mkartic

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by mkartic 2y ago
Both 'sit up' and 'stand down' mean very specific things. But yeah, unqualified 'sitting' & 'standing' definitely don't need that disambiguation.
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by mkartic 9y ago
Looks like the post means 'either already burnt or will be burnt easily'? So what exactly is your nitpick here?
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by mkartic 11y ago
Netflix - Essentially a paywall for great CONTENT. You subscribe to their service with regular payments. Youtube - Ads for free content. Both seem to be working just fine as far as revenue is concerned. Can you elaborate on why you find onl
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by mkartic 12y ago
I don't think the OP has a problem figuring out how to try a new DE. The question was whether it's worth it. The nuanced answers of users with considerable experience is more valuable (IMHO) than just firing up Xfce for a sessio
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by mkartic 12y ago
To help you out, "Couples therapists estimate that only 5% of relationships ever break out of the power struggle and into true intimacy and self _actulization_." s/actu/actua/ I guess? In the page titled "Warni
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by mkartic 12y ago
A "confusion matrix" is statistical analysis you're looking for. An entry (i,j) is a score on how much the ith character is mistakenly typed (inputted) as the jth character. This can be easily adapted to various input devices
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by mkartic 12y ago
Are the particles found first and retrofitted into the Standard Model? Or does the model act as a map of sorts by telling us where to look? If latter, does that mean we're not looking for particles outside of the standard model?
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by mkartic 12y ago
Going to Tirupathi is a pilgrimage. Its misrepresenting religion. Faith by itself isn't irrational. You're putting 'Going to Tirupathi' and 'Not cutting your hair on Tuesdays' in the same bucket. This will only
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by mkartic 12y ago
no RSS? :(
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by mkartic 12y ago
That argument doesn't really help the discussion. Except for very sensitive data, usability is generally a bigger factor. And anyway, its not like you have a lot of options to choose from.
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by mkartic 12y ago
If you're able to pull it off, good for you. Rest of us, as this and numerous other discussions here on HN show, find it hard. Its a pretty big deal. You don't really have to complain about it. You're probably the exception,
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by mkartic 12y ago
Its like how you're asked to restart your computer everytime you call the support with an issue.
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by mkartic 13y ago
thanks! Will check it out. I use noscript, which is a slightly easier option in this case than a text based browser. :) But having a very strict whitelisting policy, I have to allow 3-4 sites to run JS temporarily everytime I decide to read
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by mkartic 13y ago
My interpretation of that rule. I think the author is only asking readers not to goof off or postpone work that can be right away. Like mentioned very often, getting into the right context for a task takes some time. So working till 8.15PM
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by mkartic 13y ago
Isn't that a bit extreme? I'm not saying there should be implicit trust or that there is no risk of insider trading, but still. Its not right to deny them of all rights to have other sources of income apart from their job. I mean,
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by mkartic 13y ago
It would have been really true if it had said, > "Any program can be really useful if it complies with the Unix philosophy." (sans "only").
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by mkartic 13y ago
Er, are you saying they were incompetent because they were Indians?
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by mkartic 13y ago
If you're telling me about hacks, I want them to be short and to the point. This article seems to go on and on.
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by mkartic 13y ago
wow, now i'm running through all possible parses of that title to figure out the funniest interpretation. The longer I think, the less funnier its getting. :|
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by mkartic 13y ago
Why the bitterness against CS? As jarvic says, > However, CS and software development are not the same thing. A lot of schools offer a separate degree in Software engineering as opposed to CS (or at least separate tracks). So the distin
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by mkartic 13y ago
In this context, taking help shouldn't be considered cheating. Its better that s/he looks up the API calls. It wouldn't be a comprehension test if all that is required is knowing a few API calls. Isn't the whole point of
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by mkartic 13y ago
Comparing IIT/IIM entrance exams to caste system is a very cheap shot. IITs are no more exclusionists than Harvard or MIT. Its the country's premier place for education, so everyone is going to want to study there.
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by mkartic 13y ago
why are they 'aesthetically ugly'? do you mean they don't have windows with glossed borders?
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by mkartic 13y ago
USD20k is a very large sum. It works out to just over 1.2million in INR. Now that's a lot. If all it took to make USD20k a year was 40-50hour work week, I wouldn't feel underpaid at all. And I would be living a life of luxury.
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by mkartic 13y ago
very well put. Both obscure and implicit/obvious information can be very hard to find by just reading the manual. (Aside from above) I love Python. I only know enough to get by though. I have this program that runs for a really long ti
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Google Results Page - Confusing color changes(forums.macrumors.com)
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by mkartic 13y ago
why can't they charge the universities instead to put up their own courses? It'd be a good advertisement. Like how everyone knows about Strang's linal courses. The complexity of the courses are limited by the number of people
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by mkartic 13y ago
man pages aren't tutorials. While it pays to go through the man pages of certain essential utilities, not all man pages are created equally. Try reading ffmpeg's man page to learn how to use it. But its indispensable once you lear
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by mkartic 13y ago
> What makes you think it does not? Its mostly my own ignorance I am admitting. :) I believe the true spirit of the 'Causation is not correlation' phrase is that if the mechanism isn't obvious, don't jump to the concl
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by mkartic 13y ago
But the GP's mention of the 'correlation is not causation' is completely warranted in this case. He doesn't think 'geopolitical happenstance is affected by solar magnetism' either. And that's exactly what

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