primelens

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by primelens 13y ago
Ah well - at least they tried and who knows, maybe not having to take on the hassle of hardware design and production will lead to a better Ubuntu release for existing top-end phones.
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by primelens 13y ago
Hard to know what to make of this without any numbers, but I doubt the iPhone (or any similarly priced top-end phone) was flying off the shelves in many of these countries.
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by primelens 13y ago
That's what I was thinking. The problem on or near land wouldn't be staying afloat (which I assume a ball like structure would manage) but surviving crashing into structures and other floating debris. Wood seems to be a less than
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by primelens 13y ago
What's the problem with keeping the accent? Why do you think an accent hinders you? And which language and universal accent should the world switch to?
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by primelens 13y ago
As a north Indian, I can assure you that is not the case. Several decades of living there has not gotten in the way of my butchering Hindi sentences much worse than I butcher English. PS: Good to know that your sample set for passing judgem
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by primelens 13y ago
Esperanto. I vote for Esperanto. Burn your Shakespeares and your Homers and come learn STEM in the One True Language.
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by primelens 13y ago
Hard as it may seem to believe, India was not modeled on the US. On the whole it has dealt quite well with its diversity of languages and cultures. If that is too hard to imagine, perhaps you can try imagining Europe.
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by primelens 13y ago
> India needs to adopt an archive and extinguish > policy with its many regional languages. My, oh my! I've read some pretty bizarre things on the net and this is right up there with them. Many smaller regional lan
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by primelens 13y ago
> Try reading 1800s literature. Some of the most gripping literature I've ever encountered - thank you :-). But seriously, why be dismissive (perhaps too strong a word - but mildly derisive at least) of such a wide swath
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by primelens 13y ago
I'd love to see this happen as well. India has a vibrant Linux community.
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Someone from the Senate edited Snowdens's wikipedia entry(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by primelens 13y ago|1 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
> In Soviet Russia ... Eh?
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Obama Administration Overturns Ban on Apple Products(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
Can I just say that D3 and its underlying concept is just beautiful.
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by primelens 13y ago
I think it's a tutorial in disguise - about how not to make slideshows.
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by primelens 13y ago
I agree that it shows awesome mastery of paint, but the 97 year gentleman is making his own art - he just uses paint to do it.
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by primelens 13y ago
I don't know if they'll pull off the desktop integration, but meanwhile can you recommend a phone I can put into a dock and work on as a desktop PC. That seems pretty new and bold to me.
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by primelens 13y ago
Canonical really seems to believe in the convergence of multiple computing platforms. They've staked a lot on it and ticked off a lot of people in the process. I don't know if it'll succeed, but I sure love seeing them try wi
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by primelens 13y ago
Did Apple ask for a psych evaluation before allowing him in the store? No, you say? Add another million to the damages this poor soul must be awarded.
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Has Patent, Will Sue - An Alert to Corporate America(nytimes.com)
2 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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Secret government: America against democracy(economist.com)
374 points by primelens 13y ago|155 comments
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Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that?(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
Good writeup. Is there a feed for that blog? I only found one for the comments.
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by primelens 13y ago
Change the statement to "OS X has better hardware support on the Mac" (and conversely Linux has better support than OS X on everything non-Mac) and there would be no need for this article. One's a walled garden - albeit I am
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by primelens 13y ago
I feel exactly this way as I am trying to teach myself some more involved statistics. There are moments of clarity but the broad picture is too fuzzy. And there was a time I could get really excited about math - still love the experience of
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by primelens 13y ago
To be read alongside the Wall Street Journal's Thank you for data-mining - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732429910457852...
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Yes, Big Brother is watching you. But for a good reason(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by primelens 13y ago|2 comments
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Thank You for Data-Mining - WSJ defends the NSA(online.wsj.com)
7 points by primelens 13y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 13y ago
I hate reading substantial things on any kind of backlit screen. Somehow my attention seems to wander. But I find that I can focus somewhat better on pdfs than webpages. I suppose it's some sort of philistinic nostalgia for the ultimate sta
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by primelens 13y ago
A decade earlier but it was almost the same situation for us. The school computers we PC/XT and they were teaching us Logo and GW-BASIC. When someone's home 286 PC could run Prince of Persia it was a jaw dropping experience. And the Quick

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