travoltaj

Checkout JavaScript.info. I recently studied JavaScript from there and found it really good.

I first learned about this scam/business strategy in around 2008. I'm from India.

When I was in 10th class, we got a printer for my dad's office work. The printer was for around $40 or so. I was really excited and printed out a few full-page colour images of animals. Then my 4-years-older sister told me that the printer used ink and didn't run indefinitely. Okay. I didn't know that. I stopped using the printer after that.

Eventually, we ran out of ink in 2-3 months. The cost of new cartridges? $50 The cost to get those re-filled in a local shop? $2. It voided the warranty? Who cares - a new printer WITH new cartridges would be cheaper than purchasing separate cartridges.

We re-filled those cartridges around 7-8 times over the next 2 years after which we threw away the printer, and it worked perfectly during the time.

I never had a good handwriting in school(2010), but it was legible atleast. I never wrote much in college(2014) other than for exams. Since then, I've rarely picked up a pen.

Recently in December I was doing an online course and taking notes, and noticed how atrocious my handwriting had become. I tried to fix it and write "neatly", but it was a slow process.

Something really helped though - changing the pen I used.

The previous pen was a Parker ball point pen with a relatively thin and tapering bottom. Hard to hold, didn't glide well, and had to put pressure to write.

I bought a much cheaper(<$1) gel pen with a thicker and non-tapering bottom - that really helped my handwriting and helps me write for much longer without any pain.

Sorry for making it sound like a marketing pitch. Lack of sleep made me revert to my previous profession. It's one of the reasons why I quit marketing actually, but that'd be digressing.

Try out a few pens to see what fits comfortably in your hands. If you haven't written for a while, it'll take a few minutes to warm up but it'll be back to normal soon.

It's just like how using a keyboard of a different size is difficult at first.

Most sites do pay people who write for them. Either they pay the writers, and generate revenue for themselves by advertisements, or if it's an independent website, the website owner gives their time to write the content, in exchange for ad revenue.

If you have to pay to access most sites, the only websites left would be owned by the already wealthy that can cover losses till they're big enough that people are willing to pay for the content.

Here's one that I know of: http://ramnode.com/vps.php

Other than that, I'm sure you can find something on webhostingtalk forums.

Crap. Thanks for pointing it out!

I tried to submit it properly again but someone already submitted it 11 days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7668156

Do you have any insight into what would be the effect of this on Sex Reassignment Surgeries?

I didn't know women counted as a minority?

Norm here in India as well for the majority of the salaried people.

That link didn't work for me, but google cache did. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...

Whatever happened to scrollbars?

Or a separate browser just for that? Or maybe a Linux Distro? A HN Smartphone!

Your friends should create a similar app for men to rate women they've dated. Whether it gets accepted or rejected, it'll provide an interesting insight into the minds of feminists(anti-sexism, equality, true feminists. not women-are-better-than-men wannabes).

I'm in India, still a student, and I can only speak for the situation in my university, but in my class, a 80%+ student once asked me how to disable the antivirus. Another 80%+ student thinks cryptography and email spoofing are the same thing. This is from last year CS graduates in one of the better private colleges in the state.

A student in IT uses google to search for google, then uses that to search for facebook. Another good student couldn't write a "separate the digits in a number" program. Another top student couldn't write a "selection sort and then select alternate elements" program. The top nerds use drag and drop programming. A friend who runs an IT outsourcing company told me about all the candidates with fake experience certificates who can't code a Hello World program.

All these people have impressive academic records - Good GPA, graduation from a reputed university, research papers, internships.

That's not to say everyone's like that, I've seen great programmers too in my college, but the majority of people I've come across fall in that category.