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As far as india is concerned...

(1) like plinkplonk said "Mein Kampf" is just another book to read, except its author killed 6 million jews.

(2) The conclusion that the article draws regarding 1.2 billion indians based on an art exhibit and a restaurant owner is akin to saying everyone in the United States is old after seeing two elderly people from the country.

Great design, I don't see myself using it though, maybe a firefox plugin???

love it.

Any material that gives a holistic view (that will be an aid to n00bs like me) or exploring the limitations of rails while building real world applications would be interesting. Where is it hard to work idiomatically within the framework of rails and what are the workarounds... just some thoughts

sounds great

Im sorry, but I thought erlang was the defacto telecom infrastructure language.

For immediate action check his hosting provider and see if they have a policy against copyright violation. If they do, mail them and ask them to take the site down. Don't know how that works but it's a start.

You need to seed content first. That's how reddit got started with the founders submitting stories under different user-names. Take offline ads(news papers) and list them online (throw in some OCR software like ABBY to scale it). It should get you started.

Hi tichy, let me play the devil's advocate and recommend that you get a job ASAP. I know its soul crushing(most jobs) but it will take your mind off of the money equation, and allow you to do good work on the side. If your cash-flow is tight it puts a lot of stress on your work be it contracting, building apps, starting a start-up. Since you are just starting out start doing these things on the side and get your feet wet. Once you have a steady stream of cash coming in and are sure that you can take a plunge you'll have the option of quitting your job. However take care while choosing a job, if you do decide to go that way. See that it leaves you with enough time to work on the side. All the best.

Avoid stock options like you'd avoid a psycho doberman with rabies(speaking from experience). One way to charge would be splitting the amount into 3 parts, taking 1 part after the Spec is made. another part when 70% - 75% of the work is done and the remaining amount after completion.

The split can be 30-30-40, 25-25-50 or what ever the client is comfortable with at whatever milestones they are comfortable with.

If however, the spec is evolving and fluid opt for a weekly/monthly payment schedule for the hours you put in.

another video http://vimeo.com/2229299

oh ok you meant content recommendation engine to provide links to other relevant articles. The ideal use for solr would be as a faceted search engine, though you can use it as a recommendation engine with some hackery. But if you are looking for a plug and play recommendation engine that is built to recommend other relevant articles I guess the first one should be more relevant.

hi clay, Could you be more specific. Solr is intended to be used as a search engine(faceted) and I think it has the ability to recommend similar documents(not exactly sure if you could do this through the API). Is this what you are looking for???

Hey chirag, do a search on alibaba.com for manufacturing and fabrication providers in the material you are looking for. If you contact the provider maybe he'll fill you in on the rest of the details, although 20 seems like very small order.

DHH is strongly typed.

Dude, he speaks the truth. People do what they are most comfortable with and have a large blind-spot for things they ought to be doing but keep putting off. The tone of the article doesn't seem biased or inflammatory to me.

More links http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/notion-ink-adam-stripped-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy9fPc1yGSU

Maybe you could start by seeding content in english. Once there is traction and people start seeing the value of the platform/community there will be volunteers to help add multilingual support.

Still use winamp with the enhancer DSP plugin.

Hyderabad, India

Its awesome. Love the vision and execution. Wish I could afford it.