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A plutocratic proposal(mosaicscience.com)
14 points by sid6376 12y ago|3 comments
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by sid6376 12y ago
I sent you an email but did not hear back from you.
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by sid6376 12y ago
Thanks for this. The gist of the talk is that each hard choice gives us an opportunity to shape who we are and decide who we want to be. Hence we should look at hard choices that way and not shirk away from them.
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by sid6376 12y ago
I wonder what happens according to this new law, if I send a text message from someone else's phone. At the point of committing many crimes, access to the phone may not be very hard for the criminal.
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by sid6376 12y ago
The second link looks particularly scary. Does anyone have a rebuttal to this?
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by sid6376 13y ago
Not only is it fundamental to a game. Its fundamental to becoming better as a developer as well. So I appreciate you critiquing it the way you did.
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by sid6376 13y ago
I have seen this culture of misogyny and treating women as sexual objects in almost all places in India I have lived in. Not trying to counter your point, just saying that this observation could have been written by a woman who spent her ti
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by sid6376 13y ago
Let me take a shot at answering this. 1. India has a lot of beautiful and varied landscapes. There are mountains, lakes, forests , beautiful beaches , backwaters. I cannot do justice to the amazing places I have seen. 2. Almost everyone spe
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by sid6376 13y ago
What you forget are the rape cases that are not reported in the media or do not get the same attention in the international press - The rape of poor dalit(lower caste) women by upper caste men. In some cases its used as a tool for handing o
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Ultimate Tic Tac Toe(mathwithbaddrawings.com)
786 points by sid6376 13y ago|123 comments
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by sid6376 13y ago
In my experience I would like to move in the other direction specialization. As a generalist by circumstance (First engineering hire and then I became the only developer at my startup when my CTO left) it gets grating after a while. Particu
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by sid6376 13y ago
Why do you think once "we level up on technology and education and outperform these assholes", we will not become assholes ourselves? Tangentially related, but this[1] is one of my favorite articles from Less Wrong. A quote from that articl
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by sid6376 13y ago
For those unfamiliar with pointer arithmetic I wrote a python port here. https://gist.github.com/siddharthsarda/5538928
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A regular expression matcher By Rob Pike and Brian Kernighan (2007)(cs.princeton.edu)
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Engineering Colleges in India locked in to Microsoft Office(thehindu.com)
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by sid6376 14y ago
Can anyone point to a similar list for Scala? I am just getting started in Scala and would love such a list.
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Facebook introduces Gifts(facebook.com)
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by sid6376 14y ago
There was a fascinating series of articles on New York times on the search for the Higgs Boson.[1] There was also an attempt to explain what is the Higgs Boson , by means of some drawings and analogies in the second part of the series. Perh
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by sid6376 14y ago
Not all recipients of the rewards were autocratic leaders. Faiz ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faiz_Ahmed_Faiz ) was a poet, Nelson Madela received the award and Aruna asaf ali ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruna_Asaf_Ali ) was an Indian
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by sid6376 14y ago
Previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821
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by sid6376 14y ago
Previous discussion on hn regarding the link in the post. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2446752
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by sid6376 14y ago
Not the OP, but my thoughts on it. When I came to my current company, I had no web dev knowledge, I was able to survive by just using the setup my then-CTO (hey yummyfajitas!!) had done. I learnt django and picked up python , but if you ask
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Misguided Nostalgia for our Paleo Past(chronicle.com)
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How I explained REST to my wife(tomayko.com)
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by sid6376 14y ago
Thanks a lot. Checking the code now.
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by sid6376 14y ago
Some links for you: http://www.quora.com/Why-are-Mailgun-and-Postmark-so-much-mo... http://www.sitepoint.com/email-as-a-service-part-2-sendgrid-...
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by sid6376 14y ago
Meteor sounded like a really good concept and I wanted to give it a decent shot. However I could not find a getting started project. The ones I found were very trivial and did not go much into details. I couldnt really find a lot of documen
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by sid6376 14y ago
I think we often easily attribute these problems to the "management" types but do start-ups with founders as programmers treat other programmers any better?
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by sid6376 14y ago
This is another "I was like this" story. Two years ago I was at Microsoft India Development Center, horribly demotivated and decided to move away from programming. Actually I had realized one and half years in that I wasnt interested in my
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Goodbye to all that: Joan Didion(juliaallison.com)
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