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In between such points, IR may know train's realtime location, but it is not made public.

Update

It is mentioned on the site that there are 6000 monitoring stations. Which means that, on average, there is a monitoring station every 11 kms (66k Km/ 6000). Considering an average speed of 80kmph, the location shown on the app can at max be 8.25 minutes old.

Do Kindle books involve local publishers like printed books? (e.g A book published by Penguin in USA and TMG in India has different prices)

App.net, from where I see, looks like a platform with more developers than users.

https://github.com/alfredodeza/plexer.vim

I travel to a neighboring city quite often and have to often deal with urgent issues/PRs. In which case, I use Github's website on my mobile browser, but it kind of sucks.

At home level, garbage is disposed by 3 ways -

a) Either it is collected from your door by municipality or a private contractor / sweeper

b) Home owners throw their garbage in a community garbage dump

c) Home owners dispose their garbage wherever they can.

The private contractors, who are supposed to take the collected garbage to the dumping grounds, usually don'd do it and dump it in open spaces (like this one -http://cj.ibnlive.in.com/slideshow7815.html). Worst part is that they aren't fined by authorities.

Municipal authorities mark certain grounds/wastelands away from populated areas as dumping grounds, dump the trash there and let it decay. (like this one - http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0805_biggest_garbage...)

Also, Indians, in general, while traveling or commuting or walking, dispose paper wrappers, plastic plates, flowers, water bottles, chewing gums or any other garbage on road or in public places.

For example, it's a common site to see a family having ice creams or chips or peanuts or soft drinks in parks. But when they leave, they leave the waste as it is. Even when there is a garbage can in sight. (see this - http://rhetoric2reality.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/public-p...)

An example of trash thrown by train travelers - http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BA99LRmPyaA/TYsZstie7fI/AAAAAAAACC...

Heck, we can't even keep our places of worship clean. These are flowers, incense sticks and other offerings thrown in Ganga river after worshiping (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cO-PjFR2Kcw/TjgKYEIQiFI/AAAAAAAABG...). Ain't this ironical? Indians can pray and pollute a same object.

Coming to the decaying and non-decaying part - Most of it is decayable. However, the sheer volume of it does not allow nature to work. Hence it starts rotting and stinking. Also, stray animals (cows,dogs and pigs) dig through the trash mountain to find anything edible and in turn spread it more.

Having said that, things are improving. I have seen many young people (my friends included) carry the plastic trash or water bottles with them till they find a garbage can. Also, a few educated people are running cleaning campaigns in their cities (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clean-Vadodara-Green-Vadodara-...). Also, shopping malls and large stores have started to charge for plastic carry bags. This has reduced plastic waste by bit.

Funny that you came to an inference and termed it as a solution.

Do you have any pointers on improving that situation? How can you enable your fellow batchmates to realize that "inner drive"?

I am talking about expectations and exceptions. In USA an uninformed tourist won't expect such places. In Somalia, a person won't expect a super friendly neighborhood with Audis and BMWs roaming around.

An uninformed tourist will be shocked if he/she visit such places just like India.

b) I didn't down vote any of your post. Hence, these replies.

I got my first freelancing gig via a side project.

Once you get your first client project, all you need to do is to build on top of it.

And, I am not talking trash.

My sister lives in Troy. When she was new to Detroit, she chose a wrong route while driving to downtown Detroit. While passing through a certain area (don't remember the name, will call her and ask) some gangsters tried to stop her car and rob her. Luckily she escaped.

My sister didn't crib about it like the OP did. She accepted the reality, changed her driving directions thereafter and moved on. Like thousands of her fellow Americans do. Likewise millions of Indians accept the harsh realities, change their driving directions and move on.

>> Compared to what the OP described, a "ghetto" in old Detroit would be a paradise.

Also, just to point out, don't base your comparisons on a blog post. People, here, may try to trick you but will not shoot you. Things are improving here as well. Though, at a slower place.

Update: The area where my sister faced gangsters was Highland Park.

Here are some of the things that I've learned -

a) Set your working hours. Try to follow them, but not religiously. Having a batch of hours as free time is much better than being occupied throughout the day even for a 4 hour gig.

b) Get a small long term (ongoing) project. Few hours every month. Use the income from this project to pay the bills and perform other chores.

c) Any conversation with a random (or known) person about your profession can turn into a lead. You need to be in sales mode more than before.

Absolutely. Be generous to your domestic help, drivers, security guards and other people who work hard to improve their lives. It will reinforce their belief in hard work.

Assume a scenario wherein you change the destination to Mumbai. Your throughput will get reduced to 110 Mbps (assuming a 20 hour flight), while the bandwidth will stay the same as the networking medium (airline) has not changed, right?

Couple of other points -

* Two media with same bandwidth can have different throughput depending on the distance (i.e latency) or packet loss or other reasons. Consider two 100 Mbps broadband lines from SFO to London. One goes via the east coast, while other via Asia. Both will have different throughput; difference being roughly proportional to the difference in distances.

* 220 Mbps would imply that a maximum of 220 Mb data can pass through the medium, which is not the case, since we are loading TBs of data on the plane.

* The window size in case of an airplane would be the size of the data loaded on it i.e the size of the movie collection.

Processing 100s of transactions and dealing with Indian payment gateways requires some kickass technology. They have scores of engineers working on the site's backend.

$("#mw-sopaOverlay").hide(); $('body').children.show();

I thought they were going to use 503 redirects.

Clean drinking water in villages. Primary education for all. Safe streets. No hungry people. Ah never mind. Let's monitor content on the net and block sites.

I took some pics on a regular digital camera (no GPS) in Indore. I uploaded them from New Delhi a few weeks later. And now FB is asking me "Were these pics taken in Indore?". Crazy shit.

Update - I dug through my FB updates. Just before leaving for airport, I updated my status to "Off to Indore" and after coming back to New Delhi, I had some status updates about my office and a local park. Facebook is probably using the the timestamps from image and relating it to locations using some heuristics like status updates, IP addresses, image recognition etc.

Source - https://github.com/teambox/teambox

India's growth is mainly because of growth of service industry, manufacturing and modern agriculture techniques. The countries that you have mentioned have higher per capita income because of huge natural resources and less population.

Iraq -> Huge Oil reserves / Small population

Mongolia -> Huge mineral resources / tiny population

Rise in wages in China/Taiwan/India more or less follows wage rise in USA and EU and other developed countries.

* Downvote without an argument is downright irrational.

A passenger instance for a typical small app takes 30-40 MB. You will be able to run 4-5 passenger instances on a small 512 MB slice.

Assuming that the slowest request in your app takes 100 ms, one passenger instance can handle 10 requests/sec. 5 instances can handle 50 requests/sec.

Tweak the numbers according to your app and get a rough idea of the hardware requirements.

A 512 MB VPS on Linode costs 20 dollars.