This is nice ! I like that you have kept the polyglot world in mind.
You should consider adding: 1) configurability in terms of name ( a templating engine might help ) 2) generate functional build files
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You should consider adding: 1) configurability in terms of name ( a templating engine might help ) 2) generate functional build files
I do not think there's much truth in "No side mirrors" argument though, I have seen some very old trucks and buses here in India, and cannot recall any missing mirrors.
Infact, the general convention in India for overtaking a truck is to flash highbeam light, turn on the indicator to highlight the edge of your car and overtake.
In context of India, where news channels have reneged from due diligence on evidently doctored videos, this is something which can have huge consequences.
This is not a flashpoint event, huge number of people were mobilized from the neighboring states for the main rally that took place before the violence broke. (the number of people gathered there were more than 100K, and this will a very conservative estimate)
In such a politically charged environment, the spamming ease becomes a real threat to the law and order, and above all, to human lives.
I would very much like the system to evolve, but not at the expense of innocent lives.
A large number of such messages that I have come across are photoshopped images, mix it with the ease of sending bulk messages and you get an explosive mixture.
One way to tackle such situation will be, IMO, to make bulk messaging an expensive (computationally) operation, something of the nature of HashCash.
a --> c <---b ^ d-----|
Everyone wants to compare prices before making any purchase, and with this, what you'll have is on one hand a bunch of websites that one can view in a browser tab, and on the other, a dedicated app which one has to put extra effort to navigate to.
Another point is that the there is a section of audience which doesn't necessarily use smart phones, or won't use smart phones for making such purchases, who now won't access myntra.
Indian e-commerce space is evolving, and with so many players in the field, the ultimate user would explore all the other options before committing to a purchase (unless they are extremely loyal to myntra), and now it seems to me that with the platform restricted to mobile/tab application, myntra has made a huge mistake.
But it would be interesting to see how this pans out.
Seldom people take GDP as the amount county spends in a year (expenditure method for calculating GDP)( and that does not leave such a bad image of the situation after all :D )
the article makes the mistake in generalizing the case, you should not do the same.
First is the bitter reality of the parallel economy that runs in India, amounting to huge revenue losses to the governments each year. The black money, not only robs to country and its citizens of their revenues, but also can then be used into funding terror activities, because this amount may very well be transferred via Hawala Channels ( they won't wire black money to tax havens, would they ? ). This is the money that can be used by the government to increase the services, this is the money that was intended to be transferred to the citizens in the form of increased infrastructure and better services. Ultimately citizens end up paying hefty amount of money for really crappy services.
the author is right in suggesting that this stash, if it even existed in no longer lying in the swiss banks, and has been rerouted to other investment opportunities, and possibly rerouted to Indian markets itself, via different channels (like the controversial participatory notes, shell companies etc). Both the current and the previous government have provided enough room for managing the black money, and I'll be surprised if India is successful in extracting any significant amount of money (order of 10 Mil. $), or to extract only account closure reports for the Indians who held account in various swiss banks and banks at other tax havens like Liechtenstein.
The other side of story is that it has become an issue that attracts eye balls. The amount that is suggested to be at stake is huge enough to attract the attention of even the upper middle class. People are very much dissatisfied with the performances of subsequent governments, and that made the Black Money Issue something on which political campaigns can be built upon. This issue was advertised in such a way that would attract the attention of average person, who wouldn't go into the details of the issue, by using headlines like, "We won't have to pay any taxes for a decade", "Every citizen would be given X sum of money", "India's revenue deficit would be bridged" etc.
As the events and outcomes of this election suggests, it worked. The current government even managed to show the act of constituting the Special Investigation Team to look into this matter, as a voluntary act of being righteous, when in reality they were just following the Supreme Court's directive to do so within a week.
Curious days ahead.
I have read the story, and I very well understand the movement under the surface.
A comprehensive article about the continuous degradation on electronic media would have been suitable as it would have provided a complete image, instead of this, where it gives a peephole view to a very large problem.
There have been in past a lots of reports about malpractices prevalent in media. Selective/biased reporting against political parties, journalists making deals with sting operations as leverages, paid news, etc.
And thus, to me, this is merely transfer of control. And thats exactly why I think this report is not apt for this forum, as although it presents quite a legitimate picture about take over of one network by a corporate giant, it is just a small pixel in an overall huge picture about the degradation of live & electronic media.