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by krishna2 18y ago
screen uber alles
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by krishna2 19y ago
Essentially the middle-third (get back 1-to-2x the money back) and the bottom-third (lose money), hence canceling out each other [Assuming that the middle gives just 1x and the bottom loses 100%]. But the top third is expected to make 5-10x
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by krishna2 19y ago
Count me as another who considers Pittsburgh as home away from home. Would probably move back there for the right opportunity.
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by krishna2 19y ago
+10 for Python +1 for Nutch +1 for Hadoop +1 for Amazon EC2 I think you have bundled two things (crawler and parser (or may be scraper)) into one term : crawler. Beautiful soup is ok. Give html5lib a try (on google code) - but at some point
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by krishna2 19y ago
What Ed Thorpe did was just plain genius!!! And what 'rainman' (movie ref) did was beyond genius! But IMO what these folks did was cheat . You can count cards as long as you do not use an external device to aid you in the counting. These f
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by krishna2 19y ago
And after that they started a hedge fund and have been playing in the real big markets..ever since. That (hedge funds) and all such things seem to be basically about one thing : Know of a statistical advantage that others don't know and the
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Pointing the finger at buffer overflows, and other C quotes(ccs.neu.edu)
8 points by krishna2 19y ago|1 comments
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Concurrency and Python(ddj.com)
5 points by krishna2 19y ago|1 comments
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by krishna2 19y ago
Think about it this way : You got about 10-20% of the total and about (70-80% of the grunt) work done for your next startup. :) You have your servers, source code repository, development environment, bug/feature tracking stuff and all that
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by krishna2 19y ago
I am assuming you are using MySQL. If so, there is a very nice mysql performance blog. Definitely check that out. There is also a Mysql tuning book by mysql press itself and then there is Mysql High performance Oreilly book as well. Plus, t
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by krishna2 19y ago
Oh..visit http://www.immigrationvoice.org/ - and post your exact scenario. Lots of helpful folks there. And if you search the archives, you might just find someone with your situation might've already asked the same questions.
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by krishna2 19y ago
Actually, only the first time that you ever apply for a visa, you are fighting the quota. Then onwards, you are just reusing the same number - so no worries there. [this is good until the 6 years of eligibility of h1]. Secondly, if your app
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by krishna2 19y ago
They say the third time is a charm - and I am on my third application - pending for about 3 years. The previous two times (first in 2001, the company went bankrupt. The second time in about 2003, but I left the company after a couple of ye
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by krishna2 19y ago
The lottery is available to only certain countries' applicants. (Generally the countries which do not use the full quota due to lack of applicants).
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by krishna2 19y ago
I just noticed one thing. I added a comment directly. And was hoping that mine would probably go to the end of the list. But my response got inserted between posts by prakash and pg. Curious to see where this comment ends up.
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by krishna2 19y ago
One more thing to do would be to add a start_time via js on the top of the page. Then, another at the tail end of the page - then use a javascript function to calculate the difference. This will give you the time for the server (or your web
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by krishna2 19y ago
I have been on African Safari as well and that point instantly resonated with me. The 100s of 1000s of miles were theirs to freely roam around and do what they wanted - and the humans who came to see them are the ones in the cages (except t
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by krishna2 19y ago
If you already know any other (good) programming language, then "Essential Python Reference" by David Beazley is the way to go. For starters, if you are wondering, this is how I would do it in X, I wonder how to do this in Python - this boo