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by sateesh 15y ago
Jared Diamond tries to make sense of history in a methodical manner referring to researches done in diverse areas spawning evolutionary biology, archaeology, ecology etc. I would expect any such serious book (though targeted towards readers
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by sateesh 15y ago
It is the date of the print edition.
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by sateesh 15y ago
I have found "Foundations of Computer Science" by Aho and Ullman approachable. The book is available online at: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
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by sateesh 15y ago
A few years ago joe sixpack was watching jersey shore italy, listening to lady gaga, eating mcdonald, drinking starbucks, playing medal of honor 4, watching spiderman 5, but he did start using facebook, amazon, google, microsoft when produc
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by sateesh 15y ago
Did you even click through the link ? The intern is blind and will work towards building a "completely free and fully accessible distribution of GNU/Linux". I don't understand why one need to be so sarcastic about a noble deed.
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Also however cutting edge your research would be , it is would be most likely built upon on some of the research that is already done in the field. Any clone implementation (free or non-free) make use of the knowledge already is available i
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by sateesh 15y ago
The 2nd edition of Python Cookbook doesn't cover Python 2.5. It covers language features that were there till Python 2.4. ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596007973 ) The 3rd edition of Python Cookbook is expected to appear by end of this y
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by sateesh 15y ago
One need to be careful while using an analogy. Though at the outset it looks like it explains the branching behavior of 'git' it ain't so. Say I have opened a File and do a File->Save as on a directory mounted from an external storage (
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by sateesh 15y ago
A small correction, you should be telling 'local court' not 'local supreme court'. Supreme court is the highest court of law in India and this opening of vaults of temple is being supervised by the Supreme court.
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by sateesh 15y ago
The primer says "The git branch command lets you create a new branch of your project. It creates a new commit with a new pointer label pointing at it." which is not correct. When a new branch is created it just creates a new pointer to the
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by sateesh 15y ago
Why put the comparison between two countries in our point about leadership styles. Countries are not people , a leader in a corporate setup has a fairly definitive goals (increase revenue) and can hire/fire people. But countries are to be g
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by sateesh 16y ago
Very nicely done, good visualization and organization of command reference. It suggests using a 'git pull' for pulling changes from the remote repo. 'git pull' automaticaly merges changes to the current branch thus not giving the user an op
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by sateesh 16y ago
The article states that "The Indian technology industry got its start running call centers and doing low-level IT work for western firms". The Indian technology industry existed much before call centers became a vogue in Indi
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by sateesh 16y ago
Whether she champions for bribing or it seeme to be that her observations of the form "bribes can make things in the economy move smoother, and might actually contribute to growth" dangerous to me. One should not forget that bribes contribu
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by sateesh 17y ago
I don't think the author makes a claim that he is a psychologist, he refers himself as pop psychologist,probably jokingly From the article: The term arrested development is now deprecated by professional psychologists and has been rep
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by sateesh 17y ago
(From http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields_medal.... ) The genesis of the rule that it be awarded only to mathematicians no older than forty is evidently the statement that “… while it was in recognition of work already do
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by sateesh 17y ago
As the article mentions "No Toilet, No Bride" was a campaign with some funds from government that was used to increase awareness of sanitation in rural India. The innovative thing about this program was linking needs to improve awareness a
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by sateesh 17y ago
Why would a laudable social initiative like this be titled as "hack" in HN submission. I don't mean that "hack" here has a negative connotation, but the title here stretches the definition of "hack" too far.
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Siddhartha -- Hermann Hesse Dragons Of Eden -- Carl Sagan
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Bangalore, India