byteofprash's comments

To learn anything, I always turn towards youtube. Its easily the best for getting started in anything. Cooking, carpentry, masonary, building a house!

But it just stops the moment you get started and make it to the beginner stage. The moment you get one project done, the details around how certain things work is nothing to be found on youtube, unless it’s a very generic skill like cooking.

After that valley of amateur, learning by doing is the best teacher.

Very well written article.

If I may add to this, the vāda usually composes of 3 parts. 1. Purva paksha. 2. Khandana 3. Uttara paksha.

Purva paksha which literally translates prior view is when the debater should talk from the opponent's perspective. This has to be confirmed by the opponent, which proves that the debater has understood the opponent's view point.

Then comes khandana, which is the actual opposing view point that the debater puts forward refuting the view point of the opponent.

The last is Uttara paksha, the opinion of the debater. (Or siddhānta as mentioned in this article)

The last mile problem is what usually makes me skip the Ubahn. I've tried to solve the last mile problem using the bike.

I would happily stop using the car if this happens along with a solution for taking bikes. Currently, I should buy a separate ticket to take my bike along with me(around €2.50 in Munich for a day) and I'm allowed to take the bike only during 6am to 9am and 4pm to 6pm.

Forget the whole "smart" features in the phone. I am extremely happy if I am able to make calls with this phone, message peeps through Whatsapp, update status on Facebook. As a power user, I'm sure most of us wouldn't want this phone, but imagine the power this could give to the poor people in India. With just Rs.251, communication is just one touch away. This is going to make the farmer, fishermen, plumber, merchants far more connected, productive and simply get onto to the internet and explore the taste of connectivity. I'm definitely thrilled to see the outcome of this. My only fear is the subsidies that the government has poured into this.

Rs.251 is what I spend for a tasty dinner. If someone could have a phone for that cost, why the hell not.

haha. I find these laws quite amusing.

In India, there "could" be a lot of ridiculous laws, but people generally violate all these laws. I think with such a huge population, a law that is quite unpopular is never followed.

Mixed feelings for me. I wrote a paper on the very same thing, "Demand responsive public transportation" but never really had the conviction to implement it full scale as I thought it would simply fail in a country with huge population as india, where there is always demand in all locations. It would be interesting to see how it would fare in a densely populated route.

'He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.' - George Orwell.