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sreeramvenkat
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Comment #42655225
Read it as if you are reading it the second time.
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Comment #41431043
It is also possible that I say something is blue because rest of society says so. My blue can only be known to me
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Comment #40763337
The left hand seems to hold something like a noose which is an oft repeated item in Hindu iconography (pasha/pasa)
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Ask HN: Why does Chrome text scaling not work in HN
Chrome text scaling is applied on comments. But it does not apply to the links shown in the main HN page. Any idea why?
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Comment #39323216
Ironic that the article begins with an image of server chassis with wires running around while the description is entirely about cloud infra.
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Comment #37506032
IIRC it doesn't have a stack. So all variables are globals. There is no way to call a function with a parameter - to be accurate, there are only subroutines; no functions.
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Comment #35911838
Another option is to watch Doordarshan - Indian national news. https://www.youtube.com/@DDIndia
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Comment #35770903
Any recommendations for a set of hands on exercises that go well with this book ?
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Comment #35555804
I had a severe pain in my neck (cervical spondylosis) for 2 years radiating to my arms and head. At a point, I started getting black outs and random head tingling, driving me crazy…
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Comment #35508885
I am finding many things to learn on this from the book 'Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout. There is a video in YouTube where John Ousterhout outlines the core prin…
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Comment #34708051
I think its not HN but it's the openness and inclination to help that makes HN very unique.
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Comment #34638187
> So I asked Ilya, their chief scientist, for a reading list Just curious, if this reading list is available somewhere.
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Comment #33751754
Nice article from Oliver Heaviside. Essentially, it comes down to the realisation that experimenting with mathematics holds as much virtue as reason with logic.
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Ask HN: Tech stack suggestion for a simple desktop app
Hello HN, I want to develop a simple desktop application for a non-profit, that will be used to store monetary contribution data from donors. There should be a facility to generate…
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Comment #28875292
Zenlisp by Nils Holm has readable closure too. http://t3x.org/
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Comment #20256208
Palar river is mostly dry. The last time I saw any water was during 2015 floods.
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Comment #20113671
I have observed the same (abstracting the essentials) in some of young children's drawings. They seem to be adept in identifying the essential elements from the details.
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Comment #19613345
There is a good set of recommendations from mathwonk in this physicsforums thread (pretty detailed) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-should-i-become-a-...
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Comment #19598302
Sometimes I wonder if anyone can write a JCL from scratch. A new JCL is always copied from an existing one and the gets modified. The first couple of lines of a JCL are particularl…
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Comment #19572546
I am very curious if OP can share some stats on number of times two people were thinking about each other at the same time.
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Comment #18882121
IMO the book "Computer systems : a programmer's perspective [Randal E Bryant; David R O'Hallaron]" provides a good foundation on this and other lower level system details.
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Comment #18854951
Sure - Please suggest. I have been buying books (the likes of Apostol, Spivak, Artin) and doing self study. The typical pattern is start solving the problems and I get stuck with t…