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There is more than one reason for why India is in this problem today. And taking simplistic view points can't explain this problem completely.

Firstly Farming in India is currently very unproductive. To understand why this happens, you have to understand some history. India was even from its very existence in history a huge sub continent ruled big and small kingdoms, with Agriculture as its main source of work. And Farmers were always taxed in return for many things. Add to this shortage of rainfall, droughts and other occasional problems forced farmers to mortgage their lands for some money to rich landlords. These problems went to an extent till farmers were almost synonymous with slaves. The Naxal terrorism problems has deep roots in this history.

I have many friends who come families of farmers. And you can still hear the old stories. The lands get passed on from generation to generation through inheritance. And every time the land is inherited it gets divided among sons. So with every generation each person gets lesser and lesser land to harvest on. With growing population you can now image with each generation, number of farmers increase but the land available for farming decreases. This makes farming a highly unproductive business in India.

This is coupled lack of modern logistics to distribute, modern machinery or harvesting and farming. All these stories of rotting grains that your hear of is because, the crops are often sold to local middlemen with farmers often given an unfair deal. The middle men take real hefty cut, and both the farmers and consumers suffer. Also middle men again sell to places called 'mandis' which inturn are very inefficient ways of distribution.

The policies ran by Government of India utmost work as patch jobs. There is no long term vision to improve the situation of farmers. Providing subsidized pump sets, lower interest loans etc only give the farmer a longer rope to hang himself. There are no incentives to bring in larger agricultural reforms, to modernize distribution, to eliminate middle men(In fact in the recent FDI debate, some MP's actually sided with the middlemen, can you believe that?), to improve logistics, cut corruption, fight bureaucracy, bring in mass farming techniques, infrastructure and equipment.

Agriculture policies are just one election to the next bait to get farmer votes.
I actually did skip a paragraph on accident.

> Sure, I could go out of my way to make it obvious that I’m a woman. I could put my name at the top of my blog or on my About page, or I could mention it in passing in my writing. That’s not something a male author has to do, though. Furthermore, doing so results in harassment and having my writing dismissed/trivialized/tokenized because of my gender. Hence why I don’t (or at least, hadn’t until this post).
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This is an honest question. Millions would like such a product yesterday. I'd like to know how long it might take to market, and understand why it could not be done sooner.

Didn't expect such questions be downvoted on a business/product startup site.
> enforcing stereotypes of male geeks I have never actually seen in industry

The irony of this is awesome because I see it every week in the comments for these posts on Hacker News.
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I've had a problem with Appcelerator and using the ExtJS framework. Appcelerator seems to do something strange with the DOM that can break Ext.

There's also Adobe Air, but its security policy breaks a lot of existing JS.

In my case, I just ended up writing a wrapper for my app in QT.
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FB needs to focus on other things, rather than keeping the "failure" association in the minds of investors any longer than it needs to be. Changing to NYSE or whatever would be a huge waste of time. Markets are forward-looking. The primary message from investors is "we don't think you can make us money", not "we think your first-day market action remains terribly important, and we'll buy every stock you can sell us if you change exchanges".

So fix the real problem. If you fulfil all the potential we keep hearing about, investors will find your listing.
Why not learn both?

Pick a small(ish) project and go at it in both frameworks. You've said that you have friends who know both, and you've already got a handle on web dev through PHP, so maybe Rails one weekend, and Django the next. Now you know which one you like the best, rather than relying on other peoples' opinions.
One of the primary reasons is the inability to match the supply-demand cycle. There are a few startups trying to solve this issue in their own way.

I heard one of the founders speak http://www.efarm.in (he runs another site connecting farmers called http://www.efarmdirect.com). His views are quite interesting and he is using IT as an enabler to solve some of the issues. They are trying to use basic mobile phones to gather supply info, feed that information above the chain.
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That Stratfor article is amazingly good; I wish they'd post the second half publicly vs. requiring email (I'm reading it now).

It's annoying they don't have a price between free and $349/yr. I'd pay $100-150.
NASDAQ telling the market "you have until noon Monday to prove your losses" most definitely did cause people to dump stock in the first two days of trading. Confusion over whether trades were happening because NASDAQ wasn't confirming orders probably caused investors to be skittish, which could easily have had cascading negative effects.

It's hard to say if FB's stock was overpriced. The GM thing couldn't have helped. But to say NASDAQ had nothing to do with it is silly.

I look at FB's IPO and think of this[1]. Little (and not so little) permutations causing shockwaves through the system.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M&sns=em
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Most of the time people use "he" when they don't know the gender of the author. It's not assuming the author is a man. It's a place-holder word in English.
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> That's a good point, but those "price signals" could still result in the element being very expensive for quite a while, if we have to scale up production by two or three orders of magnitude.

