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Actually there are three kinds of people at IITs. The really good guys who are very good at academics and know a lot of stuff and love to hack. These people generally are enticed by trivial ideas. They want to contribute in a more meaningful way. Most of them go for PhD's. These people would love to have startups, but it is very difficult in India to actually have product startups. The startup culture is nothing compared to what the culture is in the US.

Also, most of the IITians (at least the CS and elec guys) get very challenging jobs. These jobs satisfy most of the people.

Then there is the second set of guys who go for Mckenzie, DB kind of jobs. These guys are good, but don't really know what to do. They are confused and take up the most safe option. There are a few here who want to do startups, but they are not able to get people who are really good and who are really enthusiastic. I guess it is difficult to do startups alone.

Then they are the vetti ( lazy) people who haven't really put any effort in their academics or anything else. They would be obviously not enthusiastic to do a start up and you would not want them on your team if you are starting up.

I guess if the startup culture on India changes a lot, then there is a fair possibility that a lots of IITians will do startups. It is changing now, and there is a fair share of IITians starting up. Flipkart is an example. A couple of my friends started this(http://www.desto.in/)
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Though I understand your reservations, I wouldn't make my styles to be easily copy-able (just like I won't make it hard to copy either).

My time is valuable and I don't intend to use that to "teach" next gen. Thanks.
Wow, that is horrible UI.
Google has been selling devices for years, not months. And, yes, I actually agree it's unfair to compare them with Apple -- but that's what the market will do, and the market doesn't care about fairness.
I think that's a reasonable assumption. But even if it is wrong and the NSA has a shortcut.... And even if that shortcut affects all implementations of all cyphers....

1) expensive is still relative. Even if there is a short cut it may be only feasible to decrypt a small part of encrypted communications. So they may have to prioritize.

2) If everything is encrypted, they may still have to start somewhere.

so yeah, it's not a bad assumption even if it is wrong.

Speaking of which, https works with HN, not that this likely matters much.
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How does it compare to Cloud9 IDE or Beanstalk in terms of the collaboration functionality?

http://c9.io

http://beanstalkapp.com
And yet it shows as "complete" in wallet's history?
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In case you have been living inside a barrel for the last few years, there's an all-out performance war in the mobile system-on-chip space going on at the moment. Phone and tablet manufacturers pretty much expect everyone to be pushing out a new chip every 6 months and there's a huge fight over who gets the most design wins the next generation.

The fight is not only about !/$, it's more and more about !/W these days.

Benchmarks are also relevant to customers who like games or other heavier stuff on their tablets. Then there's a bunch of low-end Android tablets that are simply too slow to be used for anything. So the high-perf tablets and phones want to distinguish themselves from that.
I've owned a couple of BlackBerry and each new one was a worse experience than its predecessor. I was pretty happy with my Bold 9000, by that time it was convenient, fast and very good at email and texts (what I do mostly).

Then others caught up. The newer BlackBerry had a crappy keyboard and they weren't very good at playing MP3 and there were very few applications.

At some point I gave up and I switched to the Lumia 700. My only regret is that I didn't switch earlier.

Except for the lack of keyboard and S/MIME support, it has got everything I want and offers it with a great interface. It's very good with emails, excellent with Exchange integration (and free!) and has a decent application offer (although not up to par with the iPhone, but I don't really care, all the ones I need are there).

I've been extremely impressed by Microsoft and this pivot. I knew the heart of Windows CE was very good (very solid real time Operating System), but all Windows PocketPC and phones I had sucked a lot and were awful to use because of the interface and the crappy hardware.

I don't see how BlackBerry can survive this.
I worked for a small local radio station and was asked to implement something similar to the "virtual mall" last year on the station website. I was only asked to do it as a neighbouring station had one.

It was laid out like a simple street map, in a grid formation, and companies could "rent" a "shop," or more accurately, place their logo in one of the spaces in the grid.

I did it, then left the station, and it still sits there online, the "streets" filled with For Rent signs. It's like a failed SimCity, or a 2D version of Second Life...
To what end? Location services? My residential address is on my form 1040. They already know. :)
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It would be nice to see some justification for this matrix. I did some googling, and though I was surprised at seeing the 3G recommended for 'No Support', the data would seem to back that up: http://www.14oranges.com/2012/04/ios-version-statistics-apri...
"though you'd have trouble recognizing it."

