vram22

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   by vram22 7y ago

   >a word I just made up right now, sue me No need for suing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289473
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   by vram22 7y ago

   The mention of a non-existent thing creates it. - The Zen School of Me. :)
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   by vram22 7y ago

   Yes, I did get that chain (pun intended), but I thought GP meant it literally.
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   by vram22 7y ago

   >and how management runs over asap (every minute of stoppage is much money lost) to ask the question "why" five times in order to understand the root issue of the process breakdown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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   by vram22 7y ago

   Do you have some links for the history? I'm interested in Lean and Kaizen. Made a comment about it in this thread.
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   by vram22 7y ago

   Can't confirm or the reverse, but I do remember Taiichi Ohno's name being mentioned multiple times in the book (The Toyota Way), which I bought and read some years ago. Interesting book. One of the things mentioned was the concept
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   by vram22 7y ago

   >The Camry and Corolla Saw this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Camry#Etymology
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   by vram22 7y ago

   Why do they allow it at all? Are there no rules or laws that they can invoke / enforce for this?
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   by vram22 7y ago

   It would make sense for them to get it based on the amount of profits their work generates.
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Thanks.
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Thanks. I have the same feeling about the tendency in Ruby to use magic tricks. Prefer the Python way, although it does have support for meta-programming, etc. People tend to write magic code less in Python, AFAIK.
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >Especially macros are a very, very bad idea. Why? Is it because the code you see is not the code that runs?
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >(just) good enough GUI bindings Which one(s) do you use?
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >million dollar mistake echo "million dollar mistake" | sed 's/mil/bil' # :)
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    by vram22 7y ago

    This subfeed of my blog has all my D language posts, about a dozen of them (apart from a few videos of D or related confs): https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/DLang They may be of interest to beginners or ot
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >d is just such a pleasure. it's like it was designed to make the programmer happy. IIRC, Walter has said somewhere (likely on the D site or on his site or one of his articles for DDJ) that it was designed for that, actually, or s
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    by vram22 7y ago

    IIRC there was/is a company in Pune, India, called B G Shirke and company, that is into prefab Siporex materials. Google "shirke siporex".
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >alternative to traditional concrete Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18487704 About the earthship I mentioned in that comment, which was made using non-traditional materials and techniques: I don't rem
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >thereby proving more water throughout the year Sorry, I meant "providing", not "proving".
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >But what do you call a new business that a founder is fully committed to (so, not a side business) but without an aim to grow to a huge valuation (just enough profit to live)? You call it "a little Italian restaurant on the web&quo
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >Someone did the math and showed that a 10x return on those successful investments is the minimum for the fund as a whole to provide a good return for its LPs. And they were called ten-baggers before they were called unicorns - roughly s
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >1. They need to bore tunnels in western ghats, collect excess rain water west of western ghats to divert towards east of western ghats. That might cause an ecological disaster on par with what I described here in this thread: https:&#x
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    by vram22 7y ago

    >3) link rivers I'm not an expert on this one, but my gut feel is that linking rivers will probably greatly change and likely destroy ecosystems. This idea has been floating round in India from the time I was in my teens or a bit la
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Any links to papers or docs about that? Interested.
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    by vram22 7y ago

    A recursive acronym, like GNU (GNU's Not Unix), GOD, EINE, ZWEI, SPARKS (tail recursive :), LAME, PINE, PIP, TIARA (!), WINE, YAML, JINI and many more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym Also see back
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    by vram22 7y ago

    So is that considered good or bad there?
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Gigantic is right, often, when it comes to telecom. Some years ago I worked on a Unix/C/Oracle software project for VSNL, a public sector or quasi-government entity that was India's telecom carrier to/from abroad (V for
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    by vram22 7y ago

    GP is asking about unlimited data, not unlimited calls. I am not sure Jio or any other provider gives that for such a low rate as you mention, although they may give it for a higher rate (not sure). Also, not sure if the FUP (Fair Use Polic
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Thanks. >1.5GB data per data. Guess you mean per day. Right, have tried this one.
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    by vram22 7y ago

    Thanks, will check those out.