>>Indians themselves have killed more Indians than outsiders ever did
Even if true, what will that prove?
I could say that Westerners themselves have killed more Westerners than anyone (killing 6 million Jews and a few million soldiers in the World Wars). Muslim upon Muslim violence has also led to more Muslims being killed by Muslims than by non-Muslims.
Your view of life is quite unidimensional and doesn't take into account day-to-day routine acts of people living together.
Yamuna, the river on the banks of which the capital city of India is located, is one such river.
"Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially around New Delhi, the capital of India, which dumps about 57% of its waste into the river." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamuna
ahh.. American Relevance in the new century fades a little more.
Oye yaar, vee did this fotty years after Amreeka. How does Amreeka's relevance fade a little more? You are still ahead of us. C'mon yaar, have some faith in yourself.
I agree. If such labelling continues then the stigma attached to 1 will transfer to 6. Then what will they do? Label their 1st one as the 6th one? And on and on like that? In a few years, will version 2000 mean the first one? In any case, there will be a mapping of some number onto number 1. The problem that the product managers have is not that version 1 means something specific but that a certain number is mapped to the first one.
You need not be embarrassed. Your govt. is only trying to revive your economy. Read this:
"The US has said it would talk to India about not 'disadvantaging' American companies eyeing the $100 billion nuclear pie if the US Congress is unable to approve their civil nuclear deal quickly."
I read long ago that "coincidentally" was not a real word but that youngsters have made it so. The correct expression, according to that book, was "By [a] coincidence..."
Bureaucracy kills enterprise. I have posted before that in order to kill spam, we need to introduce bureaucracy. Let there be forms in triplicate, clerks to go over the language, grammar and adherence to rules, policies, laws and regulations; inspectors to conduct surprise checks; auditors to randomly select an account and then and only then will spam die.
1. The latest example of a foreigner working in India is Mr. Gary Kirsten (http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/45813.html), the Indian cricket coach. The two coaches before him were Australian and New Zealander respectively.
2. Australian cricketers routinely accept advertising contracts (and in one case a movie role) in India.
3. There are backpackers from Europe working in call-centers.
I'm creating a new type of licensing. It will be called Existing Source License. The gist of it will be that the mere fact of you knowing that the source exists is enough to have caused a copyright infringement on your part. I hereby freely donate this idea to MS.
My understanding is that religion didn't come before science but that religion was science. Ok, I'll be a little less dramatic. Religious founders initiated many practices that were rooted in practicality and common sense. But with the passage of time, the founder was accorded a divine status and what he/she said became cast in stone, to be followed as is irrespective of whether it made sense.
Broadcasters say that only one pair of eyes may watch a show at a time if the show is licensed for one pair. It cannot be watched by two pairs at the same time. A camera is defined as one pair. Same goes for ears and listening.
2010
Broadcasters say that you may not discuss a show with others. It is only licensed for one mind at a time.
2011
Broadcasters say that you mustn't carry the memory of a show for a duration longer than the duration of the show. It is copyrighted and you have no right to etch it in your brains. This constitutes violation of some license.
Several other tips may be added to those in the article. Some off the top of my head: 1. Each parameter to a function on a different line, for example void foo(parm1,
parm2) {
bar(parm1,
parm2,
parm3); }
2. Put {} in an if stmt even if there's only one stmt. That is if(condition) {
action(); } instead of if(condition)
action();
3. Decouple Avoid (note the word is avoid, not don't at all) (stolen from a book, probably Writing Solid Code) if (pizza type is this) {
bake this kind of pizza } else if(pizza type is that) {
bake that kind of pizza } else if(pizza type is the other) {
bake the other kind of pizza }
Instead do this: if (pizza type is this) {
create a pizza object of type this } else if(pizza type is that) {
create a pizza object of type that } else if(pizza type is the other) {
create a pizza object of type the other }
pizzaObject.Bake();
4. If you want to use stmts like if(5 == z) { } think whether you also want to carry them all the way to if(5 less than z) instead of if(z greater than 5) for the sake of consistency.
IOW, decide what you want: consistency or ease of understanding in your code. Sometimes they aren't compatible.
5. Always check boundary conditions. 6. Always check arguments to functions for valid values.
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>>Indians themselves have killed more Indians than outsiders ever did
Even if true, what will that prove?
I could say that Westerners themselves have killed more Westerners than anyone (killing 6 million Jews and a few million soldiers in the World Wars).
Muslim upon Muslim violence has also led to more Muslims being killed by Muslims than by non-Muslims.
Your view of life is quite unidimensional and doesn't take into account day-to-day routine acts of people living together.
India has slightly modified Ghandi's 3 step program:
Who is/was Ghandi? Anybody know anyone by that name?
In 1987, someone told me that Wordstar, Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase III (don't remember if the plus version existed then) will make programmers redundant.
Yamuna, the river on the banks of which the capital city of India is located, is one such river.
"Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, especially around New Delhi, the capital of India, which dumps about 57% of its waste into the river."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamuna
Good day Sir, this is Patrick only.
