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by prakashk 15y ago
> Grep. Grep is about the single best fucking thing ever written by the hands of man. I like and use grep. But, as a programmer, I like ack[1] much better than grep. [1] http://betterthangrep.com/
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by prakashk 15y ago
> why don't ... use tabs instead of spaces for indentation? http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
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by prakashk 15y ago
> At this stage of development all India should worry about is earning wealth. Trying to redistribute that is a 'premature optimization'. :) When do you think is the Right Time to start that "optimization"?
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by prakashk 15y ago
> Instead they use some sort of stone-age technology called "footnotes", stuffing all supplementary material right into the book as a couple lines of tiny text. A bit OT. I got tired of clicking on the footnote links, and click to come
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10 Essential Books on Typography(theatlantic.com)
1 points by prakashk 15y ago|0 comments
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How tall are my toolbars?(howtallaremytoolbars.com)
3 points by prakashk 15y ago|0 comments
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by prakashk 15y ago
Don't forget to prep yourself properly before reading the review :) Preparing for John Siracusa's Review of OS X Lion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhOG25fM8so
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by prakashk 15y ago
And, of course, there could not be a sense of entitlement either, if your cost of netflix subscription wasn't less than what you used pay.
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Google+, the best Multiply.com clone ever(writegeek.com)
2 points by prakashk 15y ago|0 comments
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by prakashk 15y ago
Perhaps the ETrade baby uses that program? (ducks)
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by prakashk 15y ago
How so? Can you elaborate?
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by prakashk 15y ago
Thanks for the invite codes. I have used 'KH9MrV'.
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Tablet Takeover Suggests Ereader's Demise (huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by prakashk 15y ago|1 comments
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by prakashk 15y ago
I use scrot, and it has an option to execute any application or a user-defined script upon capturing the shot. While the builtin upload feature might be easier to use if your favorite site is supported, scrot's extension capability provides
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by prakashk 16y ago
This particular example can even be shorter: ls -al | grep $(date +%F)
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by prakashk 16y ago
kill A, select B, yank.
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by prakashk 16y ago
> not sure how to sync to Android Kindle Here's how I did it. I connected my Android phone to my Ubuntu PC using the USB cable. The phone's SD card was mounted as /media/XXXX-XXXX folder, which has a kindle subfolder. I copied sicp.mobi
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by prakashk 16y ago
> One in thousands. What if that one person is one who thinks "if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"[1], and who just happens to be the CEO of the company? Would yo
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by prakashk 16y ago
> In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks and do things with my stuff I wouldn't want them to. Not too long ago, "Google fires employee for snooping on users" - http://articles.latim
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by prakashk 16y ago
That would be unlikely (or at least, less likely) considering that Sprint uses CDMA, while AT&T uses GSM. T-Mobile's network would be easier for AT&T to integrate.
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by prakashk 16y ago
I thought it was probably due to increase in premiums on the Homeowners' Insurance policy which is required by the lender, so that they would not incur the loss in the event that house (on which the lender has a lien on until it is fully pa
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by prakashk 16y ago
> ... what is most likely, that a guy that has build the largest free dating site the world is a moron? or that his ambition overrules any concern for his user's privacy? I don't beleive these are mutually exclusive choices. One who is
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U.S. Schools Are Still Ahead—Way Ahead(businessweek.com)
2 points by prakashk 16y ago|0 comments
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by prakashk 16y ago
Not sure if this the kind of "Jewish Mother" article you are looking for, but here it is - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870333350457608... -- written by a mother who happens to be Jewish.
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Graceless Degradation: WordPress Uglification for Outmoded Browsers(drench.github.com)
2 points by prakashk 16y ago|0 comments
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by prakashk 16y ago
post-statement ifs, ... used particularly often in Ruby. ... Ruby coming from Japan may be a factor. I think Ruby borrowed them from Perl's Statement modifiers ( http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsyn.html#Statement-Modifiers ). I like t
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by prakashk 16y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but there exists enbug.org whose about page ( http://enbug.org/AboutThisSite ) says: The meaning of enbug is the opposite of the word debug, namely, to add errors or defects into software or hardware. Th
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Mirror-Image Cells Could Transform Science — or Kill Us All(wired.com)
1 points by prakashk 16y ago|0 comments
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by prakashk 16y ago
Hmm, so you made all those comments in favor of mojolicious without actually knowing about it? Now I know for sure how credible you are.
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Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone(npr.org)
37 points by prakashk 16y ago|77 comments

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