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Grasshopper.iics wrote: India produces a large number of engineering graduates every year. However none of the Indian universities rank high in world any more.
I beg to differ. A CS graduate from an IIT[^] can pretty much walk into MIT, Stanford, CalTech and Berkeley, or if they choose, Google and Microsoft. This 60 Minutes segment[^] echoes these sentiments.
/ravi
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Any IIT or NIT CS/EC graduate is a true potential. So 90% of them prefer to leave for US. I have mentioned a 5 also. India produces 3.5L CS engineers every year alone and IIT graduates don't make over 1%. As they leave to US, the equation back home remains unaltered.
One more thing, generally a IIT student can crack any other top exams and they actually have. So, the pool of students who gets into IIT are the brightest of the lot. Having said that, number of publications and referred publication from IITs cumulatively has gone down. http://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/iits-find-place-in-world-university-rankings-are-indian-students-proud.67913/[^]
So as a whole nothing innovative is attributed by IIT as far as Indian IT ethics and practices are concerned.
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I didn't realize almost 90% of IIT grads leave India. I would've hoped more of them remain behind (and possibly work for international companies, but in India). 
/ravi
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Problem is, though MS, Google, IBM has a big presence in India, their Indian operations are to great extend limited to testing, production support, maintenance, and offshore. So true opportunity back here is limited. Since emergence of Apple, few companies like RoboSoft is doing well. But still such companies are limited in number and openings are very low. It is not that Indian companies are not getting new projects, they do. But since over the years the talent grooming mechanism is failed, you don't have great deal of expertise to execute entirely here.
Do do have great talents here too. But sadly exception always proves the rule. Therefore when we talk about Indian IT, it has to be cheap offshore but anything else. So even when we get the opportunity, we need to fight against this general theory.
India is no more a cheap country either. A good flat in Bangalore would cost anything between $75,000 to $1,00,000. Affording a house is almost out of question. So, Indian companies are finding it tough to sustain growth, to focus on innovations and to compete globally.
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Grasshopper.iics wrote: India is no more a cheap country either.
Very true. I've been reading of some low(er)-tech IT outsourcing now being channeled to the Phillipines and Viet Nam. India offers the advantage of an English speaking workforce, but that is becoming less relevant.
/ravi
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So the dry environment is playing havoc with my contact lenses. My ;left eye is fine but my right eye gets dry very quickly so the eye hurts and I have to use rewetting drops. I have lenses which I can keep for 6 days and clean/replace every 2 weeks. However, I'm having to take them out most nights as they become very uncomfortable when I wake up. Ho-hum.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Luckily my eyes are not yet (but will be soon) at the point which require corrective devices.
I'm going to look strange as hell with glasses and I'm not sure I can bring myself to place small pieces of plastic directly on my eyeball. My wife wears contacts though, but she takes them out every night, I cringe just looking at her take them out...
Good luck with that eh.
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I have always been short sighted (eyes only) and have soft lenses since I was about 14. No big deal; you get used to poking around in your eye! Trick is to make sure your hands are clean! 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: I'm having to take them out most nights as they become very uncomfortable when I wake up.
Isn't that what is normal with lenses?
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Not any more: I believe there are lenses that you can sleep in for a month at a time (Air Optix?) though I wouldn't do it. The problem here is that it is a very dry environment; low humidity so I may go back to dailies during this part of the year.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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No idea, my eyesight is good enough not to wear glasses and my wife went to a specialist in Barcelona to get laser surgery into both eyes and never needed glasses again...
And she must have looked cool with glasses! 
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I tried contact lenses to replace my glasses, but they didn't hold enough beer.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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See, you can be amusing!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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That is really great! Thanks for posting that link.
Marc
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The "unjust homeless".
You Americans and your consequentialism.
btw; I'm not sure if this is just an evil marketing stunt for Chromebook.
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A nice story to know. Thanks for sharing.
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...is to use it.
Came across numerous instances of this Ruby code for the project I'm working on:
number_to_currency(@total_backed, unit: 'R$', precision: 0, delimiter: '.')
Now, number_to_currency is a nice function provided by Rails that converts a number based on your locale however, the above code completely defeats that by specifying the Brazilian Real and Euro formatting. Why bother with the function call, except that it puts in the delimeters?
Marc
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This code qualifies for The Weird and the Wonderful. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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That sounds international to me. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Why bother with the function call, except that it puts in the delimeters?
One might suppose that the application is in fact dealing with the Real and thus, regardless if someones locale might be the dollar or euro the application must still show the Real. (Noting of course that currency conversion on the fly is not something that someone wants to normally add into an application.)
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jschell wrote: One might suppose that the application is in fact dealing with the Real
You have a point - the payment system they use is something called MOiP which works with Brazilian currency. The whole site seems hardwired for R$.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: called MOiP which works with Brazilian currency. The whole site seems hardwired
for R$
Certainly if I was using the first then I would require the second.
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jschell wrote: Certainly if I was using the first then I would require the second.
Makes sense, except there's this whole English translation that they also support, including PayPal payments. Well, I guess they started with just a Brazilian site, and due to popularity, have been adding support for other countries. My biggest issue right now is that, even after (supposedly) configuring their PayPal plugin to use USD, payments are still being handled as if the amount was in BRZ currency. More debugging!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: except that it puts in the delimeters
"delimeter" n. - Unit of measure usually used in sandwich shops. (also "deli meter").
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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