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Okay. This is mostly my final comment here. Sort of replying to all the various comments here... Typically, I don't have a tough time. As I talk to people on the Internet, as if I …

Yes, I don't like the elitist negative voting policy of this forum. So I want to quit. The community by and large is good, so I will be a lurker still. But I shall not be down vote…

Hi, There should be a way, to delete all my comments here, and close my account here. What is the way? I could not find a way for it. If there is none. I request and authorize any …

I agree. Actually, at my age (approaching middle age), that 'retirement' word, doesn't sound right ... it may mean either 'resigned', 'lazy', 'tired' and other negatives... and suc…

Thank you, for reverting the decision. Or it could be a two other high karma, good people, voting for me. Either way, I am happy.

Also I think, its quite cowardly, to down-vote without giving a reason, when there is no obvious spam. Look at my profile, do I even give a link to my website? Come on show some gu…

May I know the reason, why my above comment was down voted? Its quite insulting to be done so, after having written the comment, with the best of intentions. PS: If I don't get a s…

Loved the story, as of course, so many of you did. At the risk of being sounding judgmental on other people, I will still say, that his now leading a retired(ish) life doesn't jell…

Some of my good friends, have suffered, from the problem of stutter. To the best I know (we never discussed this), they overcame it, by simply stop getting embarrassed about it. It…

Some thoughts: 1) Am I the only one thinking, that some of the terms used to describe introverts: "guarded," "loner," "reserved," "taciturn," "self-contained," "private", have sinc…

Man, very rarely do I get water in my eyes!

So far, I have been a advocate of the cloud in general and EC2 is particular, to all my tech friends. Many of them look up to me. for tech advise/views. But in this Wikileaks incid…

Here's one in Hindi :) http://translate.google.com/#hi|hi|%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%AE%20%E0%...

Steve jobs may be a much greater innovator. But surely, can learn a thing or two, on integrity, from Derek Sivers. Also this is a lesson in on how to have only loosely-coupled rela…

Hi! Thanks for reading my suggested approach. I can understand how Map-reduce can be used to process the things faster (by processing them in parallel and later using reduce to agg…

One way of doing this: 1. Get some million tweets from twitter API (each tweet is exactly like what the article describes as a 'document') 2. After ignoring common words (e.g. 'a',…

Not exactly BS, I think. I think they are all well intended but naive points (first two of them) and some over-idealistic and simplified - "Do not go into any competition". To gran…

Isn't the Demand Media world, an outcome of the inherent shortcomings of the Google search engine? -- There will be people to exploit every loophole in any system. In mid-late 90s …

Say, you want to let people know that you are going to be in their city. Email will be too intrusive. So indirect communication is advantage (which social group allows). A contact …

Think it may go in cycles, for both search engines and social networks. For search engines: First we had specific directories (Yahoo, others), then a single search engine (Google),…