Translation table explaining the truth behind British politeness

What British Say What the British Mean What Foreigners Understand I hear what you say I disagree and do not want to discuss it further He accepts my point of view With the greatest respect You are an idiot He is listening to me That’s not bad That’s good That’s poor That is a very brave proposal You are insane He thinks I have courage Quite good A bit disappointing Quite good I would suggest Do it or be prepared to justify yourself Think about the idea, but do what you like Oh, incidentally/ by the way The primary purpose of our discussion is That is not very important I was a bit disappointed that I am annoyed that It doesn’t really matter Very interesting That is clearly nonsense They are impressed I’ll bear it in mind I’ve forgotten it already They will probably do it I’m sure it’s my fault It’s your fault Why do they think it was their fault?...

डिसेंबर 22, 2013 · 2 min · 229 words · शंतनू

String Theory

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Converting mercurial repository to git

git clone git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git mkdir new_git_repo cd new_git_repo git init /path/to/hg-fast-export.sh -r /path/to/hg_repo git checkout HEAD

नोव्हेंबर 17, 2013 · 1 min · 15 words · शंतनू

Researcher Translation

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Estimation

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Success

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Server Problem

Explanation

ऑक्टोबर 5, 2013 · 1 min · 1 words · शंतनू

Creating class in python without using class keyword

add2 = lambda x,y: x+y sub2 = lambda x,y: x-y mul2 = lambda x,y: x*y # Second parameter is tuple, used for inheriting classes # Third parameter is dict, used for defining variables and functions myclass = type('myclass', (), {'var1': 10, 'add': add2, 'sub': sub2, 'mul': mul2}) myinstance = myclass() print(myinstance.add(10,20)) print(myinstance.sub(10,20)) print(myinstance.mul(10,20))

ऑक्टोबर 2, 2013 · 1 min · 53 words · शंतनू

Parental Trolling

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Reversing the binary of the given number in python

>>> a=int(input('Enter base 10 natural number: ')) Enter base 10 natural number: 42 >>> b = bin(a) >>> a = int(b[:2]+b[2:][::-1], 2) >>> a 21

सप्टेंबर 30, 2013 · 1 min · 25 words · शंतनू