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dimmuborgiron Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight

Absolutely. On top of that, not all 29 points are life lessons. Many of them are just general conclusions about the world.

dimmuborgiron Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight

Conclusions about the world can be same. Like, everyone wants the same in life is a popular conclusion seen in several travel blogs. But we're talking about life lessons here, which I think, are not absolutes but drawn differently by different people.

dimmuborgiron Life lessons learned in travelling the world for 8 years straight

IMHO, different world travellers come up with different life lessons. It all depends on the person's own prejudices. Lessons are not in the world, they're within you. World and societies are just tools to discover our own selves.

dimmuborgiron Ask HN: Where is the Django community?

To be honest, Reddit has always been a Python stronghold. (may be because Reddit itself is written in Python)

And if it wasn't for the excellent http://railsforum.com, Rails could have got several thousands more tags on Stackoverflow.

dimmuborgiron Open source graphic design

Text and out of focus problems are solved in the upcoming Gimp 2.7.

Try it: http://gimpusers.com/tutorials/compiling-gimp-for-ubuntu

dimmuborgiron Why My Father Hated India

You're a known troll who puts baseless comments on every India related posts.

India didn't betray Kashmir. The king of Kashmir (Hari Singh) was a Hindu and wanted Kashmir to be an independent country. But Pakistan wanted Kashmir, so it funded insurgents against Kashmir. When the Kashmir king couldn't face them, he sought India's military help. India agreed on the condition that Kashmir should be annexed to India.

The UN resolution says that India should conduct a free and fair election in the entire Kashmir to know what Kashmiris want (self determination). But for that, Pakistan should surrender its Pakistan-Administered-Kashmir to India and China should surrender Aksai Chin (if it has any population).

Obsession with Kashmir is burning Pakistan more than India.

dimmuborgiron Why My Father Hated India

Manipulate minorities by using Pakistan? What are you even talking about?

dimmuborgiron Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way

All fair points. I was talking about opinionated/troll/FUD blog posts.

dimmuborgiron Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way

* Subjective

* False: http://modulecounts.com

* Some American universities.

* Agreed.

* Statistics please.

dimmuborgiron Learn Core Python in a Week – My Way

The problem with Python community is, when comparing Python with Ruby, Pythonistas give almost no objective reasons to prefer Python but give many highly subjective (provoking) opinions, like the following:

1. Zen of Python. (since Ruby doesn't adhere to it, it's bad)

2. Python community is less arrogant compared to Ruby community. (painting millions of Ruby programmers with the same brush based on an IRC chat they had)

3. Google loves Python. (is that even a reason?)

4. Zed Shaw said so-and-so against Ruby/Rails which I want to believe/agree. (fan mentality)

dimmuborgiron Why My Father Hated India

1. You seem to be one of those few liberal/secular Pakistanis living abroad. A vast majority of Pakistanis, in the attempt to justify the existence of their country, try everything to distance themselves from India, Indian culture and Indian history.

2. Agreed that there was mass migration both ways. But consider these things. Islam is the fastest growing religion in India and Muslims make up ~15% of Indian population today, whereas in Pakistan minority population has fallen from ~15% to less than ~2% since independence.

3. Predicted correctly? How do you prove that Indian Muslims are living worse than Pakistanis? A couple of communal riots in India don't prove anything, considering how big India is. Whereas, the daily bombings, drone attacks, ethnic riots in Pakistan don't give encouraging picture about Pakistani Muslims, the very bunch for whom the country was created.

And as I said in another comment below: "Except politically and militarily, Indian Muslims have outperformed Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslims in all fields. Just take as fundamental as literacy rate. Indian Muslims have better literacy rate (59%) than Pakistani Muslims (50-55%)." To add to that, the richest Muslim in the world is Ajim Premji, an Indian software mogul, not some oil sheikh.

dimmuborgiron Why My Father Hated India

Except politically and militarily, Indian Muslims have outperformed Pakistani/Bangladeshi Muslims in all fields. Just take as fundamental as literacy rate. Indian Muslims have better literacy rate (59%) than Pakistani Muslims (50-55%).

dimmuborgiron Why My Father Hated India

I don't see what the fuss is about. A lot of seemingly offtopics have been discussed on HN recently. Like, Japan earthquakes, Osama Bin Laden death, Egypt/Libya civil wars etc.

dimmuborgiron Tatas to build world's cheapest home for Euro 500

No one in India bought that $35 tablet news since it was by the government.

