sausax82

Happiness ?

One quick trick is to refresh the page, and stop reload before social bar loads.

I don't think google has street view available in India.

I am not sure whether you have ever worked at a startup or not. Your understanding of current software development is what big software service companies do with mediocre programmers. Startups never have army of programmers but few intelligent programmers. And there is nothing bad in using IDE, innovation does not mean to write a solution from scratch. There will always be need of abstraction based on current libraries and programming environment.

I agree with you that collecting data can be a good thing, and it can be analyzed at some later point. But in the case of online world, the lifetime of data is very small(this might not be for other industries). Trends change very rapidly, and using an old data for making inference might not be profitable if not a loss.

Most of the subjects are walk in the park for a Physics major.

Same here in India, any academic degree which is not Engineering/Hard Science/Medical is frowned upon.

Great quote "When you look at your iPhone to get directions, are you asking the phone where to go or is the phone telling you where to go?"

Slides explaining the DeepQA software can be found at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2019525

An extreme example, your online history can be presented in court as an evidence against you.

The article resonates with a branch of philosophy called non-duality. Lately I have been reading a lot about non-duality, mainly from books written by J Krishnamurti. It all boils down to living in an ego less state and getting rid of the illusion of choice. It's very easy to understand it intellectually, but problem lies in realizing it in everyday life.