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Inside The Libyan Rebels' Mobile-Phone Network(fastcompany.com)
1 points by swaroop 15y ago|0 comments
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by swaroop 15y ago
Regarding the "Plugins howto tutorial" that was requested on the show, I'd like to ask you guys to check out the Plugins chapter of my book and let me know your feedback - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Vim_en:Plugins
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by swaroop 16y ago
Why not use https://github.com/micahwedemeyer/automongobackup ?
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by swaroop 16y ago
That is probably true for the HN-reading crowd. I was referring to the remainder majority :-)
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My Bash and Vim setups(swaroopch.com)
9 points by swaroop 16y ago|2 comments
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by swaroop 16y ago
I just started reading "Web Design for Developers" published by PragProg ( http://pragprog.com/titles/bhgwad/web-design-for-developers ) and would recommend it.
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by swaroop 16y ago
I personally prefer `set scrolloff=999` which ensures the cursor is always in the vertical middle of the screen - this helps me always see the context of the current line.
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by swaroop 16y ago
This reminds me of the "Self-Determination Theory" that Cal Newport emphasizes: "To be happy, your work must fulfill three universal psychological needs: autonomy, competence, and relatedness." -- http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyo
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by swaroop 16y ago
On a similar note, was the Bruce Willis-starrer "alternate body" movie called Surrogates (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/
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by swaroop 16y ago
FYI, Safari 5 has extensions - http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html#developer_program
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by swaroop 16y ago
Seems to me that this is what the GTD Weekly Review is all about - you take stock of your world once a week, decide what is important and then spend the rest of the week executing those decisions - you are not allowed to second-guess yourse
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by swaroop 16y ago
Zed, I've written a beginner's book called 'A Byte of Python', and I'd like to know your opinion about it - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python FWIW, the background is that it has been under a Creative Commons license since 2004, it has
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by swaroop 17y ago
Got an email reply from the ACM folks: The issue here is copyright, not censorship. All of the author versions that were linked to on these pages are still available -- ACM explicitly grants individual authors the right to post their own ve
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by swaroop 17y ago
I wonder if Go is what will "replace" Python internally at Google? ( w.r.t. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493 )
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by swaroop 17y ago
Update: They have turned on jsMath, so formulas are now available, see http://mathoverflow.net/questions/16/how-do-i-typeset-mathem...
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by swaroop 17y ago
From http://sbseminar.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/math-overflow/ : > There’s currently no LaTeX support. Obviously, this is the top-priority feature. This definitely won’t be implemented until the Stack Exchange software is out of beta,
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Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths)(mathoverflow.net)
60 points by swaroop 17y ago|17 comments
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Wish for browsers : Adopt MHTML format(swaroopch.com)
1 points by swaroop 17y ago|0 comments
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Twitter vs. Why we can't concentrate?(swaroopch.com)
9 points by swaroop 17y ago|0 comments
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10 things I wish I was serious about before starting a startup(swaroopch.com)
1 points by swaroop 17y ago|1 comments
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by swaroop 17y ago
Have you checked out Head First Statistics by O'Reilly?
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Advice for Time and Energy Management(calnewport.com)
1 points by swaroop 17y ago|0 comments
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by swaroop 17y ago
On the same note, people should find this useful as well - http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
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The story of ngpay(specials.rediff.com)
2 points by swaroop 17y ago|0 comments
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by swaroop 17y ago
So he's giving up one inbox (email) for another (twitter)? It's going to be an interesting experiment because people are not really expected to reply back to every message on Twitter, so will people get ticked off if Leo doesn't reply to tw
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Challenge vs. Skill(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by swaroop 17y ago|0 comments
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by swaroop 17y ago
FYI for others, there's also http://filttr.com
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by swaroop 17y ago
You seem to be already doing well at the time of the application, why were you applying to YCombinator? Was it the money, the networking, or something else?
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by swaroop 17y ago
The question is how to attain discipline, not whether you need discipline :)
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Why I do Time Tracking(swaroopch.com)
47 points by swaroop 17y ago|17 comments

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