Remember, in China developments happen with more government participation whereas in India developments happen with lesser government participation.

dimmuborgiron Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku

Had the site taken Github into consideration, things would have been different.

dimmuborgiron [dead]

BBC saying "The blasts coincide with the birthday of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed nearly 170 people".

dimmuborgiron Visual Website Optimizer new interface + new features + 10,000 accounts

For the HN crowd, startup means web-startup.

dimmuborgiron Evolving the Node.js Brand

Looks more geeky and corporate than the current one. Good move.

dimmuborgiron Why Business Schools Struggle to Teach Entrepreneurship

I know where you're coming from, but in the entrepreneurship context I don't see any role of music education in your examples since the only objective measure of the greatness of a music is its commercial success or cultural impact or both.

dimmuborgiron Why Business Schools Struggle to Teach Entrepreneurship

The same way how music schools struggle to (or don't intend to) teach students how to become great musicians.

Music schools only (or can only) teach students the compositions of other great musicians.

dimmuborgiron It's China's turn to wrestle with a pile of bad debt

"I would say their economy is maturing with domestic consumption becoming a dominant portion."

You've got it completely wrong.

Consumption in China has been rapidly decreasing with respect to GDP. Their consumption was some 55% of GDP in the 90's. Then it came down to 46% around 2000 and now it stands at 34%. [[1]] All the efforts that China made to increase consumption didn't materialise. The fast growing Chinese GDP is only giving an illusion that Chinese people are massively consuming. But that's not true.

On the other hand, the percentage of fixed-investment (roads, bridges etc.) to GDP has been steadily increasing in China. If Jim Chanos is to be believed, the fixed-investment now stands at a whopping 70% of GDP. [[2]] This seems to be the actual lifeline of Chinese economy.

So in order to maintain the GDP growth, China has been recklessly building roads, bridges etc. fuelled by local government debts. [[3]] This has been creating massive bad-loans, over-investments and bubbles. China is building not 'because of' its economy. It is building 'for the sake of' its economy. This won't see a happy ending.

[[1]] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/consumers-fade-in-c...

[[2]] http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/jim-Chanos-Soft-Landing/...

[[3]] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/why-china39s-local...

dimmuborgiron My Summer at an Indian Call Center

Where did that $250 billion come from? Typo?

The Indian IT industry is worth $60-75 billion at present. Remember, it's the whole IT industry. BPO sector hardly touches even $20 billion. Given its value, the hype it has earned for more than a decade is ridiculous and unjustified.

dimmuborgiron My Summer at an Indian Call Center

Remember, the whole IT/BPO industry of India makes up just 5% of Indian GDP and it has directly employed just 2-3 million people. Most of the hype surrounding it has been created by the clueless western media - "OMG, India is eating our jobs".

India has achieved great strides in other industries in recent years (steel, coal, automobile, textile, agriculture, crafts, jewellery etc.) which should be highlighted and encouraged. Enough of this call-center nonsense.

dimmuborgiron Test whether any website is blocked in China in real-time

Scribd is blocked. Not surprised though.

dimmuborgiron Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

No.

If one looks at useit.com homepage, what is "Alertbox" to the left supposed to mean? Are they blog posts or articles? If articles, how do they differ from "Reports" below? And in the News section to the right, both the news items and "as seen in the media" are mixed together.

dimmuborgiron Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

First, how Nielsen came to conclusion that the reason for the app's bad rating is its startup screen design is beyond me. Read the comment of cageyjames. That could be the reason.

Second, usability isn't a science. So it's vulnerable to criticisms.

dimmuborgiron Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

You're confusing between unusability and unreadability.

dimmuborgiron Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews

These usability stories make me laugh.

Anyone else thinks http://useit.com homepage is almost unusable?

dimmuborgiron Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

I think the name Google+ is way better than some arcane name like Orkut.

dimmuborgiron All MPs under 30 in India's Parliament are children of MPs.

Spoken like a Chinese nationalist or an India-hating Pakistani who wants to unnecessarily bring China into every discussion concerning India.

1. Both China and India are placed equal in Corruption Perceptions Index. [1] China needs to worry more because of lack of free-media to expose corruption.

2. How is 8-9% GDP growth of India lot worse than 10-11% GDP growth of China? Keep in mind that India started 13 years later than China in liberalising its economy and lost the first start advantage to China. But that doesn't mean China is inherently superior.

3. India will be left behind only if China continues to grow at double digits forever. Most economists around the world have increasingly become skeptical about China's future growth trajectory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Map_Index_of_percept...