shasts's comments

Live in a cold country. Hesitant to touch an aluminium laptop. Static electricity and cold metal.

The problem I have with tools like this is the latency. Even the git helper info packaged with Oh My ZSH is slow.

It is useful. But I really don't like waiting for cursor to appear when I want to type the next command.

Haven't found anything better than Ctrl+R.

I fondly remember the days in 2010 in Zurich, and cablecom had good functional internet, don't remember the speed. Then I moved to Germany in 2013, and it surprised me that I can't have internet in my apartment for the next two months, because the technician appointment and when I finally received, I got a meagre DSL connection with bad ping and 32 Mbits.

It has gotten better over the years, but even the best available consumer connection is 1000 Mbits down and 200Mbits up.

Majority of the tech Germans I meet are embarassed about the internet and telecom infra, being an advanced economy.

Hopefully the new government fixes things.

The Wikipedia link is correct, but you are only seeing one side.

Getting into engineering schools requires coaching, which majority can't afford. Second, surviving there requires additional skills that state board educated Dalits and lower castes don't have.

You can Google for the number of Dalits and lower castes really getting admitted or finishing the course.

https://qz.com/india/2001747/iit-kharagpur-professor-abusing...

Still remember in 2006, went to a local internet cafe in rural India to fill out the form for requesting Ubuntu on a CD, and weeks or months later postman delivered it. It worked perfectly on the cheap laptop I had, in the first attempt.

The experience is still top notch. Can't thank Ubuntu team enough.

Now I keep a USB stick with Ubuntu image all the time as a Swiss army knife for fixing computers.

Would there be a backlash from the local community? I think unless the said tech community makes a positive impact to the native society live there, the reception is not going to be welcoming, I think.

Majority of the places I have seen tech people move to, the first thing to happen is increase in prices, be it housing or services.

Majority of Indians IT professionals or majority who has attended college in India are upper caste folks, the main supporters of current ruling party. So the trend is not surprising.

Many of them migrated to West and continue to do the same caste things even in silicon valley. Google the Cisco caste discrimination incident.

Oh, please. Sadhguru is a politician who talk pseudoscience and a tool of current Indian Government.

https://scroll.in/article/927625/opinion-the-disturbing-irra...

A lot of heated discussion on this thread! I don't have much to add other than already said before. I would like to add an anecdote though.

We have been considering going back and discussed this with some of the folks who came to Germany recently, where we live. They think we are crazy to go back now, as a Muslim.

I can see tons of new folks come to Germany now, many of them Dalits and Muslims on blue card work permit. Almost all of them have the same thing to say.

If you are an upper caste, Hindi speaking elite class, then you wouldn't see it. But if you are a Tamil, Dalit or Muslim then it is obviously frustrating to see the agenda the current central government is executing.

So we have kept the decision on hold.

Yes. AFD and right wing politics is not helping.

Recently a friend moved from India to Dresden to work for a company in the "silicon" ecosystem. For some reason his name on the postal box where he and family lives temporarily, was tore off multiple times. Missed a few urgent letters.

You know how it is in Germany, if you miss a letter from the Government office.

Startup stock options are not encouraged at a policy level in most of the EU countries.

https://www.notoptional.eu/en/country-ranking

No good stock options, not many getting rich after successful exits. Hence not many to fund the next good venture. A handful of VCs and some banks who had traditional money.

Most of the successful European companies look for an acquisition by a US company as an exit path. Silicon valley has an eco system of people who had successful exits funding the next startup. It is quite rare in Europe.

Why would you say that? Would you imagine separate hospital rooms based on religion? It happened couple of months ago.

https://scroll.in/latest/959274/covid-19-separate-wards-for-...

If they are not allowed to live in the same quarter and be in the same hospital rooms, it is not hard to imagine segregation in universities too.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/07/23/even-as-india-urba...

It is not fair to call someone liar, just because you have not experienced it.

Can Corsair One run Linux? I have heard that water cooling software for example does not have Linux support.

Well, how would this work is often an afterthought for Government in India. Last year they promised healthcare for bottom 40% of India, which in theory sounds nice for the elections and the masses, but fail to implement or allocate funds.

Since this is primarily aimed at foreign companies operating in India, may be there could be some success, unless they bribe out of this.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/09/27/indias-government-...

what would be the next move from Amazon? Open distro for Kafka, MongoDB and Redis, and all other successful opensource tools?

Just don't know where Amazon is going with this approach of re-packaging existing opensource tools and calling it their opensource contribution.

If you are in Europe you can get one with 16GB and HD display.

http://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-notebooks-and-2-in-1-...

£1,498.99 GBP one in above list.

Most of the purchase departments need one plus additional level approval for say 500, 1000 limits. So if you keep pricing at 999, the department purchasing your product need to go through one level less approval, hence chances of you as a vendor getting paid earlier is better.

Well, I think you are mistaken. Including salary range was one addition we came up with recently because,

1. We had a couple of candidates who did well in the interview, but finally, when it came to salary negotiation, they were asking much more than what members of the current team were getting. That was justifiable because they had offers from some other countries where developer salaries are better.

2. We received better applications because overall we are offering above market rate.

But hey, if you would like to keep salary open you may mention that, and I don't think your candidature would be rejected. At least that was what I did when I joined 2 years ago.

Your editor session need to be associated with a project/workspace. Works well in that case. Restart via atom /path

Funnily, I was looking at the requirements for a Security Engineer at Slack. https://slack.com/jobs/dfd75111/security-engineer The secure coding practices or protection against attack part of the job is minimal. Compared that to Google Information Security Engineer. https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=29144& Well, job descriptions in advertisements are not indicating much. But one gets the reason.