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Yes. And that is unfortunate.

I wonder where the Govt found this opportunity and grabbed it without delay..was it the new way of terrorism? First propagating Islam-phobia and then bring in the restrains slowly - one by one? What was it exactly?

Author takes into example two extreme institutes: IIT Bombay and Amity. They are the extremes in quality. The former is from the upper part of the extreme.

What you need to open an engineering college in India?

-Money and land. It's al right if you do not have adequate amount of land but you have money. [A]

How do you get the license?

-You have to pay for it. Fees and then the mandatory bribe.[B]

Are all the engineering colleges(you can read tech schools) are like these?

-Government - no, almost none. Almost all are good. They are usually free of [A] and [B] mentioned above and quality of education and students(at the time of entry) is exponentially better than most of private ones.

Private - 90% or more among these colleges can be simply labelled as garbage even though they have all the shiny pretty campuses which actually few have.

How do you admit students?

-If you are one of the TOP ones - {IITs - call them Ivy tier-1}, {NITs, IIITs - call them Ivy tier 1.5 - 2}, {some better private and Govt. colleges, maybe 10-15 in entire India - they range from Ivy tier 1.5 to 3} - then you admit students based on entrance exams and/or marks obtained in 10+2 exam(both are considered now).

If you are are among the rest then it's donation based. Donation is a form of bribe/development fee or whatever you call it. You pay a hefty fee either directly to the institute or through agents/crooks/thugs blah-blah and join that institute to get a B Tech/BE[1] degree at the end of 4 years. A degree is almost 100% guaranteed at the end of the year even though you can't figure out what the fuck is O(n)[2] and I mean just the definition without even understanding it.

Do they get jobs?

-Yes. Many(most of them) do. If not via campus selection then trying from the outside. Some get in 2-3-4 years. A friend of mine got a job 2 months back. 3 years after leaving the college. In the mean time he had collected 4-5 fake experiences and show a particular experience papers for that kind of jobs. There are companies offering this service they even pass background checks. Hiring is taken care by services companies. Forget Google, Amazon, MS, Fb, Start-ups blah-blah. It's Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Patni, CSC, Cognizant, Accenture. They hire in thousands. There are jokes in colleges like this year Infy is coming with a bus or train.

Their interview process is great. You are asked questions like "Do you have a girl friend?", "Which city you would prefer to join in?", "and why?", "Who is your favourite sportsman?" -> answer is a cricketer almost always, "Favourite sports" -> it's Cricket and then maybe he will talk about it. Questions like this. No, you are not interviewed for your coding skills. It's just a luck or random game. Some get in some don't. Don't ask why. Earlier I used to get angry why they don't check coding skills but then I realized they don't need that.

So, students don't learn or enhance their skills because it's not needed.

What is AICTE then? Don't they check it?

-Well, other than the officialese[3] it's a shop where you can buy anything if you can pay the right price. It personifies Indian bureaucratic corruption, babudom and how almost every system in India is rotten at the core/root and people are watering the tip or at least pretending to do so.

[1] Bachelor of Technology/Engineering and it really doesn't matter whether it's an E or a T.

[2] I am a CS guy so I skipped Mechanical, EE, Chemical (&c) equivalents.

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Council_for_Technical... - offical website is down most of the time.

    tl;dr: Education in Indian engineering colleges is a farce that is why students don't get jobs when their skills are tested and they can't create jobs either. Skills again.

I don't know whether it's a mistake or not but I see a lot of new location/locality/city specific apps/startups coming out as only in city A,B or maybe works only in the USA. Though I'm sure majority of HNers are north Americans, most of these starups/services could actually open up to the world.

What happens is you see an app and from the outside it seems promising, you go inside and it's like "oh, great! USA only" or maybe "SF only" etc. One solution would be to just put a banner on home page "ABC only as of now" or whatever.

