CraneWorm

> Students getting caught in mass cheating or deploying sly means to not get caught is not uncommon in India where competition is fierce as aspirants outnumber the number of vacancies for a job and seats in colleges for courses.

I'd like to read a long form piece on this subject. What's being done about it? India is a huge country, they need specialists no doubt!

you can buy monitors running android now :)

It's a mixed bag, the so-called "obfuscated servers" can sometimes allow you to watch region-locked content on Netflix.

But they (Netflix) are definitely trying to combat these attempts and you can get cut off in the middle of the movie...

Pirates offer a superior service every time, until this is solved nothing will change.

as long as you pirate stuff you should be golden

Sencor used to offer big (as large as 58'') TVs, some of them even dumb as bricks

I'd argue this is what parent wants instead...

doesn't load w/o js

It's just a command-line tool to download audio/video from youtube (and many other sites). You'd need to setup the iPad thing yourself, maybe using something like Plex?

WTH, you don't, just use youtube-dl

his description of perl is even less charitable

> Different languages have different failure modes. With Perl, the project might fail because you designed and implemented a pile of shit, but there is a clever workaround for any problem, so you might be able to keep it going long enough to hand it off to someone else, and then when it fails it will be their fault, not yours. With Haskell someone probably should have been fired in the first month for choosing to do it in Haskell.

So much unnecessary hate and stereotyping. And I bet they were thinking they're tongue-in-cheek-but-still-sounding-clever.

Also, interesting choice of programming languages, neither Python, PHP nor C got any flack, Javascript was spared but Java, Perl and Haskell are evil and using them makes you a "mediocre drone that cares only about cranking the lever and spouting code" (I'm paraphrasing the article here).

Choose your technology, learn your tools...

> I enjoyed programming in Java, and being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product.

Although, with that mindset, maybe forego programming altogether.

It's not, it's due to greed and people (and corporations) living of rent.

isn't this web based? in which case the obvious choice is ad blocker

> If you don't like it, your job is to turn down that offer.

Sure, and disappear, because you're not listed by the bad deal company that has container-ships-of-money for marketing.

it boots from a usb stick and seems web only so it should run anywhere you can run chrome browser; I suppose?

I downloaded Inkscape because trying to use Gimp for pixel perfect graphics was an exercise in frustration.

Sadly, my experience seems to mirror yours, my first project crashed (no data loss, fortunately). Then I tried writing a simple plugin and it turned out 1.1.1 broke unit conversion.