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muonon Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?

At work, I use Confluence to log and share knowledge and I also ask others to do the same. Over a period of time, this has worked wonders.

muonon Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

Did you get the book "Proofs from The Book" while it was open to download?

muonon A Weapon for Readers (2014)

How to mark a book by Mortimer J. Adler explains the process in detail. http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~pinsky/mark_a_book.htm

muonon Social network for creativity launched by A.R. Rahman and Shekhar Kapur

Ideally Qyuki should have built tools that helps creativity and the presence of celebs to inspire, I have seen hardly anyone who gets inspired by celebrities.

muonon Mumbai girl arrested for Facebook post

There is high possibility of this being true, but still news is only as good as its source.

muonon Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

A few days back, customers of Reliance faced blocking of Torrent and Vimeo, which was later unblocked. Meanwhile, BSNL did not block any of these sites.

muonon How Indians use UbiSlate7+, an cheap Android 2.3 touch screen tablet

These are not UbiSlate7+ devices. Most of these have now become dysfunctional.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Bangalore/article841152....

"This tablet-like PC, developed by Bangalore-based tech firm EAFT Technologies for this pilot project, will allow you to browse the Internet while on the move by connecting to a Wi-Fi network through central servers remotely controlled by the firm."

muonon H. Gobind Khorana, 1968 Nobel Winner for RNA Research, Dies

I am sure they would have covered some fad in the science & technology section. Like some vague research claiming that wine is good for heart or chocolate is good for memory etc.

The truth is that most of Indian dailies are not fit for reading any science related news or even news for that matter.

muonon Occupy George

"Votes for Women" movement in 1903 used to deface the penny to spread the word.

Suffragette-defaced penny : http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/iVUVhaKVREWj...

muonon Poll: Do you know C?

C is the only language that I use at work (along some basic scripting). Due to work that is mainly firmware, device drivers etc. Honestly at times, I do feel that embedded engineers are odd persons out here at HN.

muonon [dead]

I am getting goosebumps after seeing this on HN.

muonon Introducing Word Lens

They could have stopped at just translating and printing it on the screen, but they show it the original form, that is the difference between doing things and doing the things beautifully.

I am spellbound.

muonon Electric Jolt to Brain Boosts Math Skills

Thanks, I missed all these submissions.

muonon Scale of the Universe

A video which gives perspective of distance, in appreciable way. The powers of ten http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0&feature=playe...

muonon "Nah, who needs another search engine?"

Whether we like it or not, chance plays big role in major decision making in life.

muonon Low Level Bit Hacks You Must Know

It is and it will be for the long time to come. Bit twiddling has important role in device drivers, firmware etc.

muonon The inventor of microfleece refused to patent it.

Another example is the way Volvo made their 3 way seatbelt patent available to other manufacturers, and motorists, to benefit from it.

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/strapping-success-the-3...

muonon Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

Like it because of simplicity, I like this more than flickr slideshow.

muonon Why Everything Wireless Is 2.4 GHz

5GHz opened up pretty recently. This along with high of cost of making a 5GHz radio and wider acceptance of 802.11ng is reason for Wifi still sticking to 2.4 ISM band.

muonon N is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös

Here is an interesting fact, that I read about Paul Erdos, He once said all babies (he used to call them epsilons, because babies are really small!) remeber the solution for Riemann Hypothesis. The only problem though is that they tend to forget everything once they reach the age of six month.

muonon Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

Believe the blog post, I don't doubt the math.

muonon Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

I found this via Futility Closet, which a constant source of really interesting stuff. (http://www.futilitycloset.com/)

Initially, I thought it's too good to be true, later found references in Wikipedia and Mathworld, and finally started to believe in it.

muonon Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.

Keep reading.

muonon Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?

Yes indeed, and it acts as great barrier fore me, even to comment here, but I am luck as those questions are asked again by other HN folks.

muonon Rapportive - making excellent service scale

For me it mixes up the identities. Looks like it fetches data based on Name rather than email id.

muonon Windows 3.1 Online - With Minesweeper

Tried "ls", used to Cygwin.

muonon How is the Internet changing the way you think.

Thanks, won't repeat next time.

muonon The official term for the smell after it rains

As this involves rain and earth, This poem immediately springs in the mind.

The red earth and pouring rain.

Red earth and pouring rain[1] What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how Did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts have mingled as red earth and pouring rain

[Translated by AK Ramanujan (Kuruntokai - 40)

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muonon The official term for the smell after it rains

The likable smell caused by the bacteria http://science.howstuffworks.com/question479.htm

muonon A simple Chrome extension that replaces your New Tab page with a to-do list

Sorry, I do not know how that works, I am not familiar with web programming.