kunalb

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by kunalb 13y ago
For clojure, I'd actually recommend using light table. From my experience with the latest dev versions, the learning curve isn't hard at all and immediately having your code evaluated is pretty powerful and intuitive. [I started learning cl
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by kunalb 14y ago
True -- any visualization that doesn't get the message across is just about useless. Luckily we have very tight feedback loops -- and I can push new versions every couple of hours so I can customize it really fast to suit their needs/mental
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by kunalb 14y ago
I disagree with this post: there's another use case for visualizations -- consuming data as fast as possible to take action (eg firefighting). I work on tools for engineers, and I've found that a rich, non-standard visualization that people
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by kunalb 14y ago
I just tried the Beethoven intro lesson for guitar -- first off, these are awesome for me as an almost-n00b guitar player! Two suggestions: - When you're holding really long notes the interval to see the next note is really small [the tab m
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by kunalb 14y ago
My attempt at hammering the xkcd servers -- also colours missing tiles correctly (black/white depending on south/north): http://explog.in/xkcd.html [edit: basically lays everything out in a single huge page so that you can scroll instead
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by kunalb 14y ago
For those who don't tweak their toolchains spending one chunk of time and forgetting about them is obviously better than doing nothing else, but personally I recommend continuously evaluating what you do on the shell (well, obviously this c
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New Humble 'Introversion' Bundle(humblebundle.com)
3 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
I think that you _can_ join ml-class and db-class right now (the currently on going set of courses). It's only ai-class that has closed enrollment.
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Thinkup: Open source app to capture activity across social networks (FB, T, G+)(thinkupapp.com)
1 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
I think you're referring to Knuth -- in the introduction to TAOCP he compares the series to a cookbook, comparing recipes and algorithms.
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Neverware Means Never Buying a New Computer Again(observer.com)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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New Humble Bundle: Voxatron(humblebundle.com)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
You might want to edit the title and prefix an "Ask HN:" so that more people can respond to your question.
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Elephant's Dream: CC Animation made using only Open Source Software(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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Anti-Facebook Social Network “Unthink” Launches To Public(techcrunch.com)
9 points by kunalb 15y ago|2 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
Hmm. 1) Fake name, yes -- I wasn't aware of that practice; not that common in India, at least in my friend circle. 2) That was what I meant -- syncing actual details with your anonymous persona.
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by kunalb 15y ago
I am supposed to _start_ work at FB assuming I get a visa. I'm a bit curious about why a search for name won't show the alternate persona? I've had friends who made 2 profiles and both used to show up whenever I typed their name in; and his
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by kunalb 15y ago
I'm not sure that's such a huge sin -- technically I think FB says that you cannot have more than 1 account/actual person; I'd imagine when this `feature` was baked in the engineers didn't imagine that anyone would maintain an account that
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by kunalb 15y ago
I'm not particularly sure about this, but why would revealing the people who have stored YOUR phone number to YOU be such a big deal? I'm assuming phone number verification checks that you own the number via SMS; so it just acts as a revers
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Why I (A/G)PL(zedshaw.com)
42 points by kunalb 15y ago|3 comments
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Building Filesystems the Way You Build Web Apps (blogs.oracle.com)
1 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerburg on Steve Jobs(facebook.com)
6 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
I'm an amateurish PHP dev; so I can't suggest specific projects to get into. BUT I've found the best way to go about getting into any open source project probably would be: - Choose a project you've used if you can. (I went with WordPress f
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by kunalb 15y ago
noprocrast is time based. this extension only lets you submit links, and view the discussions of "Show hn" links that you created. visiting any other discussion on hacker news redirects you to a quote by richard hamming.
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Show HN: Selectively block Hacker News so that you can go and build stuff(chrome.google.com)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|2 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
Win: Crimson Editor -> Gvim Linux: vim -> Gvim
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by kunalb 15y ago
A small chrome extension I've written by digging through the way facebook loads ticker updates: lets you check the feed without having to visit facebook. All completed in 24 hours -- started by learning how to write a chrome extension, pret
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Show HN: Chrome extension to put ticker into a popup(chrome.google.com)
2 points by kunalb 15y ago|1 comments
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by kunalb 15y ago
For a concise, very readable book that I've used to get myself up to speed with algorithms in preparation for interviews you can try reading Algorithms by Papadimitrou, Dasgupta, Vazirani. You can grab a pdf at [Papadimitrou's website][1].
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Native photos in Twitter via photobucket(twitter.com)
1 points by kunalb 15y ago|0 comments

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