psranga

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by psranga 10y ago
Is 50% your ETR if you only look at INCOME taxes (federal and state)? If so, you're probably an extreme outlier. Or are you including payroll "taxes" (social security, medicare), sales taxes etc also? IIUC, if you add up he
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by psranga 10y ago
> Why does it still cost money to file taxes anyway? https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
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by psranga 10y ago
I take this blog post as confirmation that: 1) ANY one message can be intercepted even if the sender exhibits ideal levels of alertness [Whatsapp server drops message to recipient; sends a rekey request with a fake key; message is interce
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by psranga 10y ago
Of course, of course, this is unlikely to be an NSA backdoor. But maybe .... </CK_LOUIS> i dabbled in this api way back in the past so i may be wrong about its capabilities. skype used to be EXCELLENT at working in most network
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by psranga 10y ago
Looks fine to me. Ikea's site looks similar (to my eyes at least), btw. And nothing like the 90's whitehouse site. There's a lot of niche sites that get the job done without following all the latest "trends". More p
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by psranga 10y ago
Sorry, I don't know.
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by psranga 10y ago
This function works surprisingly well in practice. IIUC, it's a hash function defined over 3D space with tunable gradient between points. The cool thing about the the marble vase example is that marble texture continues on the inside
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by psranga 10y ago
Is it possible that mining activity could accidentally change the orbits of one of these asteroids enough to send it crashing into earth eventually (in a few decades)?
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by psranga 10y ago
bottle.py + Postgres + Nginx on Ubuntu on a VPS is my go-to boring stack. I recommend just using SQLite for the MVP. Launch then iterate.
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by psranga 10y ago
What could possibly go wrong with securitizing interest streams? :)
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by psranga 10y ago
This line bothered me more than it should :) typedef std::string String; when using std::string; would have done just as well. Yes, I noticed the capitalization change. But why do you want to change the name of a fundament
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by psranga 10y ago
I hope (1) FM radio receivers come back, (2) and phones implement a way to grab the waveform and modify it before it hits the speakers. I can imagine useful public-safety capabilities that could be enabled via data over FM radio. FM radio i
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by psranga 10y ago
Actually, I'm happy to see that this author didn't give into the temptation of making a "one ring that rules them all" abstract design. OpenGL is a C API. This adds a decent C++ API around it. Seems to be a decent effort
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by psranga 16y ago
The way I see it is that it's helping with "wallet bloat". It's a gizmo the end consumer buys to convert a stack of cards into a single card. Everything else is icing on the cake that I don't really care about. I would pay $15 for this devi
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by psranga 16y ago
Previous news stories? Such as unauthorized access of Sarah Palin's email.
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by psranga 16y ago
IMHO, this is shortsighted. Art is of almost zero practical use. Investing a tiny fraction of society's resources in art is a sign of a society that has evolved beyond the starvation stage. Are you saying that all art should only be commi
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by psranga 16y ago
The Indian (and other govts) asked for the server to be placed in their country because otherwise RIM will invoke the technicality that that don't have to honor Indian govt's snoop requests since the server isn't located within Indian juris
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by psranga 16y ago
Umm, RIM is providing to India exactly what they have to many other countries. So you are probably excluding a large part of the world from your list of places fit for you to live. The agreement covers "consumer Blackberry services". Presum
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by psranga 16y ago
I think he meant the "psychological profile" data, not his email text.
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by psranga 16y ago
Software services companies in India grow very fast since many are they're tapping into the offshore outsourcing (or offshoring) trends. It appears that they've been able to sustain it for the past 20 years or so. I agree it's not sustainab
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by psranga 16y ago
There are companies in India where people are coders longer than five years (I was at one). My gut feeling (inferring from conversations) is that the vast majority of companies do not perform work of sufficient complexity to require more
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by psranga 16y ago
I think your summary doesn't include the most interesting bit imho: the sign of the error is different (incompetent overestimate their competence, the competent underestimate).
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by psranga 16y ago
Yes, I knew about the "probationary period" etc. But the unqualified "no leverage" of the OP seemed to imply at least to me that they thought that the green card would be taken away in a divorce irrespective of number of years of marriage (
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by psranga 16y ago
Huh? I think you and the upmodders do not realize that once the spouse gets the marriage-based green card, it doesn't get revoked in a divorce. AFAIK and IANAL. Unless there is some other point to this comment that is going WAY above my hea
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by psranga 16y ago
Business is NOT an exam. You can't call out people for "copying". Where did Lifeblob get it's "photo sharing" idea from? Nah, can't be Flickr.
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by psranga 16y ago
When a guy running for one office uses the power of his current office to smack down critics, then it gives off a bad smell. Think about this: if the AG was somebody other than Candidate Corbett, would he have started this inquisition? High
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by psranga 16y ago
Btw, Google already has a BlobStore API which is in beta. Maybe they're releasing it at the conf. If so, not big news. It's the exact same price as Amazon and has a clunkier API (IMHO). Competition is sorely needed in this space. I hope Goo
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by psranga 16y ago
Such as? I am honestly curious. (You will have to agree to exclude the entitlements of their children born in the US, who're are legal American citizens.)
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by psranga 16y ago
I thought Git handled huge files poorly too. What I'd read was that most algos in git assume that the whole file in revision control can be held in memory at once to do things like diff. Has this changed, or was I always mistaken, or this g
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by psranga 16y ago
Ironic last line: "Now he spends most of his time drawing", because an earlier line was: "He hated it it ... he wanted to be an artist. Paying bribes went against his principles, he says".

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