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"These days due to reservations, people want to be born in lower castes in India." Pure unadulterated bullshit or trolling. Er.. I'm from India too.. and kamaal.. you seem to be st…

I'm always late for everything and I don't see what the fuss is about. FYI I'm a software engineer, in India. In software, there is a concept of a buffer period, which people learn…

"I love NFC, I love the fact that you can have a live widget that shows you emails." My Nokia 701 running Symbian Belle does both of that, runs Qt apps. Nobody gave up their iPhone…

It's heartening to see that the HN responses echo my sentiment. Also.. "Democrats or Republicans look too rehearsed on stage? Let’s pounce. Apple? Let’s sweep it under the rug." Lo…

On the other hand, they are not geniuses to solve the problems of internet security once and for all. All they might manage to do is stop free flow of information into and out of t…

This is obviously not going to solve the problem of cyber attacks. As I remember, even the stuxnet attack on their nuclear reactor was ultimately caused by transmission through a p…

Correction. Debugging JS in not easy. I have been working on a native application which has some HTML5 components in webviews. There is no easy way in XCode to debug JS in this kin…

What I find amazingly idiotic is that when I try to access the url from India, I get this message "The URL you requested has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Tel…

SQL Injection is so old, it should count as an open door. That is, you keep your possessions in a room with the door open and nobody guarding it.

You would be surprised to know, that a majority of the starving people in India are farmers or daily wage laborers doing construction work. The problem is not that people aren't wo…

Thank you for posting that. I was beginning to doubt my sanity with the sheer amount of melodramatic comments being posted on HN the last few days.

Wow.. a lil bit surprised at the down votes. Guess, I should make it clear, it's more of a personal opinion. Anyways, I have never been a fan of these kind of hardware specs when t…

Samsung is one of the least creative companies that ever existed and in my view a low quality high volume manufacturer. I hate it when companies make no effort to be good and just …

While I agree with the whole long term vs short term thing. One should be careful about how to apply this. For instance, devoting yourself to your soulless corporate job most often…

I'm currently working in a small/mid sized company, on a iOS product for the iPads as of now, which isn't even submitted to the App Store yet, but already has its target user base …

We've been using TestFlight to distribute new builds to multiple clients around the world, distributed to their user's iPads with a notification through mail, during their user acc…

We don't need to enter the PIN for most of the credit cards or debit cards in India, but we do have to sign it. Although it's just a formality. Usually when we split the bill, one …

Please consider adding a disclaimer, that it is not supported internationally. That is really not clear from the home page and clicking on help needs me to login on FB. Getting the…

I prefer the vanilla "PascalCase" and "CamelCase". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase

I think you are a little confused as to how exactly ARC works. ARC is mostly compile-time and adds the memory management code automatically during compile time. So, the runtime ove…

"it would have been easy at any point in this journey to rationalize my limited success, and accept being a small cog in a bigger wheel, at likely much better pay and much less str…

I have used both the state machine pattern and MVC in large projects and in some cases used both together. There is no problem with MVC. It can work with any number of supporting p…

My principles with software development are simple. Code should be clean, beautiful and do exactly what you want it to do. I agree with the advice doled out by the author about spe…

"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there." -- Gordon Bell Just to clarify. I think what he means by that statement is that, we assume that c…