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Fergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications".
Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
pg wrote about this years ago.
If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed.
Finnish is Uralic, not Indo-European.
Listen to this man. Anyone who studies a dead language for “real-world gain” will probably end up disappointed.
The only real reason to learn is so you can read old books in that language. And you might get a few points of social prestige, but that alone generally won't make up for the hours and years you put into it.
You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit.
Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1]
German is related to Sanskrit but does not descend from it.[2] Finnish belongs to a different language family entirely.[3]
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs
isn't being held captive behind closed doors waiting for Sanskrit-speaking liberators
Over-dramatizing the other guy's statement does not constitute a response.
Even ignoring the religious angle, Sanskrit was the primary language of literature, science and philosophy in India for over a millennium. Surely a person might want to read some of that without being employed as a researcher.
(And before you ask, most of it hasn't been translated and will probably never be translated. See http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/pollock_... )
Feel like it’s worth highlighting this part of the post:
There is no good reason to do this
I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.
The site has a page on "Vimanika shastra"[1] ("Science of Flying Machines"), which is known to be a bullshit text from the 20th century[2].
Definitely a Hindutva site.
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ancientbharat/aeronautics
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaim%C4%81nika_Sh%C4%81stra
stretching things beyond their limits.
There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.
It isn't satire.
Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument:
The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...
It is sufficient to prove a program correct - as long as your proof is not faulty!
This is unquestionable truth. Proof:
Proposition A(X): X is true in theory
Proposition B : For all X such that A(X), X is true in practice
Theoretically, there is no difference between theory and practice. ... (1)
Theoretically, statement B is true. [using (1)] ... (2)
Therefore, B is true in practice. [using (1) and (2)]
QED.
Speaking of the ¥, notice how it's right under the |?
Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when using the Japanese locale.
Further reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.as...
Thanks for pointing these out. Looks like I need to reread the book.
Being an adult is being able to handle responsibilities and take care of yourself in the world. Being a grown-up is being a prig whose soul died years ago.
A fair opinion, but I don't think the book makes that distinction.
The prince keeps heckling the narrator even when he's trying to fix his plane and head back to civilization. How is trying to escape near-certain death a "grown-up" thing, as opposed to being an "adult" thing?
I read it recently, and found it to be Atlas Shrugged for 5-year-olds. The only point of the story is to say: "YOU, the reader, being a child, are so much better and smarter than all these grown-up sheeple!!"
All told, I like the version at the end of this page[1] much better.
[1] http://the-toast.net/2013/08/02/texts-from-peter-pan-et-al/
It's like Rick Santorum satirizing conservatism.
Yes, he is.
Yes, GPU brute-force is more effective than rainbow tables. I heard you the first time. I wasn't even talking about rainbow tables.
scrypt/bcrypt do the right thing, regardless, and generate unique password hash for the same plaintext
Didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out.
I remember switching from KeePass over poor Linux support, but looking at its page now, it looks like it runs on Linux just fine.
I'll have to give it another look, I guess.
Don't know about 1Password, but LastPass encrypts all passwords client-side. Only marginally less safe than storing passwords in an encrypted file on your personal machine.
Having a different salt for each account means that identical passwords don't hash to the same value. This prevents low-effort attacks like this one: http://7habitsofhighlyeffectivehackers.blogspot.in/2013/11/c...
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1286/
See the original paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/
The Chromium guys really don't like to add new features based on user requests.
Here[1] they refuse to add support for SIL Graphite[2], which is essential for making text in certain languages render correctly. (Of course, Firefox already supports it.)
Comment #9 was the same guy ranting against libgraphite2's code quality, but it's been deleted now.
Thankfully, they've since changed their mind on that one. We might still see Graphite support in Chrome.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140007#c7
[2] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects....
I'd help, but that seems unfair.
He missed the perfect opportunity to quote HPMOR.
I have heard such requests before, and experience leads me to refuse. Either I will do too good a job of prosecuting myself, and convince you that I am guilty - or else you will decide that my prosecution was too half-hearted, and that I am guilty.
The NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) announced a few months ago that it would be "re-orienting its research away from DSM categories".
Even the guys on the inside don't trust it.
http://mindhacks.com/2013/05/03/national-institute-of-mental...
The Wikipedia page actually agrees with you, more or less.
See the "MRCA of all living humans" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMR...
"give me codes" mentality which is quite visible on dev forums.
Related: I found this comment[1] on the blog post highly amusing:
Dude!! If only there was some way I could pass this on to my parents and aunts! I’ll send you their email addresses, can you please email them the link to this page?
[1] http://abhinavsahai.com/flat-marriage-and-family-3-reasons-w...
I get what he's trying to say, but the rant is far too sophomoric.
These relatives are probably the ones whose kids would have done “nothing” in their lives
The point could have been made without insulting their kids.
One of my ex girlfriend had started talking about marriage barely when we had graduated ... Of course, she’s happily married and I, having failed 2 startups in the past, am still building another startup! (I hope this post reaches you, lady!)
In another relationship, [my girlfriend] asked “Abhinav, hum ghar kab lenge?” [Abhinav, when will we buy a home?] That day itself I knew – she wasn’t the one! No wonder that relationship didn’t last long.(I am quite sure you’re reading this!)
Nothing classier than getting on an internet soapbox to tell your exes they were wrong.
one such highly respected family member told me to look for a career in animation, back in 2007-08. Recently, I met him at another family gathering a few months back and he said “tum animation me kuch kyu nahi try karte?” [Why don't you try something in animation?] I was like…dude? You are still the same! Your thoughts are still stuck where they were 4-5 years back!
The author has, as of that moment, been involved in two failed startups and is working on the third. The other guy, doubting the author's ability to win the startup lottery, helpfully suggests a career in a rapidly-growing industry.
Author's response: Make fun of him for suggesting the same industry twice. Wat.