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by Comer
20 Jun 2015 18:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Replies: 5459
Views: 1174419

Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2

Gurus,
Could someone point to the timeline of Romani migration out of India?
by Comer
17 Jun 2015 20:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

EDp0uETD818 "This was one of the most exciting moment we experienced today. calling it Thrilling is an understatement. Riding in the Arabian desert on a beautiful Arabian horse one transcends the history and enters the Qurun e Aula, the golden age when Muslim armies marched out of Arabia! It w...
by Comer
13 Jun 2015 20:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

^^ Undy and thappad cases are different from TN's cage match.
by Comer
13 Jun 2015 20:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

^^ That doesn't appear to be the case from the viewing. All jarnails and karnails squirm and shout red faced back at Arnob. They are there because TimesNow probably pays them for their appearance. The corner plot in Pindi wouldn't pay for everything. Hardly a middle finger at all. They get shouted a...
by Comer
13 Jun 2015 19:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

http://www.dawn.com/news/1187952/missing-necklace-found-but-plot-thickens SLAMABAD: The mystery of the ‘missing’ necklace, donated by the wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the flood-hit people of Pakistan in 2010, appeared to be resolving on Friday as former prime minister Yousaf Ra...
by Comer
05 Jun 2015 19:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1375
Views: 536912

Re: Indian IT Industry

I wish I have an aptitude for (core) Java, I really want to get into it, especially in the web front as well as stuff like MapReduce etc. But somehow it is not happening :(. I thought I will get away with python and Go. Let's see how it goes. :| OTOH, I am glad that we are getting from bottom up lik...
by Comer
05 Jun 2015 18:55
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1375
Views: 536912

Re: Indian IT Industry

Man, this is exactly what am pursuing right now, the missing link. In addition I've done a bit of hadoop framework learning.
by Comer
01 Jun 2015 15:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Terrorist is as terrorist does. http://arynews.tv/en/ji-chief-puts-bounty-of-rs-1-billion-on-modi-during-speech-in-ajk The chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Senator Sirajul Haq, today placed a bounty of Rs 1 billion on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He did this during a speech he made to his party...
by Comer
31 May 2015 22:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Sheep bladders can prevent earthquakes though. If women wear pants or jeans made out of sheep bladders the earthquake problem would be solved. no use. the earthquake is in the maulana's kacchas. The serpent stirreth onlee. :wink: https://sites.google.com/site/brfdictionary/glossary/p/pindaliyon-ka-...
by Comer
31 May 2015 10:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Sheep bladders can prevent earthquakes though. If women wear pants or jeans made out of sheep bladders the earthquake problem would be solved.
by Comer
30 May 2015 19:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

One pajjible answer to the question of bhy? is some no donging happening
by Comer
30 May 2015 18:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Poor Zimbabwe cricketers. In Bakistan heroes are cheap and dime a dozen, as cheap as their nishan-e-haiders. I hope Zim cricketers return safe from that hellhole.
by Comer
30 May 2015 11:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Bakis want kirkit like they want fashion shows, lit fests(yeah that happens in Bakistan anyways but this is the book kind) because they want to pretend to be a normal country. Zimbabwe cricket board and their players are the new suckers in this facade.
by Comer
30 May 2015 09:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Can't believe how Zimbabwe cricket board allowed its players to.go on tour disregarding safety issues. Would be really surprised if the tour continues.
by Comer
30 May 2015 09:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitical thread
Replies: 3955
Views: 620529

Re: Geopolitical thread

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/05/28/chinese-tension-carter-trip/28073803/ The U.S. military's long-discussed "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region took a confrontational turn as Defense Secretary Ash Carter traveled to Asia and signaled that the U.S. may not re...
by Comer
26 May 2015 21:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Modi has rattled the bakis much methinks. There is this paki writing in Yindian newspaper since paki media got clean BoL-ed http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-commentary/for-pakistan-pm-narendra-modi-has-his-priorities-absolutely-right/ She tries to be funny in the start and probably could...
by Comer
17 May 2015 20:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1375
Views: 536912

Re: Indian IT Industry

Saar, this look more like prototyping than anything else(not that I know much about Agile)
by Comer
17 May 2015 15:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

ICC banias have refused to appoint match officials for the Zim visit.
by Comer
13 May 2015 22:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion
Replies: 3997
Views: 630729

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion

Breaking: Terrorists enter a guesthouse in Kabul http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/gunmen-storm-guesthouse-popular-with-foreigners-in-kabul-762895 Kawoon Khamoosh ‏@KawoonKhamoosh "Insurgents taught Indian ambassador stays in this guest house." -Zia Massoud govt special envoy visiting attack ...
by Comer
05 May 2015 21:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22 2015
Replies: 2846
Views: 335501

