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by pvelagal 10y ago
"There’s music creators, there’s video editors, there’s graphic designers — a really great segment with the Mac. There’s scientists, engineers, architects, software programmers — increasingly growing, particularly our App development i
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by pvelagal 10y ago
May be google or any other company should treat these new initiatives as a separate startup company to begin with, with seed money as the input. Engineers hired should have salaries/options just like founders/co-founders. If the c
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by pvelagal 10y ago
I have an common sense observation and questions. Apple, Microsoft etc you name it, all get their hardware products manufactured in china & Asian countries mainly to drive down costs (People blame CEOs but really ? do they have a choice
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Even EB-1 (Green Card -applicants) folks, typically Phd-s, first apply for H1B. Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft - every fortune 100 company - all apply for H1Bs. It is just that Indian & US based IT service companies - TCS, InfoSys,
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Receipt of H1B (tranfer to new company) application is enough. I dont know of any silicon valley company that does NOT do it.
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by pvelagal 10y ago
5 million dollars will look great only until you have them. Once you get your 5, your next target may be 25, then 125.. x=5*x. Engineers who work to create amazing things, work to get a kick out of creating cool stuff.Same case with CEOs. m
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by pvelagal 10y ago
The then prime minister of India, PV Narasimha Rao, along with his minister of Finance, Manmohan Singh, forcefully liberalized India's economy and "saved" India. I grew up watching India making tremendous progress under his l
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Maybe a rich person has the answer ? :)
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by pvelagal 10y ago
In India, it is considered rather disrespectful to leave parents house once a person starts working. This is because, traditionally kids are supposed to take care of parents during their old age.
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Looks like you are good man with strong ideals. As they say Sxxx happens and one should be able to deal with it. You should be proud that majority voted for Clinton(25.6%) than Trump(25.5%). Sad part is, almost 46.9% of eligible voters didn
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by pvelagal 10y ago
"7.Discourage offshoring. Should've been doing that along with maintaining a strong industrial base domestically. A huge chunk of our economy is financial engineering. Need more real stuff." I am from India, and here is my ob
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by pvelagal 10y ago
"A meritocracy, as things should be, rather than being based on race/gender/filling some sort of diversity quota".. wonder when AI beats humans at chess and go, where does meritocracy stand ? Are Japanese/european c
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Actually, i would like to know what this "currency manipulator " labeling really means ? Will goods from china be taxed more ? if so, how much more ?
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Many Indian restaurants try to focus more on taste of the dish and hence the dishes tend to be not-so-healthy. But, traditional Indian cooking doesn't have the same levels of oils or clarified butter. The dishes are pretty healthy and
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Slide 13 ( https://talks.golang.org/2016/applicative.slide#13 ) is interesting. I was expecting Go to be very close to C/C++ on the X axis (fast/efficient) as it doesn't use VM, but it is more close to Ja
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by pvelagal 10y ago
Users can contribute idle CPU cycles to a variety of projects http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html . AFAIK, lot of folks have been doing this for decades.
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by pvelagal 10y ago
I never built any source code system, so not an expert, but isnt branching snapshotting the current version of file(s) (strings), and newer versions are about calculating deltas. Arent, most of the Operations in a source code mgmt system, a
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by pvelagal 10y ago
2 billion lines of code @ 80 characters per line (with 2 bytes per character) = 320 GB of code, fits on my mac SSD. Wonder if 30,0000 engineers , sending 30,000 requests per second to server(s) with 320GB of code (can be put in memory) is
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Well, i have to disagree. Model S looks great ! well, it might not look as great as an aston martin or a maserati, but it is pretty darn close. Elon mentioned it a lot of times, it is easy to build a good looking car, but not some thing whi
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Absolutely. Tesla created what i would call "regular car-looking cars". Btw, when there is no difference between a diesel engine car and a gasoline version of the same car in terms of looks, how come an electric car has to look di
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Well, not sure if it is a coincidence. Facebook app on my iphone crashed several times a couple of days ago.
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by pvelagal 11y ago
You are right. As much as people love to hate IE7/8 etc, they still help make a lot of money. (millions of $)
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Well, i know of sites that still support IE7, IE8 and the revenues from those users are in millions.
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by pvelagal 11y ago
The real problems begin when machines become competent enough to do most of the jobs which currently humans do. The system of job-to-earn-money-to-live wouldn't work. Either money or jobs wouldn't have any significance for humanit
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Bought the Garmin GPS for a hundred bucks and it is so much better. Will never trust any server based GPS app. Why cant they just download all the map data (basic should do, if not all of it) of USA. How much memory does it need ?
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by pvelagal 11y ago
Better late than never. I stopped using Google maps for anything serious. Was driving to Point Reyes lighthouse once and lost the connectivity, and spent the next half hour aimlessly driving and came back. Felt like an idiot.
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by pvelagal 14y ago
35 years in prison for getting access to articles in a library ? Human race is yet to evolve. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/farewell-aaron-swartz