chattoraj

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by chattoraj 13y ago
Fergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications". Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
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by chattoraj 13y ago
pg wrote about this years ago. >If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within t
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Finnish is Uralic, not Indo-European.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Listen to this man. Anyone who studies a dead language for “real-world gain” will probably end up disappointed. The only real reason to learn is so you can read old books in that language. And you might get a few points of social prestige,
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by chattoraj 13y ago
> You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit. Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1] German i
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by chattoraj 13y ago
>isn't being held captive behind closed doors waiting for Sanskrit-speaking liberators Over-dramatizing the other guy's statement does not constitute a response. Even ignoring the religious angle, Sanskrit was the primary langu
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Feel like it’s worth highlighting this part of the post: >There is no good reason to do this I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
The site has a page on "Vimanika shastra"[1] ("Science of Flying Machines"), which is known to be a bullshit text from the 20th century[2]. Definitely a Hindutva site. [1] https://sites.google.com/site&#x
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by chattoraj 13y ago
>stretching things beyond their limits. There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
It isn't satire.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument: The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies. http://www.firstpost.com/in
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by chattoraj 13y ago
>It is sufficient to prove a program correct - as long as your proof is not faulty! This is unquestionable truth. Proof: Proposition A(X): X is true in theory Proposition B : For all X such that A(X), X is true in practice Theoreticall
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Speaking of the ¥, notice how it's right under the |? Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when using the Japanese locale. Further reading: http:/&#
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Thanks for pointing these out. Looks like I need to reread the book.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
> Being an adult is being able to handle responsibilities and take care of yourself in the world. Being a grown-up is being a prig whose soul died years ago. A fair opinion, but I don't think the book makes that distinction. The pr
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by chattoraj 13y ago
I read it recently, and found it to be Atlas Shrugged for 5-year-olds. The only point of the story is to say: "YOU, the reader, being a child, are so much better and smarter than all these grown-up sheeple!!" All told, I like th
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by chattoraj 13y ago
It's like Rick Santorum satirizing conservatism.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Yes, he is.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Yes, GPU brute-force is more effective than rainbow tables. I heard you the first time. I wasn't even talking about rainbow tables. > scrypt/bcrypt do the right thing, regardless, and generate unique password hash for the same
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by chattoraj 13y ago
I remember switching from KeePass over poor Linux support, but looking at its page now, it looks like it runs on Linux just fine. I'll have to give it another look, I guess.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Don't know about 1Password, but LastPass encrypts all passwords client-side. Only marginally less safe than storing passwords in an encrypted file on your personal machine.
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by chattoraj 13y ago
Having a different salt for each account means that identical passwords don't hash to the same value. This prevents low-effort attacks like this one: http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.in/2013/11/
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by chattoraj 13y ago
See the original paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
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by chattoraj 13y ago
The Chromium guys really don't like to add new features based on user requests. Here[1] they refuse to add support for SIL Graphite[2], which is essential for making text in certain languages render correctly. (Of course, Firefox alrea
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by chattoraj 13y ago
> I'd help, but that seems unfair. He missed the perfect opportunity to quote HPMOR. > I have heard such requests before, and experience leads me to refuse. Either I will do too good a job of prosecuting myself, and convince you
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Wikipedia and Dark Side Editing(gwern.net)
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by chattoraj 13y ago
The NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) announced a few months ago that it would be "re-orienting its research away from DSM categories". Even the guys on the inside don't trust it. http://mindhacks.com&#x2F
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by chattoraj 13y ago
The Wikipedia page actually agrees with you, more or less. See the "MRCA of all living humans" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMR...
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by chattoraj 13y ago
>"give me codes" mentality which is quite visible on dev forums. Related: I found this comment[1] on the blog post highly amusing: > Dude!! If only there was some way I could pass this on to my parents and aunts! I’ll send y
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by chattoraj 13y ago
I get what he's trying to say, but the rant is far too sophomoric. > These relatives are probably the ones whose kids would have done “nothing” in their lives The point could have been made without insulting their kids. > One of

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