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Neil deGrasse Tyson selects the 8 Books every Intelligent Person should read(brainpickings.org)
8 points by nnain 12y ago|1 comments
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by nnain 12y ago
Cool Idea! A bit tricky to operate via the computer though -- It would be nice if you can give a 'Cancel'/'Save' buttons, at least for non-touch screen viewports. Also, since there is no login, how long will my list
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by nnain 12y ago
It's still difficult for people sitting outside North America to make sense of these high valuations. To me, dropbox and youtube were even interesting case studies. It all seems quite simple now, but in the initial stages, people wonde
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by nnain 12y ago
Ofcourse it's a terrible idea. There will be an uproar. And then someone from the govt. would actually take the time to carefully look into the decision and then the govt will have to take an embarrassing U-turn.
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by nnain 12y ago
How I wish the Indian top brass gets to read this thread! The new government came with promises of getting rid of bureaucratic hurdles... and now this. The guy who made this list ofcourse didn't have the guts to put Facebook, Twitter o
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by nnain 12y ago
Cool! May I suggest two more change. 1) Remove the Underline from the link on hover -- instead, change the color of the font. 2) Add a button to collapse the opened comments section (probably besides the 'see more' button), after
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by nnain 12y ago
The official news.ycombinator.com. I prefer to post from the computer anyway. MiniHack mentioned in the other comment looks good, though it's only on iOS.
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by nnain 12y ago
This looks good, the animation on hover doesn't add any value though. My favourite HN client on phone is http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ . It's lean, fast and looks like a native app on the phone. I'v
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by nnain 12y ago
Never mind people. We are 1.25Bn people in India, free to speak whatever we wish to (hence so many fake godman's too). Such nonsense keeps coming up all the time. Noone takes it seriously. I'm kindof surprised though that it got p
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by nnain 12y ago
For your stated goals: One, you can get advanced knowledge in the field while being in the industry. IMHO a Masters isn't needed, after 8years of programming. It's a different story for Mech/Elect etc. And two, you won't
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by nnain 12y ago
I first read about the "Big 5 personality Traits" in this Economist article last year. Very interesting read on how some researchers were using Twitter writings (specifically some keywords) to gauge a person's personality -
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by nnain 12y ago
The article tends to suggest as if some uber-cool team mentioned in this article came up with this idea; while that is clearly not the case. It's media coverage for some random company without any attempt to identify who started this f
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by nnain 12y ago
But this is not a new news! I've been hearing about such 'concept' ideas by aircraft manufacturers for months, if not for years now. What I take issue with is the wording of the sub-heading of this story, "UK developer w
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by nnain 12y ago
For those who read only the 'Blue LED' part from the heading -- most white light produced by LEDs is actually just Blue LED light that mixes with yellow light, produced when it passes through a phosphor layer. The first blue LED w
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by nnain 12y ago
Exactly! Every person has his own concerns about planning a trip and the problem is too subjective. That's why I said, I have to resort to my own research to figure out the place, instead of depending on a travel planning app. Travelog
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by nnain 12y ago
I have two primary concerns when booking a travel, one that I don't end up at a boring place and two that I can manage it in the most economical way. Google search helps me figure that out pretty well. Google Maps are great when I&#x27
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by nnain 12y ago
Your app already has more features than I wanted! So no problem with that. I found the navigation a bit confusing initially, despite the interesting intro video. Have figured it out now. I will need to use the app more more to say how I lik
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by nnain 12y ago
This is a pretty well thought out note-taking/organisation app. Evernote and Keep weren't really cutting it for me, so I have been looking for one for a while. Even considered building one myself (which I still might eventually),
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by nnain 12y ago
Maybe this team can make G+ a bit more engaging. They executed a rather simple idea of collecting 'Yes/No' polls very well and were able to conduct polls for big companies (MTV, TCrunch, Forbes and many more). Seems like a go
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by nnain 12y ago
Yes, but considering that the intent of IPv6 is to replace IPv4, not just to work along with it, I would still say that IPv6 hasn't reached the critical mass. Things have started moving fast in the last 2 years, but IPv4 still carries
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by nnain 12y ago
Not just German Telekom, several other operators around the globe deployed ATM in the 90s for ISDN services. However, just after a few years, most companies started dropping ATM in favour of IP based networks. By "it failed to see real
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by nnain 12y ago
One of the earliest attempts to replace the the TCP/IP model (or rather the lower layers of the ISO-OSI model) was the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Despite being a well-intentioned idea, it failed to see real world usage because o
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by nnain 12y ago
That's good to know. And Socket.IO could move back to WebSocket-first approach, once the technology becomes more pervasive. It's still a task to set up Socket.IO with Python though. Don't know how nice it plays with Node.js,
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by nnain 12y ago
I was planning to use socket.io with the same stack (Python, Flask) for a game development project last year. Figured that the Python ports of socket.io weren't well-maintained so I took the traditional approach with Comet(Long-polling
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by nnain 12y ago
> The cash deposits and reserves from these customers, broadly speaking, are not that much. Indeed the deposits by the very poor aren't much. But this is a government scheme targeted at enabling the poor, not to help the banks. My m
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by nnain 12y ago
Raghuram Rajan (Chairman, RBI, India) spoke about this and more recently in a very interesting speech - http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=908&_g... (Check the section, "Money liberates and
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by nnain 12y ago
A note of caution when using the, "I'm busy, man". It borders on appearing rude, even if you didn't mean to be. One of my colleagues was a recipient of that dialogue and his working relationship with the other person alm
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by nnain 12y ago
I agree. Though my Evernote usage has dipped since I started using Keep. I just need these for a rare plain-text note/list and the Keep App launches effortlessly.
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by nnain 12y ago
This is pretty cool.
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by nnain 12y ago
Not really -- I have used both and they address different requirements (at least as of today). But definitely a competition for Evernote.

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