This guy is good. Living the life his way. But wasn't he supposed to be in a jail[0] or sth and didn't he lose all his money[1] in the bubble burst?

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee#Legal_problems

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=8462247 and http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fcc5bdda-3f36-11e2-a095-00144feabd...

Freely[0] available MS Security Essentials tops on Windows, in both performance and protection. I've tried them all, all the famous ones at least.

[0]As in free milk bottle.

Bangalore, India is not detailed either.

It was just a subjective question. I thought Dropbox could just extend this functionality.

Or maybe 3rd party apps/services could felicitate this just the way e.g. http://calepin.co does for static site generation. Use Dropbox for storage of emails. And naturally you'll have a local email archive on all your connected devices.

So, seems there's nth like this as Dropbox doesn't let us to do the compounding, as you also pointed out.

No. It's the services industry. At best you can call it software services industry. It's not software development industry.

>>Who goes to a business meeting with a potential partner that can make your business soar, and then goes and blabs all over the internet about the partner's business strategy

One who has thousands of people(and more who can be potential independent businesses(musicians/singers) on his portal) to communicate to in a short time and the other guy(business) who never mentioned[0] secrecy[1].

[0] Yes, you out to have done that. [1] Source: post.

And they get a % cut of transfer sale amount, just like 30 or 33% or so of all app purchases by end users?

There was some novel where I read NSA has their own resident tough guys. was that pure fiction?

I meant "freedom" more or less.

Dear Americans, seems you lost it long before the PRISM happened.

Refresh the page and stop the pop-up in its pants before it dares to come up again.

Okay, Refresh the page and immediately click on the STOP or "X" button as soon as the text has loaded and there will be no pop-up.

It's only as good as "you are right till you are not proven wrong". This goes for anyone. Tim Cook, dead Jobs, Obama, dead Hemingway, Confucius, Gandhi, North Korean rulers or CEO of Samsung. Blah blah.

What you said it valid for anyone anything anywhere.

Many of them are dependent on USA directly when it comes to military power maybe this will open their eyes to some extent.

Then use Tor.

Have a disposable email address.

You don't have to fake the account just make one just for this purpose. Well, time you cannot fake but with just known value of time and many other unknown variables the equation and possible solution would be useless, practically.

Fake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.

1Password, last time I checked, is not only for OSX and iOS. But yes, to stay relevant and in business they shall have to show their love all the platforms(they are hardly noticeable outside of iWorld) they are on and maybe they need to tweak the price a little. No, they are free to price it at whatever amount they wish but LastPass is almost everywhere and it works like charm and on iDevices there's iCloud KeyChain now.

Pandora, Spotify share the same fate. The entire world is not buying iDevices. Well, it's a small portion actually. So if they also focus their energies to lesser worlds maybe they have a better chance and if they make it a point that "no, we are going to cater to the class only" then they will have to compete against Apple on Apple's turf and within Apple's rules and laws and one fine day Apple can simply them to get out which it has done before.

Instapaper might be killed actually depending upon how many Mac users actually use Safari as their full time browser. I don't know any and among the people I know - pocket and Pinboard are the services they mostly rely upon and this kind of service(Instapaper included) are not much dependent on Safari either.

I don't really think any app or service is going to be killed until and unless they become totally dependent on iOS and OSX and I don't think there's any except like Instashare.

The author either assumed there isn't an ecosystem without an i in their names or with an X in the end; or it was directly towards iWorld which despite of being a MBA user I am not a member of.

What if you send it to WH? Maybe they have a disk space cap too.

Yeah! Want the next one names OSX Cruise? :-)

I wouldn't go into technicalities because I can't - mostly because it's not my area of expertise and I've never looked into it deeply or maybe not even from the surface other than a user's perspective. The end user.

Wuala is seriously slow and clunky piece of software. Period.

Even with this battery?

The entire Google Bangalore is about Maps it seems. Anyone here to comment on this?

Looks like they took down the photo.