abhaga

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by abhaga 3y ago
That programmers don't change their opinion about types. He did.
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by abhaga 9y ago
> They are rather straightforward to reimplement Not really. Very often you will find the crucial details that make it work missing. Not sure if things have vastly improved over past 5-6 years.
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by abhaga 11y ago
>> can not already joining it in hordes. > Sorry, I can't figure out what you meant here. Yes, typos are hard to process, especially when you have context. I meant "are not already joining." Are you defining privileg
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by abhaga 11y ago
You speak as if those not on the internet can not already joining it in hordes. And those opposed to FreeBasics are somehow holding the keys. When looking at the two camps here, you seriously believe the motives of Facebook and Telecom comp
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by abhaga 11y ago
Because it is not a static scenario. Internet users in India grew by ~30% over last one year itself and that growth is not slowing down. And FreeBasics is not limited to people coming on the internet for the first time.
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by abhaga 11y ago
If those opposing the FreeBasics are trying to decide on behalf of poor, isn't FreeBasics itself not doing the same thing? In fact the word play now is just ridiculous. When questioned about the above, they point out that this is an op
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by abhaga 11y ago
In the FB vs Orkut example, not only is the Orkut Free, FB is inaccessible to Orkut users. What do you think will be the outcome then? You are also assuming that if not for Free Basics, there will be nothing done to increase the internet sp
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by abhaga 11y ago
You are assuming that the other services can just wait it out while people break out of FB ecosystem and discover them. Development of these kind of walled gardens significantly harm the development of independent services. That is one of t
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by abhaga 11y ago
Yep. We don't want you to see our elephants and tigers. And the snake charmers.
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by abhaga 12y ago
I understand that there are a lot of people who care about chocolate and who don't care about banana. I know plenty in the other direction (majority around me). But there are two points. First is that you are underestimating the kind o
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by abhaga 12y ago
Actually bananas are a huge deal since they provide the basic nutrition for large populations in many parts of the world. Also Cavendish is the dominant set of varieties world over and there are not many real substitutes for it, yet.
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by abhaga 12y ago
With diseases, world might actually run out of chocolate or at least some varieties of it. Like Panama disease wiped out Gros Michel banana and is now also threatening Cavendish banana. Similarly Frosty Pod Rot seems to be spreading and thr
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by abhaga 12y ago
Yeah but the DELETE blocking affects any customers on this ISP as well. I am now working on moving to SSL asap.
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by abhaga 12y ago
Problem is often the competence of people handling these proxies. Yesterday I discovered that my ISP is blocking all DELETE http calls (ACT fibernet in India)! And before that they decided to enforce a reverse DNS lookup so all the name bas
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by abhaga 12y ago
And it is all or none. If you fall on bad times and can't pay the subscription, you cannot have any books. Unlike your owned collection which you can reduce down to books you love. If you are low on cash, you cannot save and buy a book
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Building Humanistic Organizations is Like Falling in Love(medium.com)
1 points by abhaga 12y ago|0 comments
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by abhaga 13y ago
I wish this feature would be available in Youtube and other video sites. I worked through half the Graphical Models course on Coursera at 1.5x and it was very comfortable. This would be a key feature to allow people to learn at their own pa
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by abhaga 13y ago
This. Being a slow writer, it was a constant struggle for me through out school & college to keep pace with the instructors. I can imagine the same problem for the instructor as well - you need to be reasonably legible and fast to be ab
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by abhaga 13y ago
Retailer's purchase price is almost always a percentage of the cover price.
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by abhaga 13y ago
I am betting so are the searches on Google and sales of ebooks on Apple iStore for "1984". Oh the irony!
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by abhaga 13y ago
As per my understanding, two things drive the prices in the market. One is the perceived value the thing provides to users. This is the primary factor is the cost of producing the good is much lower when compared to perceived value. If the
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by abhaga 13y ago
> (some) people negotiate all the corner cases in extreme detail, to the point where the law of diminishing returns kicks in pretty strongly. I have seen that. I once negotiated a contract going back and forth over 2 months. The total b
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Startup Spoof Videos(vooza.com)
1 points by abhaga 13y ago|0 comments
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by abhaga 13y ago
Disagreeing with someone is not the same as jumping on him! Did you find any of the replies personally insulting the person who raised the concerns? Or making fun of him or writing him off? If you did, that is precisely what the down vote i
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by abhaga 14y ago
One of the biggest problems in building something on top of Drupal is the 2 year cycle of major releases with no backward compatibility. That means you will need to port all your custom code every 2 years. Combine that with the fact that ma
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by abhaga 14y ago
There is tons of data on the govt websites in India and the only way to get to that is by scrapping the websites. Knowing that you can scrap it and be on your way feels very liberating at times. Example: Rates for Indian postal department s
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by abhaga 14y ago
> Qyuki is hindi for "because" (usually spelled Kyunki and pronounced "Q"-"key") A minor correction. The exact Hindi word for "because" is Qyunki (notice the 'n'). 'Qyun' => why. "ki" => that.
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by abhaga 14y ago
Here is a story from the other side. My wife writes and publishes business book summaries. She submitted about ten of those to be published on Kindle. Amazon happily published some of them in US market but decided that the content was "publ
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by abhaga 14y ago
AFAIK that is an emoticon based thing, not real sentiment analysis.
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by abhaga 14y ago
This is easily resolved. Did American education system or the education system of any other country which you consider developed now, underwent similar stages? There are grave dangers in justifying our current systems and saying that in tim

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