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Ask HN: How is Portal 2?
1 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|0 comments
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How not to interview Pythonistas.(pydanny.blogspot.com)
4 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 15y ago
Lucky him, atleast he got to face tech interviews. As for me I never got the chance to prove myself. I got my call, was inquired about my projects and current offers by HR and then got a rejection letter next week. After I inquired, it tur
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What was John Nash like as a professor?(quora.com)
85 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|13 comments
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by l0nwlf 15y ago
Ken Thompson, Guido Von Rossum, James Gosling : Good going Google.
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by l0nwlf 15y ago
To make a Lisp interpreter you need to know Lisp. But I liked the idea of writing a shell.
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Python tests used to compare different OSes(william-os4y.livejournal.com)
12 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|6 comments
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Complete 3d replica of fabricat'11 exhibition in 48 hours(fabricate2011.org)
8 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|0 comments
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Gowalla leads in openness, to offer place data(blog.programmableweb.com)
5 points by l0nwlf 15y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
As told by the blog author in the comments: " HTML + CSS3 is Turing complete (github.com) – http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836 "
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Mine is 2009 model and I have yet to face this issue. Although my Optical drive died this January and it throws out DVDs when inserted but that is the only problem I have faced so far. EDIT: Was just stating that 2009 MBPs have no such iss
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
"Bounce Evolution" is supposedly the best game available on N900. Although N900 itself was never a successful platform but the game had immersive quality, just like Angry Birds. [ http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=bounce-evolution ]
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Why did Andrew Cooke deleted all his answers from Quora(quora.com)
18 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|7 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Apple did far better then Microsoft atleast. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/bings-japan-tweet-tasteless-mar...
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Just yesterday I was unable to access twitter from my university. It blocked me by saying something like 'API calls exceeded'. A university have generally a single IP address and thousand of users. What will twitter do about this ?
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
>Nokia has always "gotten" the phone side True, but my current phone N900 is weaker in terms of a phone. It is a hacker's delight with a real terminal, apt-get etc but the phone experience I never really enjoyed much. My earlier phone
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Just 2 hours back I though of writing my project report in LaTex, but then after 1 hour of tinkering I switched back to MS Office because I needed to get work done today. May be if I'll have some spare time, I will learn it and write my nex
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Yes, they do. In India the average price of sending an SMS is 1 rupee, the same as making a call for 60 seconds. EDIT: Which carrier ? Unless you buy SMS pack, the default rate per SMS is rupee 1. Am talking about Airtel and BSNL. I think
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I highly value "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley in this regard. He proposes a problem and then solves it in naive way followed by the right way/ways. I realized the importance of choosing correct data structure for a particular problem f
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Not counting 7 years of GWBASIC on MSDOS, my first experience was with LOGO in class II. REPEAT 360 [FD 1 RT 1] for making a circle, nostalgic. :) EDIT: Downloaded BASIC from http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/recompiler/...
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Command-C / Command-V is copy-paste. Also I do use TotalFinder as a finder replacement. :)
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
There is a reason Python is paired with Mercurial. Hg is written in Python. As for why Mercurial was chosen over Bazaar, it came down to popularity. As the core developer survey shows, hg was preferred over bzr.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Adding few more. - No cut-paste. - No tabs in Finder. - The missing delete key. (Backspace is renamed as delete) - The not-so-modern Terminal. (hence the wide usage of iTerm)
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Programming language should be simple(blog.dhananjaynene.com)
8 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|4 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
You can always bring codes in the form of printouts. And these libraries are mainly for practice problems on ACM UVA Online Judge.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
These are standard data structures and algorithms coded in C++. Pretty useful for programming competitions.
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Libraries in C++ for ACM(shygypsy.com)
38 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|33 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
It opens in my office (Bangalore, India).
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Stack Overflow should use a tougher version of it. Will weed out some noise.
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Apple announces iPad 2(techcrunch.com)
3 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments

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