mayank

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by mayank 16y ago
Although I'm a Perl zealot, I must admit that the thought of trying to understand someone ELSE's Perl code is horrifying. This is because although everyone writes beautiful maintainable Perl code, everyone else's Perl code is horrific. On a
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by mayank 16y ago
What does public key encryption have to do with it? Password or pin + salt + hash function like MD5/SHA would be all it takes to securely verify that the CC holder knew a secret.
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by mayank 16y ago
A point and an idea: (1) Modern classification algorithms like SVMs need some pretty hardcore math routines (SVMs require Quadratic Programming, which isn't trivial to implement correctly). Do you intend to implement these yourself? If so,
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by mayank 16y ago
Ditto for Chromium
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by mayank 16y ago
Here you go! There's not just one, but a whole bunch! http://gitorious.org/social/pages/ProjectComparison
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by mayank 16y ago
It's great that they're getting so much open-source help, but I'm going to ask the obvious question: if a "complete overhaul" is what's needed, as the author seems to imply, and the FOSS community performs said overhaul, then what of the $2
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by mayank 16y ago
This is several years old -- why is it being reposted now? Yes, it's entertaining, but by that yardstick, so are the IRC logs from yesteryear with "oh yeah? I'll hack you! What's your IP" ... "127.0.0.1"... "drop carrier" or some such...
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by mayank 16y ago
In that case, kudos! One of my pet gripes about Hadoop is that it really used to be unusable without HDFS (don't know if that's changed). If you truly manage to develop it to a stable release with all the features of Hadoop, I definitely se
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by mayank 16y ago
Thats a very valid point. Hadoop does a lot more than handle the basic logic of MapReduce (which btw, is not terribly complicated). Fault tolerance, preemptive duplication of tasks in case of unexpected slowness, etc. are all part of the ug
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by mayank 16y ago
Sigh...pedantry at its finest. From TFA: > Most real C implementations will go some distance beyond the standard(s), of course, but I have to draw the line somewhere. You missed the guy's point, which was essentially that C code is mung
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by mayank 16y ago
No matter what your age, financial status, or physical stature/condition, I really find it hard to imagine anyone riding a saddle with a seatbelt on an already-torturous-in-economy transcontinental flight.
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by mayank 16y ago
> Public transit isn't as good as NYC or Chicago, but it's decent. You clearly haven't been to Chicago recently. CTA has cut frequency drastically AND raised fares.
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by mayank 16y ago
I lived there this summer and fell in love with SF, aside from the whole Silicon Valley thing. It's definitely for a certain type of person: you'll find incredible diversity and openness in the people. A couple of small things I noticed tha