anuraj

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   by anuraj 14y ago

   Best Wishes!
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   97% of users in India are prepaid - that is almost 550m users. You can get a pre-paid connection without paying anything and recharge options start from Rs 10(20 cents). 1 minute call costs less than 2 cents. Free cell phone plans are not p
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   India is an impoverished nation. More than 55% of people are severely malnourished. To top it, the militant brahmanic Hindutva of North India advocates vegetarianism - which equates to further lack of proteins. And the caste system that loo
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   If I am writing an OS, I will still go back to C without an iota of doubt. I need to touch the metal down there.
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   I have always felt that scripting languages should stay clear of OO syntax largely. Try to do small files which are procedural. OO is for large monolithic modules - good to collabarate and manage complexity - scripting should stay where it
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   This is the story of every large company out there including Google. With size, comes structure, and with structure bureaucracy. Metrics take the place of intelligence and straight jacketing becomes the norm. Some companies (like some peopl
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   HTML5 enthusiasts - this is your chance (and probably the only one) to prove that it is suitable for mobile. iOS and Android are remaining native.
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   Dominance requires sound economics - and this is what will determine the future course of history. Lookout for China, it is not falling aprt - but will be the economic superpower of the world by 2018. And beware of India, which will relegat
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   by anuraj 14y ago

   The first tablet was a failure. It did not reach students, and the limited ones that eventually made to users had huge quality issues. I am not very hopeful of this version either, given the fact that it is promoted by India's notoriously c
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Python and ruby are just scripting languages - Java is a structured type safe language which is battle hard. No comparison!
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Mine is okay
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    At two extremes 1) You want to develop something fast and dirty - Go for scripting language. Out of them PHP is the dirtiest and fastest out of gate and thus the best choice. 2) Want someting battle hard with lots of extendability - Go for
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Unfortunatley, from language design perspective, both PHP and JavaScript are down right horrible. But they get the work done. In general dynamically typed scripting languages are playgrounds for errors - a statically typed paradigm might he
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Emerging markets are directly transitioning to mobile instead of web. Developed markets will take little more time to shake off legacy. But if you are starting today, you are ignoring mobile at your peril.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Don't really understand what you are saying. What prevents you from changing the JSON data that you display within a native screen at any given time? HTML is not the only way to transfer data out there and interpretation is totally upto the
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    I agree .. what I meant when I said 'web is dead' is the new web is made of services accessed through apps. Crappy front end technology and mega monolith browser are no longer required.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Do you think it matters to a company with a substantial mobile user base - and tons of money? HTML5 is for cheapos.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    There is no excuse for using HTML5 when the native platform offers you so much more and the user base is substantial. Only cheapos try to get away with it. Web is dead, welcome to app economy!
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    I for one never touch an ORM if possible. Coding for SQL in code is not that difficult, but sure it leads to SQL lock in. But you don't expect to change your underlying data model and scheme so often, and if you ever do, you most probably n
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    If only good programming meant usage of this language over that. Unfortunately language selection has least correlation to program quality. Better practices, frameworks and above all programmer maturity matters. High time programming commun
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    C++ has always been popular. Ada has been and will remain a niche language for niche jobs. Language selection is probably the least consquential thing in software project success as long as the language fits the job and your developers are
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    If I am intrinsically motivated, why would I work for somebody?
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    If you don't want too much infrastructure complexity in Java - go for Tomcat or Jetty - If you want advanced enterprise functionality go for JBOSS or another J2EE server. If you want asynchronous io, go for netty. Javaland is full of option
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Are you saying Java deployment is complex? WAR files have been easiest to hot deploy for at least a decade - that too directly from your IDE with the click of a button. PHP deployment simplicity definitely beats everything - and Ruby will c
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Thanks, but no thanks! I am happy with the control an EC2 instance gives me in return for little more complexity in handling.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Well - try developing a pixel perfect app on command line and see! And by the way Objective-C is the fastest growing language out there.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    I can understand PhoneGap will be handy when requiring cross platform compatibility and you are not a multi platform expert. The experience is always going to be underwhelming. RubyMotion is much more ambiguous, on one hand we have beautifu
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    Have a look at the Indian Space Program by ISRO. The PSLV - which was used for moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has a cost of $17m per launch.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    SpaceX is definitely cheaper to NASA. But it is not really cheap considering space programs like that of India (ISRO). For example PSLV used for Chandrayaan-1 costs $17m per flight. A little outsourcing won't hurt NASA here.
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    by anuraj 14y ago

    And you think HN is the horizon of entire programming world? Hope that is a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe HN, Ruby is taking over the world - but in reality, Ruby use is going down ( http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperin