You have made a devastating OPSEC mistake. You have disclosed that you have around 6 months left of money. You have probably also stored it in just one bank account. If some weird transactions end up siphoning off your balance, you will have no money left to defend yourself. The secret service guys know this. The freelance crook at the bank knows this too. Be careful or you will be toast.
Everybody with enough financial net worth to make sure he does not just die but will be died. Strange transactions on your accounts, my friend. The balance is almost gone. Is that why you have had an accident?
Because they need to get hold of all information possible. They must know where you live. They must know what your net worth is. They must know in what bank and other accounts you are holding this net worth. They must know what other freelance crooks work at these banks. All of your financial holdings form a bounty on your head. At some point, you will not die. You simply will be died.
There is simply too much money to be made in knowing where someone lives and in what bank accounts, 401k, and IRA accounts his net worth is stored. This person will not just die, my friend. This person will be died.
That is how they end up stealing your bitcoins too. All of these QUANTUM INSERT computers have now been targeted at getting hold of your wallet keys. Your money will be gone.
Staying in the banking system will not help either. The sum of the balances of your holdings in the banking system forms a bounty on your head.
They know who you are. They know where you live. And they damn well know how much money there is to be made in dying you.
You will not die. You will be died.
Do not hold any monetary values anywhere without them knowing where it is, because that amounts to money laundering, you criminal terrorist!
Anybody supplying contractors to the NSA. From the central banking database you know how much money they have in what bank account. From Facebook you know if they could be dead by now. The sum of all monetary holdings of any of these targets forms collectively a bounty on their heads. Do you really need to see Edward Snowden's stash of documents to understand this? I don't.
Since they know who you are, and since the central banking database knows how much money you have in what bank accounts, and since they know who your friends are, it is no problem to demographically calculate that you could reasonably get a heart attack now. Of course, you made quite a few strange large purchases just before you died, but only your friends would know that these were strange. Your balance is pretty much gone. You seem to be no longer keeping them up to date on what you are doing? Facebook is simply a gold mine, because any money that you are holding in bank accounts forms collectively a bounty on your head.
These rules look like they came from the low-intelligence paper belt. We do not write rules like that. They must simply be part of the tool. Otherwise, they do not count. What they now did, was to create an opportunity for someone who knows that he is incompetent, to invent a new job for himself, that is, "checking up" with his more competent colleagues, who contrary to him are productive in writing code, on this style guide. Rule number one: Anybody who wants to "enforce" this kind of rules must demonstrate that he is capable of writing a parser that can apply them. It is simply bad practice to create that kind of opportunities. It is bad practice to create that kind of jobs. Therefore, this kind of documents must be rejected.
Actually, they came from very smart, well intentioned people, who thought everyone would program Lisp in this century. And of course never saw C (and all its related family of languages) coming and ruling for decades.
All these rules make sense for Lisp, and no sense at all for C.
And they did wrote the parser that applies those rules, in Emacs you never indent Lisp code, you press a key and the current s-expr automagically indents better than you could ever dream of doing it.
Of course we write style guides and while I like the idea that it's part of the tool, that's rarely the case.
I don't follow the objection about a colleague helping ensure consistency across a team. I'm really not sure why competence comes into that equation either.
Agree with the idea any style guide should be automated. Several CI servers I know of can incorporate style checkers and their reports into their workflow so this can be made really hands off, even to the point of automatically failing code review stage before its been lumped in the review queue.
Don't agree at all with the idea this type of doc should be rejected. In fact it's completely wrong to jump into automation without having "found which way is up" manually first time around.
In many ways, and definitely in more ways than one, India is a fantastic resource, with their talent and tremendous headcount. India is definitely not a "pirate" state. I believe to have read that the Indian Navy is even involved in protecting merchant shipping lanes off the Somalia coast. The only qualms I have, is with the licence Raj, the paperwork kingdom, that ruins business opportunities all across India ...
India is going to be (if not already) one of the largest consumers of Linux and other open source software.
I find it sad that most OSS conferences are held in Europe or USA, where you will find everyone toting Macbooks. Do note that I dont begrudge this and I do understand that it is the birthplace of most software.
However, I do wish that the chief developers reach out to the Indian community and help establish a vibrant ecosystem before we achieve Apple affordability.
India is easily one of the largest consumers of Linux. But consumer has a different meaning than contributor.
>>I find it sad that most OSS conferences are held in Europe or USA
Bangalore has its own version. Its called FOSS.in, there is also a Pycon. We also have regular conferences, meetups and hack nights. Checkout this Bangalore based company called HasGeek(https://hasgeek.com/)
The ecosystem is no where as mature as silicon valley, there is no where the kind of VC ecosystem like silicon valley. And YC like initiatives are non-existent.
And yet despite all this, nearly every one good I know has a namesake large company job while they are starting up on the side. There is massive start up interest and we are well past the days where people used to aspire for large company jobs. Though Ivy league degrees, and strong alumni connection gets you fat pay checks at big companies. People are beginning to match that with their own start ups.
Long way to go for us. But the opportunities are immense.
I am a frequent attendee at Hasgeek. However what I asked for was not about interesting conference but about decision making.
For example I wish that the top level decision making conferences (like UDS,etc) happen in India which is on track for being their largest consumers. This can only happen through the current decision making body.
The problem is that the macbook really is the best piece of laptop hardware on the market. The only other product that comes close in terms of build-quality and design is the Chromebook Pixel, and that one is a very niche device.
For a long time the laptop makers ceded the high-quality market to Apple and kept making cheap plastic crap. Even their high-end products were still plastic crap, just plastic crap containing better electronics.
After years and years, we're seeing makers like Asus and Dell take quality design seriously in their top end. But it's very late for that and Apple has a very strong hold on that market, and plus these companies sabotage their brand by making low-quality crap as well.
I mean, look at something like an HP Elitebook - a solidly built piece of hardware, but ugly as sin and plus every time HP tries to sell something high-end they're having to overcome the customer's bad memories of some horrible Pavilion.
Ah, ain't that the truth. I loved my HP Pavillion, until its motherboard glue melted and internal parts detached. Twice. Shame for them, too-- circa 2007, you saw as many of those on college campuses as you did MacBooks or netbooks. No longer.
I feel like HP made a tactical error by eliminating the Compaq brand for their garbage products. It feels like car companies have the right idea - Toyata/Lexus, Honda/Acura, Chevy/Buick, and so on. If HP had used Compaq for their low-end cheap products, they might not have reaped as much profit in that space as the HP brand got them, but the HP name might still mean something. Now the HP brand is worthless.
> Indian Navy is even involved in protecting merchant shipping lanes off the Somalia coast.
Yes, it is true that Indian Navy/Coast Guard protects and also helpfully escorts maritime around that area [1].
It also protects the original untouched Sentinalese[2] tribes off the Andaman & Nicobar islands on the other side. Historically, our country has NEVER gone and attacked anyone in the past 3000 years. Sometimes because of our own resilience and other times because of our stupid prime minister.
> licence Raj, the paperwork kingdom, that ruins business opportunities all across India.
You're bang on this one. It's those 50-60 odd corrupt assholes on the top which make life hell for the rest of the population. Pretty similar to how things are here in the US, albeit the corruption part(?). Only magnified.
>>our country has NEVER gone and attacked anyone in the past 3000 years.
Well, our country didn't exist pre-1947, but we're arguing semantics now. Still, it's kindof bonkers to define the border of a fairly young "nation" over a period of 3000years. If you do that, then you need to consider the Mughal campaigns in Central Asia as they attacked Samarkhamd (Persia) as well as Kandahar (also persian held at the time). Or do you not consider them Indian?
