prakashk

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by prakashk 15y ago
I'd be very much interested to know more about your experience and insights comparing Perl and Clojure. Would you mind writing them up?
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by prakashk 15y ago
> This is the equivalent of the kid with the bat losing at a match of cricket, so he leaves, and now the other kids can't play. They generally aren't impressed. Note that if the kid had to leave because it was dinner time, or his parent
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by prakashk 15y ago
It's worth it, if you have to type the boilerplate code hundreds of times. Consider the time wasted in debugging errors due to typos etc. It's even more worth if that shell script (or, in my case an emacs yasnippet) is parameterized.
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by prakashk 15y ago
For those who are just interested in the questions that Dr. Tyson chose to answer (along with the answers, of course): http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/qcyqa/
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by prakashk 15y ago
Could you say in what other languages you dealt with Unicode?
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by prakashk 15y ago
> People here are reading way too much into it. You are Dave Winer. How can you expect people to not read into it, especially one with such a provocative title?
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by prakashk 15y ago
Perhaps because if they don't, the discussion tends to gravitate towards "you are breaking the law if you are pirating", instead of focusing on the main point they are trying to make.
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Can a Font Help a City Make a Comeback?(good.is)
1 points by prakashk 15y ago|0 comments
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Hilight growls from irssi with Plack and ssh(dagolden.com)
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by prakashk 15y ago
Nice list. Are duplicate entries accepted? "Eloquent Javascript" has two entries. http://hackershelf.com/book/40/eloquent-javascript/ http://hackershelf.com/book/39/eloquent-javascript/ Perhaps, they are submitted around the same time?
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by prakashk 15y ago
your two line signature could be reduced to one line by linking your name to www.kswizz.com. What if the recipient is using a non-HTML mail client?
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by prakashk 15y ago
I might add another "myth" called "Indian blogger" too in this case. The linked article is a total copy of a news report by Times of India ( http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/A-myth-ca... ). Couldn't the blogger add a measl
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by prakashk 15y ago
I think that's because 'ps -x' command only gives your own processes and not all processes. Add '-a' option to show stats for all processes.
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by prakashk 15y ago
Is your experience is limited to Greater Bombay area? Shipping to smaller cities and towns can be a whole different experience, not always a happy ending.
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by prakashk 15y ago
> There are also weird words that Indians use that are Latin rooted words, but uncommon, like "lacuna". I have never met an American that uses that word, nor an Indian that doesn't know what it means. I am an Indian and I have never hea
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by prakashk 15y ago
There are M-x shell and M-x eshell to run shells within emacs. See http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2010/11/01/running-sh... for comparison.
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by prakashk 15y ago
This is not much different than mutating a global variable inside a function. I would write your code as: foo($_) foreach @bar; sub foo { my $var = shift; $var =~ s/foo/bar/; print $var; } You can a
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by prakashk 15y ago
You beat me to posting this. Also of interest: NoSQL - a non-SQL RDBMS, seems to have been inspired by rdb and implemented using awk ( http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P... ): NoSQL is a fast, portable, relational
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Pasta Inspires Scientists to Use Their Noodle(nytimes.com)
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by prakashk 15y ago
Depends on what your definition of "std lib" is. If you say a "std lib" is something that is installed along with the language, then CPAN fits the bill. $ corelist CPAN CPAN was first released with perl 5.004
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by prakashk 15y ago
I recently had to do the same thing on my HL-2140 printer. I believe I found the trick on Amazon discussion forums.
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by prakashk 15y ago
+1 for the Checklist Manifesto. Gawande is an excellent writer. I liked his other books, particularly Complications ( http://gawande.com/complications ).
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by prakashk 15y ago
Install cpandoc[1]. It's supercharged perldoc command. It lets you explore the CPAN ecosystem without installing the modules. $ cpandoc XML::Twig [ ... documentation for XML::Twig ...] [1] Coincidentally, today's Perl Advent articl
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by prakashk 15y ago
> They have 287,000 employees. That's their employee count worldwide. Shouldn't only the US-based numbers be relevant in the current context?
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by prakashk 15y ago
As someone who accidentally closed many, many firefox tabs by pressing C-w, especially when I am writing in a textbox which is even more annoying, I can't imagine the havoc it would wreak if C-x were to quit apps. I know there are alternati
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by prakashk 15y ago
> I gave my best effort to achieve .... And someone has noticed! Perhaps if your campaign page had some verbiage about this font's special features and how it is really different than others, it would help more people to notice?
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by prakashk 15y ago
As CJefferson sain in another comment on this post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163613 ): The harassment women get is much, much worse than men. Me and my wife are both computer scientists, and have both given talks at many con
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by prakashk 15y ago
I don't really have an informed opinion on dart yet, I'm just noting that 90% of the complaints I'm seeing consist of people with a hobby horse that predated the Dart announcement. It's a good thing then that the author of this article fa
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by prakashk 15y ago
But, keep in mind that Perl 0.1 wasn't intended to replace a Javascript-like language. It was created as a replacement for Unix shell, and tools like sed, awk etc.
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by prakashk 15y ago
From DONOR FAQ ( http://www.samarinfo.org/donorfaq.asp ) by South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters: Marrow donation: Marrow is removed from the bones on one or both sides of the upper hip area using a special syringe. The procedure i

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