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by vivin 11y ago
The sheer diversity of language and culture in a place that is a third of the size of Europe. India "officially" has 122 languages, but over 780 have been counted. Going from one state to another is like going from one EU country
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by vivin 11y ago
Ohh, ok. Yeah that's right. There is a dish in Kerala that's made from the unripe fruit and it does have a kind of meaty mouth-feel.
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by vivin 11y ago
Not popular in India? News to me. Maybe not all over India. But in Kerala, the state I am from, Jackfruit is pretty popular there and is used to make a wide variety of dishes. My grandparents house has many jackfruit trees and we always had
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by vivin 11y ago
Comments are appreciated. It seems to work like you would expect, but I'd like to know if there's anything I'm missing in particular, or if the whole approach is just completely wrong.
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Type-safe enums in JavaScript(github.com)
1 points by vivin 11y ago|1 comments
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by vivin 11y ago
That has nothing to do with dubiousness. The only argument to be made there is a lack of consistent standards. Your point about Hyderabad leaves out one rather important detail: it was an openly-hostile, pro-Pakistani and anti-Indian state
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by vivin 11y ago
Wow, this article is completely wrong in many areas. A few things: > [...] Kashmir - a Muslim-majority region held by Hindu-majority India under dubious political and legal circumstances. There is no "dubious" circumstance. The
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by vivin 12y ago
LaTeX is totally worth it. I started off by using the LaTeX plugin in LibreOffice to do formulas. Eventually I realized that I could just do the whole paper in LaTeX. It isn't too hard and there is a stackexchange site for LaTeX that i
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by vivin 12y ago
Did you mean palatable? :)
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by vivin 12y ago
This is amazing. This took me back to the 90's when I was learning BASIC by scrounging for books in our school library. I grew up in Oman and there weren't too many programming resources. So I had to make do with random BASIC book
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by vivin 12y ago
I wish I was still in! Do you work in supplies or the motor pool?
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by vivin 12y ago
I'd like to write logistics software for the Army too. I could have replicated the system we were using in probably a month, maybe less.
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by vivin 12y ago
The Army environment is ripe for improvisation. Especially if you're dealing with a lot of manual process that can be automated. Your story is definitely heart-warming. It shows what bright individuals can do, even if they don't h
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by vivin 12y ago
Thanks! Yeah, I was definitely helped out by my leadership. They all kinda knew I was good with computers and so I was kind of the unofficial "tech support" for the company as well. I also know a few of my friends who were in sign
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by vivin 12y ago
That's a great story and quite inspiring too! It's great that you took the initiative. That's what the military teaches us to do anyway. I think it's amazing what you did because your improvements had real impact and I&#
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by vivin 12y ago
The only reason I ended up in logistics is because my recruiter asked me what I was doing in college. I said "Computer Engineering" and he said "This has computers in it!". I was 19 years old and I had no idea about anyt
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by vivin 12y ago
I'm not sure how things are like now (I got out in '09), but things were definitely opaque and bureaucratic when I was in. It was intensely frustrating as well, because the tools I had to use were horribly inefficient. That's
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How I got a medal from the Army for writing code(vivin.net)
431 points by vivin 12y ago|77 comments
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by vivin 12y ago
Rajeep Sardesai standing by the spirit of journalism? That's a laugh.
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Preconditions.js: A simple library similar to Google's Preconditions from Guava.(github.com)
1 points by vivin 12y ago|0 comments
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Blood and Egg(nordicfoodlab.org)
2 points by vivin 12y ago|0 comments
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by vivin 12y ago
I ran into this issue a few weeks ago as well. It's a horrible legacy feature that still exists. It's actually even worse. If you have any form elements that are also named after an internal property of the form object, then that
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by vivin 13y ago
Ahh Borland! We used to use Borland C++ in high school (back in the late 90's).
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by vivin 13y ago
> "learn BASIC, learn Pascal, then learn C" So much of this! I remember the older kids talking about Pascal (they were using TurboPascal at the time) and to me it was some mystical, highly-advanced form of magic, a sort of &qu
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by vivin 13y ago
I starting learning how to write code in '91 (I was 10). My first language was LOGO, but after that I started learning BASIC. I remember trying to find any sort of books I could from the library, that talked about BASIC. It was tough g
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by vivin 13y ago
I am using Mint 16 now; first time using it. Previously I was using Ubuntu. I had to switch to Mint because we got W540's at work which has a lot of new hardware that is not currently supported (well). I wasn't able to get Ubuntu
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Are 2^n and n2^n in the same time complexity?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by vivin 13y ago|0 comments
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by vivin 13y ago
I would assume that they are only working with a narrow subset of dead ends. They probably have promising leads and work on those. I think it's a constant process of refinement.
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Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion(npr.org)
346 points by vivin 13y ago|189 comments
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by vivin 13y ago
I hope it is an ancient alien space ship.

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