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by ivenkys 16y ago
Just in case someone misses this - this is circa 2005.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"It’s about how fast you have a running system that is responsive to the needs of the user." - This is the key. Make it look nice with excellent fonts and i am sold. I know this is not designed for a workstation - but for standard browsing,
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Thank you.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"that people signed up based on a particular set of terms but the company then changed those terms and switched a default opt-in to a default opt-out after the fact" Thanks for putting this in such clear terms. I am not on FB but whenever i
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Why has this taken so long , why is this not self-evident ?
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"What I'd like is distributed p2p linking. No personal data on a server that isn't yours." - This is exactly right. do, Currently my personal photos,emails etc. all run from a server hosted in my closet and when i need to share stuff i send
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This is exactly the reason why we need search on YC. Having a search button would simply "officialise" the default mode of searching on searchyc and then coming back here to submit the story.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
That's my problem with this - why would i pay $40 for something that is available at $0.01. Yes i might believe it is worth $40 but when i am getting something for much cheaper than that surely i would just buy and wait for it to go up, in
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Here is the movement of Accenture as given by WSJ: "With Accenture, for example, 20,365 shares changed hands at around $39.98 during the minute of 2:46 p.m., then another 68,516 shares were traded at $38 per share during the minute of 2:47.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"It just pollutes the web with content that is available in a better form elsewhere." - A lot of this already happens with aggregator sites, blog posts,auto-generated link bait sites etc. so this is nothing really new , so FB is only addin
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I should have been clearer, in your initial comment , you said "an appallingly large number of seats" , 6 is not an appallingly large number of seats - yes, six more than what they have now but i would not class that as appallingly large. M
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I don't mind a rag-tag coalition , my problem is with the stability of it. Its probably better for parties with at least a common minimum program to work together than two parties that have nothing in common trying to stick together and run
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"it keeps extremism out of the Parliament", i understand this but would it not be better to have these parties play by the rules in the system rather than be out of it and make things up as they go along. There are quite a few examples of e
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Its not necessarily a bad thing , the issue here is none of the other smaller parties have anything in common with the Tories,who look unlikely to form a govt. on their own. Of course, a rag-tag coalition ideologically opposite of each othe
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"Where did the Lib Dem vote go?" Two things : (A) Lib Dem lost a lot of ground after the third debate, especially on Immigration - the amnesty issue. (B) The Lib Dems almost shutout the Labour party in the final days of polling, thereby in
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I am assuming here that you have checked that there is nothing you can do legally. All the best.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"I might find this position more attractive in a number of ways" - Talk to your boss about this, tell him why you would like to continue working for him and see if there is something he/she can do. If it doesn't work, walk out, making sure
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by ivenkys 16y ago
ESR might have been relevant and interesting at one point - way back in the past. Now , he is just a blowhard with an inflated ego. I am not sure at what point he "jumped the shark" but somewhere down the line his articles/notes started bei
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by ivenkys 16y ago
This is absolutely the best advice i know of on losing fat. Its quite straight forward - Eat less, work more, repeat. Sometimes you slip - Easter, friend's stag do, weekend in Vegas etc. - you start again. This is not rocket science. I read
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"Every programmer I know has heard of these..." - Absolutely. The frequency of these "lightweight" articles has increased of late (e.g. Linode,Slicehost gets newest release of Ubuntu, JavaScript starter link, etc.). May be this is an indica
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Sure , its this - http://thetrampery.com/ My requirements were silence, natural light, space to walk as and when, 24 hours access and plenty of eateries near by. This place seems to do the trick.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
http://imgur.com/T0DKp.jpg That's me, running ArchLinux. This is in London in a co-working space in Shoreditch. EDIT: I find 2 or at the maximum 3 screens to be optimum but i do keep a separate laptop for communication, browsing activitie
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by ivenkys 16y ago
Arch Linux + OpenBSD. So yes.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I can see your point but my take is - that's what New Year, Christmas, ${Special_Occasion} are for, keeping in touch with fringe acquaintances. Send an email on those days.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
I never went in - i still don't understand the point of FB or others of their ilk. If i really want to keep in touch with far-flung family, friends - i pick up the phone or drop an email. If they are important to me i will make the effort.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
There are quite few disparate collections of stories and myths from India. My suggestion would be to start with the Mahabharata, it is a whole literature in itself and is at par with some of the best in the world. Start with a summarised ve
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"the time between election and counting" - This is of course quite critical , from what i know of India, in certain parts of the country - ballot stuffing of paper ballots was very prevalent. EVM's at least preclude that possibility.
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by ivenkys 16y ago
"Such machines have already been abandoned in Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Florida and many other places. India should follow suit,". Interesting. Was this known pre-election in 2009 ?
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Squanderville vs Thriftville - More relevant now ?(money.cnn.com)
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by ivenkys 16y ago
There was a story similar to this on Freakonomics and they had the same result - "Honesty is inversely proportional to income".

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