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Possibly. The treaty has not been signed yet. Things will become clearer in the coming weeks.

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 Ch…

This is an awesome read. Really enjoyed the level of detail and the various tries before things work.

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 fascinat…

Aha. I wrote this post 15 years ago after explaining to my wife (who is a Language major) how this "regular expression" works. It has been discussed a few times on Hacker News, Red…

Same for me. What a coincidence!

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.

For Chrome users, this open source extension will tell you what protocol the browser is using for each website being accessed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-indica…

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 Gove…

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 t…

I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath. Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before …

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 po…

RIP Atul Chitnis. Met him during a conference in Mauritius around 2002 and we had a great conversation about open source software in poor(er) countries.

I think this is an excellent article and it's clear that the guy who wrote that did a lot of research.

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 readin…