I'm not saying new supply will come online instantaneously, but it could be faster than most of us expect if price spikes enough. But in any case, grid-scale liquid-metal batteries would no doubt roll out like most other technologies, which is progressively enough to let supply mostly catch up. In the same way that cell phones or computers didn't go from zero to millions in a day, this will probably be done over many years.
The point is that she shouldn't need to point out individual contributions by women. Because you'd hopefully understand that women don't go out of the way and say "hey, btw, I'm a girl!". So you'd understand technical articles by women are plenty, but they're not immediately obvious. Because women are not trying to make it immediately obvious. Because the internet is supposed to be gender neutral.

And hopefully, if you understand all that, you won't ask be asking "where are the technical contributions from women?" in the first place. So the question is mute, which is why she didn't answer.
BTW, India requires that only jute bags produced by a protected local industry be used for storage. No plastic or foreign jute. Not surprisingly there are not enough bags.

This is contributing to the problem:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444140457748...
Honestly I think the bigger concern is a long erosion, not a collapse.

After WWII, the US had an economy so large we consumed half the oil that was consumed in the world. Our economy has grown since then but the rest of the world has too. We are down to half our percentage of energy use, and this is a general proxy for economic activity. So we are growing but developing nations are growing faster. Additionally we re incredibly dependent on oil to the extent that it would be a fair summary to say that the main job of the US armed forces is to protect international oil supply.

So the US isn't about to drastically collapse, but the role in the world is declining and will continue to decline. I think within my lifetime we will see the world shift from a unipolar model with the US as the sole superpower, to a world dominated by several major world powers.
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Maybe you don't go to the right/enough events.

I'm a bit of a hermit but even I know several female developers in the north (mostly in Manchester and Leeds) from events like BarCamp Manchester, Leeds Hack, and GeekUp. Maybe there are tech events up here that women don't attend but I haven't come across one yet.. meaning perhaps I don't go to enough events either ;-)
Difficult to reach two different goals at the same time with just one instrument. So, supporting the farmers means keeping prices high. Supporting the poor means keeping prices low. No matter how much anybody patches the system, the contradiction will remain in place.
There's no free speech in USA. Try threatening the president, even outside of USA. You'll be visited.
There are other articles that are meant to be lists of female tech bloggers, e.g.

http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3512/
http://www.webteacher.ws/2010/07/06/10-terrific-tech-blogs-b...

This article is not one of them. Just because it doesn't answer the question the way you want it to be answered doesn't mean it's "perpetuating the problem".

In fact, one of the indirect points of this article is that demanding lists of female bloggers in the first place is silly - who demands lists of male bloggers?
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I do this as well, simply because using 'they' in reference to a single person irks me.
You need a method that can't be distinguished from the native pattern. How much trust do you want to put in your algorithm being invulnerable to future analysis?
The donations during Katrina were meant to be understood as moral support. These donations were not to be misunderstood as a claim that the US would have been incapable of dealing with Katrina by themselves.
> Every European knows the New York skyline and what "NYPD" and "FBI" mean.

As an American, that weirds me out.
>Her whole point is that women should not have to do this, that they face discrimination if they do do this

I don't think this point is correct. The technical nature of computer science/technology makes it easier to judge a work by its technical merits, not by authorship.
But Charles wasn't just wasting his time, he was thinking about the problem while playing games! At least that's my interpretation.

I've learnt that I concentrate wonderfully and solve problems while walking. I know other people see just a guy walking in an absent-minded way, but I'm working!

For me Charles and CharlesPrime are exactly the same example, they just do the same thing in different ways. If it isn't Space Invaders then it will be another thing, they both need time to think. Otherwise you are hiring code monkeys.
And you don't see how that leads people to unconsciously bias themselves towards thinking of the author as male, even if they don't actively decide to think of them that way?
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This would account for why the highest scores recently, and most high scores we have a record of in history's leaderboard, were from people "playing on easy mode". Some of history's high scores were from people abusing bugs or using cheat codes, but outside of a few parts of the game now (finance...), a lot of those have been patched.

(As the game shifts to technology, I think at least some subset of Asians, at least those with access to the US and global markets, are on easy mode too, and showing up more and more on high score lists.)
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> Furthermore, doing so results in harassment and having my writing dismissed/trivialized/tokenized because of my gender. Hence why I don’t (or at least, hadn’t until this post).

I'd like to understand the severity of this issue. Can you provide examples of technical articles written by women that were dismissed due to their gender?
Your personal experience living in a high-tourist city does not represent the rural, Evangelical majority that actually votes.
Here's one poll with the 41% number:
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Yes, that's very true, it can be more easily judged by technical merits, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will be. Not to mention it invites less-than-appropriate or nice messages.
Isn't it pretty much a capitalist economy? I was under the impression most of its wealth was in private hands. It was socialist over 2 decades ago, but the tide has mostly shifted towards capitalism, and growth has been fast.

Nonetheless, the enduring problems of corruption and mismanagement in its administration remain. Those can't be attributed to the old socialism or current capitalism alone, considering that India is going through a rapid economic rise out of relative poverty. Bad governance is bad governance, whatever the system, and it's aggravated when countries are poor, have a weak rule of law, and are just starting the climb up the ladder of development.
I stand corrected. At least the play a large role. It certainly isn't an abomination as the religious like to see them. It's the year 2012 and we still show respect for this kind of thinking rather than laughing them out of the room.
Is it worth installing .NET 3.5 to run the ISE? I use Powershell but only have .NET 4 which runs it just fine. I'm a little surprised that ISE requires 3.5.
"tl;dr: Socialism, lol."

