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by kops 13y ago
The word "portlet" is like a huge warning sign to me that reads "run...like hell....while you still can...."
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by kops 13y ago
UBS allows you to open a bank account in Germany and connect it to a Swiss account. You can setup automatic transmission of money from German account to Swiss account every 15 minutes or so.
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by kops 13y ago
Go for it. It's a great book and except for references to friendster as the big social network and facebook a newbie, nothing else seemed dated to me. Most of the APIs used in the book are still pretty much available except probably(??
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by kops 13y ago
Thanks for that link. Chapter 7 helped answer some of the questions I had after reading PCI.
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by kops 14y ago
>> It's a sure recipe to screw up your hands. I learnt that the hard way and the only thing that helped afterwards was an ergonomic keyboard. For those who don't know, the wrist injury (RSI) is excruciatingly painful and will most l
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by kops 14y ago
And the http://colorschemedesigner.com/ . Two links that may come handy one day isn't a bad return on an investment of 10 minutes of my time. I also bookmarked http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons/ but I suspect i may never get aroun
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by kops 14y ago
well, change that for your kid. Every society builds on the work of previous generations. We in India, are late to the party so yeah, one generation will disappear without enjoying all this, but we can ensure that the next generation won't.
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by kops 14y ago
I guess anyone who can't write code but earns more than a programmer ;-)
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by kops 14y ago
I learnt long ago that one can not learn anything about China from an Indian, about India from a Pakistani and so on.... I checked the title of the article, read about a para and decided to check the name of the author. That was the end of
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by kops 14y ago
Fee is usually peanuts, at least in the govt. colleges. I paid a royal sum of 400$ of tuition fee for a 4 year degree that helps me make way more than that every day. Govt. spent close to 20k on educating me. I did pay taxes in India for 6
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by kops 14y ago
I won't deny the value of exposure. But I think soft skills and a lot of other things are over hyped. Some of the best engineers I know can't put together a sentence in English. I can't speak for how it is in US because I haven't been there
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by kops 14y ago
I wonder if you have ever tried to hire a decent programmer or tried to train one. On seconds thoughts it is actually true for every profession. Ever saw a waiter smearing the shit on a table rather than actually wiping it clean? How much t
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by kops 14y ago
As an Indian, I am actually pretty happy that not all of our best engineers can leave the country even if they wanted to. What makes you think that America deserves/needs a good engineer more than India itself? Disclaimer: I am not in India
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by kops 18y ago
I tend to agree. But I also think that people who are cunning enough to beat the system are then usually good enough to perform at a job as well provided the right kind of carrot is being shown. A very similar stinking system exists in Ind