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I agree.

I'd rather spend my time programming, building interesting things(interesting by my definitions) and learning new tech than building (or overseeing the construction of) things, spending time on making sure that other people are going to like it, finding ways to monetize it, hiring people and retaining them, ensuring they get paid every month, and keeping a commercial enterprise afloat.

I've been working for three years and three months, and am currently working in my third company.

I started out coding PHP at company 1, continued coding in PHP for company 2 and transitioned there to working on a Python project. At Company 3 I am working on Java end to end.

Granted, all projects I have been working on are web development projects; however a senior programmer at my outfit with six years of exp started out as a embedded systems engineer.

I think the short answer to your question is : It's possible. Keep your chin up, and keep looking.

I wholeheartedly disagree with the recommendation of "Artificial Intelligence, by Elaine Rich". The book was unreadable in a way that made me want to detest the subject.

I found the Patrick Winston text a lot nicer.

1984 - turned me from a die hard socialist to a rabid anti authoritarian.

Cosmos - helped me fall in love with Physics, and the sciences.

Tao Teh Ching - If I could tell you how it influenced me, we'd both have the wrong impression.

Interesting.

The user experience of the Cleartrip site is startingly similar to that your link leads to.

TVS Gold (Black). Crunchy!!!

The History class provided by GWT offers this functionality. Of course, you need Java for this.

Wow.

I am in India and real estate prices are obscene.I am doing reasonably well but am going to struggle to afford a 850 sq ft apartment. I was looking at a 1000 sq ft spot as something of a 'giant space'. :)

I suspect this might have been easier to accomplish without taking on the exercises. I'd try going through the texts first, gaining some understanding, and then follow it up with some serious exercise crunching whenever I felt like it.

That way, I at least gain a theoretical understanding of the stuff - enough to understand what some CS papers talk about.

I see there may have been a misconception here; I haven't built this app. I discovered it while looking for an alternative to Google Reader.

Allowing you to login using an id you already have with a major provider saves you time.

One can have a 'junk' account with a provider an use it for stuff like this, if needed.

Edit: Having said that, I agree with your premise that a sign in should not be mandatory to using the site.

The fact that it has generated debate suggests that any attempt at Internet access control will be micro-examined end to end. Even if rationality and human decency fail to prevail, I trust that bureaucracy will slow things down well enough.

Somehow, I don't see this happening; there's too much of implied control for this to be a realistic scenario.

I recall one fellow from Gujarat I met at engineering college who was in it because the degree would earn him a better dowry. He explained it thus:

1. If you have a B.E. degree, you get a INR 2000000 dowry alongwith a 800cc Maruti Suzuki automobile.

2. If you have a MBA degree, you get a INR 3500000 dowry, alongwith a Maruti Suzuki Esteem, or a Tata Indica.

3. If you have a M.D degree, you get a INR 5000000 dowry, alongwith a Maruti Suzuki Esteem / Tata Indica, and a furnished apartment.

4. If you have completed IAS school, you get a INR 7500000 dowry, alongwith a luxury car, and a rowhouse/bungalow.

Apparently, the way the parents reason when it comes to sending their kid to college is: if sending him to college costs me such and such, what will the returns on such an investment be?

Love-Marriage (Name for the "not arraged by families" marriage) is still a No-No in some parts of india.

Corrected that for you.

Things I like:

1. Clean color scheme: The grayscale goes really easy on the eyes.

2. Match Score: While a simple ranking should have been enough, your quantification somehow gives me an idea of how far apart two matches might be. Good move - that is added intelligence.

Seconded.

Also, when taking on a problem, it helps if you break it down into smaller, shorter, quantifiable targets. This single approach alone will help you see impossible problems as being a set of smaller, difficult ones.

The Thomas Crown Affair

Spy Game

A la Piers Anthony: The function of the Chief Privacy Officer is to ensure that there is no privacy.

I ask because I am confused; the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard, but the pen is on the right.

Left handed?

Could you elaborate on the legal issues you're facing en route to going worldwide?

Well, I for one haven't yet met a girl in my area who enjoyed sci-fi.

Very nice. How about something that can be used worldwide (India, for instance)?

Hear, hear!

* I built a distributed search engine for my final year college project, when my teachers and friends told me I was taking on too much. It survived two project mates walking out, and some rather dumb ones pushed in. I got a 97 for it, and consider it THE accomplishment of my college years.

* Wrote an indexing program in C that crashed a Netware network. :P

* I've read the Bhagwad Gita, the Koran, the Bible and the Tao Teh Ching. I am still an atheist.

* I've written a complete IM module at work when drunk. Oddly, this has been considered one of my better contributions to the project in that company.

* I've completed reading five Asimov novels in the course of a single day.

* I am an Indian, yet can't speak any Hindi. I have lived in the Gulf, yet can't speak any Arabic. My folks speak Konkani at home, yet I cannot speak that either. Dad knows Portuguese, yet I somehow never picked it up from him. Strangely though, I can speak French, Japanese, Quenyan and am on my way to studying Sanskrit.

Actually, I am an INTJ.