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by nsenifty 5y ago
Interesting name. Rudaali in Hindi means a professional mourner, who used to be someone you hire for a mourning ceremony when there's a death in the family in parts of India. There's a famous Bollywood movie[1] by that name. [1]
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by nsenifty 5y ago
I grew up in an actual coconut orchard in Southern India. The coconuts that fall are usually mature and mostly dried out and don't nearly weigh as much as a fresh coconut. You'd still get injured not not likely to kill you. I was
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by nsenifty 5y ago
You can often tell if a truck is from the South or North (other than the license plates of course). Sound Horn is more common in the South whereas Blow Horn makes it likely it is from the North.
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Samsara is the correct Sanskrit (more like Samskrta) pronunciation and the original meaning is the endless birth and death cycle caused by attachment. The Hindi vernacular Sansaar indeed means the physical world just like Samsara in Kannada
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by nsenifty 5y ago
It's not 250 million farm workers. The number you quote is the total strength of different labor unions that called for a strike in support of farmers.
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Why does this sound so much like Workflowy[1]? [1] https://workflowy.com/
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by nsenifty 5y ago
As a local of coastal Karnataka, I have mixed feeling about the Konkan railway. The Western Ghats is one of THE MOST bio-diverse regions of the world. Any infrastructure development poses a risk to a delicate ecological balance. On the othe
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by nsenifty 5y ago
And Erlang (mainly in WhatsApp)
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by nsenifty 5y ago
I used Wordstar to type up my school reports and newsletters (well into mid 90s) in an actual IBM PC with 640k RAM and no hard drive. I wasn't aware of the 40-page limit. Although it is entirely possible that I never had to encountere
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Except if you are from China, or India.
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Facebook probably only settled it instead of choosing to fight because it is barred from filling green cards while the case is still in progress, hurting its employees and its ability to hire. Any company that has successfully filed an empl
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Workplace (the product) has nothing to do with this but it's the policy of Facebook (the company) to trust their employees to use any information responsibly to do their jobs (with the exception of user or HR data).
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by nsenifty 5y ago
Many, particularly South Indian dishes are cooked without chili peppers still.
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by nsenifty 5y ago
> The situation in the first week of Feb was very tense. Wasn't it partly due to the genocide misinformation? One protestor died in a tractor accident and Twitter did little to curb the misinformation that he was shot by police.
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by nsenifty 5y ago
On Error Resume Next was supposed to be used in conjunction with the global Err object that contained the recent most error. You would check Err.Code after each error prone operation for an error and handle it.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Any chance you are from Mysore? I grew up in Mysore and these books were always on sale in the Town Hall building next to the city bus stand. I would go there with my mom and spend HOURS picking books while she did her other shopping.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
The headline is misleading. The stock was acquired via exercising call options that were originally bought in Feb 20, 2020 for a strike price of 130. Amazing deal, but does it prove he was acting on insider information?
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by nsenifty 6y ago
I flagged this post and many others related to India since it seems to attract the level of discourse which doesn't really belong in HN. There's a camps of extremely pro and anti government views that both twist facts to suit thei
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Even the bananas that ripen on the plant (turned yellow and all) need some time after harvest to convert all the starch into sugar. They still taste a bit starchy right after the harvest.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Ah yes, it might have been GW-Basic then. My uncle had a ZX Spectrum I would play with but the books I could get were all for IBM PCs.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
The first time I saw X = X + 1 in a ZX Spectrum basic program listing, I thought it would cause the computer to catch fire. I was 9 though.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
GraphQL is great when you have multiple apps (e.g. web/android/ios) querying the same set of backend services. It is quite hard to define REST interfaces in a way that is optimal for all clients, unless you want the client to do a
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by nsenifty 6y ago
I went through the whole loop, "cleared" the interviews (as per the recruiter) and was told to stand by for the offer. A week later, instead of the offer, they just said they ran out of headcount. Never heard back from them again
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Name is not a reliable indicator of caste for all Indians. A large portion of South Indians don't have a surname - they just use their dad's first name or the name of their hometown. Even among North Indians who do have a caste-ba
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Nationwide NRC is different from NRC for Assam. Nationwide NRC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens ) is mandated by 2003 Amendment of Citizenship act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by nsenifty 6y ago
> The CAA makes it easier for non-Muslims to claim citizenship while Muslims slip through the cracks; that is the point of contention. No it doesn't. Here's the relevant part of CAA( http://egazette.nic.in/WriteR
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Making Perfume from the Rain (2015)(theatlantic.com)
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by nsenifty 6y ago
That is from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, not Kerala.
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by nsenifty 6y ago
SC/ST were historically the most oppressed. However the OBC[1] designation is heavily diluted and is often handed out to previously well to do communities in exchange of votes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oth
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by nsenifty 6y ago
Back in India, we had a (somewhat cheap) shell internet plan offered for students. You dial into a phone number that dropped you in a ISP shell from where you could use lynx or email. The problem was that our state-owned phone provider had

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