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by chilarai
06 Jun 2015 15:55
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1375
Views: 536530

Re: Indian IT Industry

problem with perl is that it's very easy to be extra clever to try and save a few keystrokes and then for any non trivial code , in two months you do not understand your own code. For me that's the biggest advantage of python .making readable code. i used to hate the indenting with tabs and not brac...
by chilarai
29 May 2015 15:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1375
Views: 536530

Re: Indian IT Industry

software testing class
by chilarai
03 May 2015 17:56
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6031
Views: 1369664

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

While the engine running for 248 days is very unlikely, it surely does not inspire confidence in the software that such issues were caught in lab after the plane has been in service. Who knows what other bugs are lurking inside. Aeronautical software as such are to be held to a much higher standard ...
by chilarai
05 Apr 2015 23:01
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Foreign Operations & Deployments
Replies: 264
Views: 64769

Re: Foreign Operations & Deployments

Great job done. Some credit should also go to Syed Akbaruddin (mea ) for keeping the nation informed by regular updates on Twitter. He is good, I remember how in one interview the reporter was trying put words into his mouth and he thrashed the reporter left and right !
by chilarai
24 Mar 2015 09:22
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
Replies: 3978
Views: 473814

Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013

http://m.economictimes.com/wealth/credit-cards/news/irctc-to-launch-rupay-pre-paid-debit-card-tomorrow/articleshow/46667151.cms Ru-pay debit cards to be launched tomorrow. One small step at a time. This is a welcome move. Each time this card is used would mean less money going out of the country to ...
by chilarai
12 Mar 2015 02:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Delhi Case Follow-up thread
Replies: 1287
Views: 141863

Re: Delhi Case Follow-up thread

Sagar G wrote:
Tuvaluan wrote:UB saar, use "tor" prowser wonly. and follow all the instructions provided on how to use it so eye-pee is untrackable.
Tor isn't exactly uncrackable and it's slow as hell.
Moreover what's the guarantee that 50% of those nodes are not actually NSA servers running tor !
by chilarai
10 Mar 2015 01:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Treatment of Indians Abroad
Replies: 98
Views: 13448

Re: Treatment of Indians Abroad

Incidentally, has anyone noticed that in the daily newspaper, the Toronto Star, almost all( 99%) front page articles involving India, Indians or ethnic Indians, is sour and negative? It's almost the impression the paper wants to convey of this group. For more balanced or nuanced coverage, you have ...
by chilarai
09 Mar 2015 19:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Delhi Case Follow-up thread
Replies: 1287
Views: 141863

Re: Delhi Case Follow-up thread

btw it seems this may not be the first such case by this prof , did the same to another applicant in 2014

http://www.thenewsminute.com/news_sections/3191
by chilarai
02 Mar 2015 13:55
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Railways Thread
Replies: 3937
Views: 741191

Re: Indian Railways Thread

Even the high speed trains, get a "slack" some where during the run. This is how they manage to arrive "on time" at the destination station. What I used to do is to take a print out from the TrainEnquiry.com web site. It shows the time table as well as the distance between two p...
by chilarai
28 Feb 2015 14:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
Replies: 3978
Views: 473814

Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013

(as for using rupay card WTF is that ? I haven't seen it , no one uses it , I am sure 95% of BRFites here in desh don't have one) . Rupay is intended as a desi payment scheme to replace visa/mastercard. Admitedly it has not caught on, but once it does it has the potential to make a hge difference i...
by chilarai
26 Feb 2015 18:13
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Railways Thread
Replies: 3937
Views: 741191

Re: Indian Railways Thread

is the budget available for download anywhere ? Track doubling in itself should lead to lot of saving in time. Would love to see the New Bongaigaon - Guwahati section double tracked. In 1994 this 190km or so section used to take 5 hrs , and last year it took me 6 hrs ( mainly due to the increase in ...
by chilarai
21 Feb 2015 21:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6031
Views: 1369664