OK then, consider that the Chola empire conquered sections of South East Asia. But perhaps you dismiss these conquests as exaggerations? (note that there is overwhelming evidence that atleast ports were raided even if there was no lasting presence -- it's still an "attack")
But if we are going to be pedantic, even post-Independence India declared war on Portugal and is considered the aggressor state when it "invaded" Goa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Goa
Mmm, you're right w.r.t Goa and extricating out Bangladesh off Pakistan's. But there is much more prior to these controlled aggressions - for example "suspension of civil liberties" for those who lived under Portugese administration (see wikipedia). Let's also not forget that Goa was a colony of Portugal but originally it was a part of our land. Similarly sandwiching between Pakistan on left and Pakistan II on right wasn't a great experience either.
To get pedantic on this subject, even the Mughals aren't originally from India. Mughal campaigns in Central Asia was also about plundering and ruling India, it's not the other way round. In fact original Indians are not even Aryans (I am an Aryan) of European descendence for that matter. So my estimate of 3000 years stands corrected, it goes way further back than that.
Sentinals, for example in my prior comment, are aboriginal of the Indian peninsula. The other term used to represent aboriginal Hindus is the Dravidians. This land has chosen entropy over order, I can assure you.
Maybe it's a joke I do not understand, but your country has been a battleground for years, kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more).
I love the downvotes for correcting some ridiculous nationalistic propaganda (that India has never attacked anyone in 3000 years). I guess that's what they are teaching in Indian schools today.
(Pre-colonial Indian history is currently a passion of mine.)
You might have a point to make but it is your tone that is getting you the downvotes. If Pre-colonial Indian history is your passion, the least you can do is to think and analyze before making generic comments like "battleground" without adding any relevant context. Besides, you talked about the India/Pak border "firing" issues which is so complicated even for the citizens of those countries to understand that relating it to "attacking" in general is not fair.
>>>> Maybe it's a joke I do not understand, but your country has been a battleground for years, kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year
If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?
>>>> and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more)
It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.
If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?
The original poster said "3000 years", so I don't know why you'd get upset that someone started talking about history.
It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.
ohh, sorry, I missed the original comment which claimed the 3000 years thing. In that yes, yes, it's a ridiculous claim as India didn't exist before 1947.
>Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.
He said that India does it as much as Pakistan, which is false, and can be found by a simple google research. Pakistan is more guilty of violating ceasefires and attacking.
It is specious to say that India has not invaded anyone in past 3000 years are so. The idea of India as a country is a fairly recent one. May be with some liberty we can consider 1857, year of Sepoy Mutiny as the starting point for idea of India as a single country. Prior to that the vast territory
was divided among kingdoms battling against each other (Cholas against Chalukyas, Vijayanagar Empire against Bahamni Kingdom, Tippu against Marathas and so on).
The idea of India is not new. The idea that a country has to be politically united as a single country is new. If you read any significant Indian literature, you will notice there is a feeling of unity.
Would like to know more about this. Are there same kind of bureaucratic hassles in US too?
I thought in some states like Delaware the taxes are too low and therefore makes sense to start up there. I've also heard similar things about Singapore.
I've never traveled outside India, and would love to know more about things in the US.
Companies are incorporated in Delaware because its corporate law and legal precedent are so well defined (and business friendly). Taxes aren't the sole concern, predictability is just as important.
India would have the talent and the headcount to be anything it wanted to be, if it were not for the one missing ingredient: the ability to leave people's freedom alone. Many of factories in China would now be in India. Larry Page is in the market for another location. Mark Zuckerberg undoubtedly too. If India painstakingly managed to develop the ability to rein in their paperwork kingdom, the so-called "license Raj", Silicon Valley would have moved there a long time ago already. Until now, India just can't. It is simply impossible to reduce the incessant harassments of their bureaucracy. They will terrorize everybody. At the same time nobody else will ever agree to put up with them and be terrorized. They will not move there. They will keep flying out the Indians instead.
