visitor4rmindia

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by visitor4rmindia 16y ago
I've been using David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology for about three years now and I find it works really well. When dealing with mail the principle I follow is to use the inbox purely as an inbox and not a substitute "to-do" lis
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
I'm going with SwellJoe because he seems to have some patterns in common.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Great! I love Opera, use it exclusively, and I wish it got a bigger market share. Some things to love about Opera: * Superb keyboard support including reaching any link on the page quickly * Dragonfly * Home/Office Sync * Disable
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Here you go: (defun fullscreen () (interactive) (let (f w l r cb b) (setq cb (current-buffer)) (setq b (switch-to-buffer "*NOSUCHBUFFER*")) ;Temp buffer otherwise (setq f (make-frame '((fullscreen .
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
There is actually a very simple solution that a bank could use to mitigate this issue - just send a SMS everytime there is an ATM withdrawal. I believe the bank I've just moved to ( http://www.kotak.com/ ) does do this. It sends me an SMS f
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
And you're right!! <so sorry - couldn't resist..!>
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Understanding this level of communication becomes simpler if you understand the dynamics at play in office relationships. Listen to gossip, try to understand the way your boss feels about his boss. About his peers. About his portfolio. And
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
IMHO as a learning language nothing beats LISP. It's a little tricky in the beginning, but the pay-off is great simply in the way it changes your perception of programming. This is a great place to start: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
It makes me sad to realize I read the OP and thought "Isn't this normal?" Then I read all your comments and realized just how different the US is from India and how far we still have to go. Sigh
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Ok - I program in a software product company. Our business depends on getting out the best solution - not the fastest solution. It's definitely not a "hobby". Some businesses may requires "fast" solutions, but I would argue that most busine
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
So why did you switch to FogBugz?
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Ok - this is a cute post but I'm going to play devil's advocate. So what if it is faster to do X? I program because I like to. I find it much better than trawling through the net, evaluating a half-dozen alternatives and then cursing as I t
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Doesn't the OP sort of invalidate this? Any government should find it reasonably easy to install this kind of a keylogger on your computer. It would be quite easy to get a few minutes alone with your laptop.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
This is utterly fascinating. I use TrueCrypt and never dreamt that such a simple attack even existed. Sigh - privacy in the age of information seems to be an impossible dream.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
I may be an ignorant philistine but I fail to see why the credentials of a painter should matter when appreciating a piece of art.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
How in the world did you get that from the article? I'm really chuffed about these kind of "hacks". There are a lot of initiatives in India to try and improve the lives of the rural community and it is really great. India cannot progress by
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
I second Evernote :-) The free version is good enough but I felt it was worth shelling out the $45 for the premium upgrade.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Screen: started using it because of this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848821 Now I really cannot imagine working without it. The ability to detach and re-attach to named sessions is fan-tas-tic. Add the ability to run multi
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
1) Where is the legal stuff that says what happens to embarrassing photos of grandma? 2) Asking users to select their own url may have some issues. What happens if two people go on a vacation to Hawaii? :-) 3) I would really like to passwor
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Very nice interface. I tried it out and had the following problems: 1) In 17 words, "arboretum" and "impetus" came up twice. 17 words is way too soon to start repeating. 2) The words appear to be of uniform difficulty. They aren't very hard
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
There is some code in this link: http://www.runrev.com/developers/tutorials/intermediate-hang... It seems to be a relatively verbose language so it's really not for me. The GUI builder may be a big plus though.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Phew! I'm glad this doesn't apply to me.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
First, Watson and Crick were hardly entrepreneurs so the comparison is totally unrealistic. Secondly, every single successful entrepreneur succeeded by working hard. It's easy to say "work on the right things" but my feeling is the "right t
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Was the code commented in enough detail? At work, we comment heavily and tend to use short variable names (especially local variables) so I'd like to know of outside experiences with similar code.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Plus Google is convenient so I use it but I can hardly say I "love" it.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
> I once knew some people who wanted to create a "startup" to compete aginst Tally. Heh - every year we have dozens of Tally clones that come up. In fact, I know at least two people working in Tally who had, at some point in the past, d
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
And here.
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Tally is entirely written in C/C++/assembly + TDL (which is a DSL). However, to manage development, we have our own in-house SCM tool (which uses SVN as a backend). This tool is written entirely in python. Additionally, some small build uti
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by visitor4rmindia 17y ago
Tally (www.tallysolutions.com)
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Gödel Escher Bach - The video lectures(ocw.mit.edu)
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