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P.S. I have a paranoid habit of pasting copied text into the address bar or a notepad to quickly check for unwanted characters. For once, I don't feel like I'm crazy.
Oh, and there's also the Martins Beach case [2].
[1] : https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lombard+Street/@37.802189,...
[2] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Billionaire-must-allow...
1) You have a straight forward return (salary, interest, capital gains), the govt. website is good enough to file the tax. Cleartax is a tad bad friendlier.
2) You have a complicated scenario. Cleartax won't be a big help. Reason is that Indian tax laws lack clarity. They are written in a hard to understand lawyer speak that doesn't cover all the possible permutations. A local CA is a good option in this case, but also stop by the temple on your way back. Pray to god that tax tribunal is having a good day when assessing your "out of ordinary" return.
Look at these court precedents : http://www.moneymantra.co.in/detailsPage.php?id=6612&title=B...
They seem like a waste of court time due to inadequate clarity in tax rules. Or maybe they were purposely written like this so that corrupt tax officials can harass citizens.
> switching careers extended his neural plasticity considerably
I find this very interesting & uplifting. Would you be comfortable sharing more on what motivated him to switch careers at that age and your general observations throughout the process. I'm perhaps your age but I've experienced switching careers significantly is like hitting F5 in your life, or like a complete system re-install. Everything feels fresh & new. You feel energized to learn a lot of new concepts. However, it's usually very difficult to convince someone who's 60+ to learn to code. Usually people are intimidated by programming if they've only interacted with a browser for most of their lives.
If I were a content owner/producer and I see automated scraping from IP addresses owned by Cloudscrape that violate the ToS, I would sadly treat the entire pool of IPs as violators (even though some might be genuine users who are respecting the limits).
I'd like to know what's a legitimate use case of auto-resolving captchas and IP rotation other than circumventing limits imposed by webmaster.
P.S. Why the throwaway ?
- Automatic IP rotation
That's just wrong. Is there a website where we can blacklist IP addresses of such violators ?
import re, youtube_dl
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen
from urllib import quote_plus
ydl_opts = {}
soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=' + quote_plus('linkin')).read())
links = soup.find_all('a', href=re.compile(r'watch\?v='), class_='yt-uix-tile-link')
for i, link in enumerate(links):
print i+1, '-', link.text
choice = int(raw_input("Select song index : "))
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
ydl.download(['http://www.youtube.com/' + links[choice-1].get('href')])There'a also https://github.com/AuditProject/truecrypt-verified-mirror (maintained by opencryptoaudit.org)
Samsung has done a great job with the S6, the others like G4 & Moto aren't far behind.
In the past, I've tried Google spreadsheets with "ImportXML" option but got frustrated after a bit and resorted to python.
Admire your speed ! It's a fun app with lots of nifty features.
The additional filter would look something like this [1]. It's an inline sediment filter with a separate casing. For the rest of the unit, you might still be able to buy a complete kit off ebay e.g. [2] & assemble it yourself [3].
[1] http://www.osmiowater.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/im...
[2] http://www.ebay.com/itm/RO-Zoi-Xi-Pure-Filter-Kit-incl-UV-Bu...
Regarding your 2nd point, most of the cartridges use a "Welded Housing" and carry the "Dow Filmtec" brand. However there are sellers on ebay that supply housing that can be opened and you can fill your own filter material. I'm a little skeptical on taking this route without an understanding or testing ability of what effect it would have on drinking water. I wonder if there's an off-the-shelf complete water test kit or a lab that would do that for me.
What's your recommendation as an alternative. Cloudflare is tempting if you are tight on resources due to free SSl, CDN, etc. and it is super easy to setup. I'd love to try out alternatives though, just as a backup.
Another case, I've got a water purifier at home that uses a series of filters (sediment, reverse-osmosis, UV radiation, carbon etc.). Due to the quality of water supply, the sediment filter requires manual cleaning every month or two, else everything down the line stands a chance of getting damaged. These filters aren't cheap ($100 every 2 years in a 3rd world country). I find it annoying that the design of these filters is such that it is cumbersome to remove that simple sediment filter. Almost everyone I know ends up paying the service provider for annual maintenance. In reality, a simple design change can make the maintenance super easy.
It's the same story with modern cars, gadgets, washing machines, everything. The money to be made from repair is a whole industry. On the brighter side, the industry is begging to be disrupted.
P.S. I've tried repairing my laptop for broken hinges, displays, heat sink etc. by watching youtube videos & ordering cheap parts from ebay. It's an immensely satisfying feeling when the gadget starts working again. You not only save money & environment, you can justify your engineering degree too :-)
How much weight does this really carry if your product is good ? My guess, negligible. Websites just pick a theme color and go with it e.g. Facebook/twitter : blue, Youtube/Google+/Pinterest : red, etc.
"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep." ― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Some of his books : http://www.amazon.com/A.-P.-J.-Abdul-Kalam/e/B001H9RNS0/
Brief from Wikipedia : He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
If you're using a modern framework with url routing, you don't need to worry about hiding .git or .hg in your webserver config file.
2. "Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life" - Thich Nhat Hanh. Also good, but found it a bit repetitive. Maybe because I'd already gone through the first one.
Edit: My advice is to read the book so that you enjoy it. After a little bit of practice, you'll find that when you want to sleep, just meditate a little bit. The mind will feel lighter and you will automatically drift to sleep. Don't force yourself to shut off your mind, let it happen gradually. Observe yourself when you drift away. In short, cherish the process, don't take it as an exercise.
Next challenge : Wake up whenever I feel like. Haven't found the magic button yet. All the fancy alarm clocks, sleep trackers, REM techniques aren't helping.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168916-C...
"the system currently does not have the functionality to automatically select the next available server if one of the servers in the group goes down"
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/tax/joint-ownershiphouse-va...
Have you tried to work out capital gains for NRIs ever? It's a quagmire. Try the forums at r2iclubforums.com and you'll see the same question being asked again and again. Why? Because tax rules are designed to be difficult for common man to interpret clearly.