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> legal proceedings can be notoriously protracted in India This is the root of so much evil in India. It is probably the largest issue facing this country. Every citizen should have a fundamental right to a speedy resolution to their gri
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Similar story about the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split in UNIX : http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
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These tests are probably designed to check your motivation, not your skill. If Google is asking questions about manhole covers, you better study about them before an interview. A candidate who can answer such a question would more likely wa
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Fellow Indian here, I must agree with you. But I can understand dang's point of view. He is trying to be polite.
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Experiments are designed to seek the truth of a theory. For example, if the participants who receive this money are poor and they know that the money will stop coming 5 years from now, they may save every penny they can. This may lead us to
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and... "MP3 license revenues generated about €100 million for the Fraunhofer Society in 2005." Is that small amount of money ?
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> With a DVCS, though, we have a problem. You do have the whole history at any given point, which in turn means you need to have every version of every blob. But because blobs are usually compressed already, they usually don’t compress o
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> People aren't "fed up" with on-premise enterprise. Do you happen to know if the 'no one gets fired for buying IBM' attitude has changed significantly in big enterprise markets ?
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It is helpful to understand what problem it solves. Lets say that we have a banking application that consists of a program which updates someones bank account by $Y every time it is called. Y is the command line parameter. The program'
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> The person who's going to be unethical and sabotage others is going to do so regardless of whether stack-ranking is involved. The trick is not to think about people as purely ethical or unethical. Imagine, if you would be willing
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Google is acting more like Microsoft. They are building huge moats around their business ( Android, Chrome etc ) so it becomes harder to use some Google products without using others. Google discontinued 'Google Sync' ( https:&#x
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I would like to make your point clearer because I think there isn't sufficient visibility of this problem in our community. The problem here is 'stack ranking' or 'curve fitting'. The assumption behind this model is
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Also don't forget that the incident involved publishing his racist rants which destroyed his career.
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There are other factors preventing labor movement, for example : education. Imagine if a lot of new jobs get automated away with robotics and computers. It would be very hard for the displaced workers to take up new positions that open up i
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Not to mention there is no way to tell how an API will be used. People may find uses for your software that you never thought of. These use cases may turn out to be more important than the original ones.
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Overpopulation is a real problem for India. The population growth is falling, but not fast enough https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
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The problem with India though is that the country's education system was started by the British to recruit low level civil servants. I suspect that type of education system would be biased towards creating low level office workers and
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You are right of course, I was comparing them to ChromeOS. Now that ChromeOS about to be able to run Android apps Photoshop Express and Office Mobile will be available, but they are essentially offering a different feature set.
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I was agreeing with the overall point of the article, but then I see this : > I can understand canned responses like "Be right there!" or "I'll be late!" if you're in a car and only have a few seconds to rep
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Professional software ( Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, CAD etc ) and a large majority of games only runs on Windows. There is a plethora of software already developed for Windows which will continue to only run on Windows. There is
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> Google is more interested in getting people into the garden than it is in selling hardware or fostering education All for-profit companies are interested in turning a profit. No company would be interested in fostering education, no
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You realize the article is about Android apps coming to Chrome OS, right ?
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Any idea how to do this in mobile ?
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If your company is small and you want to have a website where people can learn about your products/services and call you for more information, these days you can use established tools, templates, frameworks, libraries ( like say Wordpr
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It is true that console applications would have different constraints. But GUI applications written in Python, like 'Ubuntu Software Center', were also perceptibly slow last time I checked. yum vs apt-get was a quick comparison I
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I would like to see more discussion about the speed of Python for user facing applications. Users can perceive delays of upto 100ms ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-shorte... ). # time yum r
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Yes, what is waiting to be solved is whether or not P = NP.
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I can't believe that is the website for the company which made Buffet the second richest man on the planet.
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Except for Finance and maybe Tumblr, aren't all these services fading ? * Yahoo Answers Quora ( 100M users [1] ) and Stack Exchange is now the default question & answer sites. * Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports Google news and search (
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Mind explaining the costs of producing good music ? Is it cost of studio, salary of technicians, cost of marketing, cost of distribution ? Specifically, my question is whether the world be better off if even relatively unknown musicians get

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