jim_kaiser

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by jim_kaiser 13y ago
"These days due to reservations, people want to be born in lower castes in India." Pure unadulterated bullshit or trolling. Er.. I'm from India too.. and kamaal.. you seem to be stuck in the small college student protests about reservation
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I'm always late for everything and I don't see what the fuss is about. FYI I'm a software engineer, in India. In software, there is a concept of a buffer period, which people learn to add to the estimates, because inevitably, things gets de
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
"I love NFC, I love the fact that you can have a live widget that shows you emails." My Nokia 701 running Symbian Belle does both of that, runs Qt apps. Nobody gave up their iPhone for Nokia though. Nobody cared about beautiful open source
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
It's heartening to see that the HN responses echo my sentiment. Also.. "Democrats or Republicans look too rehearsed on stage? Let’s pounce. Apple? Let’s sweep it under the rug." Look too rehearsed? When presenting a demo to a client, managi
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
On the other hand, they are not geniuses to solve the problems of internet security once and for all. All they might manage to do is stop free flow of information into and out of the country. The "Iron curtain" never helped anyone. To use H
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
This is obviously not going to solve the problem of cyber attacks. As I remember, even the stuxnet attack on their nuclear reactor was ultimately caused by transmission through a pen drive into an isolated network. No reason, the same canno
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
Correction. Debugging JS in not easy. I have been working on a native application which has some HTML5 components in webviews. There is no easy way in XCode to debug JS in this kind of mixed application. In fact, it is a royal pain in the a
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
What I find amazingly idiotic is that when I try to access the url from India, I get this message "The URL you requested has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom(CHNN). URL = afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/taking-
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
SQL Injection is so old, it should count as an open door. That is, you keep your possessions in a room with the door open and nobody guarding it.
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
You would be surprised to know, that a majority of the starving people in India are farmers or daily wage laborers doing construction work. The problem is not that people aren't working. It's that their profession doesn't pay enough be able
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
Thank you for posting that. I was beginning to doubt my sanity with the sheer amount of melodramatic comments being posted on HN the last few days.
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Russia imprisons members of punk band for protesting against Putin(cbc.ca)
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
Wow.. a lil bit surprised at the down votes. Guess, I should make it clear, it's more of a personal opinion. Anyways, I have never been a fan of these kind of hardware specs when they don't map out to any real difference in usage. I have ne
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
Samsung is one of the least creative companies that ever existed and in my view a low quality high volume manufacturer. I hate it when companies make no effort to be good and just produce mediocre products with higher profit margins. It's n
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
While I agree with the whole long term vs short term thing. One should be careful about how to apply this. For instance, devoting yourself to your soulless corporate job most often doesn't pay dividends in the long term. There are many comp
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I'm currently working in a small/mid sized company, on a iOS product for the iPads as of now, which isn't even submitted to the App Store yet, but already has its target user base and is developed in close relation with them and makes a LOT
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
We've been using TestFlight to distribute new builds to multiple clients around the world, distributed to their user's iPads with a notification through mail, during their user acceptance testing phase and it just works great! None of our u
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
We don't need to enter the PIN for most of the credit cards or debit cards in India, but we do have to sign it. Although it's just a formality. Usually when we split the bill, one of us signs all the receipts. :) Now that being said, we get
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
Please consider adding a disclaimer, that it is not supported internationally. That is really not clear from the home page and clicking on help needs me to login on FB. Getting the user's to connect on FB before they are made aware that the
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I prefer the vanilla "PascalCase" and "CamelCase". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I think you are a little confused as to how exactly ARC works. ARC is mostly compile-time and adds the memory management code automatically during compile time. So, the runtime overhead compared to a GC is much lower. http://stackoverflow.
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
"it would have been easy at any point in this journey to rationalize my limited success, and accept being a small cog in a bigger wheel, at likely much better pay and much less stress. but I was still hoping I had a little fire in the belly
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I have used both the state machine pattern and MVC in large projects and in some cases used both together. There is no problem with MVC. It can work with any number of supporting patters. If your problem is your controller doing too much wo
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
My principles with software development are simple. Code should be clean, beautiful and do exactly what you want it to do. I agree with the advice doled out by the author about spending more time on thinking than actual programming. This is
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there." -- Gordon Bell Just to clarify. I think what he means by that statement is that, we assume that components not yet built would be cheaper, faster and more re
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I'm from India, and have never used sunscreen, as is the case with the majority here. We don't get sunburned that easily i guess. It does happen if we go into the mountains i.e. snow peaks is not that common otherwise.
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
The standard says, evaluation order of function arguments is undefined.. but in general, printf evaluates right to left. This was a common puzzle as I remember.
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
I agree.. it's not easy to find good developers in India. I have come to understand the social circumstances which make them treat software development as just a job and not something to care about. The good developers cannot stand writing
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by jim_kaiser 14y ago
At first, I didn't quite get it either.. probably just because I'm a few beers down. But, its not just your boss i guess.. the two posters above didn't get it either.. of course its just that imaginary numbers are written with real part on
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by jim_kaiser 15y ago
The whole confusion seems to be a lack of information in the arguments as to what exactly they are brainstorming about. Is it a new movie/book idea or solving a programming problem, creating a software architecture, planning an invasion or

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