phekunde

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by phekunde 5y ago
> My team is looking for people... What location? What company? Please could you provide some details?
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by phekunde 5y ago
When I was a kid, one day my dad took me to the nearby "meat shop" where they use to slaughter goats in a nearby room of the shop. My dad's aim was to prepare me to go to the meat shop on my own in the near future. What I saw
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by phekunde 5y ago
> I 99% believe that you think these things are real; Again, go read the last sentence of my original post. > There is evidence that there's no evidence: we've been digging holes....very recently, in the Indian subcontinent.
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by phekunde 5y ago
Yep, this could be one potent reasoning. And that is why I said in my original post that it will be interesting to find out about that ancient civilisation that was able to think about so many advance concepts.
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by phekunde 5y ago
> I could interpret it as sailing ship In air? Then how is it better than the general characterisation as "Air vehicle"? > Or a ballon. Yeah, could be. And flying a balloon from Sri Lanka to Nashik(while crossing ocean) and
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by phekunde 5y ago
We had teleportation ;) Jokes aside, the link between car/trains and aerial vehicles is superficial. There is no hard requirement that one has to come before the other.
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by phekunde 5y ago
> it appears that the conclusion you're drawing is that these texts refer to real things that actually existed Please read the last line of my original post. > If you're not drawing the conclusion they actually existed, what
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by phekunde 5y ago
>> In Indian there is a distinction between vehicle("yaan") and chariot("rath"). > Clarification: in modern Hindi. https://kosha.sanskrit.today/word/en/Chariot/sa You don't k
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by phekunde 5y ago
"yaan" means both vehicle and travel. You both are correct :)
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by phekunde 5y ago
> Which is a valid translation for most mythology's flying chariots. No, that is not true. Your own sentence use the word "most". In Indian there is a distinction between vehicle("yaan") and chariot("rath&qu
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by phekunde 5y ago
> Is every culture's flying chariot also a heavier-than-air flying machine? Who said it was a chariot? I think you are linking some "flying chariot" from other text to "vaayu yaan" from some different text. &quot
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by phekunde 5y ago
> My sense is we tend to relate what was described abstractly with advancements we see around us. How is the mention of ""vaayu yaan" abstract? Can we similarly say that to the mention of present day "aeroplane"
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by phekunde 5y ago
> For example the Tower of Babel could be interpreted as... But there is no need for interpretation or misinterpretation of some of these texts because the text directly mentions the transportation e.g. in Raamaayan, the then king of Lan
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by phekunde 5y ago
One thing that is curious about the Indian sub-continent is their mythological texts. There are two well-known epic texts: The Mahabhrat and The Ramayan. Both these texts talk about aeroplanes, teleportations, rockets, test-tube baby, body
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by phekunde 5y ago
The one I stumbled across some time back and now part of is this discord server: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC Meetup aim: Meet founders, host demo day, hackathon, pitch practice etc. Location: REMOTE/Online (Discord serv
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by phekunde 5y ago
As they say, if you are starting a project to solve a problem, and choose C++ as a language, then you now have three problems: the original problem, the C++ language complexity, and the third is the maintenance hell afterwards. C++ language
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by phekunde 5y ago
Nice try ;)
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by phekunde 5y ago
I want to stick to systems programming and backend development. And I don't want to work on server-side javascript.
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by phekunde 5y ago
after almost 6 years?
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Ask HN: Are you thinking what I am thinking?
1 points by phekunde 5y ago|3 comments
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by phekunde 5y ago
> Just curious, any specific reason you didn't include JavaScript? If I have to work on frontend then I will use Nim (or Typescript at the most). But I will stick to systems programming and "backend development". And I don
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Finally I have zeroed in on these programming languages to learn
3 points by phekunde 5y ago|8 comments
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by phekunde 5y ago
> Is it for the masses or a deeply engaged targeted niche? It is for the masses i.e. students from varying financial background.
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by phekunde 5y ago
> is XR like VR headsets and associated accessories? XR(eXtended Reality) is an umbrella term that covers AR(Augmented Reality), VR(Virtual Reality) and MR(Mixed Reality). So instead of writing AR/VR/MR it is usually written ju
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by phekunde 5y ago
> And MSFT charges manufacturers "per machine made", whether or not Windows is installed. I didn't know that! This should be illegal. Because it is the consumer who ultimately pays for this. It is like going in to a car sh
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by phekunde 5y ago
> I didn't comment because I don't know what XR is. My bad, sorry about that! I have lately gotten into a bad habit of using acronyms and not explaining them. XR stands for eXtended Reality; it is a generic term that represents
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by phekunde 5y ago
Why pay for Windows if I am not going to use it?
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Ask HN: Am I an Outlier?
20 points by phekunde 5y ago|18 comments
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by phekunde 5y ago
> aren’t all laptops Linux laptops? How is that so? By Linux laptops, I mean laptops that come with Linux(or DOS) pre-installed. This should reduce the cost of the laptop as Windows license fees is not required. But the Linux pre-install
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by phekunde 5y ago
How resource hungry is Godot engine for XR development? I am trying to avoid Unity.

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