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It was my second day in NYC as the new incoming student at Columbia University graduate school. My senior with whom I was staying took me for sightseeing. We got into the subway station and my senior went ahead and I got late while purchasing the tickets. I swiped the card at the "turnstile" and waited for it to move up automatically so I can go ahead. After waiting for 2-3 minutes, I thought something must be wrong. My senior came running back to find me and saw me standing near the turnstile helplessly. I told him it's not going up, I swiped already. He told me, you need to PUSH IT to move forward, it doesn't automatically goes up! I guess I had the Delhi experience in mind where the turnstile goes up automatically.

I used Sikuli to automate app downloads from app store. It opens iTunes, goes to the featured apps page, enters the password if required and downloads 10 new featured apps every day.

Understanding the mindset of people who are working at these giant corporations mainly TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahindra and Wipro is important if this plan has to be successful. Many of my friends work at these companies and have been to US to work onsite with clients. When I asked them why they don’t look for another job in US, their take was that they don’t want to settle in US. They have their family, friends in India and they just want to make their “money” and return home. They don’t consider themselves “cheap labor” as the article states because they do save a lot of money as compared to what they were making in India. They also don’t want to take a risk of branching out and working at a startup unless its a big name. Which is understandable, very few of them have worked at startups and with most startups failing they don’t want to take the risk of finding another job or going back to India empty handed. Unless they have studied in US and did a couple of part time jobs or internships in US its tough to convince someone to be a part of your startup. That said, I will love for this idea to be successful. Good luck!

Here is a post of the first tweets from popular app companies - https://tapfame.com/launching-an-app/

We redesigned the whole site from ground up to make the portfolio creation efficient and for developers to be able to add references (clients/collaborators) to their portfolio.

This seems like an error one machine will show to another machine trying to create an account.

looks awesome, we are working on something in similar lines - tapfame.com, our work starts after you create your portfolio - to get you new freelance gigs.

Precisely the reason why we built TapFame (tapfame.com) Businesses always have hard time finding the developer under their budget and we developers don't want to waste our time dealing with the low budget projects or just the idea people. After connecting a couple of projects we are realizing the tremendous value we can provide to the app ecosystem.

sorry. fixed the "app name" thing.

He mentions most of the points in article in this video - http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Friedman

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1986) from Carl Sagan.

how often do you use that feature?

The video has a lot of good stuff in addition to the lessons he learned - http://video.svb.com/video/12-Lessons-Steve-Jobs-Taught-Gu#c...

Note that China's mention is with Russia in that info-graphic. And here is the wikipedia page of that mission which clearly states that Chinese Mars obiter will be sent with Fobos-Grunt. While I don't discredit China of that but its a different thing to launch a satellite as opposed to sending your satellite on vehicle launched by some other country. FYI:

India's 'independent' mars mission is not far - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisat...

India's moon mission was the first one to prove the presence of water on moon - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1#Water_discovered_...

And how do you know if someone was playing around with usernames or genuinely trying to login? I agree with 'dvdhsu' comment that if its a public service where others can see username its fine to load error form with username but if its a service where other users couldn't see your username its not a good idea to load error form with username irrespective of whether it was right or wrong.

Makes sense.

why would you want to show something to user that's wrong or does not exist? Most usernames are anyways smaller and its not painful to enter it again. If you want to serve people with very long usernames by filling in the username field, you are focusing on a very small fraction of users.

i think its done to prevent brute force attacks on passwords. If someone knows that username was correct and password wasn't, he knows something! That's why the message 'username or password does not match' and that's why both the fields needs to be empty when page loads with error.