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by thomas11 16y ago
Look up Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) on how to group related terms to concepts.
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by thomas11 16y ago
I don't get why no one offers the option of no delivery - that is, just keep the parcel at the post office nearest to me, and drop the notification in my mailbox. Better yet, notify me per SMS or email so I can pick it up on the day it go
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by thomas11 16y ago
Thanks for your detailed response (and the original offer!). I had understood your proposal just fine, and was wondering about the recruiters' side. I and surely most of us on HN agree with what you wrote on virtual relationships, fairly as
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by thomas11 16y ago
Now that's a generous and tempting offer, but how would it actually work? First, they usually want to know about the work relation you had with the reference. Just inventing something is dangerous and ethically questionable, recruiters or n
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by thomas11 16y ago
Sure, but the vast majority of Indians are not in the IT sector. These salary increases in IT are great for engineers, but they also work against India as an offshoring destination because of the rising costs.
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by thomas11 16y ago
The Times of India reported food inflation last week to be at 15%. That's clearly not sustainable as worker's wages rise significantly slower.
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by thomas11 16y ago
You did the experiment for one particular problem, with two particular implementations, on particular hardware. That doesn't mean you've discovered a universally valid break-even point.
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Ask HN: meetup/events in Delhi/Bangalore next two weeks?
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by thomas11 16y ago
Reason #5: You're not at all sure what exactly the idea of the final product will be. You've got ideas bouncing around in your head and you want to try them to get a feel for what might be a real product.
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by thomas11 16y ago
There is no need, nor even a way, to "micromanage Java's garbage collector". Once the heap size approaches the limit, GC runs and it will free what can be freed. So as long as you design your data structures in a way so that they don't hold
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by thomas11 16y ago
I'm extremely happy with my 11.6" Acer Aspire 1410. There must be newer variants by now. With its one-core Intel CULV it doesn't have much horse power, but then it's dirt cheap. You can get four for the price of a Macbook, which makes you n
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by thomas11 16y ago
But how does digging up dinosaur bones in China contribute to technological advancement or productivity increases? Mind you, I'm all for science, but there are certain kinds of science that could be put on the back burner for a while in a f
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by thomas11 16y ago
Thanks for your additional information. I've been wondering about contracting/consulting since a while, but I'm not sure how to get started here. My mail is in my profile - I'd appreciate if we could exchange a few lines.
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by thomas11 16y ago
A data point for the higher end: Geneva (also, Zurich), CH. Currency is CHF which is almost 1:1 with USD. Rent 1500-2000 (one person apartment!) Food 500 (eating at home, eating out is minimum 30/meal) Internet + smart phone w/ 3G: 150 Net
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by thomas11 16y ago
Interesting. Trademarking regional products is a big thing in Europe with its many centuries-old food traditions. Switzerland and the EU both have official recognition of protected designations of origin, for instance for Gruyere cheese. Pr
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by thomas11 16y ago
Save it. Boring, but money in the bank is freedom.
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by thomas11 16y ago
And the street addresses (all German) don't actually exist - I tried a sample -, street names and cities seem to have been combined randomly.
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by thomas11 16y ago
This an honest question: why do you have the goal to write "lots of blog posts", as opposed to focusing on quality and/or fun? Regarding your recent Ask HN about monetizing your blog that made you remove the ads, that can't be the reason.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Thanks for this. I've been studying Diamond Way Buddhism since a few years, and your writeup matches my understanding exactly.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Amazing stuff. Modern Perl indeed. Interesting that the whole server side is built on a JSON-RPC API. That enables writing completely new clients later on.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Wait, to evaluate a 40$ book purchase, your boss tracked down the author's HN account and "reviewed" his comments? Where do you work, some secret service that's afraid of saboteurs masquerading as Perl hackers?
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by thomas11 16y ago
Sure, in practice there's not much of a difference, I'm nitpicking, but it's not exactly the same thing. People might leak the URL unintentionally, for instance by sending the link to others, not knowing that the photo owner doesn't want
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by thomas11 16y ago
The problem is that the random number is static. As Aegan says, anyone allowed to see a photo can leak its URL. It would be better if the URL would depend on the user to whom the picture is served. But that'd be expensive.
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by thomas11 16y ago
As already stated by another commenter, then keep your site in English. You will still have access to a market of millions of typically young, well-educated Europeans. But you need to let them sign up, ship stuff to them, etc. That's where
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by thomas11 16y ago
It's the other way round: Perl 5 evolution was slow until maybe three years ago, since then it has picked up speed rapidly. 5.12.0 came out five months after 5.10.1. Since then, there are monthly development releases, and 5.13 is already sh
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by thomas11 16y ago
Well, I'd appreciate if you could elaborate on that. Ternary tables are in Conway's Best Practices, and while I certainly don't blindly follow any book, they have worked very well for many people, including myself. Compared to the if/else c
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by thomas11 16y ago
But then, you could always use ternary tables: say do { ($grade eq 'A') ? 'Well done!' : ($grade eq 'B') ? 'Try harder!' : ($grade eq 'C') ? 'You need help!!!' : 'You are just making
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by thomas11 16y ago
Why? You can have arbitrarily complex logic and computation in client-side JavaScript. Whether it's a good idea is another question.
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by thomas11 16y ago
Whether Common Lisp or Racket comes out in front in a comparison, it always strikes me as amazing what the Racket people get done given their manpower. I don't know how large the team exactly is, and how many external contributors they have
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by thomas11 16y ago
Awesome, I didn't know about Alt-middlemouse to resize, and now I love it :-) Thanks.

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