snambi

Joined 14 years ago

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622
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Feb 3
coder, hacker, designer, blogger, father, driver, gardener. http://nambisankaran.wordpress.com https://github.com/snambi http://sourceforge.net/users/snambi
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Comment · 5 months ago
It's perfectly natural for a country to experience periods of growth and decline. Demographic and economic cycles rise and fall over time, and a period of contraction does not mean growth won't return in the future.

What isn't reversible is losing a country's identity. As a foreigner, I'd rather see Japan remain Japan than become a messy cultural mix, like Europe.

Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like he generated a lot of code and dumped it somewhere.
Comment · 1 year ago
What is special about this train? There are trains that already surpass this speed.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not really true. We have been asked to hire women in our team. Thankfully we found an amazing person. But other teams were not so lucky. It was pure nonsense.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is fantastic.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not true. Unless you learn Sanskrit, you cannot understand that the language can communicate multi[le dimensions of meanings. Ofcourse, it is not needed rudimentary things like physics, chemistry etc.

Ofcourse, Sanskrit can be used like English too. That is like using a super computer as a calculator.

Comment · 3 years ago
Caste system itself was introduced in India by Portuguese in the 15th century.
Comment · 3 years ago
Too much centralization. Centralization is bound to fail eventually. It happened.
Comment · 3 years ago
Amazon is highly irresponsible company. It wastes so much packaging for each shipment.
Comment · 4 years ago
As a citizen, if I get laid off, I get a severance package and support from the state. It is ok if I get laid off. Temporary inconvenience, but family doesn't need to suffer. It is not the case for H1B visa holders.

If H1B visa holder gets laid off, they need to find a job in 60 days. That is a lot of stress. Suppose they find a in different state, they need to move. This is stress for the family and children as well. In the worst case, they may need to leave the country. It is harder, because they need to sell all their properties, move the stuff and relocate the family in an extremely short period of time. I think the H1B rules are draconian.

IMHO, H1B must be reformed or abolished. In the current form, it only benefits big companies to hire great talent for cheap and keep under their control. Similar to bonded labour.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why do you need a queen in 21st century?

Can't the Brits abolish royalty, how they abolished slavery?

Comment · 4 years ago
This is not the full set of events as it happened.

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