shabda

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by shabda 10y ago
Both the tools mentioned above LESS/SASS have been for 5+ years. There is churn in frontend tooling, but it is not a valid reason for not using LESS.
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by shabda 10y ago
Because it is becoming the predominant way people consume media. If it were only used by 10% of its current use, it shouldn't be, but it current levels it should. As Stalin said "quantity has a quality all its own".
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by shabda 10y ago
Is the raw data for this calculation available anywhere? I am guessing the sample size for some countries in top 10 is too low to be meaningful.
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by shabda 11y ago
Could you explain how this works? Won't this be putting the .bashrc in $HOME/.myconf/.bashrc, which won't get picked up by bash? (And similar for other dotfiles)
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by shabda 11y ago
Are you looking for something like https://github.com/andrewgodwin/channels
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by shabda 11y ago
Can you explain what hydrogen-heavy means?
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by shabda 11y ago
They also had horrific infant mortality rate and ridiculous risk of death during childbirth, for both mother and child. There isn't as much clear cut answers about parenting as we would like, but there is much evidence backed science w
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by shabda 11y ago
Here is a contemporary example: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/542626/why-self-driving...
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by shabda 11y ago
This is also going to make a base pricing look uncompetitive with the regular taxis, and they will use that in advertising.
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by shabda 11y ago
I was using travis-ci for a long time. One day my credit card died during their billing cycle. They emailed overdue receipts to colaborators on all my travis-ci repos. All clients, all devs, everyone. Thats breach of information, I don&#x27
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by shabda 11y ago
“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”
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by shabda 11y ago
> On average, are two white people more employable than two black people? Instead of above, the question you need to ask is "On average, are two white people who are applying to your job more employable than two black people who
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by shabda 11y ago
We could argue about what comprehensive means, but if you see my post below, the test I recommended has blood work for internal organs health check, chest xray, abdomen ultrasound and (pap smear/mamogram etc depending on gender/ag
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by shabda 11y ago
Most of chronic diseases progress slowly and have no external signs in early stages. Most of them are also much simpler to treat in early stages. > I fail to see how screening of healthy, relatively young, people would be "data driv
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by shabda 11y ago
I wouldn't like to go in the details now, but it was subset of this: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/kidney-disease...
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by shabda 11y ago
It costs about $200 and the test results are given to the people. Modern medicine is pretty reasonably priced in India.
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by shabda 11y ago
They are feel good exercises, until they aren't ... Don't think of all OK result as money wasted, its insurance to catch any chronic illness in time. I would consider tests comprehensive if tests all major internal organs (kidney,
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by shabda 11y ago
I will take this time to write something I wrote on Steve Jobs death: go get a comprehensive health check today. In our community, we are data driven about everything, except our health and body. I will copy what I wrote 1304 days ago, htt
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by shabda 11y ago
Not the OP, but I read his comment as frustration with "One law for rich, another for the poor". One can agree that Aleynikov should be convicted, but hope that the law should pursue people who play fast and lose with public mone
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by shabda 12y ago
Sorry, I was wrong. Good Omens is the collaboration.
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by shabda 12y ago
Small Gods is a common recommendation from other people, but it is a collaboration with Gaiman. Not that its a bad thing, but it is missing the full Pratchett voice. My favorites are all Moist_von_Lipwig books. I recommend starting with Goi
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by shabda 12y ago
"Noli Timere Messorem" "It only kills monsters" - Susan, on why her poker passes right through Death.
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by shabda 12y ago
Its also interesting to note Carlsen's, who is also frequently called the Mozart of chess, opinion on being called genius. "Those were kind words, but I’m not so generous with the use of the word genius myself." https:/
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by shabda 12y ago
It is more or less same as idonethis, but a bit less priced. If you like this, take a look at https://github.com/agiliq/worktogether . We use and like idonethis, this app is just experimental at the moment.
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by shabda 12y ago
You are making a claim that because doing a police verification is hard, Uber should not be doing even the most basic checks it is required to do by law. Delhi Taxi laws require police verifications and a non disableable GPS, Uber failed in
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by shabda 12y ago
* Married men are more productive (Or at least earn more): http://econ.ucdenver.edu/public/laura/Class/korenmanneumark.... * married men live longer : http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters
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Blood brain barrier opened for the first time to treat cancer(newscientist.com)
5 points by shabda 12y ago|0 comments
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by shabda 12y ago
All the major victories against repression in 20th century have come via peaceful means. There has been no "peace via war" in 20th century which can come close to the impact of Gandhi, MLK or Mandela.
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by shabda 12y ago
Kissinger was awarded the NPP in 73. Bangladesh Liberation War happened in 71. Kissinger's support of Pakistan was a direct processor to and some would say the enabler of the atrocities committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War. (
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by shabda 12y ago
Mr. Kissinger has won the nobel prize. Its going to be hard to top that.

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