Actually any veteran - like me - who has worked with IBM's (and other company's) card sorters knows the best solution. To that extent it isn't a tech question though it requires serious knowledge and the ability to generalize and apply what you learnt. OK

Actually any veteran - like me - who has worked with IBM's (and other company's) card sorters knows the best solution. To that extent it isn't a tech question though it requires serious knowledge and the ability to generalize and apply what you learnt. OK

Agreed.

Actually, the development process itself is now dumbed down. You don't anymore want the genius programmer but only the one who can just code to specs. So the advantage that the supposedly better US graduate has is actually a liability. Another thing. Nowadays no product (and that includes hardware and consumer goods - is meant to last for more than 3 of 4 years before it gets obsoleted - mostly by newer platforms, hardware or models with more features. So the other advantage that a supposedly better US stem graduate can produce better products is also neutralized. So the solutions are: The so called US stem graduate should work for a lower salary. and There should be a genuine laissez-faire in the student loan market to drive out the ultimately unemployable. OK

This problematic attitude of fixating on a woman from afar and then refusing to give up when she shows or tells that she is not interested, leads in many societies to honor killings, disfigurement by flinging acid on the woman and rape.

Agreed 99% (except for your use of the word masquerading). I would prefer "forced to substitute for a proper application.. " or some such language. OK

Actually the super rich and super powerful will have lots of flunkies to do things like carry their phone, make a call, take hard copy of e-mails etc. So they don't need to know about e-mail, ISPs and the like. OK

So it's a not a glitch in the algorithm per se but a wrong integration by a technician which is basically lack of an automated procedure to upgrade and roll out important software. OK

Not sure whether it would be allowed (legal). I mean that AFAIR, the EULA said that windows (xp in this case) is the property of microsoft and even though the buyer bought a copy, they cannot disassemble, patch or modify it. Also you can't just sell your XP copy.
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PDFs are static in the sense that you can't change the page dimensions once you create the PDF. Imagine, if the PDFs were created in book format (2-up) and you had scroll up and down to read the the text. The problem would be worse for people on the move who have to use tablets. OTOH HTML .. The drawback with pure HTML (just HTML) is that it's not possible to bookmark a page. In the balance, I would prefer HTML. OK

Not just in the sense of areas to avoid, but in the sense of having fewer modern conveniences that we might take for granted, these places already exist. This lack of facilities and conveniences engenders frustrations that eventually boil over and end up as neighborhoods controlled by gangsters or terrorists (as in the "les banlieues" of France).

Imagine the situation in the large and restless cities of Asia, Africa and LatAm.

Some of the facilities that they lack are - Access to banking, good sanitation and housing etc.

OK

Looks like Bezos is diversifying his interests away from computers. So how long does he think Amazon will last"

OK

It isn't about unions.

It's about banks charging fees to their customers - who happen to be mass enrolled daily wage employees - with the connivance or at least knowledge of their employers.

Banks should introduce a zero balance, no frills (and no charges) category for these accounts.

It isn't about unions. Should it be about class action?

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As they developed and distributed the world's cheapest tablet to students. .. As they built the best power infrastructure. ..

I mean, as an Indian I am really worried that off the cuff pronouncements with no real basis in facts and figures, or budget will soon become policy.

AFAIK, this gentleman (Mr. Avinash Chandar) is the new appointed chief of the DRDO. (Defense Research and Development Organisation) and this piece is from an interview hye gave when he took over.

This is not say that the DRDO hasn't done any good work. More and more their defense discoveries find applications in the public space.

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