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Comment · 8 years ago
Interestingly in my home state of Kerala situated in the south western coast of India. Tea is called Chaaya while tea leaves are called Theyila where ila means leaf. The heavy commercial production of tea was started in Kerala only after the British arrived.
Comment · 9 years ago
It was actually one of the stated secondary goals, with an appeal involving such currency being used by terrorists. However
1. While a higher than usual fake currency was detected the total fake currency detected was roughly 1 in 100,000. So there wasn't a fake note problem in general circulation. 2. The new notes launched do NOT have any additional security features, and hence while there will be a latency in getting the fakes right, it will continue to be a problem(albeit a small one).
Comment · 9 years ago
I have faced issues relating to requiring specific versions of JDK for each software. I don't work with Java so using a docker would have been a simpler solution, sadly this was before dockers became mainstream.
Comment · 10 years ago
Well in practice areas it would if you take it without cheating it will. We do not want to make practice areas competitive in nature. If you want to really get to know your ability or challenge yourselves then I suggest the contests[1]
Comment · 10 years ago
Disclaimer : Developer at HackerRank, however I do not know details about how Furlong was hired, so I can not go into that. Also this is not an official response, but a personal one.
So I think the source of misunderstanding is that we have multiple rankings on HackerRank. The leaderboard Mr. William Ross became #1 was in the practice leaderboard for the Java Domain[1], which is based on practice problems, and which is intended to get people upto speed with Java.
This is our global leaderboard sections [2] : http://i.imgur.com/2rkgwmg.png
We make the distinction of Contest based leaderboard which are based on your performance in contests, and practice leaderboard, which is the one Mr. Ross got on to.
This is based on contests and the forums during contests are monitored for answers and solutions, and this is what would be considered really hard to get on to, and I know the #1 there, uwi is amazing.
Our regular domains available at our domains page[3] are meant as a learning tool, where you can rise up as you solve problems, and yes the solutions are all available in many places. However since this is a practice area we do not do many of the things done in contests like restrict forums, look if solution is available online, run plagiarism(code similarity) matches etc, and generally we encourage people helping out in forums, although yes we should keep a watch on direct solutions appearing in forums. This is not intended to be a competition.
While I do not know how Furlong was hired, I can tell you the common ways that people do get hired.
1. Companies conduct contest or sponsor HackerRank conducted contests.
2. Candidates apply via HackerRank jobs[4] which again has a HackerRank test that follows.
3. Candidates practice on HackerRank after which they may be approached by companies seeing their positions, but generally this involves a HackerRank test as the first round.
4. Common test for a LinkedIn placements (currently in India alone)
5. The regular HackerRank test companies send across.
[1]: https://www.hackerrank.com/leaderboard/java/practice/level/1...
[2]: https://www.hackerrank.com/leaderboard
Comment · 11 years ago
Amazon Computational Processes.
Comment · 11 years ago
I was talking about inspection once it reaches the election agency. After that, till counting both are same, however the fact that they can be tampered with during manufacturing is what bothers me. Essentially the ballot boxes only require one trustable entity the election agency, the EVM requires two trustable entities the EVM manufacturer and the election agency.
Comment · 11 years ago
Indian EVMs are not as secure as ballot boxes. It is dead simple to "inspect" a ballot box once received for any backdoor that might be there, but not the same for Indian EVMs, in fact there is an attack where the attacker can change a single IC, and make the machine remotely editable, or "distribute" votes, and that can be turned on and off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apkSkb6Ak3I
Comment · 11 years ago
Interesting that there is no HTML just a direct link to an image.
Comment · 11 years ago
Come to think of it, in India I have almost never really "thanked" many among my family, but have done it for almost everybody else, and often I have found a compliment works in places where a thanks might seem too formal. Saying "I had an amazing time at your place and will miss the food" carries the sense of gratitude without the sense of formality in India.
Comment · 11 years ago
Snapdeal happens to be looking for people with 10+ years of experience in Big Data/Cloud , while in India 10 years ago, even product companies were hard to find, and I am not sure cloud focussed and big-data companies existed anywhere other than places like SV. In such a case it seems only reasonable that they are finding it hard to find the programmers they need in India.
Comment · 11 years ago
Another reason is in the Indian sub continent many books (assuming you don't purchase illegally) the "Indian Sub-continent" edition physical copy is cheaper since Kindle books are almost always on the global price (though often cheaper than global print editions). This is especially true for many technical books.