thewisedude

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by thewisedude 13y ago
I find it hard to believe that there over 125 people who read this website and who are over 90! I think what happened here is, some guys read this and decided to be naughty and decided to pick the max age. If lets say we provided another ch
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by thewisedude 13y ago
I think I can come up with a simpler explanation of one way function to start with. Lets say the word I want to apply one way function is 'america'. Lets say I assign a number to each character in the password and the number that I assign i
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Another way to think about this is- Who is the real you? Because you are changing! When you are 21 years old, you might be one person, when you are 30 years old you might have evolved for better or for worse! Is the real you when you are 1
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I concur, what is done is a step in the right direction. Once its digitized even scanned copies can be transcribed via some technology(may be OCR?) in the future if not now.
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Yes. If they do, what might happen is you might choose a different ISP. Its simply not in their business interest to censor content, hence they dont! Typically, if they have to censor, it would have to be based on an agreement with the cust
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Just to be clear- The university that you study has the right to censor certain websites because they are providing you internet and hence they can stipulate the rules(for the service they are providing). However, the argument here is that
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Fantastic! I learnt something new today. I did not know that the world was projected using Mercator projection and the how that played a role in distortion of the land size.
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I dont want to discredit the whole article based on a few things. There were some things that he says either didn't impress me or seemed inaccurate <Quote>These are huge obstacles, and is probably why there hasn’t been a new major a
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I see this as exploitation or price fixing in some way! Let me elaborate. Lets say Steve Jobs was paying an Engineer $100K at Apple. That skill set might have been worth atleast $120K to Palm. So Palm decides to hire him giving him a decen
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I usually dont like to talk in sound bites. But I can't help but say this famous quote from Gandhi. Be the change you want to see in the world. This article has a very judging tone. People are doing whatever they think matters for whatever
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Many countries and even developed countries take aid. Sure if India accepts even 2 cents as aid from some other country, it is technically getting foreign aid. But I guess the important question is, how much percent of the government expens
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by thewisedude 14y ago
Information is Power==Money! One thing I always believe helps is having information about the thing that you want to buy. For eg:- If you know that the car that they are trying to sell has been sitting in the lot for more than 2 months, the
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by thewisedude 14y ago
There are multiple levels in which I agree with the above sentiment. Some of my teachers had these quotations to encourage questions! 1) If you say you dont understand, you may appear to be a fool for a few minutes, if you pretend to unders
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I concur with most of your arguments, I do concur with you that there seems to be over importance given to Job's personal-life than it should. But, your last paragraph about Job's life seems to be out of line with your philosophy. You are c
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by thewisedude 14y ago
I for one think that if the law was drafted "properly", there is very little police can do about it even if the ministers (who supposedly use them) are pissed off and want the police to do something about it. Such cases happen even in USA,
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by thewisedude 14y ago
The thing is, I would say the cost of production of Coke is less in India too. In other words, even though I believe price arbitrage happens, I dont think that would be the main culprit. I would say the lower standard of living in a partic
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by thewisedude 15y ago
The author suggests to not get caught up on a programming language and use that as just a tool. I think I agree. I also want to add that people get caught up on using some other tools like vi or emacs or things like that. I think they shoul
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by thewisedude 15y ago
I am told that a similar argument can be made between TV's that display at 120 Hz as opposed to 240 Hz. i.e there is no discernible difference!
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by thewisedude 15y ago
My guess is in the future...you will have to walk through both metal detectors and body scanners! I am not sure, if they will dump the body scanners based on this video!
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by thewisedude 15y ago
For the sake of honest debate... how do you know what exactly it is Osama wanted? Maybe all he wanted was to kill people and didn't care about liberty because he does not know what it is! or he wanted to send some kind of a message to weste
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by thewisedude 15y ago
I think I can reason why you are down voted. May be it was the delivery style of the message than the message itself. But I think it was unfair to you as you have a valid point. If you strictly want to asses the fastest way to arrive at thi
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Ofcourse, I think everybody agrees that there are shitty products. I would not be surprised if somebody told me that there are products which are considered shitty by overwhelming number of people (developers and users alike). Now that said
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by thewisedude 15y ago
The op does not state whether the claim that replacing all cells will cost $40K! In many cars today... replacing the engine or any single major component(because of mechanical failure) would hardly cost $40K unless you are talking about sup
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Let me try to shed light on the other side of the argument. Based on the author's experience, it looks like what is really necessary for this day and age is a public browsing center with enough resources to teach computer "illiterates" [f
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by thewisedude 15y ago
<Quote> Not big investments — maybe $100,000. They don’t need your money; they can raise money from anyone. </Quote> I dont agree with this. Many startup companies have to prove their mettle to get an investor want to invest
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Why is it that knowing what bird does is the only thing that counts? Maybe sometimes knowing the name of the bird in a different language could help - say if you go to a different country and have to communicate in the local language. I als
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Somebody told me once, if you ask a question - you may appear to be a fool for a minute. If you dont ask the question, you are a fool for the rest of your life. Of course, this saying cant be taken too literally, but I think the idea is: to
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Really? He is saying that Venture Capitalism will eventually reward the nice guys becuase of a somewhat similar analogy in school (the dating analogy)? He should have started the article with "I hope.." or "I feel ".
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by thewisedude 15y ago
Just because you dont see it means its NOT? Google it up! I think there are a significant number of Indian people visiting this site. I see no reason why a less offensive term like BRIC or developing countries can't be used.
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by thewisedude 15y ago
I thinking HN blacking out is a bad strategy. If Google did that, then its different, because it is responsible for huge amount of web-traffic and there would be uproar among many businesses. Fairly speaking, HN is not such a big player (l

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