ivenkys

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by ivenkys 17y ago
Brilliant ,technology to actually solve a "real" problem, we could do with one of those in high-density Cities like London.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Harsh but fair.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Simple reason - dilute/diversify your USD holdings. Its pretty well known that the Chinese and Indian Banks hold one of the largest USD reserves in the world and have been responsible for artificially inflating the price of the USD , this h
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by ivenkys 17y ago
The article doesn't go into any details and that site is pretty well known for its negative coverage of GS but the wide connections of GS to the Financial Authorities and with other large companies is quite well known. Anyone who thinks tha
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by ivenkys 17y ago
"I searched the keyword on twitter for a few days" There, you have used Twitter in the fashion of the "traditional" web, you just went to a RTW source thats all. My point is i generally don't have any use for what "now" is happening, anythi
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Same here , when i discovered it i couldn't understand how i had been working without it for so long , suddenly i had 1 large terminal rather than "n" different terminals. The only thing i miss now is vertical splits , i think tmux solves t
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I am yet to find any use for the Real Time Web in whatever (twitter,email,facebook,rss feeds) format. As a consumer none of these actually enhance either my productivity or knowledge in anyway, they are merely there for entertainment. Surpr
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Excellent design, very cool.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
The amount of money being made is definitely a WTF , the moot point of course is "There is a sucker born every minute". Who are these people who are forking out real money to buy crap ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Correct ,but there is also the focus on the ensuing discussion, feedback. Popular blogs can have a large comment population and it is quite hard to follow the ensuing relevant discussion. Twitter to some extent alleviates that but then Twit
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Its the age-old question of being able to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio. The bottom-line is that the more "democratic" a forum/board/discussion media gets, the more clueless it becomes. There doesn't seem to be a way to get away fro
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Who are the people who sign up for this scams ? Doesn't everyone know enough about these apps to know that ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Is this supposed to be some sort of a sarcastic or humorous piece ? Yes, old people may not be tech-savvy but of course there are lots of counter-examples to this and yes technology is not the only thing in life so why take painfully co
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I should have been clearer - most programmers i know are happy to try out the various font customization techniques and some of them accept it even - by "masses" i meant the large number of people who have used a computer(primarily Windows)
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by ivenkys 17y ago
All true. Ubuntu's avowed mission is to bring Linux to the Masses. For the masses, a computer still "looks" like Windows. Ubuntu being a Funded initiative unlike Arch(my choice), Gentoo, Crunchbang et all needs to fund the development of ty
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Its all well and good for Ubuntu to push further ahead but they would do a real big favor to the push of Linux on the Desktop if they could solve 1 major issue , remove the ugliness in the default rendering of the Fonts. Yes, i know it can
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Why is this article at the top of the page ? As so many people have pointed out - he is neither an unknown nor has there been any recent incident/discovery which would require a re-iteration of his "geniusness".
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by ivenkys 17y ago
At one point,probably right at the beginning,Reddit was a bona-fide news-aggregation site. Now, its just an outpost of 4Chan, at least the main page definitely is. Nothing wrong with that except the contents and quality of comments and post
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by ivenkys 17y ago
What are financial derivatives is fairly well understood at least at a conceptual level. The interesting details are of course: 1. What is the actual price of a derivative product especially of a Credit Derivative product ? 2. What is your
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Thanks.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Absolutely , that was the first thing that came to my mind - this is <i>Worse is Better</i> and taking a further leap its a result of <i>Release Early and Release Often</i>.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I do exactly the same. Added to this, in large legacy code bases with no or very little tests, i sometimes try and break the functionality near to the part where a new fix is required in my private branch to check my understanding. I find t
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Did anyone else find the website really slow (constant buffering) ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Hmm , i think i understand what it does and what its used for but i still think the UI Design can be improved a lot and made more intuitive, as a first pass: Wasted page space,very small font sizes, colour combination can be better, too man
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by ivenkys 17y ago
I understand the philosophy and yes that has in a way future-proofed the JVM. The question is "Does it make sense to try and include advanced language features in a round-about manner into Java ?" Surely this approach only leads to addition
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by ivenkys 17y ago
At what point does managing the complexity of all the "add-on" pieces of software - APT, Meta-model generators, IDE magic, the interconnecting build tools et all - become too high ? Why not strengthen the core language ?
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Cardinal mistake, its not obvious what it does. I bet users have to be specifically trained to use the UI , which in this day and age is not acceptable.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Google Maps, very very good. Honourable mention , Apps from 37Signals.
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by ivenkys 17y ago
Addictive, very low barrier to entry - but where's the stickiness ? Why would i go back and more importantly what is there to make me remember my fights of which film won or lost ?