I won't be surprised if governments start outlawing journalism.

Hi,I am also from India(staying in Bangalore) and would like some advice from you.I have over 5 years of experience as a Programmer.For the first 3 years I have worked as a contractor.From the last 2 years I am working as a Software Engineer in a small startup and my take home salary is 70000INR(monthly).I want to switch to a more stable job with better salaries.I have never worked for a big company.What does it take to earn such salaries in India?I did not pass out from any Tier 1 institute.Currently I am preparing for interviews with help of CTCI and CLRS books.It would be helpful if you can give me some advice on what measures I can take to get a job at one of the better paying companies.

Both you and tata2020 have asked for advice from sures and, having often been in the position of hiring programmers from India, something really stands out:

I honestly couldn't tell if sures was an American, British or Indian through his writing. The use of punctuation, general cadence and adherence to the standards of written communication popular in America mean I have more immediate faith in him as a candidate (however unjustified that may be).

On the other hand (8sigma and tata2020) I can tell in a flash that you are from southern Asia, and your writing immediately evokes long online pages of poorly qualified Indian programmers seeking work or personal experiences of dealing with poorly-qualified programmers from India.

I'm not, in any way, a stickler for grammar or spelling. However, for reasons I am not sure of, a number of common conventions have emerged from Indians that differ dramatically from American/British usage in casual writing: Not placing a space after punctuation, using "From" rather than "for", "needful", etc.

I suspect you could do very well for yourself if you made a few small adjustments in your writing.

Hey, Thank you for the feedback. I am aware of my poor English skills. I am working on improving it. Can you offer me some tips on how I can improve it?

I see this thread has become a point of interest for many. I wish I could offer some wise advice. But the truth is that I have not done anything special or done any special preparation in my career.

The only thing I have done is learn tech and non-tech stuff. I do it everyday. It is easy for me because I like technology. Computers have been my hobby for a long time. I read a lot of books in all kinds of domains. And I read a lot more for my special domain of interest (distributed systems). So I think this naturally makes me equipped for most kinds of interviews. I do not like solving or reading about puzzles that do not have a relation with real world projects, so I am naturally bad at such kind of interviews.

I am myself not a fan of CTCI. But I think CLRS is a good start. Sorry I don't have better advice than this. Someone else in this awesome forum could be of better help to you.

Ready for making the move? Where can I find your resume? :)

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Hi,Akash good luck with your venture.Can you post a thread on reddit india(r/india) too?

Sure. Will do it shortly.

Fabrice Bellard's projects always make it to the front page every time they are posted.

Probably because years after release they still get a wow out of most.

What does he work on nowadays?

Well, he made it possible to run Windows 2000 in JavaScript: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/...

It works by running QEMU inside Linux inside a modified JSLinux, and then running Win2K inside QEMU.

JSLinux was modified to incorporate AMD's hardware-assisted virtualization instructions/extensions, so that QEMU could use KVM. This means that actual x86 emulation gets done in JavaScript layer, and you have (JavaScript (JSLinux(QEMU)) <-> Win2K) instead of (JavaScript(JSLinux(QEMU(Win2K))))), which would be... well I tried running Mini vMac (Mac 128K emulator) inside Basilisk II (PowerPC Mac emulator) one day... it was pretty much unusable, even though Classic Mac OS was designed for a 7.8MHz CPU.

So basically this wouldn't have been possible without implementing virtualization. Despite the fact that said virtualization is actually fake, and it's really emulation.

I am from India too and would like to know more about your experience with the program.Can you share your email id?

Your only option is to eat more and build muscle. Try one of the many weightlifting plans out there. Eat 6 tablespoons of high-quality peanut butter a day.

I will be downvoted for saying this: Most of the subscribers were issued 5 sims per aadhar number.In that sense its really around 20 million subscribers each with around 5 sims in their name.And anybody can be sure that they aren't using all the issued sims.Also most of the subscribers have stopped using the sims after the freebies was called off.

I don't think HN would downvote you for having an alternative datapoint. =)

That said, you are right to a degree but the only multiple sim holding report I saw was Truecaller saying that 46% of its installs are people with dual sims. This was last year. I'd love to hear about your sources and proxies about 5.

That said, there are multiple longer run plays here:

- onboarding 1M/SIMs/day.

- pumping that much data volume/day.

- commoditisation of data packs.

- this is just the data layer of digital infra, value layers over this would be built in next 2-5 years. It is a sub percentage point of GDP growth if you measure not just the ARPU that Jio makes, but what every business makes here on top of this.

- productivity growth is hard to measure in terms of short run revenue of one company. This is digital infrastructure akin to roadways, railroads and electricity.

This is true or yet another April fool hoax?

both op and you are the same person?

No