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Can someone point to a source of what "cheap" solar material/panel they are talking about?

I agree about it being slightly dated but it presents everything in a very clear manner. CSS otherwise is just hard to do right.

I really like CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions by Collison, Budd, Moll.

Does this (or any other state's) non-compete change anything for the H1 visa holders?

>>There are SO many people involved with private companies that are so much more partisan and support with no hesitation so many terrible things that if you want to go down this rabbit hole, you're going to be down there for a while my friends.

What do think we do then if we find that a decision-maker in a company is highly partisan and maybe bad for privacy?

Isn't this a kind of conflict of interest? (not a snark but a real question).

Firefox gives the same warning.

I just added a comment about Cognizant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550824

I believe that it is a very unhealthy model that they have.

There is another important point of outsourcing. If there is more competition here, in the US, then chances of outsourcing to India, China (where pay is substantially low) will also reduce. That might mean more jobs here, in the US.

Take Cognizant Technology solutions for example. I know a friend who works for the company. They are a US company (NJ based) but the majority of their life-sciences projects are outsourced to India office. They pay my friend one-thirds of what they charge the client for him in the contract. Him and about 5 other people who work here for the client, send work off-shore to India office to about 50 people. This model of outsourcing the majority work to India suits the client because the total costs about one-tenth of what they'd actually pay if everyone of those employees was hired here, in the US.

Not only is this model hurting jobs in the US, it is bad for the employees here well. For my friend, he has to work during the day, and then spend most of the night delegating tasks off-shore. He practically sleeps only over the weekend.

This might be a one-off example with this specific client only for Cognizant but I am aware that the profits from pay-scales are company-wide.

In fact, after I had deleted the review, someone legit messaged me on Yelp asking me the same thing. She was also asked to remove the bad review or face legal battle.

And yes, both reviews (mine and hers) were legit. Mine dealt with a true account of incompetence and hers dealt with a groupon or something that was not honored.

This happened to me last year. I went to a dentist near by where I moved. The dentist and her assistant were both highly incompetent. Her assistant for example, could not understand a single word. When I demanded my X-rays, so that I can go and get a second opinion, I was refused at first and then told that it will cost $25.

So, I went to Yelp and put a review about them. To my surprise, I received a call from them asking to remove the review or I'll face lawsuit. I deleted the review.

To be honest, the language I had used was not bad in any way and all I did was describe my ordeal with an incompetent doctor.

I agree. I'd rather see Mozilla as a company and what they've done rather than his personal views. You are right about saying that his views and moves will be more closely watched.

Some notes :

OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder wrote, "Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure."

However, instead of simply posting the letter on the company blog, Rudder made sure that every person who visited the site from Firefox saw the letter, by using the browser's User Agent to redirect them to the letter before allowing them to continue with their heart-felt intentions. Browsers have broadcasted their User Agent, which is basically the browser make and model, since the mid-1990s.

I want to understand how Operating Systems work. Thanks.

I did read the theory of OS by Silberschatz, Galvin et. al. I needed something that had more real-world orientation with source code references.

I want to start learning internals of nix systems. Is this a good book to start with? Or is there a book on Linux (or any other nix OS) that I should begin with?

I can write about India a little -

The freedom of speech in India was never at its best to begin with. Libel and blasphemy laws in India basically allow anyone to be shut up. It is not that Indians are losing freedom-of-speech, it is that they never had most of it, to begin with.

Indian government has been pressurizing Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. to preemptively clear messages that are not in line with blasphemy laws.

A 21 year old is arrested for updating her facebook status and so the girl who "liked" it. See http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/21-year-old-girl-he...

To change anything in India for better, you have to sacrifice your family and your life. It is tough to challenge politicians with or without power in almost all cases. They are rich and have the strongest of connections.

So, men are achievers based on their what they do in their field. Women on the other hand still have to be able to model and look sexy despite of their achievements.

Objectifying women yet again, is all I see here.

I am interested in knowing what kind of app it was? Is it possible to share something more?

http://readytogroove.com/ looks like a nice app. I have to try that.

And not a single response from him on that thread.

It may sound like a rhetoric question but it is not.

Why is the gov. banning filming? What's in it for the gov.?

Is it just me who thinks this heritage bullshit needs to stop? Why are people just content knowing that someone of their (or certain) heritage is the one who made it big? My question has always been what have I or you done or contributed? Granted I am far off from doing anything substantial in life but please, let's be a little mature here.

Kudos! Having your source available and ability to peek into it gives me more confidence in your service and I'd rather use that. Thank you for doing this.

I like to read the article first, get a feel a of what it's about and then read comments to see further analysis. Reading article first let's me think about it before I get influenced (negative or positive) by reading the comments.

I agree, commenting without reading the article and only reading the comments is a sure-shot way of making a mistake.

>>Software: I use IntelliJ for: Clojure, Java, JavaScript, and Ruby development.

I had no clue IntelliJ supports all of that!

Thanks for sharing Mr. Watson.

>> scientific Linux

That's a very interesting choice. Do you mind mentioning if you do belong to one those organizations that I thought (as a kid and still do) I'll work for.

>> but I haven't found anything thats retina and affordable.

Not even those high-end LED backlit monitors? What about Apple's own cinema displays?

Thanks for mentioning the "Python Tools for Visual Studio". We are working to establish Django+Python environments and needed suggestions for good IDE's since majority of the devs are on Windows.

How do you compare Python Tools for Visual Studio to PyCharm?

>>Monitors: 2x24" IPS dells vertical, with 30" dell IPS horizontal in center.

This setup requires a huge desk or system to hold it, doesn't it?

So you have a PC at home? Those Dell LED monitors are really nice.