psranga

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by psranga 17y ago
Great question. Thank you for challenging my assumption. I thought they'll have to charge less at least at first because they'll have a smaller pool of candidates.
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by psranga 17y ago
This is a really really good idea. I expect clued-in companies use this to search for developers instead of LinkedIn (if GitHub charges less than LinkedIn for access to the hiring profile). We'll finally have something like a "portfolio" fo
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by psranga 17y ago
The poor are used a human shield because if the article had said something like: education is a good with almost-inelastic demand, hence we can raise prices arbitrarily and in addition eliminate government support for it :) then
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by psranga 17y ago
1. Why is it a good thing to extract money from those "able" to pay more. Because the money you are extract is necessarily paid by reducing the payer's expenses elsewhere. Such a dysfunctional system already exists for healthcare. Do you wa
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by psranga 17y ago
"plays" is misleading. Number of listeners would be a better metric. I play songs MANY times. Assuming each listener played the song 100 times in 5 months (slightly less than once per day), we have 10,000 listeners. $167 for 10K listeners
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm a little puzzled here: what does Google gain out of this? I thought their goal was to eventually insert video ads into videos; that goal will not be impacted by people watching videos on TV. And it can't be copyright concerns either.
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by psranga 17y ago
Does Adblock Plus hide these offers? I don't remember ever seeing anything like this.
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by psranga 17y ago
I'm fine with paying for music, but I consider ~$20 for a CD outrageous, and $1 for an MP3 on the high side. :) Lala.com lets me listen for 10c/song; that's a price I'm willing to pay. I like the lala.com model the best. 10 cents to stream
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by psranga 17y ago
Great information; thanks!!! The ICU library looks very comprehensive, but I hope it's not too bureaucratic to use. :)
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by psranga 17y ago
I did a quick scan of the ICU library mentioned above (thanks for that!!) and it does handle these things. http://userguide.icu-project.org/i18n
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by psranga 17y ago
IMHO, all of the supposed advantages of a middleman can be provided by an optional (important word) neutral third party (cnet downloads.com virus free downloads for example). I agree with the article, I see very little value in middlemen.
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by psranga 17y ago
Impressive! I was about to post "Quitting is the easy part" after reading the title, but you've done much more than just quit your day job. Kudos.
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by psranga 17y ago
Check out Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning (it's a slim volume) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
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by psranga 17y ago
I thought his complaint was mainly about closed-source vendors who don't polish their Linux apps enough.
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by psranga 17y ago
Similar situation here. Try using the latest modwifi drivers , the drivers in the 9.04 distro did not work for me. (sorry I forgot how I did that, but the info was easy to find).
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by psranga 17y ago
Linux is great for software development (i.e., stick with terminal windows) and simple web browsing. And I love it because that's what I do. But it sucks for many other tasks. The Unix haters handbook has a great rant about X11 where they s
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by psranga 17y ago
Very interesting development. This illustrates one risk for companies built on the idea of outsourcing infrastructure to Amazon AWS (Smugmug, Dropbox etc). You better add much more value on top of AWS, otherwise a Google/Microsoft can under
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by psranga 17y ago
Avoiding upfront costs helps lengthening the startup's runway, even if total cost until time=infinity is higher. Building fault-tolerance (like S3/EBS do) is a HARD problem. That's worth paying for. Once you move your data to the cloud fo
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by psranga 17y ago
Yep, not news unless they have the exact same contract that I will if I sign up.
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by psranga 17y ago
Does it provide any support for avoiding/detecting Javascript "memory leaks" which are easy to create with closures and anonymous functions? That's what interests me the most. The stuff they have here for annotating types (love the type exp
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by psranga 17y ago
And just fwiw, while I'm sorry to hear about your experience. I totally agree with the original article. I found out about SIN/COS a while before I really understood what they were. :) I treated them as magic keywords and used to just plug
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by psranga 17y ago
Umm, don't you think they have a regression test that checks if everything that's supposed to be displayed in a search result is actually displayed? Seems like they're stretching the definition of bug here. Maybe a bug in the specification,
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by psranga 17y ago
The Roku setup/viewing experience shocks me by how good it is. $99 for this device is a steal.
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by psranga 17y ago
You mean an aggregator? That's an idea which can support at least two big players in any segment (Reddit/Digg, Yahoo News/Google News). Good luck.
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by psranga 17y ago
Just tried out the screen from git as somebody pointed out above. Works as advertised. Pretty cool!
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by psranga 17y ago
I read the README/blog post somewhere that vertical scrolling in one of the subwindows is very slow. Hence I have not tried it out. Do you have any experience with this?
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by psranga 17y ago
Screen doesn't do vertical splits. That's a dealbreaker for me. Tmux does. But tmux has another problem: very rapid scrolling in one window will make the program completely unresponsive. In the same situation, screen doesn't have this probl
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by psranga 17y ago
"Long Jumps" is a myth imho. What appears to be a long jump to a non-expert on first glance, on deeper inspection will usually turn out to have involved multiple small incremental steps culminating a final discovery. Since we have to acknow
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by psranga 17y ago
One thing really stood out for me from the book "Programmers at Work". Many of the programmers repeatedly emphasized the importance of data structures to both understanding programs as well to solving the problem. And after noticing how I w
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by psranga 17y ago
For the memory allocation problem, do you have any ideas about how other OS's address this problem? How about ulimit? Could that be useful?

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