catchmrbharath

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by catchmrbharath 12y ago
> people in places like india gladly pay the $1 fee for a years access on their dumbphone. I am in India and I have never been charged for Whatsapp. Every year, whatsapp decides to add more free months. Also, there is significant competi
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by catchmrbharath 12y ago
Agreed. But don't we all gain something from any huge corporate in the world? The discussion is more about the repercussions of giving a lot of power to one corporate entity.
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The East India Company: The original corporate raiders(theguardian.com)
3 points by catchmrbharath 12y ago|2 comments
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by catchmrbharath 12y ago
I would say, its more about obedience from the employee rather than saving money on salary. The Indian employees at TCS and Infosys are ready to work long hours and obediently carry out orders without questioning anything, which sometimes h
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by catchmrbharath 12y ago
The sites are blocked only at the DNS level. If you switch your DNS from your ISP to either OPenDNS or Google DNS, then all these sites should work.
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by catchmrbharath 12y ago
How is the decorator mentioned in the article a decorator generator? Edit:Sorry. I did not notice the term decorator generator in the article. Thanks for the explanation
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Golang patterns for serving on-demand, generated content(blog.gitorious.org)
2 points by catchmrbharath 12y ago|0 comments
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by catchmrbharath 13y ago
Yes. Its more of a computer algebra system (a mathematica equivalent). Have a look at http://sympy.org/en/index.html .
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by catchmrbharath 13y ago
We should be catching the exception though.
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by catchmrbharath 13y ago
Series are not supported for plotting. Could you please raise a bug at [1]. https://code.google.com/p/sympy/
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by catchmrbharath 13y ago
I seriously cannot understand something like admission to medicine being decided by how much one pays. This leads to a lot of doctors who don't know a thing about medicine. My cousin's son had a protruding spinal cord from the back, and the
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by catchmrbharath 13y ago
> The response rates to questions must be prompt – the difference between getting an answer in 30 seconds and 10 minutes is huge for me, and I've been writing software for 15 years. It's only worse for beginners. I think the there is a
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by catchmrbharath 14y ago
I particularly don't like this approach to programming. Building things is an important aspect while learning to program, but it should not be learnt by just googling and figuring out how to do a particular thing. I think learning to code n
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by catchmrbharath 14y ago
I attended my job interview this semester. So I have seen very few companies use interviewstreet. They sometimes use some automated grading systems, but they have to be deployed on the institutes servers. This has led to a lot of delays.
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by catchmrbharath 14y ago
I think one of the reasons why startups are hard in India is the people's 'willingness to pay' is pretty low. Everybody wants things to be better, but nobody is willing to pay for it. Consider the case of flipkart. If flipkart, at some poin
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by catchmrbharath 14y ago
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
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by catchmrbharath 14y ago
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 meaningfu