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by shabda 17y ago
> So easily demolish them. I'm here for discussion, if I made a mistake, let me know. I said I wanted to hear and address opposing points of view, and I'm clarifying and trying to answer all the questions and feedback I get. .... >
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by shabda 17y ago
To add some more data points to what you said Literacy changed from 12% to 66 % from 1947 to 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India Life expectancy changed from 32 years to 65 years (47 to 07) http://www.google.co.in/search?
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by shabda 17y ago
"We freely admit to doing (which is potentially) illegal stuff, and the government needs to stop trying to figure out what we're up to by intimidating our volunteers and instead sue us" - Why does this not make sense?
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by shabda 17y ago
> A programmer there makes $1200 a year. Pretty sure you missed a zero there. :)
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by shabda 17y ago
> Of course, what the OP probably means is that these sort of random strings of technologies look, at times, a bit dubious. Yes. If you were looking for a webdev position, you probably will not list your Perl and Rails experience with s
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by shabda 17y ago
I know Java, Python, Javascript, Sql, PL/Sql quite well, and have played with a number of others including C#, and other functional language. I have used MySQL, POstgresSQl and Oracle. However, if I were looking for a JOb I will probably on
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by shabda 17y ago
C#, Java, Rail -> Why all three, eaither is a substitute of other. MS-SQL, Oracle, Mysql -> Ditto above. My point being that if you list all of them you probaly do not know any of these at the level I want/require.
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by shabda 17y ago
If you are looking to work full time at a startup a number of Indian startup blogs have job sections pluggd.in venturewoods.org You might meet some interesting people at Bangalore's Barcamp and Startup Saturday. Proto.in has a forum which h
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by shabda 17y ago
[Hope this doesn't sound too harsh.] I few months back, we were hiring and Put up an ad on Monster. One of my reject criteria was "having more than 3 unconnected technologies". Even with >10 yrs exp, listing all the technologies you mig
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Django and Rails models: Comparision and Conversion (uswaretech.com)
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by shabda 17y ago
You forgot "I started Tarsnap."
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by shabda 17y ago
If you sell a million bottle of cola a day with your logo on it, how much extra per logo impression are you paying between a 50$ and 50K$ logo? I agree with your later points, but saying overspends here "Coca Cola overspends and has custom
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by shabda 17y ago
Built with Django, right?
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by shabda 17y ago
People on Mac are more amenable to pay for software than on windows, generally speaking.
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by shabda 17y ago
> So as you can see, the Cylons have many hurdles to overcome in order to take over ZumoDrive and your data. Isnt that essentially wrong? The cycolns have to overcome exactly ONE hurdle to steal the data. (Not a security guy by any stre
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by shabda 17y ago
> If your own state government is something you happily and comfortably state is "outside your control", getting fired by Amazon is the least of your problems. Sure, however if Amazon is a significant revenue stream on my website, I kno
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by shabda 17y ago
Can not this be legally classified as carpooling? (Car owner pays 25% of gas, guest pays 75%)
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by shabda 17y ago
Yes, but I am not a (wikipedia) lawyer, and so I dont need/want/have the inclination to justify my actions with an alphabet soup. I just want to contribute, (and hopefully want to see is stay).
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by shabda 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... This page is a lovely example of why I don't contribute to wikipedia anymore. All the arguments are along the lines of, we should delete/keep this, because (WP:A, WP:B, WP:NO
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by shabda 17y ago
1. Why would sending me a mail saying that "Hey we can not make transfers to your account" instead of/in addition to a public blog post AFTER I knew the issue have made it more difficult for them? 2. Its easy to blame the regulators, howeve
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by shabda 17y ago
I have posted this in the last thread but I will repeat it here. This should be a classic case study in how to loose all your reputation in a large and growing market. 1. Possibly the regulators were at fault here, however Paypal acted in a
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by shabda 17y ago
(Sorry if a quote sounded empty and cute, I will elaborate my thoughts.) - Sintara is small (and arguably beautiful), a book on it should be small. Being small doesnot mean it shouldnot be called book. - Wasn't our biggest gripe with J2ee m
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by shabda 17y ago
Measuring programming (books) progress by lines of code (lines of text) is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight
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by shabda 17y ago
Since the YC dead filter does not give the poster any indication they have been killed they cannot even ask the community. I have had showdead on for a while, and noticed a few other such users as well.
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by shabda 17y ago
Why is this argument silly?
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by shabda 17y ago
So long, and thanks for all the HTTP responses. (I prefer nginx now. :) ) [Edited, per below]
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by shabda 17y ago
What other criteria would you employ to decide the ethics of treatment to non humans? (Its a question, not a rhetoric. eg. Killing humans is not OK, killing poultry is, intelligent aliens from space is not.)
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by shabda 17y ago
And to everyone who flagged it. Really, this is not relevant to hackers, and "ATnT stoping 4Chan" is both worth a top HN spot, and relevant to hackers?
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by shabda 17y ago
> PayPal's issue with Indian accounts was due to your local banking regulations. As I said, 1. Paypal support said it is technical, not a regulatory issue. Their blog only confirms it only personal transfers being a regulatory issue. Th
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by shabda 17y ago
Lets see. I am in India. They have frozen bank withdrwals without any prior intimation, and this is almost unbeliveable any personal intimation after that as well. 1. Bank transfers to India have been frozen since 27 Jan at least (Not per

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