"I actually bother with knowing what I'm talking about."

"There's nothing wrong with this, except that you didn't even realize you were doing it. You've answered the relevant questions, at least implicitly, and so forgot that they were even questions to begin with."

"Pop quiz. What are the four main types of ethical systems? Explain how "clapping with glee" figures into each one."

Dude, do you realize how patronizing and pompous your replies are?

.

"> To address the actual point: I do not prescribe a specific moral framework, only that there be one.

"Everyone has a moral framework, whether or not it is examined the way Socrates would demand it to be. The issue is that you gave an example, which undermines your claim that you're not prescribing a moral framework: no example can successfully be free of every possible framework."

Please try an extricate yourself from yourself and make an attempt to actually listen to the other person (Ask your spouse/children whether you are a good listener. As a lousy listener myself I know a little about this.) rather than using them as an excuse to strut your (purely, in my opinion) academic training. The author specifically says that he does "not prescribe a specific moral framework, only that there be one." Having some moral framework in an example does not contradict this. You could nail him on a technicallity, that requiring a moral framework in itself stems from a (meta?)moral framework, but then I'd again point out how pompous you are.

If morality is not the point, why "should [it] be grounded in a solid self-aware understanding of what and why you act"? Why "design intentionally"? Why "think about the details"? Why "care about consequences"? Why "hold onto what is good"? What is the measure of good? If you answer that Bartlett is talking about aesthetics not morality, then why the fuck did you bring him up? It would not be a "similar message" at all. See feedback about listening.
The distance I use my tablet is not the same I use my laptop, and the first one is always shorter than the second one: tablet is used at most at arms length, while laptop is at least at arms length.

You can't compare DPI as is, because viewing distance has to be taken into account before one can make sense of that value A proper, directly comparable unit would be the size of a pixel in arcseconds (which would carry the device's own typical viewing distance). Here's Phil Plait (of Hubble fame) explaining the stuff [0].

[0] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...
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Market share is also finally growing.

I've been hearing the opposite. Where are you reading this?
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Almost everything Hitler did was legal under German law. He just changed the laws first.

There is a section on the Wikipedia page about the USA PATRIOT Act that illustrates the parallels with the Reichstagsbrandverordnung (Reichstag Fire Decree).

The first section reads (translated):

"Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed."

Sound familiar?
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Qt is not going anywhere. I recently attended Akademy and the current QtCore maintainer, Thiago Macieira, showed some interesting stats: over 40% of the commits in the past few months (IIRC) came from non Nokia people.
I remember the good old days, where my key opened the doors of my friends car and his key could not open mine yet it would start my car.

Where my Aunt drove her car to the mall, locked the doors, and when she came out could get in as she had the keys to her husbands car.

Needless to say in both cases there were the same brand, within a year or so. You did not even need to have same major brand (Ford/Mercury were interchangeable)

Kids these days have it easy, cannot wait for the smart phone app for stealing a ride.
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I think bad refactorability is a weak-point of your code, not of the tooling.

I used to think so too when I was doing Rails but since switching to static languages for mobile development I've changed my thinking.

There's something a little bit magical about quickly renaming a function and knowing that every caller of that function has been instantly updated. It changes the way you write code. I'm constantly, aggressively refactoring when I write Obj-C or Java and my code is cleaner for it.
What are you then?

All my (little) retirement money got either paid into the German or Swiss system.
And no, I don't think my retirement is safer than that of my US friends.

Frankly, my plan is to just never retire. But of course that's just the naive idea of a 20-something.
Have the geeks at Palantir Technologies figured out how to stop terrorists?
Yep. I expect the static JVM languages to get the best of Ruby before Ruby gets the best of them.

But my money is currently on Kotlin.
http://www.businessinsider.com/finally-microsoft-has-stopped...

Inevitably, they put the reverse spin on it because it's trendy...

Also, you've got to call bullshit on the stats as the widely deployed Nokia Series 30/40 phones are still the most ubiquitous worldwide
Puss from my zits can also lead to BlackBerry's death. Related? No wait, I can actually produce puss from my zits.
You have to register your SSN when you get your driver's license. Same thing, as your residence is on form 1040.

