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This is nice ! I like that you have kept the polyglot world in mind. You should consider adding: 1) configurability in terms of name ( a templating engine might help ) 2) generate …

I do not buy the "No side mirrors" argument, because what you'll also see written on the back of these trucks is "Use dipper at night", that is, do not use high beam cause the when…

I think similar messages used to be printed on the back of government owned buses in the state of Rajasthan !

I have had similar observations about chaotic driving, people are cautious. At place where I live in India at present, one can actually cross roads walking slowly ( The traffic wil…

A really good example to showcase the capability of the technology ! In context of India, where news channels have reneged from due diligence on evidently doctored videos, this is …

Pardon me if I sound dumb, but going by the abstract, this is essentially concolic analysis of smart contracts ?

So, the banner on the channel points to this webpage: https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-c...

I was surprised to see find this out today that the MIT-OCW channel on youtube is not allowing access to visitors from India. This is very unusual as I have been following the chan…

It is classifying me as a bot with 94.6% probability. Does it give too much emphasis on retweets ?

On similar lines, I very recently discovered the combination of emacs + Artist Mode + ditaa for creating diagrams, and the experience has been pretty good so far too.

It is a really good font, however, it just doesn't work for me on terminal & terminal based applications. Somehow I find that there is too little spacing between the lines.

"Flash Boys" - Michael Lewis

The text on the placard that the girl is holding in the first picture of the article is exactly why more debate was needed on the issue.

It's not a 'ban' on acid sale, its a ban on 'across-the-counter' sale of acid, which means that you need to produce an identification to purchase it.

This is not a lot of oppressed people standing up for their civil rights. The issue is very different than that. More over, the size of crowd is way to large for the law enforcemen…

One should note that in cases of communal violence and riots, indoctrination plays a bigger role than grievances.

Not a freedom of speech issue. whatsapp messages spread quite virally. A large number of users of such services who have got access to mobile internet quite recently are susceptibl…

Tree is a graph without any cycles, hence the definition still holds. And yes, you can have multiple roots in a tree, ex: a --> c <---b ^ d-----|

I am not well versed with the costs of keeping such a site up, but a scaled down version can be always be maintained using S/IaaS solutions.

We'll, my assumptions are based on what I have observed personally, and that is, a lot of students and college going kids living in hostels use conventional browser based web-apps.…

I don't understand the point in shutting down the website. There's a large audience in India which browses for products on e-commerce website while casually browsing other stuff. T…

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A brilliant Idea; as far as usability for a normal user is concerned, How feasible is it to modify a browser to take the command directly via the address bar, and internally a thre…

With the sixth annual summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations, the agreement to establish New Development Bank has been signed. The bank will have a…

Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb