rajitdasgupta

I'm curious to know the evidence found against them - this article literally gives no details beyond the headline.

I'd say take this data with a healthy pinch of salt. I have friends currently working in conjunction with the Health and Sanitation department who say that the ground reality is very different.

As someone else noted in another thread, toilet maintenance and water availability continue to remain a very real problem.

The dashboard data reflects only the number of new toilets being built (and their corresponding 'expected' coverage). This doesn't take into account how many of them are actually being used as toilets.

In some districts in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, less than 1 out of 15 households actually use the newly built toilets. Elsewhere, they have already been converted into mini-grocery stores and storage facilities. All these instances are being conveniently ignored.

Depends on the nature of reform. What is frustrating is there is still very little clarity on where things will end up.

The blanket travel ban is a human rights issue - and is undesirable on all fronts - and not just to tech.

H1-B's are a separate beast. Here we should distinguish tech companies ability to hire 'top' talent vs. 'cheap' talent. A lot of foreign service-based companies have misused the H1-B program to take undue advantage of the latter. My understanding is the the government wants to cut down on this. The intent should be to make domestic firms more competitive (by preventing foreign companies from bringing in cheap labour from outside the US), without stifling innovation (i.e. they should be allowed to hire top talent at prevailing salaries).

Great work - but 150+ websites sounds quite overwhelming! My suggestion would be to classify them based on format. For me - podcasts (for when I'm travelling/commuting) and interactive video tutorials work best when I'm trying to assimilate new concepts in a focused manner.

I think the point about analyzing the impact of your death on other people is extremely crucial.

Finding an external motivating force is essential to making it out of a depression situation. You need to draw your mind's attention away from yourself and your problems.

Social service is also something that works well - not only does it keep you busy, you often come into contact with people who have far more severe challenges in life than you. That's some valuable perspective when you're contemplating suicide.

As someone who advertises on Facebook - I'd say that FB takes a lot of care to ensure that the ads it displays do not take away from the User Experience, both in terms of content relevancy and design (FB applies penalties on neewsfeed ads which have >20% text on the image). Further, since pricing is dynamic - crappy ads get expensive to run really fast. That's how this system is so much better than the constant spam you were used to seeing in Web 2.0.

So excited for this - I tried setting up Jekyll without much success a few months back (I'm an amateur programmer at best).

Related question: are there any decent tutorials I can follow for this in the meantime?

Great initiative!