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by vshan 9y ago
For all the talk on how clients and managers tend to bikeshed...
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by vshan 10y ago
The entirety of HN seems to have something against Competitive coding.
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by vshan 10y ago
May not be hot tech like ML, but traditional symbolic AI is still pretty useful in stuff like Natural language processing. Plus, it's a great way to learn functional programming too. Book rec: Computation Semantics with Functional Prog
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by vshan 10y ago
You need to ask your Keralite friends to prepare some beef.
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by vshan 10y ago
Don't want to hijack this thread, however, it is mildly related: What projects are perfect for learning Erlang (which might involve both the functional and concurrent aspects of the language)?
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by vshan 10y ago
Check out Hyperion Cantos. I think you might like it.
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by vshan 10y ago
I presume India, since he mentioned BSNL.
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by vshan 10y ago
But then again, machine code is platform specific too.
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by vshan 10y ago
Lots of good book suggestions in the Ask HN thread I had posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560509
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Looking at life through an abstract lens(abstractionrocket.wordpress.com)
20 points by vshan 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Books to learn advanced C programming
45 points by vshan 10y ago|12 comments
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by vshan 11y ago
Looking for Internships. I'm an undergraduate at a well known Indian engg. university, and have nearly 6 years of programming experience. I enjoy system-level engineering, functional programming and concurrent programming. Location: Ba
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by vshan 11y ago
Thank you so much for the answer, efferifick! I feel very empowered :)
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by vshan 11y ago
Woah, funny I see this. I've been working on a distributed shell, basically trying to combine sockets and pipes to create remote pipes, aka inter-host piping. Something like: $ echo foo | host2:grep bar | host3:grep baz
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Ask HN: Which books would you suggest to a college student?
2 points by vshan 11y ago|3 comments
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by vshan 11y ago
ruby -run -ehttpd <directory> -p8000 Can customize the directory.
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by vshan 11y ago
On similar lines is the Joint Entrance Exam (or JEE), the entrance test for admission into the Indian Institutes of Technology (and a toned-down version for admission into less selective institutes). This year over 13 lakhs, or 1.3 million
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by vshan 11y ago
Could this possibly be solved using derivatives?
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by vshan 11y ago
You got into and graduated from IIT Delhi. Don't be so hard on yourself, that is no small achievement. Try to put your projects on GitHub and/or look around for freelance gigs.
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by vshan 11y ago
No -- it's just basic courtesy. Any criticism Mr. Altman has of Ms. Pao, he can share with her privately, and it's not privy to us.
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by vshan 11y ago
Most people don't know this, but it was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the internet".[0] PG had vetoed their initial idea to create a foo
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by vshan 11y ago
Keep in mind that only 19%[1] of Indian population is connected to the internet, and regardless of the percentages involved, it still means that over 1 million people went out of their way and claimed their rights. [1]: http://ww
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by vshan 11y ago
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NOJGZZ6TTDS00... Please read.
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by vshan 11y ago
I don't know what Zuckerberg has in mind, but in India at least, there have been literally a million[1] mails sent to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in favour of Net Neutrality: and hence India has taken a negative stance on
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by vshan 11y ago
I'm from India, and construction pays about 50 Rupees a day-- about a dollar. I was thinking more along the lines of a SaaS business or perhaps, freelancing on Odesk or something similar. Thank you for replying to my post.
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by vshan 11y ago
Hi enigami, this sounds very interesting. My email is vinaybhat001_at_gmail_dot_com.
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by vshan 11y ago
Thank you for your advice. Do you think this would work if I contacted small American firms through Email? I'm from India, and $500 is a lot of money here, I doubt I'd find many companies willing to spend that much.
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by vshan 11y ago
Thank you Mr. McKenzie for taking out some of your time to reply to my post, it is much appreciated, as are all your helpful posts on your blog. I should have provided a bit more context, I'm from India and I was specifically looking t
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Ask HN: How can a person with web dev skills make $500-$1000 per month?
15 points by vshan 11y ago|15 comments
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by vshan 12y ago
Not the same reason, as it is better to practice one hour every day of the week instead of seven hours on one day because of the sleep you have.

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