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redraga
12y ago
The sentiment that teaching and medical practice are noble professions is widespread in India. Both these professions command a lot of respect in society.
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redraga
12y ago
Looks like there's a good opportunity for medical tourism in India. Maybe it's a startup idea?
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redraga
12y ago
I've never read GEB. Can you elaborate on how it helped you become a programmer?
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redraga
12y ago
Donors have an option of "tipping" Watsi apart from the donating to the patient's treatment. But I'm not sure if this alone covers their operating costs.
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redraga
12y ago
A lot of discoveries do not have immediate uses and some might indeed never have any applications. But discoveries can spurn others in unexpected ways. The most famous example of course if the WWW which came out of CERN, a pure physics rese
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redraga
12y ago
From my experience certain applications, mainly server workloads, have a high instruction footprint. I-cache optimizations are necessary even on an x86 processor. So there might be some weight to this argument. I'd like to see the diff
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redraga
15y ago
I'm an Indian, and lentils are one of the main ingredients in vegetarian Indian cooking. Mostly because they are the main source of proteins. I've never had any...problems with the force. But it might be because of conditioning.
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redraga
16y ago
Link to the map ( http://i.imgur.com/c6Agr.jpg )
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16y ago
I highly recommend solving problems on spoj.pl ( http://www.spoj.pl/ ). It has a HUGE collection of problems from various competitions, supports a plethora of languages for coding and the forums are an excellent resource.
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redraga
16y ago
All that aggressive advertising looks like it has paid off. And competition is always good for any market.
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redraga
16y ago
Great guide! My .vimrc had most of these settings, but I picked up a few things that made life much easier. Below are some tricks that I use which might make useful additions. Binding the <Esc> key to capslock has been really useful
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redraga
16y ago
Neat! So is this just a fun project or does Google plan to use this technology in any of their products? Edit: You can use Scribe on any web page. From the help section: "Google Scribe can be used anywhere, on any web page, using the Google
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redraga
16y ago
There is a sqrt button in calc in Windows 7. It's on the right side, just above the % button.
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redraga
16y ago
Do people actually switch to a browser than "enhances" the surfing experience on just one site?
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16y ago
I usually go to sleep between 11:30 pm-12:30 am and wake up around 8 am. I'm at my lab (grad student) by 9:30 am.
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16y ago
If I find that if I'm not concentrating or get easily distracted I just do something fun for a while. Soon I'm refreshed and I can start working seriously. Maybe you can take a break, go away on a weekend or watch a movie to refresh your mi
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16y ago
Fedora users can install it as: yum install bpython
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16y ago
I've been using Linux (Fedora) for about 6 years now, and sadly I have to agree with the article. Although the newer releases are far better, there are still bugs which hamper user experience. For example, Fedora 12 (and 13 the current rele