lake99

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   by lake99 13y ago

   > “You know what my problem is! We’ve already spoken about it, you told me to come back with more information and I did. I’ve come back four times with the correct documentation and you’re still telling me I won’t be approved?!” He was a
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   by lake99 13y ago

   As far as I know, sandhyavandana is not a kind of meditation. Sandhyavadana is mostly japa. Meditation is dhyana. When people cite benefits of meditation, they are usually citing studies of mindfulness meditation. Perhaps you'll see so
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   by lake99 13y ago

   You have http://english.stackexchange.com/ for questions such as this. Search for "emoticon" there.
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   by lake99 13y ago

   > I've been in Bangalore, and the English of the majority of programmers I've met here is utterly atrocious. Bangalore is a melting pot, of sorts. Having worked here for donkey's years, I have come across colleagues from v
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   by lake99 13y ago

   > What would keep your interest? I know why I lost interest after the 2nd page refresh: I am not sitting on the throne right now. :-D Leaving aside the kryptonite and smurfs, trying to figure out which of those ingredients were real wa
6. 456.▲
   by lake99 13y ago

   Given your ID, I know you probably won't see my reply. But still, here's my 2¢'s worth: > I have entered this world unknown to all except 2 people, both of who do not care if I existed or not. Why exactly is that relevant?
7. 457.▲
   by lake99 13y ago

   Matlab has a terse syntax for 2D matrices. Try creating 3D, 4D and 5D matrices, and the syntax is suddenly completely different.
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   by lake99 13y ago

   SciPy's description could have been better. However, if Python/SciPy feels like a cheap knockoff, it's entirely your fault. By that logic, SciPy is also a cheap knockoff of BASIC, C#, R, Tcl, etc. "NumPy and SciPy were c
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   by lake99 13y ago

   I have dabbled with many WMs, including i3. I have settled on awesome. These are the shortcomings of i3 for my usage. 1. Multimonitor. i3 has 9 tags that are shared between all attached monitors. So, if you have 3 monitors, the distribution
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Ben Swann[1] isn't having much luck at raising funds for that either. [1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/439668500/liberty-is-ris...
11. 461.▲
    by lake99 13y ago

    Not just you. I don't see unread counts either, no matter how many times I toggle the odd-looking button in settings.
12. 462.▲
    by lake99 13y ago

    New guests come in when you have vacancies anyway.
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Though my own taxes help fund the IITs, and I never was hard-working enough to get through the JEE, I'm happy that we have the IITs setting at least some kind of an example for the rest of India. I am disappointed by the idiots filling
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Voting with your wallet is an option. http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/donate
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Except I wouldn't call it copying. The government here has never really cared about privacy and abuse. India has been strong-arming Blackberry for a long time now. When the government wants information from ISPs, ISPs give it away read
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    by lake99 13y ago

    There's one more thing all Tor users with good bandwidth should consider: start relaying. I relay when I can, which is not very often because I am mostly behind a NAT which I have no control over.
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Here is a meta-analysis: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=718049
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    by lake99 13y ago

    > You've already called him a scumbag. Thus, you won't trust whatever he provides. If he had provided a list of references you would have accused him of cherry picking. Good job having a conversation with me all by yourself. &g
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    by lake99 13y ago

    > This is an article in the NY Times, not a scientific paper. This is the attitude that I'm trying to address. > This is an article in the NY Times, not a scientific paper. Look at this discussion on HN. How many of them give r
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    by lake99 13y ago

    I'm not looking for cheap ways to cure or prevent cancer. With that out of the way, I can talk about why I find references important. > That introduction is very clear. it is unambiguous. No it wasn't, on both counts. Vitamins
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    by lake99 13y ago

    I agree entirely. Also, instead of giving proper references to papers, the author takes the scumbag approach of being vague "in 2004, a review of 14 randomized trials for the Cochrane Database found that the supplemental vitamins A, C,
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Right, because anyone who agrees with anything in Objectivism must be a polemicist. Your question is like reading an article by someone advocating the end of slavery, and you ask, "but who is going to do my work for me then?" Perhaps you wo
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    by lake99 13y ago

    > ... leaders ... are ... good-looking, villains are ... unattractive Neither true of Howard Roark nor of Keating. She described them several times in Fountainhead. > Nowhere in those books will you find an intelligent argument in f
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Of course, Prolog makes it easy too. ?- member(Fruit,[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]), member(Fries,[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]), member(Salad,[0,1,2,3,4,5]), member(Wings,[0,1,2,3,4]), member(Sticks,[0,1,2,3]), member(Samp
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    by lake99 13y ago

    I always pick the most hacker-friendly option. Even if I were to never write an app for it myself, I can be sure thousands will, and release it free of charge. A few years ago, it was Symbian, where I wrote a few Python scripts for my speci
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Schiff can be funny at times. I like Krugman though. Krugman is way funnier. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgAUW_zcN9k
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    by lake99 13y ago

    Not quite. I meant that my the course description that I provided was a random sampling. I googled for EE programs, picked a university randomly, went to its list of courses, and picked a course randomly.
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    by lake99 13y ago

    > are Anglo-American methods [...] transferred back to Indian universities by returnees who start academic careers? Of all the people I have come across, only two of them finished a session of post-doc in the west, and came back to Indi
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    by lake99 13y ago

    > The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had. You seem to be impressed by the oddest things! FWIW, our labs adhered to a schedule too. Engineering colleges in Indi
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    by lake99 13y ago

    This is a random sample. How different was your lab session compared to http://engr.case.edu/merat_francis/eecs245/EECS%20245%20Syll... ?