At least here the police are missing stuff. In the USA they just kill/beat/arrest unarmed folks.
My companys history of company phones looks like that:

Bosch/Siemens

Nokia

BlackBerry

I somehow have the feeling they'll go down :(

I love my bold. I never had a phone with such a strong battery. I know you can't do much with it compared to todays smartphones but it's perfect enough for work.
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Exactly. And as other have pointed out here, its ironic that of all places a newspaper could be from, the New York Times ignores this fact.
Hi

Just saw your relpy.

To answer your question:
Yes, I think that CF also submits IPs to Google
No, frequent DNS change (if not accompanied by the loss of content) should not affect SEO.

Can you tell me more about your situation? I`m not sure at all its CDN related but maybe it got something to do with Google crawl?
(there is a phenomena of "Google dance" that effects new domains and also ranking may change during SERP updates...)

There are more than 200 SEO factors, it can be any one of them (or any number of them). To help out I`ll need more info.
I am really not sure what can be asked whose answer won't be a rehash of the gov's PR. I can't expect why the average person in India would scream "Scandal!" at the project's failure - the government doesn't have a fantastic track record and doesn't have the resources to attract the kind of people that can make such stuff (i.e. the Aakash Tablet) happen. The average Indian isn't so concerned about their government screwing up because that is the norm.

Anyway that was offtopic. The IITs have a very high average IQ that manifests itself well in the form of publications and the accomplishments of the alumni/students/faculty - they are definitely not "education factories" and an engineering degree from there is very respected. Pitting them against institutions with endowments in excess of 8bn is unfair.
You should not be judging them with very little exposure to them. There is a lot of innovation at IIT's which you just haven't come across. Stanford, MIT have a lots of funds at their disposal and they can innovate maybe much faster. Thats the only difference.

Some projects might not be that great as some startups aren't that great. Again, you should not be judging looking at a single project.

And IITians love to find the answer to their questions themselves :)
I would agree with this. I remember many fights in the EU parliament over this issue that got a lot of publicity and it looked like ACTA was losing even before SOPA was proposed.
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Thanks for the informed answer. I agree on most of your points, and my experience goes in the same direction as yours : most of the problems I thought would happen due to the dynamic nature of the language did not really happen.

I'll certainly take a look at YARD.
Almost every multiplayer strategy game becomes more about the players involved than the specific game rules, once at least some of the players have a bit of the strategy figured out. And pretty much any 3 or 4 player game can be thrown by a player who decides he doesn’t care to try to win himself (this is even often true in 6 player games, though it usually takes a bit of skill and cooperation from the to whom the game is being handed).

One way to make multiplayer games interesting is to have enough variance so that with 3 players left, the balance between a player who pulls some lucky breaks and the other two players working together is just barely in favor of the two players. If the game is well designed and the players act strategically, this shifting balance of alliances can last quite a while without either handing one of the players the game or getting boring, and winning is about figuring out how to hold your ally past the time its in his best interest to turn on you, or turning on him at just the right moment to maximize impact.
You're almost always better off using an ABI and shared libraries than doing this.

That said, there are cases where it's useful; but remember: dependency injection is an anti-pattern that increases code complexity to facilitate run-time configuration and testing.

Without a helper IOC framework (that does the hard work of maintaining singleton instances and injecting the right ones in the right places at the right time) doing this is a lot of work in a large project.

...not saying it's a bad thing. It's totally a good thing, especially making your C code testable.

Just be aware that there are limitations and downsides to this beyond merely the potential speed cost in using pointers and optimization issues mentioned above.
A skilled locksmith or someone with a serious interest in locks will have no problem [1] to open your front door without any damage using a lock pick tool [2]. If there's no need for said lock to survive, a selection of power tools make it even easier.

[edit] Which is not to say that cars should be easy to pry open of course ...

[1] in most cases, high-end specialized locks can be an
exception.
[2] see http://www.lockpicks.com/ for examples.
Interesting. If MS starts making any real headway in the market I think that's really going to shake up the native app businesses. People are suffering enough already writing Android and iOS apps. A third platform is probably going to drive a lot of people to the web.
You are right, the reason for the examples are that I wanted to start from a practical situation I experienced, in place of making another discussion about the pro's and con's of dynamicly vs staticly typed languages (I found both to have their use, depending on the project but also on the people).
"200-person projects headed by an Engineer"

If you have 200-person projects and still call them projects, you're doing it wrong.
> I'm less inclined to believe it than I was beforehand.

I'm not arguing with anything you said, and agree the article provided weak (if not no) evidence for the idea that increasing money has marginal utility for happiness.

