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Case 1: Let's say you take the ENTIRE day. You have not only fixed your problem but you have learned a lot of things which will help you with a similar problem the next time. You save costs for your entire life on the expense of that one day.

Case 2: You get it done in an hour or so which isn't a big financial hit.

Also, what is the karma threshold to edit other people's posts?

For those outside India who are wondering, only Airtel (private) seems to have blocked sites. I have a BSNL (state owned) broadband connection and everything still loads fine for me.

Jokes apart, there's a consistent pattern in how I judge intellect. The people who I consider smart get logic. Some of them do it intuitively; Some of them are familiar with formal theory. The most common logical error made by those I consider stupid is a non-sequitur [1] Ex: "He doesn't use vim. He must be stupid". The biggest mistake you can make is judge people by knowledge, rather than intelligence. Ex: "A is really good at programming. He's definitely more intelligent than B who's a singer"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29

Perhaps you meant "spiked"?

There's a big difference between somebody who's medically declared insane and a member of a terrorist organisation who killed people as his masters wanted for the sole purpose of creating terror.

That said, feel free to make a new one that's pure technology. If the stream of articles there is interesting, I promise to sign up!

For example, right now, in one of India's jails lies a man named Ajmal Kasab. He is one of the terrorists involved in the 26/11 attack on Mumbai. He was caught on tape mercilessly killing people with his AK47.

If you do away with the death penalty entirely, how do you execute this fucker and others like him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks

Edit: A lot of people asking similar questions. So I'll just answer them here.

Being identified by eye-witnesses and being caught on camera are not the same thing. People make mistakes while remembering. Cameras don't. Further, he was apprehended by the army/police in the middle of his killing spree. There is NO WAY it was someone else.

Handing him a life imprisonment just puts the system at risk. It will just lead to terrorists resorting to kidnap to release him as has been done in the past. A well known example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814

What's wrong with windows as of Windows 7? As far as I can see, not very much. It seemed quite stable for the limited time I used it. It's good to look at. It gets the job done. What more do I need?

I'm sure Windows 8 will be a decent move up from here. A better choice for worst CEO would have been the former RIM CEO or the current Nokia one. I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THEY DITCHED MEEGO IN FAVOUR OF WINDOWS PHONE!!! AARRGGGG!

The question rephrased: Show me a guy who has gone from being a success in management/finance to having a startup idea and then writing code for it (I think this is a fair equivalent of coder with no business experience founding a company and then continuing to run it when it becomes very profitable)

Now show me one "product guy" who's coded and launched a million-dollar site/app.

Both sides view the other as replaceable, only one is right.

AGNI missile range : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Agni_missile_range.png

As for the military might, Pakistan's past actions speak for themselves. Indians sleep better knowing that Pakistan has a lot to lose should they try anything.

This, on the other hand is about a guy who built "extensions" on top of google+ and used its public interface in a way that was not intended by the google+ developers and got stung when they made a change. The author is over-reacting to something that isn't really a malicious action by Google.

Pro-tip: Don't toy with people. Most times you will get away with it but sometimes you will get fucked.

Django is great for learning very fast. It has all the documentation in one place. There's generally one way to do any one thing with Django.

Pyramid is super flexible because it's not much of a framework to begin with. Think of it as glue to stick together a bunch of components to handle specific parts of your app (like database ORM, cache, sessions etc) and you can use any components that you like. Pyramid is harder to pick up than Django though because of this reason.

Pyramid is faster than django on benchmarks I've seen on the web (but this will hardly matter in the real world in my opinion)

Both have some big projects executed using them(Disqus is written in Django and Reddit is written in pylons for examples)

There are a bunch of other python frameworks that I haven't used yet so I can't tell you anything about them.

I'm currently working on something using Pyramid so if you have something specific you want to know, I'll try and answer (I'm new to this too)

I'd recommend learning django first though. It's what you should look at if you want a quick inroad into python web frameworks without much time spent learning.