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - Apr 22

Seeing Pakistan without old, hostile baggage *snip* I have grown up viewing Pakistan with a sense of mistrust, responsible for all the tribulations we faced. But the perception, built in my mind over the years, got knocked down during my 10-day trip to Pakistan that took me to Hindu and Sikh holy p...
by Comer
04 May 2015 14:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
Replies: 1747
Views: 439229

Re: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion

‏ @CNNIBNBreaking Nepal government asks NDRF to wind up rescue operations Part of the reason could be that chances of finding survivors after such a long time is low. That said, there was an unmistakable crescendo of negative publicity before this news. EDIT: All rescue ops winding down http://www.f...
by Comer
17 Mar 2015 21:17
Forum:
Topic: BR Mainsite 2.0 : Volunteers Wanted
Replies: 133
Views: 0

Re: BR Mainsite 2.0 : Volunteers Wanted

^^ Ditto. It would be great if there is a list of invited folks as well.
by Comer
16 Mar 2015 12:04
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

Can't we have tags per post. There is a lot of cross dependencies on subject matters. Sometimes it is difficult to focus only on political matters without cultural issues seeping in. Economics and politics. These are intertwined. And since each thread has single focus mods have to stop the thread de...
by Comer
10 Mar 2015 22:25
Forum:
Topic: BR Mainsite 2.0 : Volunteers Wanted
Replies: 133
Views: 0

Re: BR Mainsite 2.0 : Volunteers Wanted

Always wanted to pick up a technical topic and contribute to it. I am hoping to concentrate on military communications. Not an expert on military side of it but it is relatively close to my domain or perhaps the closest I could think of contributing.
by Comer
07 Mar 2015 09:41
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

arshyam, am wondering if the packet takes an extraordinary long route from your host to hosted box and TTL exceeds the limit. Am not sure you could do anything in this case.
by Comer
05 Mar 2015 09:38
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

Thank you sirs.
by Comer
04 Mar 2015 09:58
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

saravana wrote::(( final roll of dice. Comer? (ref Douglas comer).
Gentle reminder to adminullahs.
by Comer
26 Feb 2015 19:04
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Railways Thread
Replies: 3937
Views: 741664

Re: Indian Railways Thread

Little things like increasing the ratio of reservation for senior citizens for the lower berths, redesigning the ladder to climb to the upper berth etc go a long way. I like the design of Chennai Central where there is no need of any climbing stairs and every platform is accessible from the entrance...
by Comer
22 Feb 2015 15:13
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

:(( final roll of dice. Comer? (ref Douglas comer).
by Comer
22 Feb 2015 09:12
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

If that's not OK, can I have cooumer as id? It's based on a river in Madras. Thanks.
by Comer
21 Feb 2015 20:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1180
Views: 358065

Re: BR Forum Feedback

Mods, can you please change my id to madrassi? Thanks in advance.
by Comer
04 Feb 2015 23:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2015
Replies: 2849
Views: 359486

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2

Another Pakistani video(sorry if OT but I thought this summarizes most of the videos out of Pakistan these days)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
by Comer
01 Feb 2015 19:27
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 631092

Re: Indian IT Industry

IMHO, the God is in the details. Just the exchanging messages over network involves several selection decisions, design decisions which could affect the design of the software at either end. And several design choices don't have strict equivalences in the real world.
by Comer
01 Feb 2015 17:08
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 631092

Re: Indian IT Industry

Agree. The layering and opaqueness are not excuses anymore. If you want to write a call back, write the invocation too!
by Comer
01 Feb 2015 16:41
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 631092

Re: Indian IT Industry

That is post facto rationalization. Not a lot of people land up on the specific domain they like or wish for. Your 2% could be not relevant to me as my 2% is. But we had to learn those 4% in college. Again, a UI designer or programmer atleast need to have a basic understanding of interrupts and page...
by Comer
31 Jan 2015 15:06
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 631092

Re: Indian IT Industry

I too don't think degree matters that much.
But programming is not just about algorithms and logic. You would need to know underlying architecture, including kernel. It would be easier if one comes through the CS degree but can always picked up outside the academics.
by Comer
28 Jan 2015 22:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec 2014
Replies: 2852
Views: 378344

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec

shiv wrote:
Anujan wrote:What's the takleef in conducting a census?
Money, organization, security.
I thought it was very cheap to calculate
Pakistan's population = f(Pakistan's GDP, India's GDP Per capita, echandee)