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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   I'm curious as to why I'm being downvoted. Do people disagree with the reasoning or do they disagree about the actual facts of what happened ? I'm OK if you are down voting because you think this has nothing to do with the po
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   > Everytime I hear someone say "just look, they don't support office on Linux!" I ask: and what exactly do you think the market share is of guys who love Linux so much they use it on the desktop, but also would PAY Microso
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   I disagree on this. More programmers should understand the performance characteristics of the abstraction layers that they rely on. Else we have the case of jerk programmers who insist on redesigning / rewriting / refactoring to o
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   Never forget you're dealing with humans at the other end. You can always tell the person at the other end that you need time to consider and are not ready to sign the contract. You needn't offer reasons. If they are serious about
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   This migth've been tongue-in-cheek but seriously, this is what I do a lot of the time. I have a usb drive specifically to quickly move files around with a dual USB type A and micro-usb interface, specifically to move files from my phon
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   I wouldn't know since I've not used one. I didn't even know that they had a new model of the DPT. Judging by a quick google though, I think the biggest difference is the display and touchscreen. The Sony appears to have a &qu
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   You've already discovered the remarkable tablet so I'm just going to say that I'm a huge fan. I use it quite heavily for note taking. I can't recommend it enough. You may find second hand units for cheaper, since they&#x
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   A lot of devtools and configuration oddities can be learnt in an hour or less. One can become a fairly proficient/well informed user of any of these. The $VALUE for any/all of these are huge ! * keyboard shortcuts for your pre
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   by devnonymous 7y ago

   If you'd like a gentle introduction to something like gcc itself before diving in to writing your own, then you may want to read through: https://siddhesh.in/posts/gcc-under-the-hood.html which gives some introduc
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Dup : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21480623
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    I am not talking about hash tags. Just the replies on that specific thread. Am I now to believe that twitter itself is working with the LW handles to show the replies of LW criticism of twitter while suppressing RW voices?!! Come on, use Oc
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    If Twitter has banned as many right wing accounts as left leaning ones, why is it that the majority of disgruntled responses to Twitter India's clarification thread are blaming Twitter India's right wing bias ? https://
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    > It's a bit more complicated than that. I really don't think it is. The replies on that twitter thread I posted there, from a couple of days ago clearly indicates (or at least implies) that the people leaving the platform are
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    For context, some high profile activist / journalist accounts have been suspended of late. There's been a noticeable right-wing leaning enforcement of twitter policies in India. I think the trigger point was when Jay Shah's a
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Gates on Making the world’s invisible people, visible: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-Nandan-Nilekani Reality: https://jsis.washington.edu/news/the-aadhaar-card-
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Even his philanthropy (or at least that of the Gates foundation) is ethically questionable [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat... ... And that's just barely scratching the surface.
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Fitbit really only took off after the Pebble acquisition IMHO.
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Each time I see an implementation of binary search like this I can't help but recall: https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about... Which reminds me just how young the field of computer scie
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Here's AOC's questioning : https://twitter.com/i/status/1187098428737753091
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    Zuckerberg Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee(c-span.org)

    2 points by devnonymous 7y ago|1 comments
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    It's a pity that the major regions that link the greek/roman thought of the 'west' to the Indian/Asian cultures of the 'east' are today places of conflict resulting in destruction, both intentional and col
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    GCC Under the Hood(siddhesh.in)

    2 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Not that I'm against python 3 but please, this dismissive arrogant attitude says more about your experience with python than of people who took their time. Python until at least 3.4 was changing way too fast to be considered as a stabl
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    uh huh, besides 1 and 2 what exactly is non-Windows/non-NTFS specific ?
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    For the lazy: This should be titled Fundamentals of Async IO in Windows / NTFS. You're welcome.
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    I don't understand your comment. Are we commenting on the same article? As far as I can tell this article is about Modi and how the Gates foundation is wrong in its decision to award Modi. The article speaks about how the Clean India M
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Why has this been flagged? The article by itself is an interesting nuanced take. Was it flagged due to the extremely poor quality of comments here or due to people down voting the article?
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    Mark Floppy.c Orphaned(git.kernel.org)

    3 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    > The only reason i bother to write this long comment is because it is posted by RMS. I guess thats the motive of the op, may be op can talk about it. RMS speaking against the evils of hinduism will give more weight to clarify the miscon
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    by devnonymous 7y ago

    Firstly, this isn't exactly news. Hindu texts are full of examples of not just the caste system but all variety of ills and discrimination. Secondly, this one passage is an obscure reference. Contrast this for example against the story