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Have you been able to tether using a Nexus 7? Can you kindly provide a screen shot of the 'tethering and wifi hotspot' settings screen from the latest Android on a Nexus 7. Will appreciate it.

Don't feel bad. A lot of good had come out for me via HN :)

I paid the full price for the device. It is a Nexus 7 tablet and not Nexus 4 phone. In fact, the device has not been bought or is being used in the US. This is not a phone company issue but Google deciding to hide certain APIs which provide this feature. Pls see link in above reply.

This link seems to indicate it's an OS issue and not an operator issue. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14917450/create-an-access...

I've read it all over the web that Nexus 7, by rooting it, can support tethering. How can that be a 3G plan related feature? I've read that Nexus 4 has wifi hotspot settings enabled but Nexus 7 does not.

Once trust is established, people tend to have faith in a company. I doubt many people read Gmail's terms of service before using it.

Thanks codegeek. The pointer you've made about relationships working out well between people who have similar life goals is absolutely spot on. I have intuitively felt that in-synch "life goals" is the single most important factor in challenging relationships and it was good for me to have this re-affirmed by someone else too.

The four points you've mentioned feel like the four pillars. Based on my recent experiences, I've found that it's easy to start losing compassion once someone gets comfortable in a relationship.

I'm right now in a phase of trying to know if my life goals are similar with those of the woman that I've met. The four points you've mentioned are going to be helpful for me.

Thanks!

kellishaver, thank you indeed for the detailed reply. Your journey that you have described sounds beautiful and certainly something worth cherishing for a lifetime. I agree with you that in the current day and age, it's hard to know oneself until one turns closer to 30. I am currently 33 and only in the past 3 / 4 years is when I seriously started meeting someone with a view to having a relationship with them.

The second factor that you have mentioned, about the odd sort of co-dependence is actually undergoing a rapid transformation. Several women these days are extremely comfortable with online interactions and things like twitter, facebook has actually created avenues of finding emotional support from someone other than plus one to be much much easier. This is actually creating some strange kind of issues which I don't think even existed 5 years ago. In fact, I might make a guess (based on empirical evidence around me) that there are more women who are very active on twitter/fb than men, among the people I know.

The realizations that you have shared are deep and insightful and they will certainly help me in my journey. I have been on/off in a relationship since the past two years and it has been very hard trying to make sense of where it is headed. Sometimes I feel like I would like for it to continue forever, and then there are times when I know that it won't last more than a few weeks.

Your point 2 is well taken, though right now I am in the phase which is "even though they can, at times, be really hard".

It was wonderful to know that you have been in a 17+ yr relationship and things are working out so beautifully!

Thanks again, for sharing.

hahaha.. Very interesting points, conveyed with humor but have a strong base in CS fundamentals. I guess my original question was not very well framed. I am writing a CS conference paper (on the ACM SIG template) and four pages in docx is 90 KB and the same saved as PDF came to 260 KB. I was so far using a much older version of Word and only recently upgraded to Word 2010. Hence, my older pdfs used to be converted via a free utility and for the first time used the Word 2010 pdf converter.

I loved your analogy in political speeches. I actually have a friend who tracks politician (on www.mumbaivotes.com) - I might actually share this idea of your of compressing political speeches to identify the uniqueness in what is said in the speech ;-)

I have built the site from scratch. So yes, I do own the rights for the icons and RSS feeds.

I don't know how to make the app available outside the Ovi app store. Will be happy to share it with out once I'm clear how exactly do Ovi Apps works.

great software is not (merely) built by writing code but by having a rock-solid ten-group co-founding team. But unless you'll were together in university, chances are a team would come together by looking at what each one has already done and not what each one has talked about. Not all insurmountable problems need to be solved by the founders - they can get a specialist on contract for that.

Since the OP can read and understand code, I still feel that is sufficient to get the first app out of the door.

IMHO you don't need to actually do coding to build a great web-app anymore. These days with the kind of tools and frameworks (springsource.com, jquery.com) and CMSs (refinerycms.com, drupal.org, firerift.com) can allow you to build a fairly powerful web app in next to no time. Couple this with the advent of Google App Engine and other cloud based app servers, the whole pain of setting up a linux server and configuring an app server on it is gone.

Already, you don't need any operational skills any more to host a production grade web-app (think load balancing, failover, etc).

The key I have realized is to depend less and less on outside technical help and more and more on yourself and your own technical tinkering abilities.

Once you've deployed your first app and have managed to get at least a few repeat users you will be surprised how many developers will be ready to help you further.

Just dive in with the implementation.. you will be surprised how much can be executed in a day by just doing it.

nope. not a US citizen. any telecommuting jobs out there for non-US citizens?

sorry to post a slightly tangential (but related) Ask HN: Is there any high technology startup looking to do remote hiring of grad CS engineers in advanced web technologies/wireless sensor networks - of someone with verifiable credentials (trust/integrity), a google soc finalist and with high degree of motivation/passion? I am doing intermittent traveling in south asia for a year and have broadband access 7 days a week.

I understand the technology- but my qualms is with the process and the time-lines mentioned with regards to the interception. Why cannot the sanction process be 24 x 7? Also, why should a sanction of such a critical action like reading someone's email go unreviewed for two months?

We are in 2009 and not in 1984, right?

I feel this has misuse written all over it. And unfortunately, I feel GPG is not really the answer here for 99% of the email users (unless gmail and yahoo decide to turn it on by default).

By and large I would agree with the summary you have provided of the "high-tech" scenario in India. Though, I would also take exception to some of the statements you have made. I have worked for a year in one of the services companies (I detest the word body-shoppers) you've mentioned. I have also worked in Bangalore for an ODC of a US technology products company. It is true to say that most of the work done in these organizations is not really technically sophisticated.

The part of your note which did not resonate well with me was this: "except a couple of very small unfunded startups, most are just trying to copy existing ideas and don't need any skills beyond pretty generic php mysql etc". - I'm not sure what kind of research would give you the necessary insight to make such a statement. For a tech guy from India who has worked globally- such a statement undermines your whole writeup.

Your next statement also disappointed me greatly "great engineers in India should be able to telecommute for the startups advertised here." Can you estimate the carbon footprint created by such a telecommute? - The Carbon Footprint generated by a single roundtrip flight between India and USA / Canada overshoots the annual footprint of an average Indian by 62%. To suggest a telecommuting option between the India and US to me is absurd and environmentally criminal.

Also, the wishlist you have given for Indian startups does exist. You just need to look for it in the right places. Such information would not come to you on the headlines of ET but is available deep in the web somewhere.

I have realized that "great" (I'm not sure how you define such a term) engineers in India like to be courted by companies as they feel that by gaining intellectual prowess they should just have to sit back and wait for companies to come to them. This is especially true if one has been working for a large US Tech MNCs. This is not really the mindset for entrepreneurship. If you are really looking to join an Indian startup as a part of the founding team- reach out to them and let them know what you can offer instead of waiting for them to add a job listing here.