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10y ago
No there are 5 South Indian States. Here is a link to explaining Quotas in Colleges for AP and Telangana. http://www.netbadi.in/reservation-quotas.html?showall=1 Women's Quota for both states in 33.3% (1/3rd has t
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10y ago
Several South Indian States has 30% seats in Engineering Colleges reserved for Woman. Significantly contributed to increase in women in Tech.
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10y ago
The Article doesn't cover basics of Criminality of Indian Politicians. These are just two example in last week from 1 south Indian state caught on camera (Because Local media would not cover since pretty much media in state supports ru
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10y ago
I don't think ReactNative has a reason to exist other than Facebook wanting to own Platform (Which they might abandon just like Parse). Good Read: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5qr9xw/
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10y ago
Thanks for the nifty tool and Making it so small to avoid bulking up APK's.
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10y ago
Seems back up now.
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10y ago
>>Does India not have a similar service? Yes They are mobile first services. Quickr & OLX are the popular services in India.
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10y ago
>>People should hire the people they are most comfortable with, and when they succeed (or fail), they can be examples to their communities. Shouldn't it be people should hire people who are most qualified for the position? Ofcour
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10y ago
I am afraid most people are missing the target audience of this feature. This is for people who live in unsafe areas and have trusted family member than they do want to watch over. This is an app that should have been released in India imme
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10y ago
Surprising. From This week in startup's interview that came out 3 days back, it appeared David Sacks had no such plans: https://soundcloud.com/twistartups/twist-e692
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10y ago
It appears its Fill Rate. (Click Through rate is around 2%). It appears to me that dev is involved in shady stuff (The fact that dev posted this in several forums without ever posting link to his app should be noted).
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10y ago
Flickr Has a Market Place? I Bought License for Photos from at least 25 different Photographer by emailing them (on Flickr Mail). Never knew there was Market Place :)
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10y ago
[ based on a single incident comes across as rather shallow and naive.] Not True. There is a trend happening. An actress who never went to college (and tried to fake her certificates) was made 'Higher Education Minister'. The actr
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10y ago
Most residents of Cupertino pay very little property tax due to prop 13. Some residents pay 3000$ for the same house when their neighbors pay 18000$.
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10y ago
We are looking for alternatives to S3 (for static hosting) since price of data transfer is way too high in all 3 leading cloud services. Any suggestions?
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10y ago
India is a country where government will do everything except implementing the existing laws. Just Yesterday a Minister's (From souther state called AP) Son who tried to kidnap a woman in broad day light in his car was let go by courts
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10y ago
>>Email will no see decent progress thanks to gmail. I remember how great email was before GMail: 1. Every few days I had delete emails so that I can get new email. 2. Delete sent mail immediately to make space for new emails. 3. More
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11y ago
Based on comments I think the purpose of the discount is being missed. We are a Mobile app Company with significant presence on Android. The fact that this rebate made available at the time N Preview was released gave us enough push to orde
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11y ago
I knew Cameron from 15 years back. Always helpful and very down to earth person. I am surprised he stayed at Oracle that long. He was very active in BEA Weblogic Forums/usergroups. He would answer most questions with helpful answers. W
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11y ago
[All of my local recommendations (handyman, local photographer, where to buy tomatoes) have now shifted to facebook groups. I no longer google handyman in blah, xyz. instead I go through my saved posts in FB.] In my local area NextDoor is r
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11y ago
>>Meanwhile, the theoretical market cap of all current private-market unicorns ($300-$500Bn, depending on the source) I am sure there are many unicorns that are overhyped and are going to fail. The 300Bn is same as market cap of Faceb
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11y ago
Sounds like an article written about cell phones in 2005 :).
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11y ago
That's really how media works. Everyone reposts the same story in their version. Here is the headline from Indian news paper for the same: Bill Gates, Ratan Tata, Mukesh Ambani and others join hands to give push to clean energy through
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11y ago
Are you suggesting not supporting a language thats not in top 25 languages today is their #1 problem?
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11y ago
Mr. Burd declined to comment, citing a nondisclosure agreement. He retired in May 2013 .
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11y ago
I am glad Google is going to launch Play Store in China. As an Android developer, here is what is happening: "Chinese developers can sell in China and Rest of the world. Rest of the World find it near impossible to launch services for
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11y ago
I know we are supposed cheer this as victory for Open Source. But anything a government of India (Current or former) does with Technology, I would take it with a grain of salt. Here are recent Indian Government (or Indian States) Projects:
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11y ago
The patent is at least more innovative than Slide to Unlock. If you encourage crappy patents, they are gonna bite you some day.
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11y ago
I think existing Shareholders will hold onto VMWare Tracking Stock making the purchase less than 50B.
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11y ago
Country limits for Green Card really need to go. Number of green cards offered to People born in China and India (With Billion+ Population) is same as to people born in Vatican City (Less than 1000 population).
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