much bigger than bottle owing to complexities of wsgi/http, and bottle's smaller size means either the implementation is incomplete or the implementation is too clev
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by irahul 13y ago
Surely if you measure cheap by what starts at 350 rupees. A lot of things get cheaper. You keep changing stance - most foreign books are not cheap(they are), technical books aren't the only books(no they are not; fiction is cheaper, non-f
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by irahul 13y ago
> The author is currently writing a book about OCaml that is now available in alpha format from here: http://www.realworldocaml.org/ For anyone else trying to take a peek, authorizing github doesn't necessarily grant you access as the
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by irahul 13y ago
> I don't know from where you are buying 'foreign books for cheap' and I'm not sure if you are referring only to LPE text books. I don't have special shops to buy books for free, and I am not referring to LPE editions only. I am saying
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by irahul 13y ago
> Mostly everything from Flipkart (and for that matter, it appears, from Amazon) can be bought cash-on-delivery. I know most of the things can be bough cash-on-delivery. I was responding to "high priced items viz. laptops" can't be boug
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by irahul 13y ago
> You have taken one book, but in most general cases foreign author books are quite expensive in India. Books which are published in India are quite cheap(especially if they happen to be popular). Most of the pearson books are LPE(low p
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by irahul 13y ago
> The end result is that Indian book prices are quite high for a country with largely third-world living standards. Indian book prices, especially for foreign books which are published in India, is quite low. http://www.flipkart.com/fe
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by irahul 13y ago
In India, laptops can be cash-on-delivery. When I order from Flipkart(India's very own Amazon), I always opt for cash-on-delivery. I see no point in paying up-front when sometimes they don't have the goods and I have to wait for refunds. Th
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by irahul 13y ago
> Same with vim, if you add every fantastic and absolutely necessary tweak you read on the blogs, you get somethin much slower than eclipse in a week. I am not sure what you mean by "every tweak" but fwiw: $ ls ~/.vim/bundle | wc
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by irahul 13y ago
> The example of code completion is actually pretty informative -- this is something that IDEs were doing routinely 15 years ago that emacs still doesn't do well, Isn't the point of the article that emacs shouldn't do it but call upon
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by irahul 13y ago
Rather than switching between rnu and nu, I simply have `set rnu` and absolute line number in my status line.
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by irahul 13y ago
A more complete interpreter: http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
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by irahul 13y ago
> I think she might have given up on programming a bit prematurely. The pendulum has obviously swung completely the other way with high level languages like Haskell pushing forward compiler optimization C compilers were optimizing long
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by irahul 13y ago
> Chicken Scheme is in the same position. It has a pretty extensive library, extends far beyond R5RS, May be I am looking from Racket's vantage point, but chicken scheme is R5R7 + some srfi. Compared to Racket which adds oop, myriad of
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by irahul 13y ago
> Huh, that's almost like like saying "Where Visual Studio C++ succeeds over C". It's still on the inside, isn't it? It was a shady move on their part :-) The comparison with Visual C++ isn't apt. Visual C++ for the most part is librari
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by irahul 13y ago
> Emacs is a bit easier to use for long typing sessions, but DrRacket indents better. May be Racket has a very small mindshare when it comes to Emacs users, otherwise someone would have written a better indentation mode by now. > I
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by irahul 13y ago
> that's why he didn't make any progress. If you are employed by a temp agency, I don't think there is much progress to be made. The company needed a QA, temp agency forwarded the resume, there was a match, and that's that. There is no
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by irahul 13y ago
> If the prisons were focused on fixing the root problem in the criminals, as if they were some sort of refuge for edification, conditioning and correction then a large body of the homeless would commit a strategic crime in order to get
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by irahul 13y ago
> Lecturing from a book, or from notes, is sometimes the right thing to do The issue isn't "lecturing from a book" vs "teaching from memory" but "literally reading from the book", expecting students to take notes(Why?) and classifying t
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by irahul 13y ago
> What am I missing? Import hooks.
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by irahul 14y ago
`ssh -D 8080 micro-ec2` and proxy through localhost:8080 till it's sorted out.
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by irahul 14y ago
> PHP has been designed from the get go to be super fast PHP was never designed to be fast. As far as execution speed goes, PHP will be in the same ballpark as Perl?Python/Ruby. PHP comes up as faster in these tests because of all the e
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by irahul 14y ago
What are your using for db access? If you are using SQLAlchemy or Flask-SQLAlchemy, that should automatically do connection pooling.
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by irahul 14y ago
If you are moving from screen to tmux, it's very easy to configure tmux to behave like screen. Also, for split panes, I like vim bindings('C-a l' for left pane, 'C-a r' for right pane, 'C-a <' for resize pane...). I have bindings for co
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by irahul 14y ago
Meta: What happened with this thread? I am pretty sure when I submitted my first comment, it showed me [DEAD], and now it's undead again.

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