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The article talks about a 2-dimensional grid which starts at (0,0) (bottom right) and extends infinitely to the right and the top, so all (x,y) for non-negative integers x,y exist.…

It works in pre-interview filtering rounds because companies hiring processes are usually broken and the smartest people are not working on those aspect. If, on the actual job, you…

That would be Chandraayan: moon + journey/path. Chandrayaan is moon + vehicle.

Maybe the libraries are less known because they're lesser libraries? --- "Less known libraries" would be libraries that fewer people know. "Lesser known libraries" would be librari…

While that is sort of true for a take-home test, there is still value in giving candidates an online or in-person programming task that needs to be completed in a small amount of t…

Sounds good in theory. But if enough companies started doing this, I can guarantee you that Indian companies will spring that will offer to create an open source project for you fo…

Right. In fact, in my opinion, the most important thing a conference provides is the quality of the peer-review and the selection process. So a conference that claims peer-review, …

> The problem is more like not teaching the students how to find a reputable path to publication and not weighing the quality of the venue. Actually, in my opinion, most of the stu…

Actually, I did not get worked up about the existence of such conferences. My main gripe is against the education system and the ridiculous requirement that makes it mandatory for …

I know that this is a problem, and I don't blame you. However, one of the admissions committee members of a top-10 US university told me how they deal with this problem. That they …

Thanks. I've updated the intro of the post to make this clearer. The PhD applications problem is a different issue. We're churning out a million engineers every year, and a good fr…

Nope. If you can't afford to pay for the conference, your paper does not get published at all (of the two papers I got accepted, I paid for one and that appeared, while the one I d…

Most conferences are supposed to have a selection process (in most cases a "peer review" process) in which all submissions are sent to multiple reviewers who are experts in that ar…

They claimed that they accepted almost half. My guess is that they accepted 100% of the submissions they received. Because if there was any process for rejection, both my papers sh…

I am not sure I understand what you're saying. I know that getting a paper in a conference like this is not an achievement. However, I know lots of students who do not know this. I…

They did say it's an INTERNATIONAL conference...

Good point. I have that point buried way down in the post. Need to give it prominence somewhere in the beginning.

Don't even get me started on the quality of the advisors... :-(

What depressed me the most was seeing the poor, sincere students who had come to the conference to present. Some of them were tweaking their PPTs. Others were going over notes for …

Original author here. The two things you pointed out were exactly the two things that first caused me to get suspicious of this conference. However, as notthetup points out, there …

The love of truth, maybe?

Really stirred? I thought he proved that motion is impossible...