shrikant

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   Why people think what they think and do what they do(shr1k.blogspot.com)

   3 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   Unfortunately, the spammers have already figured this one out before James. Nearly every tweet of mine that has certain product or service keywords gets favourited by a spambot or two attempting to grab eyeballs. (I also vaguely recall a fr
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   Can Every Group Be Worse Than Average? Yes.(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)

   1 points by shrikant 13y ago|1 comments
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   Adventures in podcasting (by Helen Zaltzman, of the Answer Me This podcast)(helenzaltzman.com)

   1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   This is unfortunate. FWIW, InoReader is a great old-style, no-frills, non-"intelligent" RSS reader. https://www.inoreader.com
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   "Hi, my name is Mojo and I do not have a country."(mojoyeah.wordpress.com)

   2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   I work for an online retailer, and every once in a while, we get an email from a customer asking if we could add a feature on the website to notify them when prices drop on items. Maybe we should start trial runs of this feature..
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   Unable to hunt up a link right now, but literally every single ISP in the UK currently offers an opt-in filter for 'adult material'. Maybe the legislation should've just been to force more effective marketing of this.
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   by shrikant 13y ago

   Mark Thomas is hilarious. He once organised a bunch of people who went to the big Apple Store on Regent Street and opened a webpage on all the devices there. The contents of said page informed readers (potential buyers) that they could get
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    Woah. TIL the popular definition of swag changed in 2010. Damn, now I feel old and out of touch :(
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    So Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Russia, called a member of the human rights delegation today and asked her to pass on to the message to Snowden that he is not considered a whistleblower [1]. This is deliciously ironic timing -- just
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    You left out throwing a rock through their window with your CV wrapped around it. And changing their desktop wallpaper to an image of you doing something funny. And modify their cellphone ringtone to a musical piece of you singing "Hir
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    That's the name of the project: https://github.com/ndbroadbent/raspberry_picrowave
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    Numbers and management(noenthuda.com)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I remember that. Original thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq/reddit_my_f... Follow-up: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/update_my
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    Unknown-ish authors are -- like Winston Groom, when he agreed to have Forrest Gump made into a movie, and got screwed by "Hollywood accounting" because he'd accepted a percentage of the profits. Well known ones have enough ne
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    OT: you mean flouting traffic laws. "Flaunting" means to show off.
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I know what you mean. I've worked on automated data submissions for banks in the UK, and the insistence on fixed-width, EBCDIC encoded data files for many regulatory filings (FSA, credit rating agencies) was annoying. On the other hand
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    Sorry for the misleading information, chaps. I asked the organisation, and found out that it's not an official programme in the UK. The only one they have here is Google Grants for AdWords - http://www.google.co.uk/gran
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    That last part is not entirely accurate. I did some IT volunteer work for a charity very recently, and they definitely had a free Google Apps for Business setup. This is in addition to a reasonably generous grant in the form of AdWords cred
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    Oldest extant parliamentary institution in the world. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing Standard pub quizzing trivia ;)
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    FYI, last I remember, Pidgin stored your passwords in plaintext in an ASCII file on disk, unless you jumped through some hoops to integrate it with your desktop environment's keyring. They even have a article up on their site explainin
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    > [...] am unable to play any first shooter from Doom onwards without getting motion sick. Wow, I thought this was just me! This prevents me from playing even the good stuff like Portal, which is a terrible pity.
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    InoReader ( https://www.inoreader.com ) gets quite close to the Google Reader experience. I've been juggling between that and YoleoReader to get better acquainted with them and will settle for one after getting properly used
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    The Revenge of the Amdroids(archives.citypaper.net)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    GreenPlum is plenty successful. I doubt the name matters too much.
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I strongly agree with this. Even if it's only ambient music (mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5872706 ), I still use it only for situations involving mundane things like documentation. Otherwise I gr
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    You'd find some great suggestions in these past two discussions. [1] [2] I also picked up a Grooveshark playlist from someone (but can't rememeber where I got it from) that works really well: http://grooveshark.com&#x2F
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    If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support(nickbradbury.com)

    1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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    by shrikant 13y ago

    I've taken the GRE once in India, and I can confirm that the math section was RIDICULOUSLY easy. I could ace it without breaking a sweat, and I'm (was) actually a fairly average student.