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by shrikant 11y ago
It's not a misspelling: the Hindi word is dalchini , and the Bengali word is darchini .
572.
by shrikant 11y ago
..especially when he's specifically expanded on that point in the same article. In a situation that certainly warrants more nuance than can be conveyed in a Tweet-sized headline, the supposedly "enlightened" HN crowd should r
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by shrikant 11y ago
I'd argue that it's moot because people voting behaviour will change under a different voting system. You can't just extend these results to a world where PR is the prevailing system.
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Airpal – a web-based query execution tool(nerds.airbnb.com)
29 points by shrikant 12y ago|3 comments
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by shrikant 12y ago
Regex by example seems to be what this tool is doing. Maybe OP/author could add an option to view the constructed expressions?
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by shrikant 12y ago
Patio11 on going to university: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1182552
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by shrikant 12y ago
When my wife and I moved into our first home (an unfurnished rental), we felt it was larger than we really needed. So one bedroom became the living room, one bedroom stayed the bedroom, and the actual living room was emptied of all furnitur
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by shrikant 12y ago
> Snapchat, the photo-messaging app raising cash at a $15 billion valuation, probably isn't actually worth more than Clorox or Campbell Soup. Why not? Edit: Okay, personally and intuitively, I'd value a convenient means of comm
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by shrikant 12y ago
This looks interesting -- do you have a demo up someplace that I can look at? (I'm not in a position to set it up myself for the next couple of weeks...) Also, how is it different from Pico? Since Pico looks very similar and is also yo
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by shrikant 12y ago
Also not working on Windows 7 / Chrome.
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by shrikant 12y ago
Sorry, downvoted you by mistake! I agree -- it might be a reference to Mike Ross (chap with an eidetic memory) from Suits.
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by shrikant 12y ago
This might just be Samsung's "take" on the update. I have an old rooted Nexus 7 (2012), and it updated to Lollipop just fine. Performance is quite poor, but the update process itself was perfectly smooth.
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by shrikant 12y ago
You're technically correct in that chemical weapons were found, but the bigger picture is that that these were manufactured before 1991. Also, the US government itself deliberately suppressed knowledge of these findings because they ma
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German publisher caves to Google News after massive traffic drop(theverge.com)
2 points by shrikant 12y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 12y ago
Back in 2005, I was accepted into Portland State for a grad CS programme, and I recall a large chunk of the accompanying leaflets read like a giant recruiting advert for Intel. I never gave it much thought back then because I wasn't go
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Canonical Desktop Team Manager on Unity 8 Desktop(mhall119.com)
1 points by shrikant 12y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 12y ago
Interview with the founder Sridhar Vembu, where he talks more about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5EMnATY_Q
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by shrikant 12y ago
For anyone else who wants to know, 'dmr' in parent post is Dennis Ritchie. (I knew this, but didn't make the association right away, and it's quite hard to search online for 'dmr')
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Larry Ellison resigns as CEO but is far from retiring(latimes.com)
1 points by shrikant 12y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 12y ago
Just fyi (happy Pebble owner since the Kickstarter), Pebble Glance now gives you the ability for canned responses to texts straight from the watch.
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by shrikant 12y ago
Mostly off-topic, but I found the Altavista linkback search link on the top of the page really ... something. "Cute" would be the wrong word, but it comes closest to describing what I felt. http://www.altavista.com&#x2
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by shrikant 12y ago
A couple of questions: 1. Was it a conscious choice to only offer up monospaced fonts? 2. I can't find a way to close the "cabinet" after I open it to access my list of notes: is this a bug, or am I missing something obvious?
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by shrikant 12y ago
I'm loving the suggestions. I compiled a list of the podcasts I listen to in a series of posts here: http://tech.theswamp.in/blog/categories/podcast/ For people who don't want to click through, or j
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Must Fit Bodies Be the Products of Hard Work?(randomhouse.ca)
1 points by shrikant 12y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 12y ago
Unfortunately, I tried something similar and failed miserably. I have zero sense of rhythm, and have also been unable to acquire one. I feel much the same way about dancing as Stephen Fry: http://shrik.theswamp.in/2012/
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by shrikant 12y ago
Any idea why the previous submission of this was [dead]ed?
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by shrikant 12y ago
> A DuPont spokeswoman estimated that since the 1970s, 3,000 police officers have been saved from bullet wounds through the use of equipment reinforced with Kevlar [...] Does that number seem really low to anybody else?
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by shrikant 12y ago
This is just ill-informed. Just one among a multitude of links showing a strong correlation between formal educational credentials and income: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of...
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by shrikant 12y ago
VKontakte?
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Why big data is in trouble: they forgot about applied statistics(simplystatistics.org)
5 points by shrikant 12y ago|0 comments

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