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rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

Easy to say when you have the balls to express that in public which others can only express through anonymous downvotes.

rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

Phone calls?? Anyone?? There are plethora of people I would like to call.

rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

Whats the obsessions with the word audacity??

Anyways, this is my perspective of the issue. And I do feels its ridiculous.

rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

So over 10k people agree with me.

rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

I am here because I am not going to die in 51 hours and have a lot of time to spare.

rick_2047on 51 hours left to live

Okey this is ridiculous!!!! First the guy who patches a software with Morse code and then this guy who would rather have a AMA with strange people before he dies. News flash people, there are actual human beings around you who you should talk to rather than computers or an anonymous crowd you do not know.

rick_2047on Dial-up for Libya

No I am suggesting that they need internet access to see this way to access the internet.

rick_2047on Dial-up for Libya

Doesn't anyone else here see a chicken and egg problem??

rick_2047on I'm 15. I just got covered on Mashable and TNW

Doesn't anyone else find this post obnoxious? Well I do. Okey, you are young and maybe smarter than me, but still I would have much more respect for you if you didn't go flaunting about it.

rick_2047on Matt Blaze: How ACM and IEEE Shake Down Science

I would certainly like a confirmation of this. If I remove a whole paragraph (like of acknowledgements or related research (which is already covered in the reference section)) does that mean that the paper is not owned by the journal? What if I make my own formatting and change the conclusion paragraph?

rick_2047on Matt Blaze: How ACM and IEEE Shake Down Science

I think what you are suggesting here is already being done. I don't have much experience but from what I hear you are required to submit a "Camera Ready" copy of your submission after you have been excepted. That would mean a well formatted and edited work.

rick_2047on MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education?

People need to understand OCW and Khan Academy serve two very different purposes. OCW was made to make the awesome materials generated by MIT profs to the general public, while Khan Academy was made specifically for the purpose of giving personalised learning. In my view both of them are noble causes and non of them should be abandoned, you can teach very less material in 10 mins after you cross the K 12 level. For covering one lesson in at the undergraduate level you definitely need at least half an hour.

rick_2047on Is it Better to be Smart, or Get Good Grades?

I read the thing and didn't understand the word of what the author is trying to say. Maybe I am fumbled up in vocabulary or something. Anyways, if any random person were to ask this to me I would definitely go for "good grades if you want to lead a happy peaceful life and smarts if you want to live like hell but have a shot at being happy as heaven".

rick_2047on Why I do my resume in LaTeX

If I redo all the layout, the whats the point?

rick_2047on Why I do my resume in LaTeX

I used a latex class to format one of my papers. At the final date of submission I found out they except only .doc format. I am still looking desperately for a latex2doc converter. Anyone here knows about this?

rick_2047on Anonymous has chosen a new target

I know it when I see it.

--Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.

rick_2047on What Google knows about you

Imagine taking a look at a month of someone's search data, it would be revealing

Please explain to me how would any random person get that? Actually how would anyone get that data if you have not already done something which throws suspicion on you.

rick_2047on Jeopardy vs Watson day 1 videos

Although I can understand that this is a very interesting thing to watch, but I still think this is piracy and should not be advertised on HN.

rick_2047on Remind HN: It's Valentine's day

I really do not get why I need a special day to say I love you. If I wanna say it, I would just go out and say it. If I want to take her out on dinner, I would just take her out of dinner whenever it is convenient for her and not on a day when she would have to wait in long lines just to eat an ice cream.

rick_2047on Tell HN: GZIP for Hacker News

The server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".

rick_2047on Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia

You action was a necessary cause of their deletion and therefore you are one of the directly culpable persons destroying the long tail of knowledge.

I am no expert here, but does one person tagging something for deletion make such an impact? He must have convinced the administrators by only good arguments (like lawyer arguments, which are not necessarily moral or anything, just good enough to win the case).

If we can trust the administrators for putting up something, we should trust them for taking something down.

rick_2047on I know I belong in computer science, but sometimes I wonder.

This is just opposite of what I am thinking. I am doing too much of EE. I think about some application or the other in my spare time, draw mechanisms for robotics while I am doodling and while in class I follow my own curriculum as the one taught at my university it too slow. I am actually looking for a hobby which would take me away from the abstractions of EE and put me to a much concrete ground. Just cannot find any. Suggestions?

rick_2047on Yes, The Khan Academy is the Future of Education

I wonder if Khan Academy takes in external videos (other wise making something functional with google sites is fine with me but wouldn't get nearly as much traction). I have 10min long videos explaining Digital electronics basics. My tech went one step backwards from khan, I just used pen-paper and one webcame. :) Looking into getting my videos reviewed by them, otherwise my deadline would be.... April 1st. (just thought that up now, but people say its good to have a deadline).

rick_2047on Tell HN: Rejected from App Store - "customer damaging their iPhone."

You want to make money? Write something useful.

Yes like an app which produces fart sounds.

rick_2047on Ask HN: Apple is featuring one of my apps. Should I drop the price to $0.99?

Hey people bought it for 2.99 right? What makes you think that more people won't pay that price? It has a nice ranking and all, why not just take nickythegreek's advice and add a upcoming features list.

You may also put a lite version out there which will cost .99. Just saying, not an experienced person here.

rick_2047on Ask HN: What's the difference between a theory and a fact?

If this is how you define theory, how would you define hypothesis?

rick_2047on Hosni Mubarak finally steps down

From HN guidlines

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Your account is 178days old.

rick_2047on Ask HN: Use Vim? What Feature "sold"you?

TAKE THE FUV CHALLENGE. Use fuv as your only text editor for 1 year.

Then you will be ready for emacs.

WTF? What is it, an emacs for low self esteem people? "Hey I am not smart enough to take on emacs directly, let me try something which is named like it came out of the mouth of a six year old."

rick_2047on Ask HN: Who is the best programmer in the world?

He is also best measured by popularity I think.

rick_2047on GNU Octave 3.4 has just been released

I tried, no I really really tried hard (one hour of googleing is a long time in google time), but I can't. I have to use MatLab for control systems course I am taking. The problem is at college I submit my code as a matlab file and the control toolbox in octave is not syntax compatible with matlab control toolbox. So I guess octave lost to my university site licence.