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by tubelite 12y ago
It's the old "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Since I'm a filesystem engineer, everything looks like a file :) Seriously though: the file is a powerful and familiar abstraction. The primary motivatio
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by tubelite 12y ago
If I might plug a rich command shell I'm developing: http://pigshell.com (Source at https://github.com/pigshell/pigshell ) It provides - A shell for the web. Runs in the browser, pure client-side. - Fil
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by tubelite 12y ago
The reddit AMA by 3 young ISRO engineers just after the MOM launch was pretty good. http://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/1ujcmo/we_are_three_i... The salary they mention is IMO very competitive with so
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by tubelite 12y ago
Here is a district-wise map of percentage of rural households with a. electrical lighting and b. mobiles. http://imgur.com/A7PXuwa Surprisingly, they don't overlap. Numbers are from the 2011 census. Interactive version
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by tubelite 12y ago
I'm only half joking :) Gitcoin is much looser than bitcoin when it comes to verifying proof of work. However, there is a (practical) sense in which it exists. Fixes are submitted, accepted, merged, pulled until they are part of all us
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by tubelite 12y ago
And if you consider that a git commit is actually "proof of work" and find a way to quantify the value of that commit (fixes issue x which was worth y points, passes all regression tests), you would have... gitcoin.
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by tubelite 12y ago
Slight tangent: in those cases where canvas is desired only for the ability to convert a visualization into a PNG (rather than performance), it is possible to serialize a D3-created SVG into an XML string and render it to an image/canv
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by tubelite 12y ago
Reminds me of Teller's article: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/teller-reveals-hi... "..You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlook
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by tubelite 13y ago
You can see the whole thing unfold on Twitter TV, starting about Dec 11th: https://twitter.com/ngkabra
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by tubelite 13y ago
Animations are hardly the worst thing about iOS7. After playing with betas for several weeks on an iPad 2, I, for one, have developed a cordial dislike for our iOS7 overlord. I've been trying to figure out why it feels so bad, and thi
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by tubelite 13y ago
With re Borges' attitude to Hitler and Nazism: clearly, neither the interviewer (Cavett) nor the author of this article (O'Connell) seem to be very familiar with Borges' writings. No one who has read Borges' half a dozen
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by tubelite 13y ago
When you're done with Fictions, do read the other book, "Selected Non-Fictions" http://www.amazon.com/Borges-Selected-Non-Fictions-Jorge-Lui... (not an affiliate link either) Not only are they excellent piece
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by tubelite 13y ago
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is perhaps my favourite short story. Borges is so powerful that he shines through the translation barrier like it didn't exist. While he is best known for his short stories, his non-fict
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by tubelite 13y ago
The shuttering of Reader and Gmail's new and awful Compose have convinced me - more than years of Stallman rants and NSA snooping - that relying on closed-source SaaS is a terrible idea. It is a question of if, not when, your SaaS prov
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by tubelite 14y ago
Hmm. Works for me. Possibly a temporary Cloudflare hiccup?
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by tubelite 14y ago
It's a coffee table book about coffee tables.. And it is a coffee table too :) Nice idea. Just submitted my side project: https://pigshell.com
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by tubelite 14y ago
+100 for "The Ancestor's Tale". There's a nice illustration there regarding the existence of Henry, a shrew who must have been the ancestor of all humans, and his brother Eric, who might well have been the ancestor of all aardvarks (but n
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by tubelite 14y ago
Excellent article. I recently read three books: one on the Kindle iOS app, archive.org's PDF scan of a real book, and finally, a real, printed-on-paper book. I used to dislike skeuomorphism as exemplified by Apple faux leather. So it came
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by tubelite 14y ago
Under the spreading patent tree, I sold you and you sold me. When we're done with the well-deserved two minutes hate of patent trolls, lawyers and the broken legal system, perhaps we can consider the willing and eager participatio
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by tubelite 14y ago
If you get right down to it, the end goal of anything and everything is absurd. Life is a runaway exploding self-catalyzing chemical reaction and its ultimate goal is the replication of aperiodic crystals. It so happens that the replication
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by tubelite 14y ago
IMO - No. "Sorry, all our customer care representatives are busy on other calls. Your call is important to us..." Has anyone - anyone! - ever been mollified by this kind of apology? Straight from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's Genuine
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by tubelite 14y ago
The author is Jared Diamond - IMHO one of the great thinkers of our time, who certainly deserves serious consideration. His books, "Guns, Germs and Steel", "Collapse", "The Third Chimpanzee" are excellent, thought-provoking (even worldview-
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by tubelite 14y ago
Undoing a false conviction is fine, but they really ought to use a better word. Exonerate. Vindicate. Absolve. (Then again, I don't understand the idea of the President 'pardoning' a turkey either. What's the turkey done? Headed a Wall Stre
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by tubelite 14y ago
Pardon? Pardon, a pardon?! An apology is what he deserves and what he got. To use words like 'pardon' and 'forgive' carries the very strong connotation that what he did was wrong, and we're being nice by forgiving his mistakes. I mean, half
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by tubelite 14y ago
True. The specific APIs will go out of date. That is why the intent has to be captured at a higher level, while the implementation of the intent can be swapped out and replaced as APIs change. Many aspects of human behaviour have basically
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by tubelite 14y ago
In the long run, it is highly likely that you will either be an ancestor of every single human, or none of them. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19331938 ) You don't need to give every single one of your descendants a gift. Give 2-5 gi
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by tubelite 14y ago
You know what would be really cool? Write a mini-me program, with enough money that hosting can be funded on interest, with a little left over for gifts. Then, you die (painlessly, after a long and happy life, etc. etc.) The program keeps r
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by tubelite 14y ago
Sentiments I totally agree with. So much so that we started a side project to create a CLI environment for exploring the personal cloud. It's a web app which exposes your FB, Twitter, Picasa resources as files and navigate them using a shel
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by tubelite 14y ago
Taleb is a Soup Nazi. He (volubly) suffers for his soup. He treats customers with disdain. And yet people line up for the soup, because it's pretty good, actually. I find Taleb's opinionated eccentricity very useful, especially when it cons
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by tubelite 14y ago
In a store full of big-screen TVs, laptops, tablets and every species of shining rectangle, one device emits a reality-distortion field like no other: the iMac. The display is just.. perfect. After seeing the iMac 2 years ago, I switched to

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