sudeepjuvekar

Got a no as well... I agree that a more feedback would have been helpful to improve our product (or just to know others' opinions about it)...

Yups... thanks pg...

Nothing yet :-(

The hour long lecture at CMU is available at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&#...

What about all those complex APIs and exceptions? NullPointerException still makes you somewhat uncomfortable (if not as much as seg-fault). I guess there's no "perfect" programming language, all have their own virtues and vices.

Java is surely a jack of all trades... might not be a master, but does its job pretty well..

Another interesting blog on languages : http://www.sysprog.net/quotjava.html My favorite : "our development cycle is much faster because Java is interpreted. The compile-link-load-test-crash-debug cycle is obsolete. (James Gosling)"

More acquaintances than friends... A point well established in Malcolm Gladwell classic "The Tipping Point"... Here's an interesting read on tipping point in social networks. http://www.stanford.edu/class/symbsys205/tipping_point.html

Interesting indeed!... The post was made in 1999 and a few things have changed since then

The author writes that the conditions in India and China are "worse", which might have been true in 1999, but certainly not today! See http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/feb/20apac.htm Interestingly, academic jobs are on the rise as well with burgeoning of new grad schools/research institutes. The demand-supply curve in India is skewed in other direction. Finally, (this is an information gathered from a few senior professors, haven't found any web resource yet!), the success of grant proposals in India is of the order of 60-70%, much higher than that in the U.S.

Though, it's still a fact that academia is not looked as a 'lucrative' career option yet.

(Well, as a supplement to an earlier post, there are a bunch of hilarious webpages by Philip Greenspun. See http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/)