nice article!
For those trying to do research, for research's sake... how many path-breaking PhD's in Computer Science has US produced? (For that matter, any country in the world-but let's stick with US)
I feel that the entire culture has been skewed towards incremental improvements.
I bet, 90% of papers churned out, would be having conclusions something like.. "improved the performance of X by y% under the conditions L,M,N"
where (L,M,N) might be near-impossible to occur simultaneously in real life.
You cant disregard/dismiss Gary's points- sure,Apple II might not have been the last technological innovation, but overall- he has raised a valid point.
If you are the guy behind this site.. care to elaborate on the "market cap" of indian matrimony sites? Have you launched recently? profitable? size of user base?
That's definitely world changing... regaining touch with one's near and dear....
The specifics of your girlfriend's case apart....Losing touch with one's own mother.. for 6 years??@!#@!#, and Facebook re-uniting them??
Unless this was a forcible separation due to a natural calamity/war... (in which case my heart-felt sympathies) anything like this is really inexcusable.
I really,really find that sad if the current, or future generation would be requiring Facebook/Twitter to keep in touch with one's parents. That trivializes relationships.
Many-a-times,the urge for putting in "pouring out heart and soul" and do late-nighters takes over common sense.
I have come to the sober realization that debugging with lack of sleep is the equivalent of a drunken monkey controlling the trajectory of a space shuttle.
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Was wondering how I missed seeing an address on that profile.. then I saw who wrote the comment :-)
Thanks for the clarification, Pg!
Just couldn't help wondering about it- seemed weird to notice that many first-names account not posting/commenting, but just existing.