Corruption and incompetence span all political and economic systems.
I think you are right about using "he" in a non-gender-specific way, but I think there are ramifications. It becomes obvious that all articles are written by men, since you see so many he's writing them.

Perhaps English needs a truly gender-neutral pronoun.
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> a computer produced in China

Is it an American company that made it? Yeah it could have been produced in China because labor there is cheaper than in California. Next year it could be produced in Vietnam.

> running an operating systeem developed by a Finn

Last I checked he is an American citizen, isn't he? So +1 for America then? Would you agree? If you go by your logic, then nothing from America is from America, because most people could easily trace their ancestry to one of the ships that came America at some point.

> delivered to you via the world wide web which comes from CERN.

Ok, we can argue about the first two. This one is just silly.
> the author fell right into the category that perpetuates this problem.

You're missing the point of the article. The point is that if she does 'highlight great articles from the women in tech,' then she would be labeled a "female developer" instead of just a "developer." If she doesn't do this, then she gets labeled a male developer. She would like to be labeled "developer," but the two options she can see lead to undesirable outcomes.

This has been said before, but the key thing to take away is the concept of "othering." The author would like to be seen as a developer, not a subcategory of a developer that is somehow different from the norm. Perhaps a better way to demonstrate is to take this to the extreme:

"Instead of highlighting great articles from brown-eyed people in tech, or linking to other brown-eyed people in the industry with well trafficked blogs and talking about their contributions, the author fell right into the category that perpetuates this problem."

Sounds pretty absurd right? Who cares what their eye color is. On the other hand, imagine if everyone got it wrong. Imagine if you had brown eyes but there was a 'default assumption' that everyone had blue eyes. You wouldn't want to make a fuss every time people got it wrong, for fear of being "that person" who is annoying and pedantic, and "hey, it shouldn't matter! Technology is eye-color blind!" But if you don't do it, it gets a little grating when EVERYONE assumes you are something that you're not. It's a catch-22.

The solution is to remove the default assumption that developers are male. That is something that you, not the author, have to do.
I think there's also a western bias. Put a white male outside their element and I'm not sure, an average, a white male would do much better than an equivalent local‡, if not worse.

For example, I lived in SEAsia for two years. In some places, you cannot own a business (as any foreigner). If you do want to own, you marry (a local) or get yourself a (business) partner. Due to cultural differences, the white male westerner would just not be able to compete with the local.

Living in East Asia, I saw two predominant types of white male westerners, those who tried to eke out a living in E asia (somewhat less educated) and the professionals (typically better educated). There was a third class, and that was hired guns (tantamount to high level consulting).

‡Of equivalent background, education, etc.
Who are you telling to remember? Because if I was the author, who had shown she was creating things and trying to be known for that, I would be hugely offended at that kind of gender-stereotyped patronizing remark.
If it helps, singular "they" is a long-standing practice: www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
If it were socialism, why would price be related to supply? And why are you laughing?
If the habit of using 'he' causes an subconscious bias, yet you refuse to correct our subconscious, what's to be done?
Did you even read the post? It doesn't talk about "looks" at all.
The author falls into no such category, having clearly made a considerable contribution already.

You've missed the point of the article. It doesn't set out to answer your quoted question with some faux-positive ra-ra laundry list of women's writing. Instead it unasks the question.

On the other hand, you've exhibited a classic indicator of unconscious bias by assuming that a woman was complaining. Especially when, as in this case, she clearly isn't.
Every government is broken btw. In most of the world it still works because you pay an agent to take care of things for you, and in all honestly a large part of your fee probably ends up in bribes to various people but at least you have plausible deniability.....
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Oh, I have no opinion at all on its correctness, I myself just hate using the singular 'they' when writing a comment. Thanks for the link!
It appears that the title was changed after it was posted. If you take a look at the URL, the article's original title is still visible.
In many countries it also has benefits like being able to perform legally valid weddings....
Tell this to an unattractive, poor white male[1] who watches enviously as an attractive, middle-class black male is given a subsidized college education.

"Your life is easier because you're white. Feel guilty. Feel sheepish about any of your accomplishments, because they were made easier due to your lack of melanin."

Perhaps this white male – with his lack of melanin – has sun-damaged skin with several large, prominent moles, all of which contribute to his lower self-esteem.

"Your life is easier because you're white. Feel guilty. Feel sheepish about any of your accomplishments, because they were made easier due to your lack of melanin."

People in the past with his same skin color have done bad things, so belittle at him when he complains that it's acceptable and politically correct to be bigoted toward pale people. Call him backwards for feeling resentful and bitter. Remember, you are better than him—his life is easy.

Some people feel powerful and superior when they bash their perceived peers. John Scalzi is one of those people.

[1]: Excuse me—I meant "white trash".
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