nirav

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by nirav 5y ago
"lots of people looking at source code" is contemporarily a weak argument against audit and review by experts, I really love spiped.
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by nirav 6y ago
Abstract thoughts are conveyed with a class of language, this has not worked well in its predominance historically ( only math survived) similarly how music is communicated but not accepted as a universal language.
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by nirav 6y ago
સાલ મુબારક! Thanks to everyone on HN starting with pg and dang for providing this incredible discussion and a learning platform!
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by nirav 6y ago
Personal thoughts for ammon, hoping @dang hides me, please hide me @dang. Ammon, You single handedly destroyed something you created but I can relate and feel what you might be going through ATM. It will suck and it will leave you with scar
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by nirav 6y ago
Why are people using this crap instead of portfolios and filtering crap jobs? You don't want to be working for these types; you can own and operate as a business.
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Trill: A High-Performance Incremental Query Processor [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
3 points by nirav 12y ago|0 comments
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by nirav 13y ago
I created this website and I would love to get some feedback!
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Show HN: Prediction Central - The Prediction Database(prediction-central.com)
3 points by nirav 13y ago|1 comments
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Scaling writes in MySQL (2009)(tech.bluesmoon.info)
2 points by nirav 13y ago|0 comments
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by nirav 13y ago
Demo: http://demo.danielmclaren.com/2013/constellation.js/release/...
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Constellation.js(github.com)
3 points by nirav 13y ago|3 comments
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by nirav 15y ago
It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious PL designer, start-ups seem to be the prime market to target
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by nirav 15y ago
R.I.P. Steve, You inspired many of us to rise above and beyond what we would have been otherwise...
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by nirav 16y ago
Wow, just experienced how difficult it is to find source on SF.net. Whoever made this change might be running shareware sites like download.cnet.com in his/her past life.
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by nirav 16y ago
You probably didn't see what kind of crap SF.net was before this redesign. I think they did a good job of redesigning homepage but project pages stlll look like they are work in progress..
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SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look(sourceforge.net)
12 points by nirav 16y ago|11 comments
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by nirav 16y ago
There's no "somehow", it is almost like telecom companies can force govt to form regulations in their interest.
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by nirav 16y ago
This is called Oligopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly in half-assed capitalism. Note that this can be worse than monopoly because few competitors can essentially create informal cartels.
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by nirav 16y ago
This is really a worrying level of monopoly by Bell.
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Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.(thetyee.ca)
359 points by nirav 16y ago|268 comments
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by nirav 16y ago
Nice tool! One thing I would like though is Image from a URL.
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by nirav 16y ago
Writing MS-PST parser to centralize all my emails over the years in a single database: http://github.com/niravthaker/slibpst
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by nirav 16y ago
It appears that his primary assumption, NPE prevention, on Options is based on blogs rather than actual good quality code. If you look at how Options are used in Scala core lib, you wouldn't make such claims and you will definitely not use
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Why Scala’s Option and Haskell’s Maybe types won’t save you from null(beust.com)
3 points by nirav 16y ago|1 comments
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Have Generics Killed Java?(artima.com)
2 points by nirav 16y ago|4 comments
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by nirav 16y ago
Three reasons I can think of, in order of time to get things done: 1. Availability, ease of use of Java based hosting provider 2. Time from writing code to live deployments 3. Lack of agile frameworks like rails, django or any other php fra
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by nirav 16y ago
Not so much into stats but isn't a good statistical sampling has to have a uniform distribution over population space like strata/demographics? I wonder what their sample size is for 1.56 billion internet users ( http://www.wolframalpha.com
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by nirav 16y ago
prefer to rate sites by their "percentage of total Internet traffic" I can't help but wonder how ridiculous business model like Alexa's works in reality, their source of data is not even scientifically relevant to measure total inte
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by nirav 16y ago
Remember that code isn't the only form of contribution,You can provide non-code help as well. Add/Update documentation of open source projects. The only reason why RTFM fails is because documentation is outdated or non-existent. With interm
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by nirav 16y ago
Programming is my passion, you are probably right about the bubble.

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