anuraj

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by anuraj 14y ago
Little more sensitivity of data would be helpful rather than the large bins - like <5,5-10,10-20,20-30,30-40,40-50,50+ to get a proper picture.
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by anuraj 14y ago
India is a banana republic in every sense of the word; where the mighty have their way and even basic amenities are denied to the poorer 80% of population. But do stay tuned - the Indian class war is yet to play out.
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by anuraj 14y ago
Many Indian companies including Cipla,Natco and Sun Pharma has been manufacturing generic versions for the last 10 years or so and are selling at a fraction of the price. For your information, India is the largest generic drug producer glob
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by anuraj 14y ago
Google Support - isn't it an oxymoron?
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by anuraj 14y ago
Irrespective of languages (verbose vs non verbose), I have found that the rate at which I code on a normal 8 hour day is 500 LOC of medium complexity code including testing effort - and it has not changed for a long time.
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by anuraj 14y ago
Beta crystalline form has the same chemical formula as the non-crystalline form and is soluble.
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by anuraj 14y ago
I can pretty well understand Sanskrit and have learned it for 10 years. It is definitely not difficult to learn. 'Sanskrit' died several hundred years ago as a spoken language - and efforts to revive it by adopting it has yielded mixed resu
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by anuraj 14y ago
To put this in perspective, Novartis Glivec is the beta crystalline form of 'imatinib mesylate' - an already known compound which went out of patent. Novartis failed to establish that the new form has demonstrable efficacy over non-crystall
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by anuraj 14y ago
To some extent yes, but bloated framework issue will remain even if you compile to C++ despite the compiler's best effort optimization.
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by anuraj 14y ago
If you care about performance, the thinner the framework, the better.
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by anuraj 14y ago
Interesting - C# should have also been added. Java still rules the roost. If you should absolutely have a scripting language - old php with warts is better. More magic in the framework - more abstraction and indirection and code inefficienc
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by anuraj 14y ago
Yes - but native language in census terms do not mean mother tongue. There are few villages in India which adopted Sanskrit as first tongue - That is an experiment not akin to being part of a continuity. At the most, you can say these nativ
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by anuraj 14y ago
There are no native speakers of Sanskrit - some people have tried to revive Sanskrit by speaking it - sometimes in large groups. Usage of Sanskrit as a day to day language probably ended hundreds if not thousands of years ago. There are sti
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by anuraj 14y ago
India had a process patent regime earlier. The result - generic rituximab costs around 0.7$ in the country. Compare it with the story where the price was $13702. http://www.healthkartplus.com/details/drugs/30975/reditux-50...
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by anuraj 14y ago
For my undergraduate degree in India, I paid $100 per year in a government owned college. Hostel room and food took $30 per month and all that money and more came back in scholarships. So I paid less than 0 in the 90's to get an engineering
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by anuraj 14y ago
Nothing is future proof - don't worry. We have only been programming for the last 60 years. C has endured 40 years out of that. That is no guarantee that it will endure further. But the point is programming practices has not drastically cha
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by anuraj 14y ago
A phone's 128MB memory is not same as PC's 128MB. Phones usually have execute in place (XIP) memories, which means the OS and apps share some space. Also each app is budgeted a certain memory (Phones use near real time OSs compared to usual
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by anuraj 14y ago
How many use Java applets still? It is high time browser plugins for Java are killed. But the article advises to uninstall Java, not understanding Java browser plugin is different from Java.
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by anuraj 14y ago
The Nokia Express browser and Opera Mini are built this way and technical folks know this. These browsers are used in resource constrained devices that cannot run a full fledged web browser and also conserve on bandwidth which is crucial fo
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by anuraj 14y ago
There are few generalists. A good CEO is somebody who understands his limitations and keep his sides armed with best in breed personnel who are better at tackling those limitations. A some what developer+product CEO here :)
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by anuraj 14y ago
No. There are increasingly lesser avenues where the raw power of C++ will make a difference. C++ need not be a main stream language when many simpler more elegant alternatives exist. Use it where it is abosultely necessary - where active me
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by anuraj 14y ago
This is India, a country where rights exist only on paper. Rights materialize only where people have knowledge and power to defend them. Unfortunately India is a long way from there.
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by anuraj 14y ago
I don't know where you got the notion that software is just creative art form of its individual developers. In that case, software would have been a guild activity and the industry will not exist. Software has certain creative elements, but
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by anuraj 14y ago
A company is a going concern which can provide legally tenable support guarantees irrespective of individual developers which is not possible for a freelancer. Project Management and enterprise processes are precisely there for this purpose
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by anuraj 14y ago
I second this estimate, though we do it at half this cost as our developers are in India. Typical enterprise applications require 3+ years of maintenance & enhancements that would work out much more than just getting the app out of the
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by anuraj 14y ago
Absolute showstopper for anything more than keeping track of simple stats or storing comments. Denormalizing has limits. Invariably apps will come to the point where you need to do joins and that is when you start cursing your decision to g
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by anuraj 14y ago
Very myopic view restricted only to English language. There are more than a 100 major languages in the world. So now Wikipedia has to concentrate on other languages.
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by anuraj 14y ago
The alternative is massively shipping jobs out to India, and be clear, jobs once moved out are not coming back. H1Bs stay back in the country and spend a portion of their income in the country, thus helping local economy. IBM already employ
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by anuraj 14y ago
Heroku as a highly abstracted PAAS built over AWS should definitely make it easier for beginners. AWS is there if you need to hit the metal any time. Also the cost of Heroku abstraction is the flexibility you sacrifice in order to get thing
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by anuraj 14y ago
Looks quite reasonable. An undergraduate degree is bare minimum that you would require to get a white collar job in any country

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