vithlani

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by vithlani 27d ago
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.” ― Honore de Balzac
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by vithlani 6y ago
Mother Earth Mother Board -- a superb essay by Neal Steaphenson on internet cables.
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by vithlani 10y ago
I am completely mystified by a these sort of articles and the deluge of apocalyptic warnings -- specially when applied to the web in the context of data being used to make money. (I do share data leakage and privacy concerns). I use an Appl
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by vithlani 10y ago
How do you figure the safety net bit -- especially with the medical industry? If you are a citizen of a country like Australia, the medical safety net is a life saver. No way will insurance pay for complete cancer treatments.
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by vithlani 10y ago
I am waiting for my copy to land in the mail before reading this. You are correct, LRB is generally not easily fooled into writing puff pieces; O'Hagen is a very sharp writer (check out his masterly analysis of Assange who is much more
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by vithlani 12y ago
This whole series is a very, very good read. Real voices from the finance world.
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Woz moves to Australia(afr.com)
13 points by vithlani 12y ago|0 comments
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Before Accusations, Uber Was a Boon for Indian Women(nytimes.com)
3 points by vithlani 12y ago|0 comments
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by vithlani 12y ago
They are very tolerant about religion until the son introduces his non-Hindu girlfriend to the family. Somehow the tolerance seems to disappear.
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by vithlani 12y ago
LOL! amen brother, tell it like it is.... people seem to have NO appreciation for the idea of simplicity.
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by vithlani 12y ago
Very well put sir, very well put....
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by vithlani 12y ago
Are you aware of any Camel-or-higher level of book(s) in the works? for Perl 6 I mean....
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by vithlani 12y ago
What bullshit. I can't touch type but my code reads: def snmp_command(session, oid, media_servers): result = list() for host_name in media_servers: snmp = SNMP_CMD.format(host=host_name, oid=oid) snmp_reply
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by vithlani 12y ago
Antiquated? Nah...he forgot to mention it was L1 cache :)
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by vithlani 12y ago
but but but but....look!!! MARS!!! Dude MARS!!!! We are so technologically advanced that we made it to Mars!!! YAYAAYAYA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8364841
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by vithlani 12y ago
".... doesn't surprise me that some parts of the organisation are so dysfunctional" The "some parts" is worth bearing in mind. In my opinion, the mode of classifying or looking at a company like IBM as a single enti
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by vithlani 12y ago
Why not let the user decide what location they want to be seen from? Notifications and so on can be based off that preference rather than any form of geo ip tracking.
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by vithlani 12y ago
Awesome resource.
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by vithlani 12y ago
We started at 5 months for the spices, mild chili coming in at 8 months. By 2 years he was loving raw onions :)
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by vithlani 12y ago
Seconded. Works as advertised and the online sharing enables very neat integration with services such as pinboard.in.
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by vithlani 12y ago
Very succinctly put.
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by vithlani 12y ago
And what about the other stories about bad cabbies and other people's not-so-good experiences with the traditional system? I reckon services like Uber are a good way to shake up the in-inefficiencies and built-in-slackness that accumul
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by vithlani 12y ago
I cannot be "illiterate" about what happens in the country, merely "ill-informed". FYI, there is a category of Indians who are not NRI and it might surprise you to know there are countries other than the US and....surpri
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by vithlani 12y ago
I wish someone would write a headline like: "Why 750 million Indian citizens cannot enjoy basic sanitation facilities after 60 years of gaining so called independence of their nation" Seriously....
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by vithlani 12y ago
"- prevent damage to Australia's international relations that may be caused by the publication of material that may damage the reputations of specified individuals who are not the subject of charges in these proceedings. These ord
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by vithlani 12y ago
Hahahah.... what a waste of time and resource. FB would rather direct their resources towards this meaningless crap then run the risk of their top employees getting bored -- and leaving them.
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by vithlani 12y ago
>In my opinion, Erlang is already where it needs to be, and new things happen for it every month or two that completely blow my mind. What new things and how do they blow your mind?
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by vithlani 12y ago
PHP...Yes, you need serious help.
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by vithlani 13y ago
These cloud-y benchmarks are a joke. 1. What is the point of benchmarking so many writes? Instead, give us the cost of write-read and a few use cases: analysis, data mining, etc. And what of the bandwidth costs? 2. Say you are running a mod
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by vithlani 13y ago
Isn't it simply a matter of delegating it to a library -- the encoding and decoding I mean? I have had occasion to use Java and Python libraries for this and faced no problems.

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