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adi2412··on Blockchain at Berkeley
This doesn't seem to open in Firefox on OSX for me. Anyone else facing an issue?
adi2412··on Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (1994)
Curious to know how Dubai international airport got the code DXB. It doesn't seem to make sense.
adi2412··on My college logo in CSS
My first go at such a thing. I couldn't figure out how to put the text in an arc format with only css(found some js libraries though) so I didn't add that.
adi2412··on Idea to App in 2 weeks
That would have actually been his MVP. But seeing as he could develop the tech so fast, he did have the option to develop the technology first itself. And he did get a lot of text messages in the first 24 hours itself!

But, for someone who wouldn't be able to get the tech out so quickly, an MVP(here, text messages to your phone and manual printing) is the ideal thing. Even he could have benefitted because the product would be out in like a day itself and he could see if it was popular enough to work on it further.

adi2412··on Judge to Sikh Man: Remove “That Rag” or Go to Jail
A mistake in identifying her ethnicity is fine. But what they did was call her an Arab to associate her with terrorism and thus insult her.

Free speech does exist. But do remember that any free country also stipulates that the freedom comes with the responsibility that you do not use your freedom to hurt others.

adi2412··on Judge to Sikh Man: Remove “That Rag” or Go to Jail
The problem is even the hundred odd Americans making such comments on a couple of mainstream social networking sites is disconcerting. These people actually did put up such comments. Who knows how many others exist who did not publicly make such comments just so they were politically corrext?
adi2412··on Judge to Sikh Man: Remove “That Rag” or Go to Jail
This, after many Americans called Miss America Nina Davuluri an Arab and a terrorist. This is very saddening to the say the least.