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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
This. I just don't understand what are the benefits of a on-screen keyboard vis-a-vis a slide-out hardware qwerty keyboard. Ever tried using an on-screen keyboard with wet hands? Tried texting in class without looking? Why can't w
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Thank you for the replies. A follow-up question, how does any GC/runtime/VM know which parts of the memory are actual data vis-a-vis pointers to other parts of the memory? Some sort of global pointer table, perhaps? If so, why can
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Please excuse my naivety, but I have only recently gotten interested in compilers, memory management, etc. [1] Can someone please explain to me why GC isn't implemented as a library that can be used by any runtime/VM? We recently
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Okay, why the negative votes? Just read their announcement. It reads like a farewell note to their current customers (at least to me).
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Can you elaborate why UTF-8 makes things harder? Is it because 1-byte no longer means one character? So, something like calculating a string's length is also tricky. Is that it? Also, where can I read about the general direction the st
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I'vr been 'stalking' Rust for quite some time, but never got around to diving in. I'm essentially a web programer who's been building fairly large web based systems. I'm sick of dealing with programming languag
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Sure, he's the benevolent dictator (and the creator of language, itself), but he would've explained himself somewhere. About the benefits of refinements and how to deal with the downsides. Any links?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Wasn't there an overwhelming negative feedback for refinements? What was the rationale for still going ahead with them?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Is it just me or do flat styles actually have worse usability? There's absolutely no visual cue for what's clickable and what's not.
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
How does this play with DMCA anti-circumvention provisions?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
There's another way to demonstrate just how unhappy you are with the trampling of your basic rigthts. Guns. Go out on the streets in meaningful numbers brandishing unloaded guns to show the govt how serious you are about the issue. It&
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
How do you ensure that Google is able to index it? Do you sniff the user-agent and serve it a pre-rendered view of the discussion thread?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Yes, but I'm afraid it might go the RoR way. Rails started off by disrupting the web-dev space and positioning itself as an alternative to Java. It really pushed the overall web-dev space forward. However, today, I feel, Python is more
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
The way AngularJS works is that it allows you to use plain ol' JS objects all over the code and allows you to implicitly/explicitly set-up "watches" on these JS objects. Whenever the value of the object changes, your app
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
You don't understand the power of directive till you actually use them.
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I just have the "feeling" that with Discourse being written in EmberJS, people are mindlessly going to flock to it without really looking at anything else. And even if AngularJS really is better, it will be left behind. Just becau
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Is there anyone out there who has written non-trivial applications (i.e. a _lot more_ than the quintessential todo app) in both, AngularJS & EmberJS and can offer a non-biased opinion? Some time ago, I started off with AngularJS, I like
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I signed up last night and checked again this morning. Still importing. Are you sure the backend processes are crashing under the HN load?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Just signed up. It's been importing from Google Reader for the last 20mins or so. Is it supposed to take that long?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Firing up the the Angular vs Ember debate again here. What's your take?
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I might be nitpicking here, but the very first sentence reeks of bullshit & PR spin. "...saying goodbye to 18% of our Zynga brothers & sisters..." Who says that in real life? "I'm sad, because yesterday 25% of my family had flu"
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
The idea was not to advocate hate crime, but social boycott. The idea is to make people personally responsible for the organizations that they work for. Is there any other solution for this mess? In the end it's people from within the socie
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Why don't people identify the policemen and make their social life (outside of their police duty) a living hell. Bully their kids in school, boycott their spouses, refuse to do any kind of business with them (no groceries, no milk, etc.) At
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Just like national security is kept out of purview of all "Right to Information" acts, what will it take to make some personal information either legally, or technically, untrackable by the government? What will it take civil contractors to
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I think you missed the point. The "pure" technology has democratizing effects, but as soon as you mix government with technology you get "controlled technology" or "regulated technology" of sorts. Which is very, very dangerous from a person
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
I wish I could up-vote this multiple times.
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by saurabhnanda 13y ago
Why is that Clojure is consistently slower in the Alioth Benchmarks game [1], but Compojure is consistently faster the Play-scala? [1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...
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by saurabhnanda 14y ago
Doesn't US have the equivalent of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), like in India?
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by saurabhnanda 14y ago
Didn't India introduce product patents quite some time back?

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