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by jitix 10y ago
HP has been coming up with some really innovative PC systems. And they almost sold the PC division few years back. This is a good development - PC market might have shrunk considerably but it's not going to go away.
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2 days and 179+GB written while only 1.21GB was read!! This is on my Mac - I wonder whats the number for my Windows PC at home.
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by jitix 10y ago
Despite the caring face that most startups put up they all have to make money to survive. Only when they grow really big can they even think of pursuing social goals and even then they will have opposition from the shareholders.
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by jitix 10y ago
Back home in India I used to work for one of the big IT services company in a support/maintenance project. Due to the bureaucracy, lack of innovation and the general self-righteous attitude at the company I used to think that all softw
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by jitix 10y ago
Are you a troll?
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by jitix 10y ago
I'm from India and I strongly disagree. You are not supposed to have kids if you can't afford them.
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by jitix 10y ago
The whole point of Lets Encrypt is not to charge people for the certificates. But I agree that the amount they are spending per year is very modest compared to what they are doing.
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by jitix 10y ago
Me too. I think eclipse is too complicated for a college student who's just upgrading from text editors or BlueJ. Netbeans is still my go-to IDE for prototyping stuff or writing simple stuff that dont need me handling multiple branches
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by jitix 10y ago
Mukesh Ambani had been planning this for a long time now. They got the license couple of years back and then started building out the infrastructure. However Facebook's freebasics and the failed venture with his brother's company
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India Achieves Historical First-Ever Surplus of Power(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
3 points by jitix 10y ago|0 comments
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Reminds me of my college days. I studied at a college in India that was located in the mountains (in Sikkim). While there was decent Internet for all academic work, access for fun stuff was very limited. So our solution was to download as m
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by jitix 10y ago
can you please elaborate? was the statement that people were sacrificed incorrect?
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by jitix 10y ago
In the fifth paragraph: "But this is a new Microsoft". They are acknowledging that they made mistakes in the past due to which the missed out big on the server market. As much as .NET is popular, it would have been a lot more popu
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by jitix 10y ago
Have you considered moving to a better area of tech? Some of the new things being done with AI, Learning and Automation are pretty cool and might provide more excitement that your current job (since you didnt specify I assumed that you&#x27
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by jitix 10y ago
Does TWC have different prices in different places?!! This seems so wrong. I'm paying $45 for 50/5 TWC connection in Raleigh, NC.
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by jitix 10y ago
Somehow this all seems illegal. I'm not that familiar with the US law so can somebody explain if the defendant can claim that the judge has a conflict of interest and is not fit to handle the case because his son profits from it?
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by jitix 10y ago
This is physically repulsive and literal theft by the state. Do other developed countries (EU, Canada, etc.) have similar laws?
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by jitix 10y ago
What storage engine are you using? I wonder if the same issue comes in wiredtiger MVCC engine.
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by jitix 10y ago
Vista OEM installs were quite optimized. My Dell XPS laptop from 2008 used to run Vista very smoothly. However my friend installed Vista on a desktop with similar config but with AMD processor and the performance was pretty bad.
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by jitix 10y ago
I built and used this back in 2007 in second year of college. While it might be a bit tricky to get it working, it's a great way for new users of Linux to understand how Linux distros are structured and how the GNU packages work with e
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When is a big rewrite the answer(programmers.stackexchange.com)
3 points by jitix 11y ago|0 comments
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by jitix 11y ago
IMO this is another example of unnecessary fragmentation of the dev tools ecosystem. Why do we need a whole IDE for Bootstrap? Can't we instead make a plugin for an existing IDE to accomplish the same thing?
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by jitix 11y ago
>Less Kardashian spam makes your battery last longer IMO filtering will use extra processing power which will infact increase battery consumption.
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by jitix 11y ago
I agree. Software and electronics innovation moves at a faster pace and because of the long validity of patents we have the patent trolls. However for things like medicines, etc the turnaround cycle is longer so its ok to have longer validi
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by jitix 11y ago
.. bad idea even now. Patent lawsuits' original use was to prevent theft of original ideas, which is a good thing. But suing for billions for common things like pinch-and-zoom and rounded icons is simply taking things too far. This sti
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by jitix 11y ago
> it's usually because the inventor was so secretive that a clone was regarded as the original by the public and the media From a legal perspective this is not true. But the fact remains that to enforce your IP you will need to spen
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How the Wright Brothers Blew It (2003)(forbes.com)
65 points by jitix 11y ago|35 comments
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I don't think anyone would like to work while traveling to see the world. For people who do, I think the only legal way would be for backpackconsulting to employ the traveler in their home country and have them do remote work. Even the
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by jitix 11y ago
Did the Brazilian govt write off the $10M loan they gave Unitron? It's a stark reminder that companies' success and failure depend a LOT on the govt's policies. One interesting example is India where many medicines have been
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by jitix 11y ago
The main problem is that cloud storage has become a necessity - you NEED to sync things like music, pictures (important ones atleast) and documents across devices if you want to save time. There is no clear solution to this at this moment -

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