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Re:Chandrayaan Contact Lost on Monday August 31, 2009 @03:57AM (#795591)
Serves them right. Why waste money doing something that's already been done over and over again ? Going to the moon is no big deal. Instead, explore some other avenues,newer planets and galaxies so that the world can progress as a whole instead of fulfilling your jingoistic egos.
Re:Ask HN: What terminal emulator do you use ? on Monday August 31, 2009 @03:54AM (#795588)
1. Tilda. * Buggy when you have transparency enabled and resize ( or minimize and then maximize ) the terminal. Otherwise, looks and feels great.

2. Yakuake. * No bugs that I have discovered, and looks great. Is meant for KDE, but works awesomely on GNOME as well. The only nuisance is the title bar ( which can, at present have a minimum height of 1 pixel ), and we can't make it disappear completely.

Re:Traffic Hacks: How One Driver Can Vastly Improve Traffic on Monday August 31, 2009 @03:45AM (#795578)
My friend and I have designed, in our 6th semesters, a 8085 microprocessor based, congestion-aware traffic control for crossroads.

The system uses switches on the roads ( replaced using RFID or other sensors placed on the ground or at the sides of the roads ), that detect the load on each path and route traffic accordingly.

Not much, but it worked like a charm !!

Re:Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other? on Saturday August 08, 2009 @07:16PM (#749973)
Django here.
Like someone mentioned, 28 days is what it takes to form a habit, through the formation of neural links in the brain.

However, to last 28 days, you will need something else to inspire you. Nothing works like love/sex, which are evolutionary needs embedded into our limbic memory. You have to somehow derive inspiration from either of these two to last 28 days.

I know because I have, on 2 occasions - and have achieved minor miracles :D . On others, I continue being the same as you. But its comforting ( and scary since I don't want to be 30 and still a lazy ass ) to know that there's more than one of us.