Fergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications".
Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
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Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
>If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed.
The only real reason to learn is so you can read old books in that language. And you might get a few points of social prestige, but that alone generally won't make up for the hours and years you put into it.
Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1]
German is related to Sanskrit but does not descend from it.[2] Finnish belongs to a different language family entirely.[3]
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs
Over-dramatizing the other guy's statement does not constitute a response.
Even ignoring the religious angle, Sanskrit was the primary language of literature, science and philosophy in India for over a millennium. Surely a person might want to read some of that without being employed as a researcher.
(And before you ask, most of it hasn't been translated and will probably never be translated. See http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/pollock_... )
>There is no good reason to do this
I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.
Definitely a Hindutva site.
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ancientbharat/aeronautics
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaim%C4%81nika_Sh%C4%81stra
There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.
The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...
This is unquestionable truth. Proof:
Proposition A(X): X is true in theory
Proposition B : For all X such that A(X), X is true in practice
Theoretically, there is no difference between theory and practice. ... (1)
Theoretically, statement B is true. [using (1)] ... (2)
Therefore, B is true in practice. [using (1) and (2)]
QED.
Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when using the Japanese locale.
Further reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.as...
A fair opinion, but I don't think the book makes that distinction.
The prince keeps heckling the narrator even when he's trying to fix his plane and head back to civilization. How is trying to escape near-certain death a "grown-up" thing, as opposed to being an "adult" thing?
All told, I like the version at the end of this page[1] much better.
[1] http://the-toast.net/2013/08/02/texts-from-peter-pan-et-al/
> scrypt/bcrypt do the right thing, regardless, and generate unique password hash for the same plaintext
Didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out.
I'll have to give it another look, I guess.
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1286/
Here[1] they refuse to add support for SIL Graphite[2], which is essential for making text in certain languages render correctly. (Of course, Firefox already supports it.)
Comment #9 was the same guy ranting against libgraphite2's code quality, but it's been deleted now.
Thankfully, they've since changed their mind on that one. We might still see Graphite support in Chrome.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140007#c7
[2] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=projects....
He missed the perfect opportunity to quote HPMOR.
> I have heard such requests before, and experience leads me to refuse. Either I will do too good a job of prosecuting myself, and convince you that I am guilty - or else you will decide that my prosecution was too half-hearted, and that I am guilty.
Even the guys on the inside don't trust it.
http://mindhacks.com/2013/05/03/national-institute-of-mental...
See the "MRCA of all living humans" section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMR...
Related: I found this comment[1] on the blog post highly amusing:
> Dude!! If only there was some way I could pass this on to my parents and aunts! I’ll send you their email addresses, can you please email them the link to this page?
[1]: http://abhinavsahai.com/flat-marriage-and-family-3-reasons-w...
> These relatives are probably the ones whose kids would have done “nothing” in their lives
The point could have been made without insulting their kids.
> One of my ex girlfriend had started talking about marriage barely when we had graduated ... Of course, she’s happily married and I, having failed 2 startups in the past, am still building another startup! (I hope this post reaches you, lady!)
> In another relationship, [my girlfriend] asked “Abhinav, hum ghar kab lenge?” [Abhinav, when will we buy a home?] That day itself I knew – she wasn’t the one! No wonder that relationship didn’t last long.(I am quite sure you’re reading this!)
Nothing classier than getting on an internet soapbox to tell your exes they were wrong.
> one such highly respected family member told me to look for a career in animation, back in 2007-08. Recently, I met him at another family gathering a few months back and he said “tum animation me kuch kyu nahi try karte?” [Why don't you try something in animation?] I was like…dude? You are still the same! Your thoughts are still stuck where they were 4-5 years back!
The author has, as of that moment, been involved in two failed startups and is working on the third. The other guy, doubting the author's ability to win the startup lottery, helpfully suggests a career in a rapidly-growing industry.
Author's response: Make fun of him for suggesting the same industry twice. Wat.