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China didn't ban those web companies for using their local talent. They did it as part of their censorship practices. There are plenty of Indian people working now in Google, Facebook etc. Google CEO itself is an Indian. It would be extremely foolish of any government to ban any entity solely to create an alternative with the hope of utilising its local talent. In India, so far this kind of discussions is solely focused on getting tax concessions for home grown companies (like for Flipkart, Ola which are Indian Amazon, Uber respectively). Even then, they are faced with lot of flak, since their investor money is mostly from abroad.

As a matter of fact, in India, engineers mostly avoid service based Indian companies like Infosys, CTS, TCS unless otherwise they are in the extreme bottom end of the funnel (they just need a job) or at the extreme top end (disproportionate high pay).

These firms are notorious for their carrot (probable on-site opportunities) and stick (mindless work hours clocking among others) approach, and their typical workplace is full of discontent and frustration. Just for an example, I have known people working there who were trying to game the clocking system by finding a bug that allowed them to leave early provided they clock before midnight from any of the offices which would increase their clocking hours.

That aside, these firms are just a small part of the actual tech scene in India, except they have sheer numbers when it comes to the H1B process, which kind of projects these firms as representative entities of Indian engineers.

>Even military officers traverse the streets of Pyongyang by bicycle. Cars exist few and far between, reserved only for the wealthy and elite.

This is really fascinating, albeit being an unintended consequence of disproportionate wealth distribution.

Belief spurns action. Otherwise we are just relying on luck for money to end up in our hands. At least, that is the way I'm interpreting the above point. We can use both conviction and day-dreaming as a substitute of belief. I think former is what he means in the article. The latter just leads to more and more delusion.

Hmm ... maybe not. This is more or less similar to people like Musk, Jobs dreaming of doing something which might look like impossible for others (like starting a rocket company). In those cases, the central belief of people like Musk, Jobs is the prime reason for things happening, and the belief itself might be a limiting factor for other similar capable people in achieving what these guys have achieved.

I was having something like "The 4 hour workweek" in my mind when I was referring that. You can see this same point in different forms in that book.

Edit: Another tangential stuff is Paul Graham's essay on wealth - http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html. There he specifically mentions that money is not wealth, but something used to move wealth. But the point about there is no fixed wealth and we can always create more wealth, also looks similar to the above mentioned point to me.

>I have a very strong impression that what defines how much money or income anyone has is almost completely defined by their limiting beliefs.

This one really struck me. Repeatedly this point comes up in all the new age money related philosophies, and I'm kind of starting to agree with it. Nice write up.

Please put a simple about page. It is difficult to get the idea behind the project in the first glance.

The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson.

Interesting take on how consistent little things matter and how they can make or break things.

I use inbox only in mobile. Regarding reminders, technically I'm not snoozing that email. I would like that email to show up with the reminder time.

Still, it is tricky for such an app to get stickiness from all kind of users.

More details on this context - the sharp scribe is wielded deftly so that they can write freely in the dried palm leaves. The sharp scribe is called "ezhuthaani" (where zhu is a special L sound) which literally means writing nail. The dried palm leaves are commonly referred as "olai suvadi" which literally means dry leaf book.

PS: The word Tamil itself should be pronounced "Tamizh" where zh is a special "La" sound, unique to Tamil language.

Maybe, the bell was taken as a trophy and the inscription was done to identify from whom it was taken.

Also, I noticed the actual inscription on top is pronouncing something else that i cannot understand. Only the bottom inscription (translation) is comprehensible for me. I think the bell has only the top section sentence inscribed in it. Can you comprehend the top one?

Personally, I find inbox intimidating and confusing. When I set a reminder it is disappearing from the inbox! Also, downloading files from inbox is a real pain. Honestly, there is lot more room for someone to give a elegant solution to organising emails.

Fascinating. I'm from Tamilnadu (where Tamil is spoken in southern most part of India) and so far we have only heard of early day explorations so far as current singapore, malaysia, cambodia etc. This news is really interesting.

Nice product. Can you share your tech stack? Do you sub contract some of the development like frontend or you do everything yourself?

The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson

This is the book that suddenly hit me like a lightning. Give it a try if you haven't. It will fundamentally change the way you plan and execute things, from short-term immediate stuffs to your ultimate dreams.

