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Comment Redundancy (Score 2, Insightful) 155

by vencs (#38446174) Attached to: Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides

This news reveals an important piece: The is no real redundancy in the suppliers when in comes to important parts of todays' devices. I often see* that the hard disk array suppliers keep buying them from a couple of asian outfits thinking they will be safe hands. But the asian hardware vendors themselves buy/order from the same manufacturer of platters/board/NAND creating a single point of failure scenario.

There should be a clear visibility of the supply chain of not just the end/whole product but also the key components of it. In another story, heard that shipping of Sonys' SEL50F18 lenses for NEX cameras are pushed to Mar'12 after users payed for it, for the same reason.

* working for a big storage co.

PS: Misread Flood as Food.

Comment Please (Score 0) 364

by vencs (#38401670) Attached to: Android Update Alliance Already Struggling
dont start posts saying "the main problem is.."
because there is no problem. You wouldn;'t be that surprised
about the 'delays' when you know how much time it takes before
any product reaches it final consumers when multiple components are
involved in the supply chain. The problem is with the everyone setting unrealistic
expectations comparing with Apple. Google releasing the OS is equivalent to NVIDIA/Intel
saying on its website about their newest processor - which you wont be finding in your
laptop/phone until a year later.

Comment Re:Idiots (Score 0) 253

by vencs (#38284780) Attached to: The Rise of Developeronomics

A "talented" coder is like a UFO. Everyone talks about them. Some of them say the place in the other business park has one. But no one's really sure what one looks like, or how to tell if one's real when it comes time to interview people for a position.

Agree with this. 45 mins each with 4 strangers can be a better model for identifying talent in pros other than coders.

Have you heard of open source software? Nothing ever gets done because they keep "forking" things when they have their own ideas!

Disagree with this. Freedom in OSS lets you come up with innovation beyond deadlines, budgets, managers. Its not fast, but evolution wasn't either.

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Submission + - India divided over allowing Wal-Mart, Tesco into r (thehindu.com)

Submitted by vencs
vencs writes: In other words, a heated argument between Government of India and everyone else about allowing FDI into retail market by giants like Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Tesco to setup their stores in India. Even with the govt's so-called safeguards such as the requirement of a minimum investment of $100 million and entry permission only for cities with populations exceeding one million etc, the people and opposition are vehemently rejecting the proposition saying that this would destroy the super strong local small-scale retailers' business. The governments' supporting points are about job creation, improving economy/competition by opening markets and mainly to meet its target of 7+% growth. The plan is currently suspended .

Submission + - Debate in India over allowing Wal-Marts (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by PolygamousRanchKid
PolygamousRanchKid writes: Late last month, as part of a push to modernize his nation's notoriously inefficient retail economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that for the first time big foreign companies like Wal-Mart and the British company Tesco could open retail stores in India. Until now, foreign companies have been restricted to serving only as wholesalers in India. All of this places Wal-Mart in a position hardly new to the company: at the center of a raging debate that pits the multinational giant from Bentonville, Ark., against local mom-and-pop businesses.

But Indian business is far from united in opposing foreign retailers. Farmers like Avtar Singh Sidhu, who sells potatoes to PepsiCo for its Lays chips and has sold baby corn and other vegetables to Wal-Mart's local partner, the Indian conglomerate Bharti, argues that foreign retailers will be a boon to India's struggling agricultural sector. The multinationals, he said, will buy directly from farmers and pay better prices than local wholesalers. Already, he said, PepsiCo is offering 6 rupees per kilo (or 11 cents) for his potatoes, while local traders offer only 3 rupees (6 cents). "We need more competition," Sidhu said.

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