What evidence did it provide that has convinced you that increasing money doesn't have marginal utility for happiness?
I'm following very closely what is happening in the "dynamic languages on the JVM space", and I agree there is really ambitious work and progress there (Mirah & JRuby from Charles Nutter & others, Kotlin, Groovy, etc). I like the fact that we are coming to a situation where you can use the language you want on the platform you want.
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Biggest aspects from my experience:

- Follow your work times rigorously.

- Just because you own your time that doesn't mean you should spend it reading articles all day. (I personally look through HN in 1min, then save my interests into the pocket app and read them at night)

- Communicate with your clients a lot, sometimes all they need is to know how you're doing, they will appreciate it.

- BIG one, learn to automate tasks. If you code, get an application like codebox or something, stop re-coding the same stuff over and over.

- About the money, don't work for free, charge upfront percentage, the separate account thing is a good idea, I do that.

- Be an expert of your area. Basically, 'skills will set you free'
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Growing 0.1% from last quarter is hardly "growing" or any indication about a bright future ahead of it. What happens if next quarter they are down again since I assume even fewer people will want to buy Nokia's Lumia now that they know it won't be upgraded to WP8?
Great point, I'll start to jot down my reasons. But mainly fall into two categories; features and cost/benefit.

For example every ~6 weeks Apple sell more iPhone 4S than total number of iOS 4 devices still in use.
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And why wouldn't you go that far? There's no reason for a third party THAT I PAY SERVICE FEES TO to save my conversation. Transmission of the material until it reaches its client is the limit. ONLY WHEN any agency gets a warrant from a judge should they be given LIMITED ACCESS to the CURRENT messages being transmitted. Not have the ability to peruse the history of.
You could have both wx and qt - check out https://github.com/enthought/enaml . Enaml is a python based UI toolkit which makes writing cross platform UI's ridiculously easy.

Heres a clone of osx preview written in about 250 lines of code -https://github.com/enthought/enaml/tree/master/examples/prev....

Enaml has qt and wx backends. Layout is constraint based and uses the same Cassowary algorithm used by iOS. As a result ive had the incredible experience of writing UI's and have them perform identically on windows, mac, linux and freebsd. Also since the sizing is handled by Enaml itself, the same ui can be run on both wx and qt and will appear identically sized.

Disclaimer: I work at Enthought and am friends with Chris Colbert who is the primary author of enaml.
I'm worrying about that karma limitation. I've got only one karma being downvoted.
>>>Wow, you're comparing Apple, a company that has had half a decade or more to setup a decent eStore to Google who has never personally sold devices till a few months ago?

And why not? Is the entire process so arcane and mysterious that only Apple can do it? He could have used any other company as an example and probably settled on Apple since it's a top dog right now. But to excuse the incompetency of a multi-billion corporation like Google, which brags about how smart its staff is, is ridiculous. Some things are just so damn basic that not doing them either shows gross negligence or willful stupidity or I just don't know what. Google could have sorted this out well beforehand. There is just no excuse.
CloudFlare does this to a lot of countries. Once I found out it was doing this, I disabled all their threat protection for my sites since they don't seem to provide a way to configure it directly and they seem to be doing it on purpose.

Anyone putting CloudFlare in front of their site should really disable the threat protection entirely. It's a shame that the CF team doesn't do anything to inform you about this problem or how to mitigate it.
There are no "exact" limitations. Rather it has to do with the Bern convention allowing nations to restrict copyright protection in "special circumstances" that don't "unduly" interfere with "normal" exploitation of the work by the rights-holder.

In other words it allows nations to pass laws relating to what constitutes fair use. I would assume that absent this sort of thing the Bern convention would allow the WTO to impose sanctions on any nation that decided we were right regarding Oracle v. Google, Sony v. Connectix, etc.
With this scheme random isn't quite enough though, it needs to be unique as well doesn't it?
I really like this new approach to the positioning problem, especially since it doesn't require setting up wifi or shooting satellites into orbit.

Does anyone know why this couldn't be used for outside positioning, much like GPS? Is the information not detailed enough, or do we lack good enough sensors to detect the fine-grained differences especially given all the electromagnetic noise that modern cities for example create.

Edit: I just realized it's probably also because somebody would need to create a world-magnetic-field map, much like the street view cars driving all over the world.