jaseemabid

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by jaseemabid 10y ago
Got there, and deleted all of it. ~10 years of search, browsing history and all other activity. I feel good.
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by jaseemabid 10y ago
Refreshing to see something other than lorem ipsum.
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by jaseemabid 10y ago
Why they don't use SI even for scientific measurements?
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by jaseemabid 10y ago
I'm using latexmk right now. Thank you!
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by jaseemabid 10y ago
over http!
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by jaseemabid 10y ago
To anyone who does not know, Pieter Hintjens is the CEO of iMatix, where they build AMQP, ZMQ etc. Take care /u/PieterH. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens 2. https://news.ycombinator
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
If you have some time to spare, watch this talk "The astonishing simplicity of everything" by Neil Turok. He explains all this so beautifully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9lgX8GaE
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
1984?
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
> They come with Windows by default, but you can pick Ubuntu instead and shave about $100 off the price. How awesome!
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
Reasons to reject "if/else and switch as expressions" looks very naive. Can't believe it's coming from Chris Lattner. A lot of languages like Python, Haskell and Rust got this right.
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
Bryan O'Sullivan (Haskell, Facebook) mentioned in a talk that he got into the whole Haskell ecosystem while interning for Simon P.J. (the author of this book) and this book helped him get started back then.
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
I don't normally do this, buts hard to not nitpick this time. Why would you split a story into 50 tweets? Its the hardest way to read content.
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
Every time I see this pattern, a part of me dies inside. collection = [] for i in data: collection.append(fn(i)) Why not just [fn(i) for i in data] ?
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
Does knowing any of this make you a better programmer? I'd say no. Should you be using any of this in production code? No The next programmer even if he is a really good one might not know that particular esoteric trick. I'm not t
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
I feel that we should do it.
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by jaseemabid 11y ago
First step: Learn Haskell :D
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
There is a very good criticism here: http://andregarzia.com/posts/en/whatsappdoesntunderstandthew... and I have to agree to all of it.
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
The last time I installed bittorrent on my mac, it came with a chrome extension malware. I used to really love BTSync, but now I'm certainly going to ditch it. For once again proving the point that unless its free software, its not wor
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Rocket science for the Europeans, still miles and yards for Americans.
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Use the inbuilt info reader. (info "Org") And then look for babel
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Thank you. I was really wondering what is so special about a GUI vim. I thought that exited for a while.
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Yep. Everything about Aerospike so far have been filled with buzzwords. There was a flash talk by an employee of theirs recently at a conference in Bangalore and it was just marketing BS. I'm still skeptical.
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
That was some valuable tip. Thank you.
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Sarcasm?
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
After all these years..
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
I'm happy that there is no 'Career Objective' section. This website[1] is down now but I think the name convey the idea. 1. http://whatthefuckismycareerobjective.com/
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Can we all be good netizens and torrent rather than overload Archive servers? Not enough seeders right now.
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The Sorry State of Emacs Lisp Package Archives(blog.jorgenschaefer.de)
86 points by jaseemabid 12y ago|33 comments
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by jaseemabid 12y ago
Its a surprisingly awesome s/w for a '2.0'
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A word about cloning large git repositories(jaseemabid.github.io)
3 points by jaseemabid 12y ago|0 comments

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