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Yes even things like git are comparitively slow on wsl. Emacs in windows is also slow, haven't found a solution to this.

Well said, exactly this is the point. For devs a Mac is more comfortable to get things done with than with surface.

Any mashups with reddit/disqus comments for youtube videos?

Great point, if something like this is done and students gets into learning and contributing to open source it is going to have a tremendous improvement on the quality of software.

Question - Can I trust cyanogenmod binary? Compile the rom from source. Question - Can I trust cyanogenmod source? ????, no idea, have to trust some one. (Remembering an argument from GEB about uncertainty).

They can make changes in user space and in application space and not share the source since only the kernel is GPL

> "I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse." - after hearing this from a fellow emacs user I am seriously considering a switch to Intellij from eclipse and see how it goes.

I know this is true in case of programming for a lot of languages. I am not sure whether this applies to learning guitar as well, I don't have any experience playing a guitar myself so, I can take your point as valid until I try out something and see for myself if there is a difference.

Got the same advice from some of my friends. Sounds right- try something cheap, learn the various pros and cons and the thing that suits us the best and then go for a more professional guitar.

Which guitar model would the community recommend to a beginner who is used only to computer keyboards ;-). Can we start with an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar will work better for learning.

I guess you are talking about the $250 chromebook, I am using a lenovo x120, having all my dev setup in digitalocean 1GB server. Do you use X or just fine with command line/emacs? Just curious to know how other people are using ec2/linode/digitalocean for development.

It is making connections to connect.facebook.net in almost all the pages I have visited. The page load times are very slow for me, I am sitting behind a proxy where facebook is blocked and connections to facebook timesout. This can be made faster and office friendlier with some changes. I will certainly find and, like or +1 ProCog page even if those links are buried a layer down if I really like it.

>> Its not very financially rewarding. And when you see the guy next to you making big bucks by just asking for status updates, forwarding mails and changing cells on excel sheets. You begin to wonder if its worth it.

I had this same question and asked one of the more experienced guy in our team on why he didn't took the managerial path when he had the chance and experience - his answer was "This is what I like". I could see that there are more financially motivated people in the team than there are people who love technology. If tomorrow the whole IT industry in the country goes extinct most of the guys who fill in excel sheets will be happy counting boxes in a factory as long as they pay enough.

True, I have the urge to check my mails often when my system lies in front of me, I made it a point to keep my laptop inside its case before sleeping and this has reduced the email urge to a great extent.

Here is the link to the android version - https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/

UC Berkeley video lectures and related materials

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I guess this question is very subjective and might start a troll, I am turning this into a kind poll so, that ppl can up-vote their choice.

It is not a dummy company, it should be a company with significant backing, may be it should have been put up in a hurry. I was expecting something of this sort when many politicians and their kin started acting in movies and buying stakes in production companies. From their contacts page I could see that they are based in chennai

"We Protect your move from spreading through Torrent" - They haven't even ran a spell checker on their site, can't stop laughing at these people.

I am on airtel, got the "This site has been blocked as per Court Orders" message when trying to access vimeo this morning, and was taken by surprise. Why would one want to block vimeo? These guys have to at least say why they blocked it. The most stupid thing is blocking pastebin, if they are going to block a site due to someone writing something that is objectionable, then I think almost all sites which accepts and displays user inputs qualifies to be taken down. If you see the comments in youtube.com/indiatimes.com during an IPL match you can find all sorts of nasty comments and one can easily argue that these sites should be taken down. I am even considering switching from Airtel to some other ISP if they are not blocking traffic.

I couldn't join the live session due to a flaky 3G connection. Thanks for coming up with this and posting this even before the recording was available from Oreilly. I am going through your book and liking it so far, this is a wonderful opportunity to see you in action.

The course contents doesn't open on a android tablet. It says loading... for sometime, and it just stops after that. I tried with stock browser and Dolphin browser and both have the same issue.

I could see that now their website says it is under maintenance ;-)

Am I having a Deja vu?

eclim would be a better fit if i am going to use emacs as my do-everything IDE. I found that eclim has even a connector for emacs as it has for vim.

I use Eclipse for my day job, working on a enterprise java project. Here are some things I got used to working with Eclipse,

1. Most of the coding are done to interfaces and concrete classes are wired using factories or using spring dependency injection like,

InterfaceName obj=ObjFactory.getImpl(args)

I have to look at Class hierarchy often to go to the method that is being invoked, this is very easy in Eclipse (C+T)

2. Code completion for all methods (methods in different source files and from jars).

3. Highlight errors while editing.

4. Tracing call hierarchy

I tried Emacs some time back for shell scripting on a remote machine and I found that to be very useful and a right fit.

I would love to use Emacs for my java development if there are tools out there which can help me do things that I do with Eclipse. I already feel sluggish with Eclipse some times moving the mouse ;-)

Python or a jvm language should be a better choice

Nice summary of the present education system in many places and why it needs a change. This is exactly the situation in many schools/colleges, they have turned it into a business. Students are not given much scope to expand their knowledge, they are seen as just scoring machines. I am going a bit tangential - some colleges even employ their previous batch passed outs who couldn't get into industry due to poor performance as teachers, the reasons are obvious. Certainly we need a change.

This is a very serious issue, in a place like India where the soil is fertile, the farmers can raise decent profit from traditional crop with a little assistance from technology (like bore/well water when monsoon fails)

It is sad that GM crops are pushed to farmers with huge promises on returns, most of which are not true. The companies selling them have researchers/personnel from prominent agricultural colleges to support their claims and recommend their products to innocent farmers as a cure to their current issues.

There is another aspect concerning the people who consume such products, the companies claim that they are safe, but I doubt those claims, the long term effects are yet to be seen.

There are so many ways to make profit why do such companies risk the life of innocent people? they could have studied the effect of GM crops for a longer duration before giving it a go.