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by raghava 16y ago
But would it still help? I mean, accessing multiple personas through the same browser on same machine would still be a giveaway, isn't it? https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
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by raghava 16y ago
>>ideas, diagrams yes! Scribbling a small mock-up screen or a mind-map or an algo on an e-ink pad would be just so simple && awesome! (I can't even imagine doing that with a keyb/mouse)
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by raghava 16y ago
Are folks with other technical backgrounds (say C/UNIX, but interested and motivated to learn) welcome?
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'Artificial petrol' - alternate hydrogen based fuel
1 points by raghava 16y ago|0 comments
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by raghava 16y ago
I studied in a JNV ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Navodaya_Vidyalaya ), from class 6th till class 12th; those were the best days of my life. All that I am today, is because of my stay in the vidyalaya. I guess the article linked abo
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by raghava 16y ago
I happened to see meanwhile that even if I type 'goobe'(which means 'owl' in Kannada) after setting source to auto, it says "We are not yet able to translate from Kannada into English". Really, amazing!
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by raghava 16y ago
In my place, I bet only 10% of 'engineers' know about Nikola Tesla. Pity. Even his contemporaries (and ones with a similar vision and thought) like Sir. J C Bose are not quite well-known.
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by raghava 16y ago
Mine's < 15K USD; am a programmer in India, with one of the BigCos. Not an easy stretch though, sort of making ends meet.
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by raghava 16y ago
An addition to this obnoxious irony would be the fact that a luxury like a car (yes, in developing countries, it's a luxury) costs relatively less than it does in a rich country. [One can get a decent enough hatchback for 350K INR which is
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by raghava 16y ago
I had seen a post by Bruce Eckel conveying the same thought; and it certainly puts it correctly. Writing Software is Like ... Writing http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898 And in most of the cases, IMO, not to forget
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by raghava 16y ago
But wouldn't a slightly smart thief be able to beat it by using a small sticker on the webcam? I know a smart lady who (after reading about webcams on compromised machines being used to take snaps without the knowledge of unsuspecting users
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by raghava 16y ago
Thanks PonyGumbo, kongqiu && schwabacher! Your views helped. :)
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Ask HN: On present socio-eco-political trends in USA
3 points by raghava 16y ago|4 comments
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by raghava 16y ago
vimdiff => wide format FTW! >>two columns of code And that's precisely why I bought a 20" wide one, to go with my laptop. And it has been great! I felt that it's not the presence of width that bothers OP but lack of vertical rea
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by raghava 16y ago
>>Perceived threat Put in place a procedure to rate people in a relative fashion, and link this to benefits and compensation. Make hard slabs in percentage for each rating (excellent 10%, good 25%, average 50%, below average - res
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by raghava 16y ago
Last day of the year and it is so depressing that I work in BigCo that does every thing mentioned above. :(
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by raghava 16y ago
> You complain that ... and indeed to censor it. The penultimate para in the original letter, wow! A befitting answer to a bully, and how! :)
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by raghava 16y ago
>>Enforce that well to avoid body shops type of miss usage. Correct me if am wrong, but from what I have heard, it is already enforced and all the big body-shops do things being on the proper side of the law. I see a concern. Wouldn
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by raghava 16y ago
>>irony is Chrome OS holds the potential for IT departments to make your life even more miserable That is, when IT Teams in those places themselves are aware of playing around well with those systems. IMHO, banks (like where jrockwa
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by raghava 16y ago
Work visa (and related) rules in India - http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/work_visa_faq.pdf Portal for details about immigration to India - http://www.immigrationindia.nic.in/ >>Living costs should be even less Most of the times, yes.
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by raghava 16y ago
:) I use White Noise app on Android and use Extreme Rain or Beach or Windchime sounds. Also, instrumentals without vocals (taken from Jamendo [particularly that of artists Silence / StrangeZero], or mellow ones (SomaFM Lush) are others that
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by raghava 16y ago
I remember reading about betavoltaics a coupla years ago. http://www.newscientist.com/blog/invention/2007/07/betavolti... >>a factor of 50 Yes.
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by raghava 16y ago
My cousin sister did opt for Lasik and she went in for a second round of corrective surgery. After that, her vision is pretty good. AFAIK, in India, quite a lot of super specialty hospitals provide Lasik (with a good track record of success
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by raghava 16y ago
>>America’s politicians are mostly lawyers; not engineers or scientists like ours Is that so? /* Am really asking an honest question! */ A google_search("chinese politicians scientists"); seems to be a story by it's own, BTW.
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by raghava 16y ago
Wonderful! Wish you a ton of good luck! >>underwhelmed by my safe, boring corporate gig I know how it feels! :( And am yet to break those handcuffs.
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by raghava 16y ago
Are HNers from Mysore welcome? ;)
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by raghava 16y ago
>>work on projects under NDA or other laws/contracts for a long time There are firms that actively ask people NOT to post code outside (citing IPR); and at times, even go ahead and mention that anything a person on it's payroll writ
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by raghava 16y ago
Many comments speak of 'establishing a relationship' and 'getting an inside man'. Would it also not work the other way, in certain cases? Person A moves into a locality. Couple of days later visits a nearby restaurant. He is asked to wait;
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by raghava 16y ago
>>a pretty big cultural divide here between people for whom this is a job and people for whom this is their identity Precisely. :) Still, as ganley points out, "truth is a long spectrum between the two". Simply put, question is whet
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by raghava 16y ago
A similar story: http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-china-bache...

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