psranga

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by psranga 16y ago
Hmm, personally I'm ok with the free form posting + reply format the community has evolved. No need to change anything. Keep bureaucracy at bay!
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by psranga 16y ago
I've looked off and on into using App Engine's Java interface. But even the "hello world" app looked much more bureaucratic than the Python equivalent (it's due to Google trying to do things the Java way). Do you still have to deal with Jav
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by psranga 16y ago
Real men/women run a C program doing floating-point divisions (to peg CPU) while writing random bytes to memory (to heat up caches) to keep warm. :)
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by psranga 16y ago
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/light_text_on_d... This or another post proposed the hypothesis low-contrast, small text etc may look better during the design stage. Remember, the designer is probably working with dummy "lore
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by psranga 16y ago
My pet peeve is that Eclipse crashes when I set Consolas the default font. Crash occurred within libpango. So I'm stuck with Andale Mono (a decent substitute). I will have to look into it again one of these days.
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by psranga 16y ago
I second the recommendation to tune the subpixel rendering using your OS's wizard. Both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 make this very easy. The difference is very apparent and worth it.
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by psranga 16y ago
Interesting choice of words: "mistake".
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by psranga 17y ago
Does Mint really have 250 million users as this site claims?
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by psranga 17y ago
On a related note, somebody once explained to me why India develops satellites, missiles, rockets, fighter planes, nuclear reactors etc which are sometimes half-assed at great expense over many decades when they can probably buy the same th
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by psranga 17y ago
If "fostering collaboration" means a unifying databases, replacing legacy software etc, then yes it can be close to 14 million. At a previous employer, changing the bug-tracking system was yearlong project.
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by psranga 17y ago
Right on time. I've always believed that "you are not your f------ computer", but after Section 331, I am just about to print a penguin logo and stick it my computer lid.
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by psranga 17y ago
Am I missing the sarcasm (I'm serious, not being sarcastic myself)? Unless I'm mistaken all Macs have a prominent glowing logo that's visible at all times.
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by psranga 17y ago
Well said, thanks. I raised my eyebrows at the "observationally false" sentence and stopped reading when he/she dragged in 9/11 for the second time.
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by psranga 17y ago
Yep, agreed. My major complaint with Cygwin is the lack of a decent package manager. 'sudo apt-get install' on ubuntu is addictive.
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by psranga 17y ago
Just two administrative changes will go a long way. 1. strictly FIFO processing of applications on a nationwide basis (currently applicants for green cards in regions with a large number of applicants such as California can be processed slo
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by psranga 17y ago
You need to accumulate a certain number of points (by posting comments or stories that get upvoted). Then you get the privilege of downvoting.
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by psranga 17y ago
You can't have it both ways. In one breath you want to welcome highly-qualified people to start companies. In the next, you dismiss the concerns of such people about having to leave in two weeks if the business fails after two years without
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by psranga 17y ago
I know literally dozens of foreign residents, working at tech companies, who would love to create a startup here in the SF Bay ... but cannot legally do so because of visa restrictions. Next you meet them, ask why they are under
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by psranga 17y ago
Windows 7 supports multitouch, so running it on an tablet computer is not outlandish as it seems.
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by psranga 17y ago
Yes, you can forget about important parts in code. Been there, done that. Been there, seen that. Just because the code passes the developer's unit tests doesn't mean that nothing important has been forgotten. Most errors in programs are due
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by psranga 17y ago
LaTex does many great things. It's sad that the overwhemling majority of the world chooses to use inferior tools like Word, Google Docs etc. I threw in the towel a long time ago, but still wish I didn't have to. The worst part is that all t
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by psranga 17y ago
Any comments on this article? This auto professor is able to reproduce the problem. http://www.leftlanenews.com/report-toyota-electronics-design... This is what the article says about the prof: Instead, we were treated to Dr. David Gi
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by psranga 17y ago
They're "failing" just as much as private health insurance is "succeeding". Just leave the USPS as is and do the incremental fixes required to make them break even. No need for them to make a profit.
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by psranga 17y ago
After controlling for income and excluding religious contributions (tithe)?
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by psranga 17y ago
The errors we're talking about here are transient . The memory location itself is still usable, the contents get changed when a cosmic ray hits. After the hit, the corrupted value is held without a problem. Memtest checks if the memory l
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by psranga 17y ago
I wonder how many person-to-person transactions occur on Paypal. I suspect it's mostly business-to-business transactions at this point. Maybe this is Paypal's excuse to force users to upgrade to a business account. I closed my PayPal accoun
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by psranga 17y ago
Since you're the one advocating a system different from the status quo, the burden is on you to provide a serious analysis instead of a glib hypothesis. To use an Internet/cellphone analogy, sometimes is cheaper for the provider to just pro
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by psranga 17y ago
In most instances maybe, but here the mayor and council jobs are part time and pay $6250/yr (vs $89,000 yr avg for city worker).
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm with you on the grass (there're movements to use water-saving native American foliage instead of grass, which is suited to a wet England-like climate), and MAYBE with you on the streetlights if they intelligently do it so that pedestr
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by psranga 17y ago
I would guess the speediness was because the server was in the same building?

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