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by rmk 12y ago
It's not true that South Asians are not discriminated against. Look at the boards of technology companies. Even though they are staffed by South Asians at every other level, there is a conspicuous absence at the highest level. There is
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by rmk 12y ago
It's funny how 'diversity' is equated to being black or Latino in most of the article. People simply ignore the large number of south Asians (Indian, Pakistani; including women) who have founded (and work at) iconic companies
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by rmk 12y ago
That's not really true. They bought SourceFire last year for a few billion.
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by rmk 14y ago
https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/all.pdf A little more accessible, I think.
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by rmk 14y ago
Are you aware that people are dying for lack of food in India? Food is a basic need. Denying food to starving people and letting it rot does not help boost agricultural productivity or help people 'work on our economy'.
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by rmk 14y ago
How is this different from jansson? I have used jansson in the past, and it has served me very well.
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by rmk 14y ago
This is great! Thanks!
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by rmk 15y ago
Thanks!
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by rmk 15y ago
Hmm... Could you recommend some resources for this? I need to wrap a couple libraries and make them accessible in both Python and Ruby.
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by rmk 15y ago
But what about the pension funds etc. that finance seniors' retirements? There should be some way for them to get in on the action, otherwise seniors might end up putting even more strain on the social safety net. If pension funds were able
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by rmk 15y ago
Make that Cost of (Humanities) degree >> Worth of said degree Sad, but true. Perhaps humanities subjects are ripe for an online-learning revolution.
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by rmk 15y ago
I am really getting sick of everybody and his uncle being compared to Steve Jobs. I mean, a comparison to Woz might not be out of place (both men were technical architects of things that revolutionised the industry), but Steve Jobs was a bu
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Lytro Takes Fresh View on Picture Taking(online.wsj.com)
1 points by rmk 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmk 15y ago
This approach is wrong, if you want to learn algorithms. Also, you will not find an algorithms book that combines graphics, machine learning, and the usual suspects. Also, forget about learning this stuff 'without too much hassle'. There is
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by rmk 15y ago
tramp is the best feature of emacs. Really handy when I have to edit files on barebones systems that have only vi (not even vim) installed on them!
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Some interesting high-speed pics(ocw.mit.edu)
1 points by rmk 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmk 15y ago
No, not if you want to bump into hackers or throw yourself into the startup scene. To do that, you should choose Palo Alto / Mountain View. If you have cash to spare, work at Hacker Dojo, but live in an inexpensive area (see above). You can
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by rmk 15y ago
I really liked using it too.
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by rmk 15y ago
San Jose downtown has decent light-rail and bus connections to most places. But, public transportation is PAINFULLY slow (e.g.,: it will take you at least 1-1.5 hrs to get to Mountain View from San Jose if you take light rail / bus, and upt
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by rmk 15y ago
Excellent article, but I found this paragraph unclear: " And that’s just how they run politics. If you want to create the future, the possibility of successfully navigating a patent minefield is approximately 3,720 to 1. And I noticed earli
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Debugging ruby performance.(speakerdeck.com)
1 points by rmk 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmk 15y ago
Based on many friends' salaries: Grade 8 is what is offered to fresh PhD's -- I think around 115K. In addition there used to be a 401k match of upto 4% (I think).
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by rmk 15y ago
I guess we'll have to worry less about global warming as well (or at least the concerns about increase in sea level) :)
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by rmk 15y ago
If only more articles like this made it to the frontpage... Instead articles about the MPAA and RIAA seem to make it to the frontpage more and more.
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by rmk 15y ago
Thank God!
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by rmk 15y ago
I take it that 'Did you know the man?' is a rhetorical question. I 'know' that Orwell was antisemitic, because of some of the stuff he has written. I have read 'Down and out in Paris and London', and 'Burmese Days' (apart from 'Homage to Ca
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Thinking big in space(economist.com)
3 points by rmk 15y ago|0 comments
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by rmk 15y ago
Haven't read Sartre's book in question, but I do know that Orwell was quite antisemitic himself, so this looks like his prejudice showing through.
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by rmk 15y ago
Question: Can I go to a hospital near my house and donate to the registry?
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by rmk 15y ago
Amazing site. Great effort!! I had a bug to report: When I move the slider on the 'number of bedrooms' and make it '1', I cannot change it (to '2', say). I am using chrome 14.0.835.186.

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