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by yati 13y ago
Same here, but cons cells can be used to model things other than lists, where semantically first and rest don't make sense.
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India's Mars mission recovers from glitch.(newscientist.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
I'm running XFCE on a 4 years old laptop with 1 GB RAM. GNOME and KDE aren't even options here, but XFCE is beautiful, efficient, fast and never makes me feel the laptop is so old.
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Ant On A Rubber Rope(en.wikipedia.org)
58 points by yati 13y ago|33 comments
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Malala and Nabila: worlds apart(m.aljazeera.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
Upvoted. But personally, I (am a C++ programmer) would not use C++ wherever I can make do with Python(which is orders of magnitude simpler).
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by yati 13y ago
I think people will(I would) use Go more for writing services than doing actual systems programming. It is a very nice language and I hope it succeeds, but I am personally betting for Rust.
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by yati 13y ago
Why, you think Africans won't be interested in answers to those?
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7 things about working in I.T. you don’t learn in school(christianheilmann.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
This is amazing. Thanks for the links :)
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Measuring heart rate with a smartphone camera(ignaciomellado.es)
48 points by yati 13y ago|20 comments
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Rape? Ladies, it's your fault. [video](ibnlive.in.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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Is Unicode safe?(jefftk.com)
4 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
I've heard many non-techs call it "CPU". "Cabinet" or "CPU Cabinet" is also very popular here in India.
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by yati 13y ago
This phonetic simplicity is there in (modern forms of)Indic languages. You can look at, say, a Hindi word you've never seen before and pronounce it if you know how to pronounce the individual letters/joint letters. > Although i
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Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in broad daylight in Pune, India.(dnaindia.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
> I would give them a few months before making such a judgement. AFAIK, they have been up for quite some time now.
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by yati 13y ago
I use vim most of the time and emacs only when I'm writing some Lisp. Do I have a risk of getting RSI if I press my ESC key(on a typical laptop keyboard) with the ring finger of my left hand?
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How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem(ergoemacs.org)
42 points by yati 13y ago|49 comments
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by yati 13y ago
I use vim with a few plugins like syntastic and command-t and my system(XFCE/Debian) terminal emulator for most of my development. For Java/Scala, I've found IntelliJ IDEA CE to be the best. Also, the Aptana Studio(an Eclipse
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Testicle-eating fish on the loose in Sweden prompts warning to keep trunks on(metro.co.uk)
8 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
I think Pandas is a great candidate for inclusion in the stdlib if this ever happens - and hopefully, numpy/parts of scipy will also be thrown in :)
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Here’s What Happens Inside You When a Mosquito Bites(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
25 points by yati 13y ago|1 comments
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Jadugoda: The Nuclear Graveyard(chinkyshukla.com)
1 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
> If you get 99 things right and 1 thing wrong, those who feel threatened by you will minimize those 99 things and blow that 1 thing out of proportion. You nailed it perfectly, mate! ॐ
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by yati 13y ago
> Note that Playdoh is more specific to Mozilla websites than it should be True that. But with some work, this has the potential to be one of the best go-to templates for production Django webapps Disclaimer: I'm a Mozillian.
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Mozilla Playdoh(github.com)
8 points by yati 13y ago|0 comments
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by yati 13y ago
Computer Science: SICP ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-c... ) Artificial Intelligence: AIMA ( http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ )
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by yati 13y ago
I completely agree here. The moment common people start speaking a language - any language - there will be irregularities and native elements introduced into the spoken variant. This will especially be true if the language is as tough to le
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by yati 13y ago
English is not popular because it is "easy to copy" or any nonsense like that. As already mentioned, people who didn't speak English were killed. Likewise in the PHP boom, people who did not write PHP were underpaid(not all

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