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psankar··on Base-4 fractions in Telugu
"Tamil is the eldest" is not a propaganda but the truth. A truth that is actively buried by the central Government of India, by spreading propaganda that Sanskrit is the oldest language and by doing things like stopping funds for excavation projects like Keezhadi to hide the truth, etc. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/keezhadi-ex...
psankar··on Base-4 fractions in Telugu
Of course Kannada evolved from ancient Tamil. If you know both the languages, you can easily find root words for most current day Kannada words in ancient Tamil sangam poetry (like ooru=>oor referring to town, kaaveri=>kaaviri, etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages

Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam all have higher degrees of impact due to Sanskrit but they are all dravidian languages, derived from ancient Tamil.

psankar··on What makes us Red Hat
Which SUSE Stuff is proprietary ? SUSE Linux Enterprise editions have been always open. They are built on top of the openSUSE platform.
psankar··on Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
Even if it is under patent protection, Google is unlikely to sue you, unless you sue them first.
psankar··on Gitlab 9.0
Any documentation / talks / videos about the gitlab + kubernetes integration ? Thanks for the awesome product. At work we switched to gitlab for new projects and loving.
psankar··on The State of Go
If you are precise, you will understand that the command is only 32 characters. You should not include the filepath in your length calculation.

And 32 characters is not much longer than, say: python manage.py makemigrations

psankar··on My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]
> This is false, look at the linked image[1] and tell me that the arrow keys are different on the new keyboard.

Notice the difference between the old and new keyboards, in the ratio of the difference between the touchable area of the arrow keys (up and down) with the control key. Also in the old keyboard, on the top of the down arrow key, there is a line which will help feel the difference in the keys. In the new keyboard, that plastic line on the down key is moved to the bottom. If I keep the finger in the keyboard, it is not easy for me to feel if I am in the up key or the down key without looking at the keyboard. This is my personal thing and you may not feel the same.

> The chicklet keys are slightly concave

The keyboard that I tried is almost flat. Even if it was slightly concave, they are no way close to the original curviness in the classic keyboard. Even in your image you can see that. That curvature is clearly feel-able for my fingers.

> This is subjective.

Agreed. All these are subjective. I just stated my opinion. We don't have to agree :) I did a typing test and I was able to reach about 100 words per minute in the old keyboard but could go only up to 80 words or so. I was using the old keyboard for long. It is possible that I would have reached the same speed with the chiclet keyboard too if I had spent more time, but I have lost interest with the new keyboard by then.

psankar··on My personal fight against the modern laptop [video]
The new thinkpad keyboards are absolutely shitty. I am happy that more people are complaining about it. The classic thinkpad keyboard had nice ergonomic aspects. You can touch-type the function keys without looking down, because they are all grouped in four. The arrow keys are proper sized buttons (even the macbook has it wrong). There is a slight curvature on each key's surface that makes it easy for the finger to feel the borders. All of these are missing in the new keyboards. This chiclet design is the worst thing to happen for the thinkpads.
psankar··on Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
Quora has blocked me too. For Tamils there is no last name but the idiots running quora insist that everyone should have a lastname. http://psankar.blogspot.in/2015/01/naming-policy-deactivated...
psankar··on HttpStat: It's like curl -v, with colours
Think of all the mess with python2 and python3 co-existence.
psankar··on Liblfds, a portable, license-free, lock-free data structure library written in C
Agreed. The simplest thing to do would have been to dedicate to public domain (creative commons zero license) - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
psankar··on Go Read: One Year with Money and App Engine
A long time user of your app, but from my own quota of appengine.

Thank you for such a lovely product. Someday I would like to contribute to your project(s) more.

psankar··on My Opinionated Guide To Go
> that's how all compiled languages are

You mean, like Java and C# ?!

psankar··on Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
Support keyboard shortcuts, at the earliest. It is one of the most heavily used features for heavy email users.
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