Prakhar Srivastav prakhar1989

Insurance

Go for PSI
Apply atleast one week before for the waiver (before 1st Sep)

Misc

Get DL from India. You can drive but accidents will cause you a lot of money. You can apply for the learner's permit, give the test, then give the driving test (for which you need to rent a car).
6 months free Amazon prime membership on your Columbia ID.
Get a dental checkup done before coming to US.
No need to get spices / specific food from India. Pressure cooker is available in Amazon but is expensive and can be carried from home.
Save the winter clothe shopping for NYC, Buy the rest from India.

Async data loading in Flux

I've been working with Flux a lot recently, and one of the questions I've been struggling with is in which part of the Flux cycle to put my asynchronous data requests.

Here are some different opinions:

The diagram

The famous Flux diagram puts them in the action creators.

The chat example

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

Windows

C-x o Switch cursor to another window. Go ahead and try this now to switch between your Clojure file and the REPL
C-x 1 Delete all other windows. This doesn't close your buffers and it won't cause you to lose any work. It just un-splits your frame.
C-x 2 Split window, above and below
C-x 3 Split window, side by side
C-x 0 Delete current window
C-x 3 to split the window side by side again
C-x o to switch to the right window
C-x b cider-repl to switch to the CIDER buffer in the right window

	{
	'departments': [
	{
	'id': '137',
	'title': 'Art Hum'
	},
	{
	'id': '303',
	'title': 'FoS'
	},

	// Before you run this code, add the id `ms` to the masters students HTML table
	Array.from(
	[].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("table#ms tr"))
	.map((tr) => tr.children[0].innerText.split(",")[0])
	.reduce((acc, x) => {
	acc.has(x) ? acc.set(x, acc.get(x) + 1) : acc.set(x, 1)
	return acc;
	}, new Map())
	).sort(([valA, countA], [valB, countB]) => {
	if (countA > countB) return -1;

	var Block = Immutable.Record({
	id: 0,
	questions: Immutable.List(),
	subblocks: Immutable.List(),
	randomizable: true,
	ordering: false
	});

	var b1 = Block({id: 1});
	var b2 = b1.set('randomizable', false);

	import twitter
	import logging
	import time
	import csv

	### Install dependancies by running
	### pip install python-twitter

	# quelch the SSL errors
	logging.captureWarnings(True)

	module.exports = function(grunt) {

	grunt.initConfig({
	clean: {
	build: "build"
	},
	uglify: {
	js: {
	src: ["build/app.js"],
	dest: "build/app.js"