WasimBhai

Back last year when Coursera started and I made extensive use of it, the next question that came to mind was how to take this experience to kids who are younger, i.e., those in secondary and higher secondary, and even younger. Coming from a country where the number of kids who are not in school is terrifying, this is a huge problem which the state as of now seems unable to tackle, or perhaps is simply not interested in. How can then we, as engineers come up with ideas that can reach to these segments of world population? From what I understand, creating Coursera like courses for kids is just not the way we can make education accessible to these kids, and reason being kids need teachers much more than grown-ups. It is an exercise in developing interests, identifying potential, assisting those left behind, a much much more complex phenomenon than what Coursera, Udacity or EdX platform can solve for now. Can we think of a solution to this? I hope someone amongst us does. It will probably be the greatest service to mankind since I really can't find anything to compare.

luu, are you open for applications from abroad, concretely, from Pakistan?

Haha, so many down-votes. Still love Hackernews though.

How is this even remotely related to Hacker News? I guess if I really wanted to discuss this, I will rather go to /r/worldnews.

Vlad, Webflow says my browser screen is too small. I am using Firefox 22.0.

Are you open for H1B too?

Why should I learn Haskell? Will it help me professionally, or help me being a better programmer?

>> I am consistently amazed by the profound contempt which modern liberalism holds for the traditional role of the wife and mother. In traditional societies, motherhood is not looked down upon or held in contempt, but mothers are honored.

Only if they follow a certain line. Those lines are defined by the nature of society, and being from a country that has a middle-class which resonates between being mildly conservative to ultra-conservative, these lines can be anything, but in the end they are nothing more than a tool to control women. For mildly conservatives, they are happy if their daughter goes to a medical school, but then the same girls are put into marriages even before they complete their medical school. For the ultra-conservatives, women are supposed to be hidden behind those hideous burqas and must be married off as soon as it can be. Again under the pretense of Honor.

The only thing common between them is of course mothers and wives are honored. If only they do not challenge the status-quo, do not ask for their rights, are an honor to a family.

This is not honor. This is a vile way to justify objectification of half of the population.

Pakistan and China are also planning a railway network between China's eastern provinces and sea port in Karachi. Coupled with the above, this can create rail routes between the Europe, east and the far east, i.e., India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore. Amazing.

Yes, of course. But then I am talking more about the whole life, not only in the case of emergency etc.. I mean for someone like me, from what I have read about American healthcare and education system, I will choose Europe any day over America. And even though, I really don't have that choice with my passport. But in the case of US citizens, the choice seems realtively easy.

I have often wondered given the kind of cost involved in good health care in USA, along with college fees, why don't more Americans move to Europe for health care and education where it is probably free most of the time?

P.S.: I am from Pakistan.

Great idea. Now going to test it.

What is your primary motive, experience or money?

1. If it is experience, then find an open source project to contribute. Mozilla, VLC Player, that come to my mind. The upshot is you get to work on something that is huge, and if you work hard enough, and your patch gets accepted, it will shine on your CV.

Of course, on the flip side, no money is involved.

2. You want to earn some bucks? Elance, Odesk. Create a profile, and start bidding. Simple as that.

My recommendation: Go for open source. You will learn more.

If you are skilled in C++, then I will strongly recommend Opus, and Daala, the open source codecs backed up Mozilla. I have just started contributing and the engineers respond on irc channel rather very well.

Any recommendations for someone who is well-versed with C++ and Networking?