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

why other carriers do not stand a chance againts emirates/etihad/qatar http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/02/18/other-carriers-cant-compete-with-gulf-airlines-under-the-current-system-heres-why/ Rather it’s that they have access to virtually unlimited interest-free capital, and that every a...
by chilarai
30 Jan 2015 22:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec 2014
Replies: 2852
Views: 377882

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec

with teachers carrying guns the homework turnover rate would improve by leabs and pounds !

its a total literacy program !
by chilarai
15 Jan 2015 13:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec 2014
Replies: 2852
Views: 377882

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec

What happens when IS turns to India? Initially when it was only the kashmiri terrorists against India , there was an attempt to put the fear of taliban ,like they are some super terrorist and how taliban would come and be more brutal and what not. The only thing that we could finally see is that th...
by chilarai
12 Jan 2015 14:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Bomb Blast in Bangalore
Replies: 55
Views: 8541

Re: Bomb Blast in Bangalore

Bengluru is modern colonial built city with out Muslim pockets. I do feel that there are Muslim pockets in Bengaluru city as well. It may not be as big or as pronounced in say Hyderabad, but there are Muslim ghettos in Bengaluru. This Frazer Town/Pulikeshi Nagara is such a place. There are also are...
by chilarai
08 Jan 2015 19:31
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Tourism: News & Discussion
Replies: 379
Views: 128108

Re: Indian Tourism: News & Discussion

India tourism fears after latest rape Indian authorities are considering how to reassure female visitors about safety in the country following the rape of a Japanese tourist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/india/11327948/India-tourism-fears-after-latest-rape.html What about reas...
by chilarai
07 Jan 2015 19:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1806
Views: 418070

Re: India-EU News & Analysis

[100K+ immigrants from Syria/Lebanon/Eritrea per annum and super strict hiring of skilled professionals from places like India. Exactly. Its much easier to come to europe illegally and you are treated better with tax payers money as well. And every now and then you read in newspaper of ppl living o...
by chilarai
05 Jan 2015 23:34
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 3916
Views: 630642

Re: Indian IT Industry

On the other hand, the hire and fire mindset in US companies is brutal and heartless. A company can hire someone onto a full time job for a project but secretly plan to lay him off in 3 months after a project is over. This causes the employee a lot of difficulty and families are at stake and compan...
by chilarai
16 Dec 2014 16:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec 2014
Replies: 2852
Views: 377882

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 12 Dec

and with these animals we want to have more people to people contact and easing of visa restrictions. If the terrorists dont kill us the polio will !
by chilarai
12 Oct 2014 17:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 6214
Views: 1900990

Re: Internal Security Watch

Youths fire at cop in crowded Connaught Place

sounds more like they were probably doing recon or something else .. and just panicked when they saw police and started shooting and running . Thanks to the crowd one got caught !
by chilarai
17 Sep 2014 13:37
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian investments thread
Replies: 441
Views: 87639

Re: Indian investments thread

you can use jstock ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/jstock/ ) to maintain your own portfolio . if i remmeber correctly it can sync and get data from major markets. It can take backups and put into google drive if you want. At least thats how it worked some 2-3 years back.
by chilarai
15 Aug 2014 12:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Happy Independence Day
Replies: 51
Views: 6592

Re: Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day ! Jai Hind !
by chilarai
13 Aug 2014 12:07
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Intelligence and National Security Discussion
Replies: 979
Views: 251942

Re: Intelligence and National Security Discussion

This government seems to be serious in rolling out a full-fledged testing lab for telecommunication equipment. It is to be setup at I.I.Sc Bangalore. Testing of telecom equipment in India mandatory from next year Pilot lab to test telecom equipment From the below old reports looks like the previous...
by chilarai
03 Aug 2014 12:12
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: BR Algorithms Corner
Replies: 167
Views: 26210