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Your point that every person in the then India carrying a weapon would have prevented a British Invasion is downright dumb.

The whole idea of current united India came from opposing the British Rule. Before that, India was just numerous bunch of small kingdoms ruling their own tiny part of current India.

British entered India as East India Company, a trading arm of Britain, which I think is wholly independent of Britain in its ability to rule (politically and military wise) the parts of the world where it had trade operations.

You should also note that Britain had America under its control before US gained independence. If we just extend your logic, then you mean, US got independence just because all of its population were carrying a gun, and not because of strong will shown by personalities like Washington to have an independent nation.

You might want to clarify that you mean same city and university from Hyderabad, India. When I was reading your comment, it looked like you were speaking about Kansas.

On this note, I would encourage people to visit India (my country). I think the general perception people have (or had) about India is poor people all over the place begging. But, you will be amazed at how demographics (language, food, culture, day to day way of living) change for every 100 miles and still we stick together irrespective of countless language, religion, caste and cultural differences.

But, on the other hand, I'm also amazed that with so many people in US carrying guns in their daily lives, it is a miracle that most people are walking and living and doing some great things. Whatever it is, this whole gun culture is beyond my comprehension and I think it is good thing.

Care to explain why?

For me, getting shot while walking on the street and getting shot when having a normal conversation in a bar looks almost same.

I genuinely want to know, what is the difference between the above comment and this particular incident. Because, this reasoning might also be the reason, why in U.S people prefer to have guns in their daily life (where living is the goal, and not how to prevent dying).

I disagree. Yes, there are freak deaths in India by its own standards. People die without being able to afford a nominal medical fee etc. I'm not at all denying that.

But, this is whole different thing, where individual's frustration and wrong perceptions results in death of people, which is not at all a case in India (or not as frequent as US gun killings).

Your point of poor people dying has nothing to do with any individual in India. It is a result of our whole political system which is designed in such a way that it is not easy to get solutions for seemingly straight forward things.

The closest thing which is similar to this incident is attacks based on caste which is common in India, but that too are not random, as victims are not taken by surprise when they are attacked/killed. Mostly they are overpowered by small group of narrow minded individuals, resulting in freak deaths.

I'm not sure if you are from India, and if yes from which part, as I really don't get the "nativists in Mumbai/Bengaluru/Hyderabad" part. I'm also not sure what you mean by nativists in India, as it may signify one of 100 things, depending on which part of India you are from.

Again, I'm not saying there are no freak deaths in India. It is common in every corner of the world where there is more than one man. But, death by an individual in a public setting is not common and that too by a gun is almost impossible in India. That was my whole point.

Freak incidents are heart-breaking, particularly when we don't really know what one could have done to prevent them. As an outsider to a typical U.S lifestyle, one thing that puzzles me is why do people need a gun even when they are in a social place like a bar. This is not a first of its kind shooting happening in U.S. As far as I can remember, all the freak incidents in U.S some way or other involve shooting, out of the mind gunmen etc.

I'm thankful that at least in my country I will not get killed by a random person with whom I'm having conversation with.

P.S: I'm from India.

macos finder and built-in open/save dialog windows

I recently switched to macos from linux, and this is one of the frustrating experience I have with mac. Particularly there is no easy way for me to save a file in a custom folder in the builtin save dialog. Everytime I use finder, I wonder which is worst - windows command prompt or macos finder!

If that is the case, why all the other the other repo's star operations is not communicated to google or other analytics platform? My point was, I was blocked from starring only for this repo and not all the other repos. It was not about how analytics works in general for every user action.

Just using a random commit name like 'minor bug fix', 'updated version' for these kind of commits will save a lot of headaches like this.

One can do better by adding random lines/ logs in lot of files and sneakily remove password from one of them and then give a random commit name.

But then it all boils down to your mindset at that particular moment when you are commuting.

Thanks for the explanation. I'm still taken aback by Github's behaviour to communicate with outside apis for their internal star operation.

Weird. I cannot star this repo in github with my ad blocker (u block origin) turned on. Apparently, the star request sends a request to this end point - https://www.google-analytics.com/collect which fails, which results in a github error saying "You cannot perform this action at this time".

Everything works fine, when adblocker was turned off in the page. Any ideas on why this behaviour?