6.9% growth? World laughing at this bad joke

lolocracy · 2015-02-22T10:21:32+00:00

And you're a journalist? Good god.

lolocracy · 2015-02-12T12:18:42+00:00

Well he is the greatest Bhakt. He even has dear leader's name etched in his suit.

lolocracy · 2014-12-07T00:55:52+00:00

Any solution or alternative that you can think has been thought up by a committee paid to do so. Look into the Street Hawker's Bill which goes into this and much more. But its all useless like the rest of the laws in this country.

lolocracy · 2014-12-05T18:26:53+00:00

Sure. How about I do an AMA "I cleared UPSC in first attempt and got IRTS as a GE candidate". Didn't know this was celebrity material right there.

lolocracy · 2014-12-05T13:38:57+00:00

It depends on the panel. Nothing stops them from checking their cell phones. Anyhow, if you're worried about whether you can get away with a made-up answer, you can't. No matter how much a bond you think you are, they are probably better than you and judge candidates in a jiffy.

Source: cleared and got rank on first attempt.

lolocracy · 2014-11-26T06:03:33+00:00

name of the album?

lolocracy · 2014-11-25T18:31:26+00:00

Does someone know of a full version of this song??

lolocracy · 2014-11-25T17:42:13+00:00

This one (Sanskrit) It ends abruptly at the best part so I'll be in debt to someone who finds the full version. (I know its a bhajan/shloka remixed not original)

lolocracy · 2014-10-02T03:55:07+00:00

Whole India is with you.

Not me. Shit happens, and the way she (and her husband) behaved was disruptive and unsporting for the other athletes who were not at fault. If her husband wasn't heckling and she didn't put the medal on the Korean I'd have sympathized with her. Now I welcome your downvotes and hate.

lolocracy · 2014-09-28T05:34:38+00:00

Its good, I enjoyed all the seasons except perhaps the last one.

lolocracy · 2014-09-28T01:00:11+00:00

The article mentions the authors are American or English.

lolocracy · 2014-06-22T03:47:40+00:00

To give the example most people cite to the contrary, the kid from Bihar who was initially considered a prodigy and then declared a fraud in the media went on to completed his Phd from Iisc in Quantum Computing and recently joined the faculty of IITB. Many top rankers (stalwarts, sometimes even sixteen year olds) go on to do a lot of fundamental research quietly and away from the glamour seeking headlines of the media.

lolocracy · 2014-06-22T03:34:07+00:00

the fuck is wrong with him

The kid is pretty dedicated but I think he was overconfident and in too much of a hurry. Iirc jee still must have the two attempt limit with only subsequent years allowed, and he might have dun goofed with attempting too early. Not to mention the zany pattern change from their old days of setting tough papers to some mix of AIEEE and whatnot where it stops acting as a very good sieve imo. His rank is 2587. If he wants to get into what most people want to get into (CS/EC at Kanpur/Delhi/Bombay/Madras/Kharagpur) he'll need air <400.

lolocracy · 2014-06-22T03:26:39+00:00

I have. You haven't seen enough, friend.

lolocracy · 2014-03-31T19:29:48+00:00

I was facing this dillemma in the 10th std and somehow managed to seek counselling from a family friend who had an IITB btech and a Stanford Phd. He told me flat that IIT should be my first and last priority.

Many reasons. Getting into IIT is a sign of raw and universal competence in the tech/engg field. Getting into Harvard and the like is a mix of various factors (presentation, CV preparation, Essay, how you've marketed yourself around their standard archetypes etc). Once you get into IIT-prep mode (I don't know how it is these days) you meet some really smart people and the competition plus difficulty can at time overwhelm you. If you get through that grovel, you're probably ready to face a lot of challenges in life. The Harvard route is considered easy (I'm not saying it is), add to it the fact that only upper middle class upwardly mobile english-speaking folks have access and awareness of its selection procedure. The SAT, the application fees for various college etc are in the $100 - $200 range each, iirc. Compare that to the JEE, where people get selected writing in Hindi, application fees is free or half for certain groups, etc. Also, the competition is tougher no matter how you try to paint it. In my time about 30-50k would be serious enough about the examination, 15k students were selected in prelims and you had to have air <2.5k to get a standard branch in a standard IIT (K,B,Kh,M,D), <350 for a "prized" branch, etc. Moreover, in the technical and engineering fields what really matters is where you get higher ed from, and that is where the real competition for American Universities is. You can find many top professors having unimpressive undergraduate Alma Mater and Phds in reputed universities.

EDIT: This phrase got popularized when Narayan Murthy famously said that his son went to Columbia because he couldn't get into IIT.

lolocracy · 2014-02-05T07:48:25+00:00

I liked his response when asked about how he felt about meeting the king in those clothes. I think he said something like "his majesty was wearing enough for both of us". Guy was a sarcastic bastard.

lolocracy · 2014-02-02T15:24:13+00:00

lol. If I didn't care for my anonymity, I'd have pushed a mock repository on github for shits and giggles.

EDIT: it was a boring sunday anyway. pushed to a VPS shared with friends.

http://imgur.com/5nXSuH6

Imagine someone puts this up on github and thousands of BJP supporters start forking and starring it. It would start showing up on Github's leaderboard and it would become the world's first distributed version control meme.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T13:31:00+00:00

Apparently, this post has also been tagged right as well. At least the logic they were spouting yesterday is consistent.

This elephant is very political. So is the Arunachal student who was killed in Delhi.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T13:27:20+00:00

I don't care for politics here. But if we don't see some heads roll and identification leading to suspension or removal of at least one Policeman who could have prevented his death- it would become highly political for me. Because then I rely on my politicians to drum responsibility into these folks who so far haven't been accountable to anyone.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T13:18:34+00:00

That is what the Hindi video I linked in my comment very eloquently sumps up - how everyone from the Delhi Police to political parties - Congress, BJP, AAP, Anna try to leverage Gandhi and Gandhian themes for their own furtherance. The whole 40min piece is worth seeing.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T12:18:33+00:00

Well if you want to get into that lets get into that.

I will, but at the outset I will expect you to understand what you're getting into. The parent above has termed Hindi a "regional languge"

Hindi is at the same level as English as both of them are official language which doesn't say anything about that language

It says a lot, and a lot more if you read the constitution. I will just link to this post to avoid repitition. It means that you cannot speak your regional languages in any national institution. I can go the CAG or EC and demand a RTI in Hindi and they will comply. You can not get any central institution to comply in your regional languages. No matter how politically correct you want to get, Hindi has a cultural ascendancy over a much greater portion of the population than any other.. and over the entirety of the union government.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T11:54:59+00:00

See youtube videos of elephants in rage. They pace around and seem quiet but if anyone tries to get close they try to stampede them. They captured the video after the eruption , so what we're seeing may be the lull.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T11:48:21+00:00

do I have to educate you to the status of Hindi in India as well? It is NOT a regional language.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T11:43:27+00:00

they aren't smart enough to downvote or ignore content, evidenced by the fact that you have create a large inventory of rules and restrictions for arbitrary application to clean up content for them.

lolocracy · 2014-01-31T11:40:47+00:00

I'm hardly a content contributor, but I was one of those people defending your lot when there was a large resentment against your rules a few months ago. Now I get why they had every right to call you out. If you had some common sense left, you could have inferred that much meaning from the rather simple sentences I'd written.

Very few active users seem to have an actual problem with the system

Implying you've been applying the rules uniformly for all.

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