Re: BR Algorithms Corner

If I give you lottery numbers of each day from last 10 years can you come up with an algorithm for the top 20 numbers based on this data? My friend who was using Hidden Markov Model for his PeeChaddi in voice authentication, used his code to come up with lottery numbers. Both of us lost 60$ in the ...
by chilarai
29 Jul 2014 21:46
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: 2014 Commonwealth Games
Replies: 207
Views: 80022

Re: 2014 Commonwealth Games

any youtube video of sushil and also amit trampling the tftas ?
by chilarai
10 Jul 2014 18:11
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Phone, Tablet and Gizmo Thread #0x02
Replies: 8048
Views: 762479

Re: Phone, Tablet and Gizmo Thread #0x02

I seem to have the same problem accessing BRF from Netherlands. have to use either tor or vpn or foxyproxy
surprisingly i can access bharat-rakshak.com , just not the forums.
by chilarai
04 Jul 2014 13:44
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Phone, Tablet and Gizmo Thread #0x02
Replies: 8048
Views: 762479

Re: Phone, Tablet and Gizmo Thread #0x02

seems like there is a phone with cyanogen installed and 3100 mAh battery , would be ideal for me as long as its not notion ink redux , anyone tried ??
www.oneplus.net
by chilarai
24 Jun 2014 11:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: BR Algorithms Corner
Replies: 167
Views: 26210

Re: BR Algorithms Corner

Eric Demopheles wrote:
here my motivation was the job market and suitability for scientific computing. So if I must learn a language, Python still seems to have got advantages.
for scientific computing , python at the moment is the winner , what with some fantastic libraries like NumPy around
by chilarai
23 Jun 2014 23:44
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: BR Algorithms Corner
Replies: 167
Views: 26210

Re: BR Algorithms Corner

No ji for me plese. Well not that I am an expert but heres my understanding. in pure functional programming language , the compiler can provide far more gurantees than say C or python. In C say if we have a function declared as int func1( int a , int b) ,it says that it takes 2 ints as argument and ...
by chilarai
23 Jun 2014 16:19
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: BR Algorithms Corner
Replies: 167
Views: 26210

Re: BR Algorithms Corner

If you are very much into mathematics and such , you may really enjoy programming in Haskell. (from job market perspective it is a limited market but many banks like standard chartered uses haskell more and more ). I do only very beginner level programming in haskell but love it absolutely. In fact ...
by chilarai
13 Jun 2014 15:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis
Replies: 4002
Views: 469861

Re: Islamism & Islamophobia Abroad - News & Analysis

Lilo wrote:
Youtube however is rejecting this video at the upload stage itself (maybe some automatic lookup against past taken down videos)

maybe little editing of the video ( like shortening by a few secs) may help in case youtube just matches with some signature calculated on earlier version.
by chilarai
09 Jun 2014 03:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 21 Apr 2014
Replies: 2852
Views: 296534

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 21 Apr

ary news live stream seems to be talking of "haiwan bum" ???

of all the days i had to chose today to think of starting to live healthy and did not buy any beer !
by chilarai
04 Apr 2014 20:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014
Replies: 2839
Views: 301078

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014

Oh the shame!! The insult...Whatever! No takers for Afridi in Caribbean Premier League Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi – who offered to take over the reins of the national team after its miserable exit from the World T20 tournament – failed to secure a spot for himself in the Caribbean Premier L...
by chilarai
30 Mar 2014 22:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Internal Security Watch
Replies: 9599
Views: 1240331

Re: Internal Security Watch

yes the girls were Bodo
http://www.sentinelassam.com/mainnews/s ... r=1#187311

the news item do not mention the names but they were ROPers from what I could gather from folks living there
by chilarai
29 Mar 2014 01:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014
Replies: 2839
Views: 301078

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan - Jan 04, 2014

JE Menon wrote:Interesting. with a ".in" domain?
the .in is the new fangled cloud shloud/content delivery network thingy. You will get the same site if you put other domain like .blogspot.jp/