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by pavs 13y ago
I don't think most of them are intentionally bigoted they are most likely poorly informed.
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by pavs 13y ago
As everyone has already mentioned, remittance is not international aid. This is very weak. Last time I checked, India asked UK to stop giving them aid (I could be wrong).
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by pavs 13y ago
Every time India space programs discussion comes out a group of people will bring up India's poverty and other problem that should be fixed instead of investing on space program. I used to be one of those guys (I am from Bangladesh), t
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by pavs 13y ago
My personal experience. There was a time in my life when the idea of having "free time" was a foreign concept to me. I took 12-14 credits in college, worked 60 hours (mostly graveyard shift), plus I had small online side projects
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by pavs 13y ago
Khan Academy is also in-browser project based. I think it supplements learning, but they don't really push the boundary. Like for Code Academy (which I forgot to mention before), the exercises were very simple and I didn't think t
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by pavs 13y ago
My very limited and one person experience with online video tutorial sites. Don't read too much in to it, just my experience. - Lydia: Probably the best in terms of depth and options. But I only tried couple of them. - TutsPlus: Second
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by pavs 13y ago
Yes definitely. People who doesn't use facebook by choice are thought of being crazy. I use facebook, for me its a great to keep in touch with my friends and family members who are all over the world. I have a friend who doesn't w
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by pavs 13y ago
Just because the examples look similar doesn't mean they are the same thing. For one, Android had a huge headstart before WP, the phone market itself is quite different from Desktop OS market, specifically compare to the time Windows c
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by pavs 13y ago
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
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by pavs 13y ago
The only reason Linux is not more mainstream than Windows is because its not pre-installed on your computer when you buy. Even installing popular linux distros like Ubuntu from scratch on a new system is much easier than installing a Window
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by pavs 13y ago
I don't use excel in professional level so I don't know much about it. Is there a vast difference between MS Excel and Linux (OSS) equivalent, or something like Google docs?
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by pavs 13y ago
YOu can pause and resume download through appstore.
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by pavs 13y ago
I like the idea, but as quite a few people mentioned, the execution is really below par, esp the UI and not loading properly on chrome at all.
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by pavs 13y ago
The author is an american journalist, reviously worked for Washington Post and currently writes for Huffington Post.
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by pavs 13y ago
Speaking of propaganda, I would rather watch Al-Jazeera over any USA news channel any day of the week.
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by pavs 13y ago
Land of the free and the brave.* *Some restrictions apply.
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by pavs 13y ago
Who the hell is a "foreigner" on the internet?
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by pavs 13y ago
There is MS office for mac. Apple's own office solutions are pretty damn good too.
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by pavs 13y ago
No, I want you to acknowledge the gravity of the incident, by saying "oh I am really not surprised", you are in fact lying because you have no way to know for sure the extend of the privacy infringement. You might have thought &qu
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by pavs 13y ago
Please stop saying "we are really not surprised", whether you actually mean it or trying to joke about it. It legitimizes such behavior for some people who are not very privacy conscious and it really takes out the sting from the
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by pavs 13y ago
I don't use Godaddy any more, but I remember Godaddy had something very similar on their checkout process, and you had to individually check off each item to make sure you are not being charged on all these add-on you didn't ask f
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by pavs 13y ago
Lets break it down and I am sure I might have been a little confusing myself. - I condemn the American Government. - I condemn most of the American people for their general apathy towards the human rights violations of their government both
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by pavs 13y ago
I did pack my stuff and go home... But something to remember, having a problem with the American Government doesn't mean having a problem with the american people. Too many people confuses that.
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by pavs 13y ago
USA has the highest incarceration rate than any country in the world. I have lived in USA for 12 years of my life, perception of having freedom and actually having freedom is not the same thing. At least from my experience I can tell you th
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by pavs 13y ago
With how many countries did the US engage in pre-emptive wars with false premise and without much if any support from rest of the world in the last few decades, which resulted in 100s of thousands of death? Lets not forget the US financed d
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by pavs 13y ago
I am far from an apple fanboy and I use products from all three companies Google, Apple, Microsoft extensively, so I hope it doesn't come out as a bias or fanboyish response. I honestly think that out of the three companies, microsoft
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by pavs 13y ago
I disagree, nokia didn't consider iphone a threat until it was too late. They said it themselves: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-nokia-wasnt-able-to-fight...
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by pavs 13y ago
All your points can be boiled down to a single point: They didn't take competition seriously until it was too late. Same can be said about Nokia and probably in the not too distant future it will be Microsoft.
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by pavs 13y ago
flagged, next time sub a link that people can read without having to register an account.
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by pavs 13y ago
I want to start learning Javascript (total beginner with few months experience with PHP), can you guys recommend me some good books suggestions as to what frameworks I should get in to?

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