dhaivatpandya

That doesn't make much sense - as far as I understand, so far as the US, you cannot patent or hold a license over an algorithm, only an implementation thereof.

It happens here, but, I think to a lesser extent.

India is just insane - 99% of people are in "IT" or "Computer Science" or "Software Engineering" solely because of the initial wave of people who made it to the United States as programmers.

This is an interesting idea, but, the design is absolutely horrible. I get the the whole "glitch" thing, but, to be honest, this is unusable the way it is currently.

I did give you an upvote though.

But, defining the different between trivial and nontrivial inventions is something that is incredibly difficult, if not impossible.

In fact, I would argue that trying to set in place a system to decide between trivial and nontrivial inventions is more or less a waste of time because there will always be inventions that sit on the fence.

The tribe woman was perfectly fine and wasn't worried about death. The aid worker was the person who was anxious and worried.

I'm not sure if top notch engineering talent is available in a place like Tijuana - from what I've read, it doesn't seem like their education system is churning out engineers a couple a minute like China and India are...

> If they don't like you, you're gone and another keen programmer with an interest in finance will take your place.

Where are they getting all this talent from? I assume they need atleast a certain degree of expertise which is incredibly difficult to get out of people right now...

That makes sense.

I like Google Docs, but, I find that it is nowhere near the "quality" (well, maybe just features) of Microsoft Word. In fact, I don't think it is even meant to be.

I for one would do fine on Google Docs, but, there are many for whom that would not work.

I don't see where this whole "Windows is becoming less ubiquitous" is coming from. Maybe market share has dropped a bit, but, Microsoft still rules the basically the whole desktop market.

Sometimes in the startup world with all the glowing Apple logos, we lose sense of the rest of the world (heck, even the rest of the United States).

Metaprogramming isn't a basic part of any programmer's education.

Why is that a problem? As I pointed out, he's just showed us a metaprogramming trick he thought was cool. That is no indication that he is an inept programmer or someone that should be allowed to teach something like RubyMotion (if he was writing a book on metaprogramming, that's another thing).

I think this comment is a little unwarranted. Polymorphism wasn't the concept he discovered - the idea of generating the classes (metaprogramming) and the "clever" (well, some would say so at least) was interesting to him.

I also don't like how your comment tries to make fun of his efforts to learn something new.

I agree with this. In fact, it isn't really productive even trying to implement a language as complex as C++ (many might say overly complex).

Unfortunately, this problem that you are trying to solve has been tried numerous times and resulted in failure.

There's just too many inconsistencies in the way browsers allow loading of Javascript. Something that looks to a scanner as malevolent can actually turn up in the browser as something that ends up running.

So, unless you're somehow able to sandbox everything and able to stop causing the Javascript to poke out, it is incredibly difficult to scan for JS issues such as this one, especially when you're handling user-created HTML.

In fact, this is exactly the sort of problem why I created a Markdown no-nonsense editor instead (http://www.nimblenot.es/).

JS runs on the links abundantly. You are not sanitizing your inputs, and this is why contenteditables are bad (click on the "this is not a bad idea at all" to see an alert box).

http://www.zenpen.io/index.html#4+IEgojgYAA=#FY0xDoMwDEVncgo...

Very true. But, I don't think that applies to everything. I don't think it takes 10,000 hours of practice to design a decent Wordpress theme. In fact, I would say that most college graduates (even from top universities) would still be quite far away from 10,000 hours in a specific domain of CS/SE, yet, companies do hire them.

I mostly worked with small companies in India (only a few projects) before I was 14. And, I am working nowhere close to the amount which even comes close to max. hours.

I totally agree with the "too young" thing. I'm 15 and been freelancing since I was 12, and this gets in the way all the time. People try to take advantage of you once they realize that you're young(er) than most in the field.

I think this would be like relearning touch typing. I don't think the time investment would be worth it. And, thumbs are not dexterous enough to make large words through this system without it getting annoying very quickly.

Awesome work!

We take into account (for the startup):

* Funding * Company culture * Technology stack * Number of employees * Founders * Business model * How well its doing right now, and what its goals are

For the developers:

* Obviously resume, experience, etc. * We ask questions relating to work that's been done by them * We look for what kind of stuff they've done outside of school/work * Involvement in open source * Code samples * Graduated from (if recent) * What kind of salary they're looking for * Kind of company culture they want * Tech. stacks that they want to work with * etc.

We match them up by seeing how well they correlate with one another.

Darn it, I swore I checked up on that. Heroku is having some troubles with my app - contacting them.

I love Markdown, and, this is an awesome effort! I'm working on a Markdown editor/platform that could really benefit if this sort of stuff wasn't so fragmented: http://www.nimblenot.es/ (yes, that was a shameless plug)

Hi! Creator/OP here. The problems aren't particularly hard, just need a little bit of reading. If you want an extra hint, problem #5 can be solved with pen and paper without much work :)

Hopefully this was fun.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for responding! Your suggestions are incredibly helpful.

First of all, we intend to fight curable blindness with surgical camps across rural areas, with free of charge surgeries (as you probably know from reading the rest of the website). We'll add this as a main heading.

We'll move the stuff about Dr. Pandya to the main page as well, and, include some more details about his philanthropic career.

Dr. Pandya has done thousands of charitable surgeries in the past (right from his medical school days!). He has helped setup two very large charitable hospitals, which are still in existence. And, he has spent a majority of his career doing charitable surgeries. Of course, it is difficult to pick out separate cases, but, there are a few. Once, he operated on a 92 year old patient (free of charge), who had been blind for almost 40 years and revived her eyesight, who saw her family for the first time in 40 years!

We intend the surgical camps to carry out a wide variety of surgeries - treat cataracts, glaucoma, infectious diseases, etc.

We will be doing surgeries at lowest possible cost, where the physicians will be giving volunteer service; so as to maximize the impact of the donations. Costs consist of lenses, medications etc. (unavoidable).

We're working on replacing the current pictures with newer ones relating to surgeries we've performed.

I'm also sending this to you as an email, just so it doesn't get lost in the maelstrom of HN comments.

I think this probably the most vague question I've seen asked on HN.

Excellent idea - I love it. Execution? Not so much. Maybe a little bit of design?

But, still, I really like it. Thanks a lot.

Have you been to Mumbai during the monsoons? It is a world away from snow blankets. The commission for drainage systems should have been enough to hold at least 6 hours of continuos (india style) rainfall - they sustain about 20 minutes in most area. Corruption? I say yes.

I've lived in India for a large part of my life, and I've received about 60% of the parcels that I have ordered.

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I'm still working on that design - I can't stand the change either.

The email system was down a couple hours ago, and still is. Trying to sort things out with Heroku.