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utku_karatas2

462 karma · joined August 4, 2009

sw dev/physicist at SF

mail: m.utku.k@gmail.com

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utku_karatas2··on Alleged Assassins Caught on Dubai Surveillance Tape
Flagged. What's this Mossad PR stunt doing on HN?
utku_karatas2··on German family granted political asylum in U.S. over home schooling
> why in the world should a government be in control of the education of children

To maintain a minimum education level. In poorer countries no obligatory prime education will result poor families abondoning education of their kids completely and forcing them for child labour.

utku_karatas2··on Ask HN: improving your design skills?
Highly recommended: Non-Designer's Design Book - http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...
utku_karatas2··on LLVM's Clang Successfully Self-Hosts
> because it has a different licence

In which manner does the GCC license restrict the user in a problematic way? (well, except GPL's distribution restrictions I suppose.)

utku_karatas2··on JQuery source explorer
Ideally one could use a proper IDE for this purpose but then OP has touched a good point; and IDE higlighting the calls of methods those are declared in the module would really help in understanding the source. I'm definitely stealing this! Thanks.
utku_karatas2··on Long Bets
Nice try, Mr. Renraku :-) (http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os)
utku_karatas2··on Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
Oh boy is this what's going on Abu Ghraib? How you got that meaning from my post I'll never know.
utku_karatas2··on Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
I'm not saying terrorism works. I'm just saying Google is not a non profit organisation promoting free speech.
utku_karatas2··on Google won't make search recommendations for "Islam is"
Maybe if it came from a muslim himself.

Google is just being wise here. Why would they risk offending people who are already offended?

Not many would be offended when the completion suggests "niggers are.." - it is a thing of past; "jews are.." - they are sane and educated enough not to go batshit; "indians are.." - pretty well integrated with the western society. Muslims are neither that educated nor integrated well with the western world and we have a stinking situation in hand like occupied countries and a threat of having more occupied countries.

The minute after Google suggests completions about Islam there will be forward mails like "GOOGLE IS RUN BY JEWS AND THEY HUMILIATE US ALL!!!1". It is an effective bit of propoganda and there's a possibility of causing a loss of market share. And mind you this is the least of what could happen. So, again, why would they even risk it at all?

utku_karatas2··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Same answer with the old thread. I'm working on a Python IDE for Windows. Recently released an alpha indeed. http://pfaide.com
utku_karatas2··on Python Performance Tips
Most of the tips here seem to be based on "do stuff in such a way that less Python C API calls making lookups get involved". Python API is the same Python API more or less so I'd assume most of the tips are current.
utku_karatas2··on Merry Christmas everyone
lol, FYI, muslims don't say Allahu Akbar when the intention is to congragulate an happy occasion.
utku_karatas2··on Is there any age limit to being a programmer ?
Very similar topic on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1048004/start-programming...
utku_karatas2··on Poll: Language Use
Knowing who you are, god speed you on that :)
utku_karatas2··on Poll: Language Use
Other: Delphi.
utku_karatas2··on On Testosterone: Driving a Porsche vs. Camry
FWIW, weight lifting could provide all except road feel.
utku_karatas2··on Will books survive? A scorecard.
> I used to have thousands of books. I eventually got rid of them all for health reasons

Interesting. Would you expand on this?

utku_karatas2··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?
Was your post only saying that? That you agree with DHH? In that case you got those downvotes for adding a useless comment to the discussion where a simple upvote would cut. Your agreement or disagreement without a story backing you up means nothing to the reader. Don't take it the wrong way.
utku_karatas2··on Peace.facebook.com
Yeah nice, how about stats for USA-Afghanistan and USA-Iraq.
utku_karatas2··on Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
Yay! thanks a lot!
utku_karatas2··on Poll: What bug tracking software do you use?
PT shines where most other options fail. I don't want to organize my priorities by setting fields in some dreary form, I just want to drag&drop. (If only it had sub-stories.)
utku_karatas2··on Ask PG: Why not use chatbot interviews as part of application process?
This could also be an episode of The Office where Dwight Schrute is put in an hiring position :)
utku_karatas2··on Ninite: Easy PC Setup and Multi-App Installer (from BaseShield, YC W08)
I hope these guys grow this to be an Appstore/APT alike software channel. There's definitely a need for that on Windows. Edit: ok, they already did that http://baseshield.com/
utku_karatas2··on The Zimbu programming language, by vim author Bram Moolenaar
If you appreciate the goals and design rationale of this language you should check out freepascal (http://www.freepascal.org) which fulfills similar needs and is mature with an active community.
utku_karatas2··on Python messaging with ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ
Similar small scale problems of mine were easy to solve with Python Queue's. Maybe I am lucky those problems weren't at a scale azim and gthank explained though. oh the goose-bump :)
utku_karatas2··on Python messaging with ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ
Obtuse question - what are the practical use cases for these ..umm.. enterprisey solution things? What problem do they solve?
utku_karatas2··on Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize
> an unrepentant terrorist in 1994

It's either 3 of them or none. Be fair.

utku_karatas2··on Full Flash Player 10 for Q2 2010 on every major smartphone except iPhone
I guess you mean NPAPI.
utku_karatas2··on PASCAL Bootcamp in Machine Learning
What's worse is even DownloadHelper (Firefox plugin) can't do anything.
utku_karatas2··on [dead]
ie. "I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave" - Charlie Sheen on prostitutes :).
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