ajju

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by ajju 19y ago
Quite to the contrary, you will find that Gujarat, perhaps the richest state in the country, is least represented in the IITs and the IIMs (including IIM Ahmedabad which is ironically in Gujarat). Yes K to 12 level education needs money but
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by ajju 19y ago
No, he is modded down because he is making factually inaccurate statements (which are also racist). Where is the data backing up his claim that the most intelligent students in colleges across India come from the highest caste?
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by ajju 19y ago
What the hell is "african features"? You say the caste system is racist and then yourself say the most intelligent people are from higher castes. Don't you think that is a racist claim? By the way I know several people from lower castes who
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by ajju 19y ago
Yes. Google Babasaheb Ambedkar. He led such a movement 50 years ago. This movement is now very politicized though and not very true to it's roots I am afraid.
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by ajju 19y ago
Well their last name is what would prevent them from lying. They can change the last name though. The irony is that there has been reservation for people from lower castes in government jobs and schools across the country and they pay much
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by ajju 19y ago
The thing about wealth is patently untrue. 25 - 50% of the seats in ALL schools (yes, even private colleges, at least in the state I am from) are reserved for poor people from lower castes and their ANNUAL fees are less USD 200. I know firs
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by ajju 19y ago
Regarding (1) - Have you ever been to South India my friend? So many of the Brahmins from South India I know, the Aiyyars and the Aiyyangars have dark skin. I was born a Brahmin myself and > 75% of my family members have "dark" skin. T
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by ajju 19y ago
>If you can be a doctor that does abortion, would you still execute? >(Conversely, if you're a doctor that doesn't do abortions, would you still execute?) I am quite sure all doctors are barred from executing anyone based just on "d
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by ajju 19y ago
This is not the same. It does not come out of a fascination with westerners and is a much older bias. See my other comments for an more detailed explanation.
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by ajju 19y ago
1) It is pure aesthetics, but the bias against darker skin, while not based on race, is deep rooted and does result in people with darker skin being discriminated against. It is not to the degree of dark skinned people not being allowed in
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by ajju 19y ago
This is not exactly racism. It is a different kind of bias based on the same physical feature but you will see it between members of the same family. So for e.g. if there are two sisters in a family and one has darker skin, she is very ofte
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by ajju 19y ago
>In much of Africa and Asia, whiter skin is attractive because white >foreigners have all the wealth and power. This is not true, at least not the way you think. Attraction to (bias for) fair skin is a very very old tradition in Ind
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by ajju 19y ago
So you are saying that because the names don't matter, there is no bubble?
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by ajju 19y ago
I give Microsoft 1 year or until the next release of Outlook Professional. By that time they will either buy Xobni or copy the functionality. On a related note, you can see Bill Gates as one of the contacts of the test guy in the video.
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by ajju 19y ago
Pass it on then buddy... heuristix at gmail.com!
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by ajju 19y ago
Present! Most of the Indian hackers in the US are on the west coast (Silicon Valley and Seattle). Most of the Indian hackers in India are in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. Some have startups but most are still working at big companies and
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by ajju 19y ago
For applications that do not have frequent writes (or updates), the performance of column oriented databases is significantly better. Anecdotally, we recently started using Sybase IQ for an application of this type with a DB of the order of
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by ajju 19y ago
Actually there is. I use a blackberry which also has a similar feature - if a number on a web page looks like a phone number you can just click it and it will call the number. However I routinely need to copy paste things from one email to
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by ajju 19y ago
Yes, it's best not to introduce more features lest they introduce more bugs. Let's just use white shiny plastic boxes connected with a metal cable then, shall we?
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by ajju 19y ago
There can't be that many (edit - that many Email spam startups at least. Web spam, blog spam etc are another issue). It's a crowded and relatively mature market that just went through a round of acquisitions of mature private anti-spam comp
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by ajju 19y ago
For email spam - http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/ For web spam - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/projects/doi/WebbSpamCorpus....
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by ajju 19y ago
At the moment we know of only one definition of 'existence'. By that definition everything you mentioned - the earth, humans exists.
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by ajju 19y ago
yes but remember, most Indians are LEGAL Aliens ;)
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Dare Obsanjo has his doubts on Hadoop / Copying Map Reduce(25hoursaday.com)
4 points by ajju 19y ago|1 comments
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by ajju 19y ago
The article mistakes more ideas for better ideas. The benefit of working in a good group is not that you get more ideas, but that you take the ideas that you get, prune the bad ones and combine the good ones to come up with the 'best' idea.
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by ajju 19y ago
No. How can someone at MS and someone at Google have the same wolf? It's Google Kirkland I suspect.
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by ajju 19y ago
""I don't know what I'll do next, but I suspect it will involve teaching some sheep a few basic fighting maneuvers, and also a fair amount of long-overdue repair to our floating platform and our in-progress mansion." I don't think Rauser is