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train_robber··on An ad-free Android TV
Unfortunately; this is the only true answer. After a lot of trial and error; a good long AOC cable is what I settled with in the end.
train_robber··on Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser
I would recommend having a look at "The Art of Code" youtube channel. There is some interesting material there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDo9LvfoVE is a good first watch.

train_robber··on How Curry Became a Japanese Naval Tradition
But even in Malayalam, curry/kari could also be used as an umbrella term for any accompaniments with rice, dry and wet. 'Chorum kariyum' - in this context curry is accepted as all the stuff that you eat with a regular rice meal (including the dry 'thoran'), atleast in where I'm from.
train_robber··on Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India
Being an app developer here; the reality can't be further than this. From our figures atleast 30% of our base use it in their vernacular. English is only a good start; if you really need to penetrate the masses - localization is a must.
train_robber··on Show HN: Make your web page dance with Rythm.js
Trivia: It's also the longest English word without a vowel.
train_robber··on Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
In the older syntax, something like this:

  client.startAsync(new Consumer<TorrentSessionState> {
	void accept(TorrentSessionState state) {
		if (state.getPiecesRemaining() == 0) { 
			client.stop(); 
		}
	}
  }, 1000).join();
train_robber··on Ballerina – concurrent, typed language with textual and graphical syntax
Me too. Chrome 59 on a Mac.
train_robber··on Flightradar24 ADS-B Receivers On-board a Surface Ocean Robot
A lot of enthusiasts are a big part of that I guess. I've been a paying user for quite some time now and I primarily use it as a few minutes of distraction every day.
train_robber··on AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
We are definitely migrating. We were forced not to use AWS so far due to regulatory issues with data needing to reside in India. Long awaited!
train_robber··on AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
The commercial/business sense of the term Asia-Pacific almost always include India; so the dissonance argument isn't really valid.
train_robber··on TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone
Yesterday, didn't happen for me in the new Mumbai T2 domestic terminal.
train_robber··on TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone
Yes, I have found this to be very practical, but unfortunately they don't do this at all airports.
train_robber··on After Cash: All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses a Bank Account
In India, we have an app called Chillr which eliminates a lot of these inconveniences and numbers. And transfers are instant and account to account.
train_robber··on Responsive Pixel Art
He meant 'Zoom Out'.
train_robber··on Proselint
http://proselint.com/write/
train_robber··on Conway's game of life computed in WebGL
http://gameoflifetotalwar.com/
train_robber··on Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
It already does. I can see a few Hindi titles already.
train_robber··on Governments deterring businessmen and tourists with cumbersome visa requirements
10 years for Indians too in general.
train_robber··on My adventures in medical tourism
Yes the government is very involved. My mother worked as a nurse in the state government health service and from what I have personally seen; the quality of government care is good and very cheap (sometimes free). But its not just the government; there are a lot of private institutions too in the state that provide quality healthcare.
train_robber··on My adventures in medical tourism
My home state of Kerala has one of the best health care systems in India.

Infant mortality in Kerala is 6.7 (6.2 in US), life expectancy at birth is 76 (78.7 in US).

Per-capita income in Kerala is $2,271 ($53,000 in US)

So yes, you can provide good healthcare even with not a lot of money floating around.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model

train_robber··on Baidu says it's developed China's first fully autonomous self-driving car
You haven't been to India I suppose. But more seriously I agree. Having self-driving cars negotiating road traffic in places where the traffic rules are 'blurry' and rarely (if ever) followed to the dot; is going to be a big challenge.
train_robber··on Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009)
Hmm, a bit surprised! I haven't seen a lot of purple carrots in India, atleast in my part of the country (Kerala). Default carrots for me is still orange. I came to know of the existence of purple carrots only very recently.
train_robber··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
Even I can. GitHub and Gists are all accessible from where I am.
train_robber··on Museum of Endangered Sounds
This answers why - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/32830/why-doe...
train_robber··on Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B
You would also need to put into consideration cost of living. $650 would go a long way in India.
train_robber··on Does your browser rejected revoked certificates?
Version 33.0.1750.152 on Ubuntu rejects with default settings for me.

http://i.imgur.com/aQdu7GO.png

train_robber··on AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
I think this is named after the Indian river. 'Kabani' is also a river in India.
train_robber··on List of Open Source Licences in Mercedes Cars [pdf]
All that would be used for on-board diagnostics for the different electronic control units.
train_robber··on Bloodline - Social Initiative from India
Not the first of its kind. There was http://fastblood.com/, which kind of does the same using SMS.

But in any case great initiative. All the best.

train_robber··on Gesture Control in JS using Webcam
Just saw something similar done by my local tourism department a few weeks back. Got good press here. http://when-it-rains.com/
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