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As far as I understand - according to the article, loneliness in itself is not a bad thing for the health but what it brings with itself - the possibility of depression, possible risk of suicide, inactivity hence possibility of obesity and diabetes. I wonder how it affects the people who genuinely prefer being alone, and like it!

There is! In extension's manifest.json you can mention for which URLs your extension needs permission. This extension is asking for "http://*/*", "https://*/*". Which is all of them.

Why does it need permission to Read and Change the data on _all_ of the websites that a user visits?

There are so many cool extensions but most of them need access to every single domain - even if its functionality doesn't need it. Which is what keeps me (and probably a lot many other people) away from installing them.

There is a HARC in Amy Tintera's novel Reboot with similar goals. I wonder if they named it HARC because of the novel, or if it's a coincidence.

I agree with the most part of it, some of it doesn't seem quite right. For instance, where author mentions he is a front-end developer and doesn't need to deal with algorithms, and data structures -- it only gives a (false?) sense that he doesn't want to deal with the problems. I agree with the "take-home problems and submit solutions", idea to assess the candidate (or an alternative solution could be -- work at their own office, like how you would if you were an employee on the given problem) This basically strips away the unnecessary pressure.

Now, about the real problem -- It has to be solved by both the parties, for instance, somewhere in the middle of the article the author mentions he was asked to write the BFS algorithm. In this particular scenario, the interviewers should NOT expect the candidate to actually remember the algorithm and write the solution right away like a bot (or a human who has used it very recently) would. Here the interviewers can be more humble, more human. They should check whether the candidate holds the problem solving skills which is what is essential and NOT whether the candidate has a computer-memory. Here, they could explain what BFS is, how it works, and then give the candidate some time to come up with a solution.

Again, interviewers shouldn't expect a correct solution for the problem, it's the attitude of the candidate towards the problem, and the way he/she thinks about it -- that should be enough to give some idea about the skills he/she holds for problem solving.

The idea is simple. Don't just drop some Dothraki (or some language the candidate does not know) algorithm names, and ask what it is instead, skip the names, explain the problem in simple words and ask for solutions.

>>But 50% of the rest of India doesn't pay for internet and it thinks there is no need to because that is ALL the internet has to offer.

>I think you underestimate people's intelligence. More so, if they only want to use Facebook, or don't want to use anything else enough to pay for it, what's the problem?

I think this is totally possible, not at 50% though. Imagine the people who have never used Internet before and are not-so-educated. If Free basics is what they are going to use for the first time, it's possible for them to think that what they get to use through that, is all of the Internet.

Wikipedia. (https://vimeo.com/7307422)

Thanks for writing! I actually read that article that day, and it was really on time. It's a good motivation, but it doesn't talk about how one should learn Math. I find the commends below very informative and I've concluded that I need to spend some time on finding better ways to learn, and what suits me well.

Thanks! I'll look into it! :)

Thanks for the suggestion, will check that book.

I am yet to tackle Calculus, so nothing comes to mind. But I am agree with you that, relating all of math concepts to real life won't be necessary as long as I truly understand it.

Exactly! Thanks for the resources! And I do try to think about applications. And wow, what an amazing example of speed = distance/time! It really clears out what a slope is!

Awesome! Really liked the way you proved (-1)(-1)=1.

What I am doing is trying to relate every single new thing I am learning with real life examples, only to make sure that I have learned* that thing. Most of the times I fail at that. But I guess it's not always possible.

Thanks for writing. I like your approach. I actually have started from the very top level. Let me explain further as why I asked this question in the first place with examples.

Two days ago I (re)learned that (-1) x (-1) = (1). I read many resources explaining why that is true, but it just doesn't strike as 1 + 1 = 2.

To give one more example, just to make clear what I am asking about -- Today I learned about slope of the line, which is = change in y / change in x. Even that doesn't strike. I have already learned these things believing that they are true in my school years. I don't want to learn in the same way.

>For the past several years I’ve spent most of my development time with C++11 in Xcode.

C++11 has been around since `past several years'!?

Right krapp. I will absolutely take care of that from now on, and also, I will fix that code ASAP. :)

Hey krapp, thanks for your input :D It's a great example of quick & dirty job. There's still a LOT of work to do, I accept. The images are not scaled, passwords are not `hashed', and no validation, of course. I should have had worked on it later on, but I really didn't look in to it later.

I guess, I am also on the same path as with the author of this post. But yeah, thanks again, I will improve it as soon as I can. :-)

If you are familiar with another programming language, and able to DO programming, then, on average, it wouldn't take longer than a month. That would be sufficient, I GUESS. I built a social networking site in PHP in the last semester. And it was my first PHP web-application! I did learn PHP (and Relational databases) in a month before that. I made a post about it, if you want to see (http://xworkspace.blogspot.in/2013/01/build-your-own-social-...)

But it all really depends on the amount of time (with brain) you spend on learning. :)

As if they are going to tell us the REALITY.. :D

I have just appeared in third year finals in an engineering college, which happens to be in India. So, I know pretty much about the way things work in `Engineering institutes' in India. The thing is that, in about last 5 years, number of Institutes have grown so fast that one wouldn't even imagine. The year I took admission in my College(2010), there were about only two colleges in the district I live, where, now, there're 6 colleges now! Most of the politicians have realized that `there is so much money' in Engineering institutes! The don't give a shit about Education quality. Having really bad score in Entrance exam after 12th grade, I had no option but to take admission in one of such a college. So, what these `leaders' do, is hire freshers as professors (those who're unable to land a job as a programmer). They lack in knowledge/skills. Next reason is that, most (almost 99%) of the students who are pursuing degree have their only motive is to - secure their future by having a good job. They don't LEARN. They `remember' things to get a good score. That's their sole purpose. Because, they think having good score will give them a good job. People can't LEARN things by just reading several books, they have to USE things that they've read. Just to make sure if they are able to use what they've just read (or learned). Currently there're about 80 students in my class. We had to develop a dynamic website as a mini project in the last semester. Your people would not believe it, but 99% of the people had it downloaded from Internet (or taken from some former student). Worst thing is, they were only static pages. And even worse is, faculties didn't say a thing while demonstrating those projects!!! I assumed the only reason that could happen is the faculties themselves are utterly lacking in knowledge! In second year, I wrote a simple packet sniffer and port scanner in C (again, as a mini-project), the `external' professor didn't even see the code, he waster almost half an hour asking me things about Packer Sniffer (He had no idea about what that is!) The only reason I can think if this unemployment is the quality of Engineers..