What do you need IT support for?
To start your foreclosure paperwork?
"comment of quality of Indian programmers"
6. Comment on quality of English of Indians.
"Seriously - why is it so hard to just appreciate somebody and say something that is actually relevant to the story?"
It's the second stage of: first, they ignore you, second they laugh at you, finally they fight you and you win.
ahh.. American Relevance in the new century fades a little more.
Oye yaar, vee did this fotty years after Amreeka. How does Amreeka's relevance fade a little more? You are still ahead of us. C'mon yaar, have some faith in yourself.
That is soooo unstructured.
Rewrite your procedure division thusly.
PERFORM INITIALIZATION
PERFORM MAIN-LOGIC
STOP RUN
.
(notice the structured period?)
I agree.
If such labelling continues then the stigma attached to 1 will transfer to 6. Then what will they do? Label their 1st one as the 6th one? And on and on like that?
In a few years, will version 2000 mean the first one?
In any case, there will be a mapping of some number onto number 1.
The problem that the product managers have is not that version 1 means something specific but that a certain number is mapped to the first one.
And I am being speaking Indian, British and Canadian. Eh, no?
I used COBOL. I said "Let there be light."
India did their first nuclear test in 60's
No, in 1974.
"The US has said it would talk to India about not 'disadvantaging' American companies eyeing the $100 billion nuclear pie if the US Congress is unable to approve their civil nuclear deal quickly."
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Foreign_Trade/Dont_handicap_US_firms_eyeing_100_bn_nuclear_pie_Rice/articleshow/3456426.cms (this was before the deal was okayed)
I read long ago that "coincidentally" was not a real word but that youngsters have made it so. The correct expression, according to that book, was "By [a] coincidence..."
Bureaucracy kills enterprise. I have posted before that in order to kill spam, we need to introduce bureaucracy. Let there be forms in triplicate, clerks to go over the language, grammar and adherence to rules, policies, laws and regulations; inspectors to conduct surprise checks; auditors to randomly select an account and then and only then will spam die.
And has been shown to be so many times over here.
1. The latest example of a foreigner working in India is Mr. Gary Kirsten (http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/45813.html), the Indian cricket coach. The two coaches before him were Australian and New Zealander respectively.
2. Australian cricketers routinely accept advertising contracts (and in one case a movie role) in India.
3. There are backpackers from Europe working in call-centers.
Your statement is not grounded in facts at all.
I'm creating a new type of licensing. It will be called Existing Source License. The gist of it will be that the mere fact of you knowing that the source exists is enough to have caused a copyright infringement on your part. I hereby freely donate this idea to MS.
My understanding is that religion didn't come before science but that religion was science. Ok, I'll be a little less dramatic. Religious founders initiated many practices that were rooted in practicality and common sense. But with the passage of time, the founder was accorded a divine status and what he/she said became cast in stone, to be followed as is irrespective of whether it made sense.
Broadcasters say that only one pair of eyes may watch a show at a time if the show is licensed for one pair. It cannot be watched by two pairs at the same time. A camera is defined as one pair. Same goes for ears and listening.
2010
Broadcasters say that you may not discuss a show with others. It is only licensed for one mind at a time.
2011
Broadcasters say that you mustn't carry the memory of a show for a duration longer than the duration of the show. It is copyrighted and you have no right to etch it in your brains. This constitutes violation of some license.
What do you mean?
Microsoft invented the internet. Everyone knows that.
whackeroony, mazaa aa gayaa.
True. However, and you may have figured it out as well, the intent was to demonstrate decoupling. Please comment on that part.
Several other tips may be added to those in the article. Some off the top of my head:
1. Each parameter to a function on a different line, for example
void foo(parm1,
parm2)
{
bar(parm1,
parm2,
parm3);
}
2. Put {} in an if stmt even if there's only one stmt. That is
if(condition)
{
action();
}
instead of
if(condition)
action();
3. Decouple
Avoid (note the word is avoid, not don't at all)
(stolen from a book, probably Writing Solid Code)
if (pizza type is this)
{
bake this kind of pizza
}
else if(pizza type is that)
{
bake that kind of pizza
}
else if(pizza type is the other)
{
bake the other kind of pizza
}
Instead do this:
if (pizza type is this)
{
create a pizza object of type this
}
else if(pizza type is that)
{
create a pizza object of type that
}
else if(pizza type is the other)
{
create a pizza object of type the other
}
pizzaObject.Bake();
4. If you want to use stmts like
if(5 == z)
{
}
think whether you also want to carry them all the way to
if(5 less than z) instead of if(z greater than 5) for the sake of consistency.
IOW, decide what you want: consistency or ease of understanding in your code. Sometimes they aren't compatible.
5. Always check boundary conditions.
6. Always check arguments to functions for valid values.
10^100/365 is about 2.7 times 10^97.
This doesn't look like 3 years to me.
Did you mean 3 followed by 97 zeros?
Does current_date + 10^100 days constitute definition of "sharp" period?