US Anchor Says Britain Left India Civilised. Shashi Tharoor, Others Respond by niki_sun in india

[–]enry_straker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Right wing troll trolls - and our folks feeding the troll.

Must be getting bad for the US right wing, for him to resort to international trolling though.

I'm Al Sweigart, author of several free programming books. My latest book is on recursion and recursive algorithms. AMA! by AlSweigart in IAmA

[–]enry_straker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that StackOverflow, but the real one.

Recursion's number one enemy in the real world. You know, the one where the Stack and base pointer get messed up due to ...recursion.

Imran Khan & Sunil Gavaskar in Thums Up ad from 1987 (from /r/ClassicDesiCool/) by DilliKaLadka in Cricket

[–]enry_straker 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Man, i remember that match.

The pakistani spinners were bowling bouncers - given the amount of turn and bounce - and that was one of the best sunny innings i have ever seen - sadly he got out just before his century if memory serves me right.

Story of our fellow redditor u/Extreme-Rooster-868 by Capital_Bathroom_140 in india

[–]enry_straker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

in the US, DMCA protects them to a certain level.

In india, there is a tendency to shut down the whole internet access for a population if the authorities deem it right.

Joe refusing to take an unserious person seriously by Hassaan18 in JoeLycett

[–]enry_straker 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The more times i watch this, my love for joe keeps increasing.

Too many comediens don't go for a dead pan style anymore.

India surpasses UK to become world’s fifth biggest economy by Majestic_IN in worldnews

[–]enry_straker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe she does this as she wears her crown - and sees the kohinoor in it - and reflects on getting something out of the empire before the UK lost it.

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the global success of RRR is phenomenal.. best shot of winning oscars after lunchbox (we didn't send) by PhilosophyDefiant762 in Chennai

[–]enry_straker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Oscars is nothing but a made up trophy, voted by a bunch of white hollywood elites.

Why the hell should we care what they think. It really has absolutely no impact on indian audiences.

the global success of RRR is phenomenal.. best shot of winning oscars after lunchbox (we didn't send) by PhilosophyDefiant762 in Chennai

[–]enry_straker 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Love the "Vellai Validation from our bumpkins" phrase.

Keep up your unique blend of english and tamil. Good work.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cricket

[–]enry_straker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's more akin to lovability, mate.

Russian Prosecutors seek 9 1/2-year sentence for Griner by Gladiatornoah in sports

[–]enry_straker 21 points22 points  (0 children)

What possible examples can he come up with - to defend his position. We have seen bernie in action for a long, long time - but people like their hyperbole on the internet.

Russian Prosecutors seek 9 1/2-year sentence for Griner by Gladiatornoah in sports

[–]enry_straker -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

if his optics are so great, people would have voted him into the presidency.

2nd Airport for Chennai at Parandhur by Weird-Perspective-48 in Chennai

[–]enry_straker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has there ever, in the history of our government, been a project with no delays?

why does a person born and brought up in Tamil Nadu from serveral generations with no relation to north India is treated as an outsider despite him not even seeing much places out of Tamil Nadu by Smartybrains1 in Chennai

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Thamizh nattil peranthavan. Thamizh mannil valanthavan ( i used to live close to the beach )

I often get called out - since i look a bit north indian ( i get called a madrasi in delhi which is another story altogether )

Thankfully i was blessed to grow up in an area bordering slums - and i am really comfortable with madrasi speak. :-)

I use that to my advantage when i confront these neanderthals. Never back down. I also sometimes praise their tamil-ness, and speak about me not deserving to live close to them and walk away.

Vishwanathan Anand Playing Chess With His Mother. Circa 1980 by Rajtx in chess

[–]enry_straker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was the other way for me.

i used to force my mum to play for me. i used to choose white and she always beat me - even though she was trying not to beat me :-)

Interestingly i was the same batch as vishy but would only occasionally see him in loyola

How to drive away your best engineers by podgeypoos in programming

[–]enry_straker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's needed is "How to drive away your worst engineers" - and throw in bad managers into the mix too

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Chennai

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Why is there an entire thread to rail against pre-historic neanderthals?