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by sseth 8y ago
Oh yes, I agree. We have to get better ourselves too. But having such a stark example in front of us perhaps can help concentrate minds. At least that's my hope.
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by sseth 8y ago
Its like reading 1984. But now its happening. I hope the democracies come together to fight this. We have taken our freedoms for granted. I think we will now have to earn them. We should not forget that modern democracy is just a couple of
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by sseth 8y ago
Those (like me) who like using Google products know the bargain. Until a product reaches critical mass, it could get canceled. Wave died. G Suite has succeeded. Chrome succeeded. Reader died. Google+ is in a coma. Hangouts and Google Photos
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by sseth 8y ago
In 2016, they put an end to the one child policy. In 2017, they are offering women free removal of IUDs. Under the one child policy, women were forcibly fitted with IUDs after the first child, and were forced to undergo sterilization after
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by sseth 8y ago
I think Michael Pettis is probably worth quoting here : "In most economies, GDP growth is a measure of economic output generated by the performance of the underlying economy. In China, however, Beijing sets annual GDP growth targets i
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by sseth 8y ago
There's a lot of truth in this. However, there is also the fact that their ability to keep the lid on things means they may also suppress feedback mechanisms which in a democracy may prevent wrong things from going on too long. Somethi
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by sseth 8y ago
What is fascinating is that many Indians are discovering the mobile internet having never been on a desktop, or having never even had a land line. We are talking of 100s of millions of people here. Nearly 80% of internet access in India is
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by sseth 8y ago
Everything you say about India is true, and its opposite. For the record, i can safely say that arranged marriages without the couple even meeting were common in my parents generation upto the 60s, became unusual in my generation (I don&#x2
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by sseth 8y ago
I too work in the software industry in India (and have been working since the last 30 years). And i have worked for several years outside india as well. My Indian colleagues through the years (male and female) have been no different in thei
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by sseth 8y ago
Thanks for the great reddit link. It is the best way to explain this!
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by sseth 8y ago
Why say bhakti and not, for example, devotion (which is what bhakti means in Hindi). Because bhakti is not an English word. And one of the things which congress followers mock is the use of local language, which is what the BJP leaders tend
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by sseth 8y ago
Presumably that explains why they were elected, and are now the government :-) Why is that surprising?
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by sseth 8y ago
Its not about inflated cost. It removes your ability to get a higher loan amount, . And increases the risk in the transaction as the cash component is now not backed by any documentation. And finally, it increases any eventual capital gains
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by sseth 8y ago
I am a great fan of Raghuram Rajan, and used to be one of Manmohan Singh as well. But Manmohan Singh's reign as PM can only be counted as an unmitigated disaster, his economic credentials notwithstanding. The huge NPA crisis that you s
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by sseth 8y ago
This is a good point. But it only goes so far. Ultimately, even code and toolchain flexibility comes at a cost - for example, should you go for a non-relational database because of potential future scalability needs, or cross that bridge wh
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by sseth 8y ago
It is stupefying to hear people argue that real estate in India does not involve black money. You have to be wilfully blind to say this. In every part of the country, real estate transactions used to have a cash and a cheque component. The
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by sseth 8y ago
Widespread distrust which resulted in a thumping win for the government? Shutting down the economy... seriously? I was in the economy, it did not seem shut. Unfortunately the outrage seems manufactured, like so much outrage nowadays.
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by sseth 8y ago
Actually no, it doesn't sound like dictatorship - an elected prime minister making decisions seems the right thing, generally. You would think this is the first time a government pressured an RBI governor. I should add that he wasn&#x2
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by sseth 8y ago
This is such a poorly researched article. In the beginning it quotes a railway official saying enough of foreign influence. The Indian railways on the other hand is working closely with Google to deliver free wifi in nearly 400 stations. Go
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by sseth 8y ago
There are examples of aliases e.g. type VectorInt = Vector(int)
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by sseth 8y ago
npm allows multiple versions of the same package - not ideal, but works. To do this in Java, you need multiple classloaders etc (basically what OSGi provides), but you are now in a different kind of hell. edit : I forgot to add that Java mo
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by sseth 8y ago
Freedom of speech is not a meme. It's something people have given their life for, and nations have been founded on this theme. "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" is a cornersto
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by sseth 8y ago
Unfortunately, the GOPATH structure makes it harder to mix golang projects with other languages when you need to. And it does not support package versions. I think the time has come to say goodbye to GOPATH. Does not mean of course that inc
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by sseth 8y ago
I had a colleague who used to use variable names from his local language in India (we were working in Europe at the time). So hwndParent would become hwndBaap. This combines both the hungarian and the local language strategies for job secur
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by sseth 8y ago
I find Go code ideal for maintainability, with the "one way to do things" philosophy. Developers often don't like Go precisely because it does not allow them to do "clever" things. Go is also not performance obsesse
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by sseth 8y ago
Whether that is possible or not, the primary theory for the Deccan Traps is that they were initially formed as India drifted towards Asia and passed over volcanically active area that lies under the present Reunion islands.
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by sseth 8y ago
In India, the recent explosion in 4G availability has lead to a dramatic increase in first time internet users. But unlike earlier generation of users, these users have never accessed internet via a desktop - they only use a mobile, usually
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by sseth 8y ago
This is a great point. And i think Microsoft could have done this too. But perhaps the conflict between improving the open web vs pushing their own operating system was a conflict they never resolved internally, giving Google the time and s
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by sseth 8y ago
No doubt Chrome had an advantage over Firefox in this case. But that does not explain how they beat IE. Microsoft had the advantage of shipping IE with the OS itself. I don't believe the licensing cost of Windows Phone was what led to
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by sseth 8y ago
It is also good to ask why Google could not succeed at social media. Perhaps network effects and an equally agile competitor were a big enough moat for Facebook to fight off Google successfully. To say that abuse of monopoly is what has ena

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