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yantramanav

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यंत्रमानव Yantra-Manav: Sanskrit for Robot
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yantramanav··on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots
While this is a neat idea, how does it negate all the data theft being done by the bots so far?

I recently saw a research paper behind a paywall but ChatGPT readily gave me a detailed summary of that article. I’m afraid the cat's out of the bag now.

yantramanav··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
There’s no data to prove this allegation. Are we resorting to hearsay and racist dog whistles at HN now?
yantramanav··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Disenfranchising Indians must be the new racist trend here. Please try to have some empathy.

Brown person can be a descendant of the “Coolies” taken as Indentured servants to Fiji, Trinidad, Suriname, Malaysia, SA etc.

They could be people from French colonies like Algeria as well.

Brown doesn’t only mean an Indian from Calcutta, although they were heavily persecuted until recently (Check Bengal Famine)

yantramanav··on Interactive map shows where native and new Berliners live
The influx of new Berliners in Mitte, Neukölln, Schöneberg etc is not totally unexpected. A lot of new residents moved there in the past 4-5 years and they're much sought after.

What's interesting here is the influx of new Berliners in areas like Lichtenberg and Marzahn. These were traditionally perceived as DDR remnants and full of neo-nazis.

Also what's happening in Tegeler Forst kiez?

yantramanav··on Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile
Does anyone know if how good is the integration with the underlying OS?

MS Office on desktop won't work on mobile devices without re-thinking the interface and UX.

yantramanav··on Independence Day
I can't believe I'm defending Microsoft, as I was a hardcore Linux guy back in the days.

To answer your question, Microsoft is not only about mobile. Their work on Roslyn compiler, F#, Reactive Extensions, SignalR, ASP.Net vNext etc is high quality open source. Moreover if they make their tools open and play nice with Android/iOS etc, we all win, right?

yantramanav··on Independence Day
I'm not sure what's the reason to be cynical here. I'm an iOS developer who uses an Android device personally and I'm loving this new Microsoft (Post Ballmer). This was exactly the wish of developers in 2002, that MS should become contributing OpenSource citizen.

The Roslyn project, F#, Docker integration, MS Band etc clearly show that MS has learned it's lessons and are responsible citizens of OSS world.

Kudos Microsoft.

yantramanav··on Unholy: _why's Ruby to Python compiler
Maybe this should serve as a reminder to all of us: http://jacobian.org/writing/thank-you-rails/
yantramanav··on Ask HN: Rate my free group texting service with public API
It looks like a killer app to me. There is a similar service in India called SMSGupShup which is a big hit.

best luck!

yantramanav··on Opera 11 goes final
Indic fonts are broken in both on Linux and Windows versions.

Disappointment :(

back to good old Firefox

yantramanav··on Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators
Am I the only one missing India from the rankings?
yantramanav··on Ask HN: Programming jobs in India?
1 year? Try to nail it in 2 months. Try to learn JSP/Servlets, Spring, Hibernate or Play! framework. Showcase something on GAE. Usually money chases talent, so give ur best at building skills.

Subscribe to: Punetech.com, pluggd.in, hackerstreet.in and look for jobs on http://sutrajobs.com and http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/venturejobs/

This guy has given an excellent post on contributing to open source: http://shal.in/post/285909694/why-you-should-contribute-to-o...

P.S. Avoid being the 'polite Indian' described by jgrahamc by asking ppl to do ur work ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886310 )

P.P.S: if you wish to get recruited for Infy, Cogni, Wipro you've come to the wrong forum

yantramanav··on Ask HN: Programming jobs in India?
Nicely put. here are my 2 cents, if you choose Java 1. Don't try to do too much (JSF, Spring, JMS, Hibernate etc) its easy to get lost in the jungle there. Take small steps. 2. Try to contribute to some open source project like Lucene or Play! 3. Java jobs are aplenty in Pune region, so best luck!
yantramanav··on India's copyright proposal: DRM circumvention OK if no intent to infringe
The same is with music. The T-Series cassettes were prices @ 25INR and sold like hot cakes without a trace of piracy. Then the CD-DVD MP3s came and the stupid pricing started. Who'll buy a CD for 100-200INR if u get free MP3s without any hassles?
yantramanav··on On the Shortness of Life - Seneca (50 AD)
Very profound and simple thought. Carpe diem!