irahul

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by irahul 14y ago
> Opening a file and reading from it takes tens of lines in Java, Some of the bad Java is because of missing abstractions, most of it is because of badly designed api. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.in/2007/05/amazingly-bad-apis.h... Fo
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by irahul 14y ago
Out of curiosity, would you still add them to "people to never contact" if the video was done sans the sex scene? The video would still be cheesy and over the top, but the whole start-up scene is over the top now-a-days.
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by irahul 14y ago
The length some people would go to win internet arguments are ridiculous. Words fail me.
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by irahul 14y ago
> The overwhelming majority of developers edits in a GUI editor though, be it in Visual Studio, XCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse or Vim / Emacs / TextMate / ST2 etc. The overwhelming majority of vim/emacs developers use it in a terminal, and ar
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by irahul 14y ago
> When those free/open-source editors come into the 21th century with regards to native integration/UI I might reconsider. Though both vim and emacs have gui interfaces, most of the users use them inside a terminal. You can wait till 22
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by irahul 14y ago
How is immediate feedback and interactivity going to help if the changes span more than one page? If you are going to extrapolate(looks fine on this page, must be fine elsewhere), you can very well extrapolate from a smaller sample size(run
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by irahul 14y ago
> I'll never understand people that want to spend hours configuring their text editor, despite how much more productive they say it makes them. I have no desires to spend hours configuring my editor, but I need an extensible editor. &#6
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by irahul 14y ago
> And then I'd press the dot key and do the same with the other lines in supposedly longer list. I am posting this again(posted above about running a macro on a range), but I guess lot of people don't know about this.You need not manual
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by irahul 14y ago
Rather than replaying it line by line, you can play it over a range. If you do this in your vimrc: vnoremap @q :normal @q<CR> You can record the macro in q register, select the visual range, and then do @q to run it over th
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by irahul 14y ago
> With all respect, Closure is nowhere near in terms of sanity, consistency and uniformity. It's Clojure http://clojure.org/ Closure is Google's js library and tools https://developers.google.com/closure/
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by irahul 14y ago
> Defining a macro for implementing a limited functionality a language can do, which consists of just a cond is a sign of inability to grasp what features are available and how to use them in appropriate way. Work on your reading compre
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by irahul 14y ago
> `(1 ,a) ; this construction satisfies the definition of list comprehension How dense you have to be to conveniently ignore everything, imagine arguments, imagine counter arguments, post it, and keep repeating it? How on earth (defin
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by irahul 14y ago
> This is very telling example of how differently Java people think. Notice how the blog didn't even mention Java once and is talking about Clojure and defmacro, still you managed to imagine the article, an argument and respond to it. W
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by irahul 14y ago
As bad as breaking changes sound, keeping historical baggage isn't ideal as well. I don't know about your friends, but if this is all that has changed, it would be a simple migration provided you already are on 3.2.
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by irahul 14y ago
> if proper procedures are followed. I have seen the proper procedure violated. I don't think hotels need to comply with PCI, so that safety net isn't there. I am a bit paranoid and I can't just count on people being good and competent
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by irahul 14y ago
> I believe it's then up to the receiver of the fax to physically secure it. Yes, I get it. Once you fax it to the hotel, it's not your problem. But how does it make things any better for me? You are still PCI compliant, but the custome
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by irahul 14y ago
> They don't forward your credit card as security. They forward it for the hotel to charge you for the entirety of your booking. Security, as in, the hotel will charge me with the passed-on information if I don't turn up. I still have t
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by irahul 14y ago
> Simply compare prices, and if you find it cheaper on a website, ask the hotel to give you 5% off. I did. The staff told me they sold a number of rooms well in advance, and the travel site does the pricing with a guaranteed return to
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by irahul 14y ago
> For the most availability, best prices and service, always book directly with a hotel. It has never been the case with me. Expedia, or any other travel site, always had better deals. In fact, I once called the hotel in question to ask
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by irahul 14y ago
Erm. I can guess this moment of silence has something to do with the recent shooting, but why is this submitted without any context?
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by irahul 14y ago
Just keep the laptop elevated(may be place a book beneath it) so that its air vents are clear and it will be mostly fine.
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by irahul 14y ago
Quoting from another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847971 <quote> If you are planning to run linux, seriously re-consider buying laptops with hybrid graphics. The graphic card might or might not run, the card switch
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by irahul 14y ago
> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com. +1 An u
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by irahul 14y ago
> Fibonacci and factorial functions have closed forms that can be computed efficiently than implementing the recurrence relation both in terms of clock cycles and developer time. It doesn't matter. The purpose of fibonacci is to underst
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by irahul 14y ago
> [2] Scala and Clojure being proof that it is still possible (though only to a lesser extent - tail call elimination and corecursion being an example where it fails completely). In clojure, loop..recur and trampoline does the job. Tail
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by irahul 14y ago
> I couldn't find one; mathematics had its discrete side, and made use of programs in many areas, but was uninterested in the theory of computation; computer science was mostly java training (I chose mathematics). I don't understand wh
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by irahul 14y ago
Picking on Fibonacci of all things? The goal of fibonacci and factorial examples are to teach recursion. Both fibonacci and factorial are good starting points for a beginner. It can be followed by discussions of dynamic programming where th
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by irahul 14y ago
bloggergirl: You are hell banned. Your comments are are marked dead on submission, and can only be seen by people who are logged in, and have "show dead" on in their profile. Open an incognito window or logout, and you won't be able to see
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by irahul 14y ago
I have mixed feeling about "Now save your payment information". "Save your payment info for next time" makes it clear that it is optional whereas the latter makes it look like part of the process. It might increase conversion(and did per th
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by irahul 14y ago
> Not all optimizations are universal. One example from the top of my mind would be Wikipedia's "personal appeal from Jimmy Wales" campaign. That photo made me uncomfortable, and I would have liked a more panoramic shot with the subject

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