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fzkl

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    Ask HN: Need help validating offer from a startup

    I have an offer to join a startup as employee #41 (#16 in my country) that received ~10M $ funding from a VC besides smaller investment from a few well established companies. They …

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    Comment #2322068

    1) Ability to dock windows on left half or right half like Windows 7. Make it even better with quarter screen size docking 2) Make terminator default terminal or install it be defa…

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    Ask HN: Please recommend the best tools to build a test plan management tool

    I have mostly worked on hardware testing in my professional career and would like to get onto the software development side. I thought working on a practically usable project will …

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    Could you link me to the post about a guy who never gave up singing?

    I remember someone who wrote about how he wanted to be a good singer but was put down by people who said he wasn't cut out for it. But he never gave up and in the end after decades…

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    Comment #812810

    This wasn't a problem in the exercise section. This was simply a problem solved to explain a concept. So I didn't really peek at any solution. I was supposed to see this solution a…

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    Comment #812696

    I don't have an issue with the authors being smarter than I am. I think they are awesome. Like I said, I liked the challenge of the exercises for which the authors didn't give any …

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    Comment #812632

    To clarify, I understood the solution to the problem. But what bothers me more is that I couldn't have thought of it by myself.

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    SICP makes me feel incompetent How do I overcome this?

    I have so far attempted to work through the book three times and then quit. Each time I start from the beginning, go through every line and do every problem in the exercises and th…

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    Comment #467732

    Bangalore. The state of govt. schools is pretty much the same in most parts of the country. You could always lend a helping hand irrespective of where you are. You could try approa…

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    Comment #467730

    Kids are between 12-15. Kannada is the local language.

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    Comment #467500

    I was thinking I will need to teach: 1) Importance and applications of computers 2) How it might be affecting the life of these kids without their own knowledge 3) How computers wo…

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    Comment #467481

    Thats an awesome link! Exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

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    Ask HN: Recommend science experiments and videos for unfortunate school students

    I am in India and I got an opportunity to teach high school physics to kids in a government school here this saturday. I will also be teaching both the teachers and the kids on how…

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    Ask HN: Why does running a few instances of DIR /s in Command prompt load CPU heavily?

    Opening 3-5 windows command prompt and running DIR /S to list all subdirectories increases CPU load to 80%. I have seen this type of significant load on the CPU in different platfo…

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    Comment #427083

    Was hoping to get more suggestions.

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    Please Suggest a weekend electronics project

    I am tired of spending my weekends watching serials, movies and playing games and I want a break from work. I was thinking that a two-day electronics project would be an ideal way …

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    Comment #310923

    No video lectures on ths one?

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    What could have been a good career in game development

    Back in 1996 when I was learning C, disconnected from the rest of the world without an internet and no one to help me with and no books that decribed concepts of C in detail, I tri…

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    Comment #46071

    Ok. I have been wanting to post this question myself. I can solve problems in C and am good with logic. I can also do some HTML. But when it comes to interfacing with the web and r…