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I am the Adviser of the Minister of Technology, Communication and Innovation of Mauritius

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/avinashmeetoo; my proof: https://keybase.io/avinashmeetoo/sigs/Oa6fgh5Vam-wFByNi7ckR76JT8JH1GkwWoO5HD9Z6TE ]

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I'm a citizen of the Republic of Mauritius and, when this news was announced today, there was a general sense of relief.

Mauritius has been fighting for its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago (with Diego Garcia being the largest island) for 56 years.

Today, the Chagos Archipelago is part of Mauritius again and a treaty will (hopefully) soon be signed between the UK and Mauritius.

From there, Mauritius will sign a lease agreement of 99 years with the USA so that the military base there can continue to operate.

Of course, there will surely be a lot of money involved but we don't have the details yet.

Metric Time 3 years ago

Cool. I would suggest to make it multilingual as the T, M and J labels are not easy to understand by those who don't speak German.

Thanks. This is an excellent read. His journey from Latvia to the United States via Germany is very interesting.

His seminal paper on the Complexity of Algorithms is truly fascinating.

Read the book, which I obtained from the British Council library, when I was around 15. I have to say that the book made quite an impression on me at the time.

https://www.avinashmeetoo.com/

I'm a computer scientist in Mauritius, an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, I've been working as an adviser in Government. Before that, I ran my training and consulting company. And, prior to that, I was a professor at the largest university of the country.

On my blog, I write about how Mauritius can become a smart island with smart people by leveraging technology and innovation.

My blog dates from 2010 but I've been blogging on my family blog https://www.noulakaz.net/ since 2004. This blog is more eclectic. I write about my family, sports, TV shows and movies, etc.

Eidophor 7 years ago

I am quite impressed by the image quality and the sharpness for something that was used in the 60s. Of course, digital screens are better now but whoever invented the Eidophor at that time did extremely well.

Thanks for sharing. This is a post I wrote way back in 2007 and, even though, as many have pointed out, the algorithm is very inefficient, it is still a good illustration of how powerful regular expressions are.

When I am explaining the basics of regular expressions to people, I always refer them to this post to make them realize that regular expressions are not only glorified search terms. In general, they are amazed :-)

How does reading on a 3" screen compare to reading to 6"? Personally, I had a Sony Clié a few years ago with a small screen (2.5" I guess) and I didn't have lots of problems reading technical docs from it. But then, they were mostly ASCII text and the Clié could reflow the text to fit the screen. Does the same thing happen on the iPhone or the Kindle?