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by prateek_mir 3y ago
This is nice ! I like that you have kept the polyglot world in mind. You should consider adding: 1) configurability in terms of name ( a templating engine might help ) 2) generate functional build files
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by prateek_mir 5y ago
I do not buy the "No side mirrors" argument, because what you'll also see written on the back of these trucks is "Use dipper at night", that is, do not use high beam cause the when reflected from the side mirrors, i
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by prateek_mir 5y ago
I think similar messages used to be printed on the back of government owned buses in the state of Rajasthan !
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by prateek_mir 5y ago
I have had similar observations about chaotic driving, people are cautious. At place where I live in India at present, one can actually cross roads walking slowly ( The traffic will just go around you ) I do not think there's much trut
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by prateek_mir 6y ago
A really good example to showcase the capability of the technology ! In context of India, where news channels have reneged from due diligence on evidently doctored videos, this is something which can have huge consequences.
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by prateek_mir 7y ago
Pardon me if I sound dumb, but going by the abstract, this is essentially concolic analysis of smart contracts ?
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by prateek_mir 8y ago
So, the banner on the channel points to this webpage: https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-c...
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MIT OCW YouTube Channel Unaccesible in India?
1 points by prateek_mir 8y ago|1 comments
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by prateek_mir 9y ago
It is classifying me as a bot with 94.6% probability. Does it give too much emphasis on retweets ?
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by prateek_mir 9y ago
On similar lines, I very recently discovered the combination of emacs + Artist Mode + ditaa for creating diagrams, and the experience has been pretty good so far too.
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by prateek_mir 9y ago
It is a really good font, however, it just doesn't work for me on terminal & terminal based applications. Somehow I find that there is too little spacing between the lines.
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by prateek_mir 10y ago
"Flash Boys" - Michael Lewis
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
The text on the placard that the girl is holding in the first picture of the article is exactly why more debate was needed on the issue.
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
It's not a 'ban' on acid sale, its a ban on 'across-the-counter' sale of acid, which means that you need to produce an identification to purchase it.
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
This is not a lot of oppressed people standing up for their civil rights. The issue is very different than that. More over, the size of crowd is way to large for the law enforcement to handle swiftly. This is not a flashpoint event, huge n
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
One should note that in cases of communal violence and riots, indoctrination plays a bigger role than grievances.
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
Not a freedom of speech issue. whatsapp messages spread quite virally. A large number of users of such services who have got access to mobile internet quite recently are susceptible to take a spam/hoax message as an authentic piece of
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
Tree is a graph without any cycles, hence the definition still holds. And yes, you can have multiple roots in a tree, ex: a --> c <---b ^ d-----|
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
I am not well versed with the costs of keeping such a site up, but a scaled down version can be always be maintained using S/IaaS solutions.
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
We'll, my assumptions are based on what I have observed personally, and that is, a lot of students and college going kids living in hostels use conventional browser based web-apps. Everyone wants to compare prices before making any pur
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
I don't understand the point in shutting down the website. There's a large audience in India which browses for products on e-commerce website while casually browsing other stuff. Taking the service entirely to an app based plat
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by prateek_mir 11y ago
here: http://courtnic.nic.in/supremecourt/temp/wr%2016712p.txt
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
A brilliant Idea; as far as usability for a normal user is concerned, How feasible is it to modify a browser to take the command directly via the address bar, and internally a thread can handle the ssh part, redirecting the user directly to
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New Development Bank, BRICS alternative to IMF and World Bank
5 points by prateek_mir 12y ago|0 comments
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
It gives a negative impression when you compare it with GDP, because, when saying GDP, every one assumes it as the amount a country makes in a year, and the writer is take as a smug by the sensitive ones. Seldom people take GDP as the am
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
Seriously ? depending on the location, farmers may very well be the most wealthy group of people (Thanks to the real estate boom and the highly inflated land prices) the article makes the mistake in generalizing the case, you should not do
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
There are two sides to this entire Black Money story. First is the bitter reality of the parallel economy that runs in India, amounting to huge revenue losses to the governments each year. The black money, not only robs to country and its c
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
Seriously? Posting this story in isolation presents an image that a downfall of media has begun, when in reality it is just a change of face. I have read the story, and I very well understand the movement under the surface. A comprehensive
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by prateek_mir 12y ago
We do not have a whistle-blower's protection act to being with, hence a large room for exploitation

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