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Comment Re:Wage Gap (Score 1) 618

>if you make crap so long as people buy it
it looks like contradicting statement - how come a crap can be sold? In such a case, you don't need engineering team at all... :-)

Comment Re:Poor introduction of open source world to stude (Score 1) 742

>This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.
Correction: This kind of simple overview documents **for all modules** in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.

Why the Google Chrome Browser 5.0.366.2 dev behaves strange while I am typing in text box? often cursor is absconded :-) :-)

Comment Poor introduction of open source world to students (Score 1) 742

The first reason it seems to be "the geeky look and feel" of open source world, which stops them to communicate with the community project. See all these mailing lists - if any noob asks some basic question, how he would be treated? we know.... The projection of vi and emacs as the only editors to do all these stuff... rude behaviour of many geeks keep the young programmers away... there is no updated docs on kernel tree... In this scenario, if a young programmer is interested in kernel dev, it is great - he is **really** interested to hard core stuff - may be the geek's world consider all these as entrance test to kernel dev :-) :-)

Second reason could be market value. I have supported a few college projects. IMHO the most students don't want to work in a project which does **not have any job market value** compared to VC++, .Net, Java, Web programming kind of stuff. When I tried to mentor development of a linux based communication framework project to one of the top most university's (in India) students as a project, It happened to me that I had to do complete coding and explaining them the code flow. I made them to understand the project.

Third reason could be development tools. The above mentioned students were very much interested in VB :-) Because the user interface is the one which attracted them towards it.

Though I am not a kernel programmer, occasionally I make my hands dirty... I hacked a modem driver to make my ISP provided modem to work in linux - it was around 10 years before - this was my first kernel look - I didn't get any materials to guide on code... just hours and hours of debugging, at last got it done. That is the reason when it was happened to dig through a network card driver, I just documented it for beginners (like me) like this http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2006/07/31/linux-ethernet-network-device-driver-a-flow-of-code/. This kind of simple overview documents should be enough all modules in kernel will be more helpful for young developers.

Comment what about open network? (Score 1) 394

At my home I use to get around 25-30 SSIDs shown - all neighbor's SSIDs. The beauty was some times before when I moved to this apartment I got a open network which allowed me like a ice cake - still I hesitated to use it to avoid data insecurity.

The question could have been like "How many open network SSIDs?" :-)

Comment Re:Quoi. (Score 1) 141

Sorry, I don't have good news for you. Govt. is slowly moving towards outsourcing of essential tasks to proven private companies, which can't be done by pretty old Govt. officials. Unique Citizen ID project is one such which is lead by the Ex-CEO of Infosys, the No. 1 IT company.

Comment Re:Pakistan and China (Score 5, Insightful) 267

Yes, you are right! India's both strength and weakness lies in Democracy. That is the reason behind India's moderate growth compared to China's aggressive.

In the backdrop of Google vs China, we can't even imagine Google vs India. Here in India, you have freedom to express what you think. Here the limitation is you can't do as you wish freely due to practical issues like massive population, corrupted politicians (not political system) and bureaucrats and last but not least people's expectation that some one will/should come and solve our problem like a super man. China tackles all the above issues with one single weapon called Dictatorship in the name of Communism. So their pace may be better than India **as of now**.

But it is true that growth of a nation is **not** 100m race, it is marathon - you need consistent performance and more resilience. After all Country is nothing but the people. What the govt. is going to achieve by isolating its people from the main stream of world? In Tamil, there is a saying - "What you are going to achieve by buying painting at the cost of your eyes?"

I am afraid that I may be biased towards India, since I am an Indian. But I take US as dream role model for our country's political system. The democracy in US is the one which has driven it so far. We are lucky to have such a democracy in India. In US, the people's real patriotism lies in being true to the social setup (basically adhering to the rules and regulation of the society). But it is unfortunate that here in India patriotism is judged on your emotional show case than how sincere you are towards country's growth.

Comment Well defined and stable API (Score 1) 162

What about API for app developers? In my understanding, MeeGo is not going to have a unique app stack like Android does have. MeeGo's compatibility with desktop will bring existing great apps to Mobile device. That is good one. But there is no well defined API (like iPhone and Android) to make it happen. How about my understanding?

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