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by jagira 14y ago
Certain sections of Indian laws and its constitution were blindly lifted from UK's laws and its constitution.
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by jagira 14y ago
Make first version of a device slightly inferior. Launch it without a key feature. (Retina display, 3G) Generate a lot of buzz in press. Print money. Six months later, add that missing feature and release v2 of the same device. Print money.
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by jagira 14y ago
Indian leaders are known to hide their illegitimate wealth and other assets behind nominees or shell companies. Recently, anti-corruption crusaders and media have unearthed some massive hidden fortunes. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches
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by jagira 14y ago
Indian Railways has numerous monitoring stations. (mainly at railway stations) These monitoring stations update train's location when trains pass 'em. In between such points, IR may know train's realtime location, but it is not made public.
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by jagira 14y ago
You must do ankle rolls and calf stretch every 30 minutes while using standing desk.
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by jagira 14y ago
This feature is totally useless for Ubuntu users from countries like India where Amazon is not present.
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by jagira 14y ago
Seems like human beings have stopped moving their feet :-)
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by jagira 14y ago
I don't get the difference in pricing. Do Kindle books involve local publishers like printed books? (e.g A book published by Penguin in USA and TMG in India has different prices)
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by jagira 14y ago
Developers flock to platforms where users are. Twitter and FB has users. So devs write apps for FB and Twitter. App.net, from where I see, looks like a platform with more developers than users.
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by jagira 14y ago
There is a vim plugin that provides arbitrary multiple line edit. https://github.com/alfredodeza/plexer.vim
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by jagira 14y ago
:-) Yeah I will. I travel to a neighboring city quite often and have to often deal with urgent issues/PRs. In which case, I use Github's website on my mobile browser, but it kind of sucks.
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by jagira 14y ago
Seems like it allows merging of pull requests. I can now review and merge pull requests while travelling in a bus. :-)
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by jagira 14y ago
The problem is that, unlike other countries, garbage is not segregated by the civic authorities. Home owners aren't required to segregate their garbage, either. ( Civic bodies of a few cities do segregate their garbage and dispose it proper
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by jagira 14y ago
>> Solution is, they should have that “drive” within them. That’s the main quality they miss among others. They should realize it. Funny that you came to an inference and termed it as a solution. Do you have any pointers on impro
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by jagira 14y ago
Agreed. I am talking about expectations and exceptions. In USA an uninformed tourist won't expect such places. In Somalia, a person won't expect a super friendly neighborhood with Audis and BMWs roaming around.
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by jagira 14y ago
a) You still don't get it. I am not trying to pick any place. Maybe Detroit has improved. Good for you, my sister, the USA and this world. But you may still warn your tourist friend of certain places in other American cities , right? An un
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by jagira 14y ago
Do you have any side projects? Or any project idea which can demonstrate your abilities? If yes, then work on it and share it on HN/Dribble/Github/Forrst. I got my first freelancing gig via a side project. Once you get your first client pro
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by jagira 14y ago
Don't be defensive. I am not picking any particular place. What I am trying to say is there are places everywhere which violate the perception of a particular nation. The OP had some wrong perceptions about places like Agra or Gaya. And, I
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by jagira 14y ago
A well written introspective piece. I left my job a few months before you did (Aug '11) and have a similar experience. Here are some of the things that I've learned - a) Set your working hours. Try to follow them, but not religiously. Havin
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by jagira 14y ago
>> I "get" the concept of jugaad. My small solution was to not give Rupees away, but to tip well: anybody who seemed to be working on improving their economic situation. (Tipping is not normal practice for most Indians, but I figur
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by jagira 14y ago
I am an Indian and I find this piece quite authentic. However, the OP and most of the other foreigners who visit India, visit places or deal with people that are known to be hostile. I, as an Indian, will be utterly shocked if I visit a ghe
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Gmail Now Has 425 Million Users(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jagira 14y ago|0 comments
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by jagira 14y ago
I guess that you were right and you do not need to change anything. 220 Mbps is the throughput and not the bandwidth. Assume a scenario wherein you change the destination to Mumbai. Your throughput will get reduced to 110 Mbps (assuming a 2
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Tell HN - Browsing HN new stories page is impossible
4 points by jagira 14y ago|1 comments
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by jagira 15y ago
Dude, have you ever worked on sites with integrated payments? That too of Flipkart's scale? Processing 100s of transactions and dealing with Indian payment gateways requires some kickass technology. They have scores of engineers working on
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by jagira 15y ago
Also, 24 used split screens (4 sections) quite frequently.
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by jagira 15y ago
This displays the content. Or one can click the browser stop button just after the page is loaded. $("#mw-sopaOverlay").hide(); $('body').children.show(); I thought they were going to use 503 redirects.
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by jagira 15y ago
Put Redirect 503 in your Apache configuration file.
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by jagira 15y ago
An old but apt tweet: Clean drinking water in villages. Primary education for all. Safe streets. No hungry people. Ah never mind. Let's monitor content on the net and block sites.
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by jagira 15y ago
Just checked this. I took some pics on a regular digital camera (no GPS) in Indore. I uploaded them from New Delhi a few weeks later. And now FB is asking me "Were these pics taken in Indore?". Crazy shit. Update - I dug through my FB updat

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