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by lenkite 14y ago
I must say the comments here are extremely cynical and somewhat disturbing. Speaking as a citizen from India, (still third world despite our progress), I can say that the Gates foundation has done a turn of good in our corner of the world.
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by lenkite 14y ago
Out of 280,000 room rentals over a period of 15 years, there were 15 cases of people with drugs. If you believe grabbing property on that basis is justified, then, I am sorry to say sir that you are just a government shill who supports fasc
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by lenkite 14y ago
This is extremely tragic. The world is a horrible place when some of its best people loose all hope and choose to leave it early. It is quite crazy that that downloading scientific papers can incur sentences longer than the maximum for crim
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by lenkite 14y ago
That article should really have "Apple ONLY" in the headline so that people's productivity isn't wasted.
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by lenkite 14y ago
I think democracies suck - they are popularity and wheedling contests that put the charming or greasy folks in power and very rarely someone who is equipped to do their jobs. Would love a meritocracy where people who campaign for posts must
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by lenkite 14y ago
AFAIK, JQuery HTML constructors use document fragments behind the scenes. See http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2281-jQuery-Appends-Multiple-El... . No need for explicit document.createDocumentFragment
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by lenkite 14y ago
I found this article useful despite its errors. However, this article only reinforces my belief that it is easier to work with the HSL color notation. Young(Yello-60degree) Guys (Green-120) Can (Cyan-180) Be (Blue-240) Messy (Magenta-210) R
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by lenkite 14y ago
Android FolderSync would help in your music syncing issues...it syncs folder pairs where the other end of the pair can be literally anything - ftp, http, nfs, samba, skydrive, gdrive, etc. If you aren't online - no biggie it can sync with y
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by lenkite 14y ago
Google Wave had threads. This appears to be missing.
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by lenkite 14y ago
One can only shake one's head at yet another individual fully brainwashed by western Pharmacies and mainstream doctors. Folks like you are always to point out any alternative medicine system as quackery while fully ignoring that mainstream
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by lenkite 14y ago
I use Google tasks and an android app. There isn't currently a great desktop app for Google tasks and I don't like the gmail web interface for tasks so I am building one in C# using AppBars. I guess I publish to HN when done :p
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by lenkite 14y ago
So lets look at some of the infringing patents that the news articles are quoting... 381 patent: "rubber band" effect where a page "bounces" when a user scrolls to the bottom I personally had written JS bounce-back product picture slide-sho
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by lenkite 14y ago
There is a good reason for this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3503102/what-are-top-leve... Besides the official JSON spec doesn't support JS top-level arrays.
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by lenkite 14y ago
Well-written XML that was designed for humans instead of machines is much, much more easier to read than JSON. The primary reason is that unlike s-expressions or xml, there is no block-name. In JSON you loose valuable time figuring out the
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by lenkite 14y ago
None of the table examples in the documentation work (striped, hover, etc) at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#tables on Chrome 21
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by lenkite 14y ago
I used to keep messing up git till the time I studied the internal model. As long as you imagine a DAG and where the refs point to in your mind every time you execute a git command, you are good. Not that I am complaining - it is very power
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by lenkite 14y ago
This really isn't pre-history since there are Sumer tablets that are dated around 2500 BC. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_Luenna_Louvre_AO423...
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by lenkite 14y ago
As someone not living in the US, my takeaway from this article was that citizens and visitors should all wear bullet-proof vests in public places similar to the way everyone wears car seat belts for safety. Since one shouldn't over-react an
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by lenkite 14y ago
Let's face reality - we have a power crisis and political sops to greedy states only exacerbate this. We were supposed to have several nuclear reactors functional and giving power to regional grids by 2012. Thanks to the 'green' brigade who
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by lenkite 14y ago
I agree with their reasons. But Go should have been consistent and made the reversal even for pointer types and chosen another operator say postfix (^) for pointer instead of (*) to avoid conflating with multiplication. So effectively "thos
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by lenkite 14y ago
I think you are doing the Indian readership of HN a mild dis-service here. Most here acknowledge the issues raised by the Author. We do feel hurt by his conclusion, summed up as: "The whole country sucks", but well..things are what they are
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by lenkite 14y ago
As the son of a military officer who has stayed everywhere in India (north/east/west/south) from childhood to adulthood, I can confidently and un-equivocally state that Kerala is amongst the _least_ corrupt states in India. My personal view
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by lenkite 14y ago
Now if only google supported Golang as a first class development language on the Android platform...I would divorce and drop Java in a heartbeat.. sigh
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by lenkite 14y ago
"..., it cannot deliver raw binary data to JavaScript, because JavaScript does not support a byte type" Incorrect. JS most definitely supports binary data using byte arrays with Uint8Array, etc or using canvas data binary
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by lenkite 14y ago
The Java Programming Language's checked exception feature is fundamentally broken. All newer Java specifications have acknowledged this and utilize un-checked exceptions.