I agree!!! While I would LIKE to say it was the K&R C, it's really the ANSI C that is the core building block. Linux (the OS) is one example.

IMHO, it can have potentially far reaching implications if APIs are protected. Applications use system APIs to run on top of Operating Systems.

It will be possible to lock specific applications and prevent them from running...

Oracle has traditionally never supported open systems.

Here's the latest on the landing. @ISRO has located the lander and are attempting to communicate with it. Let's see how that goes. There's some (unconfirmed) reports that there's some communication but I think it is better to wait for a confirmed report. Let's see, fingers crossed. In the meantime, the Orbiter has a large number of tasks to do. It did its job of getting there and launching the lander well, well enough that the spare fuel etc., extends its life from 1 year to 7 years. More details on what it tasks are at: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FPrinSciAdv... Given the weight limitations of the rover and lander, the experiments there were limited (well OK, they were crucial) in number. Most of the experiments/instruments are on the Orbiter. Based on this, Chandrayaan 2 is more than 95% successful.

Thought this link would help: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.livemint.com%2Fscien...

India actually gives a lot of aid. This one's from 2017: http://www.newindianexpress.co... The quantum of aid it gives is significantly larger than the aid given it it. We told the UK and other countries way back to STOP giving aid to us but they begged us to continue taking the aid. So, if your country gives aid to India, please please reach out to your congressmen (or whoever) and tell them to stop giving us aid. We DON'T need it.

Thought I'd answer this one about standing up and showing the world.

Taco Cowboy - We're not in a hurry. I think (as an Indian), being inclusive is far more important and this will help us all succeed together. We still don't have the strength/power to do that today but as you can see, we're building up to it.

Yes, we (especially those of us who have worked outside India) are pretty aware of some of the racist comments - a lot of us have experienced it. But having been born and brought up in an extremely diverse society, we know how to come together to succeed together.

Give us time. One day, we will say yes we can!! (stand together)...

just wanted to comment on this one:

I have worked at a pretty senior level in a very large and global Software company. Here's roughly how the process of deciding salaries happens.

1. We make a list of our reportees on a spreadsheet (and an upline manager can have over 300 reportees), add in various parameters and rank them.
   Once we've ranked and sync'd up with our managers AND with our peers, the data is uploaded into the salary tool. This is an online tool.
   However, we can (and do) download csv files from the tool - including past and proposed salaries since it is so much easier to juggle data in Excel.
   
   The reason I describe this process is - if my (or any of the other managers') machines are hacked while we are making the salary decisions, the hackers will surely get the salary data. The download is necessary since the Salary tool is not as flexible as looking at data in an xls. This is especially true when one is looking at the salary of a very large number of people. This, to my knowledge, is true for most large Organizations and based on your point, most senior managers of the organization hacked would get fired.

Here's the trend from '90s to today. Courtesy @Vivek Wadhwa: http://venturebeat.com/2014/11...

Hmmmm... Interesting.
here's an Indian (entrepreneural) perspective.

Let me start with a few stories:
The founder of Snapdeal http://www.snapdeal.com/ (an India focused ecommerce company) wanted to do a startup in the Valley but didn't get a visa. So he decided to stay back and do his startup in Bangalore. Snapdeal is now valued at ~$10B and is challenging both Amazon & Flipkart here. Their YoY growth is 6x.

Zomato http://www.zomato.com/ started of by consolidating its presence in India and has now gone multi-national (15 countries and expanding). They haven't gone to the US yet.

There are quite a few startups happening here that are focused on India, the rest of AsiaPac & EU regions and a lot of these have just begun to scale. These startups have started taking the cream of the Engg folks who would have otherwise gone to Infosys, Wipro and from there on to the US.

In fact, I know of a couple of headhunters who place US engineers with Indian startups in India. It is a trickle now and I think it would be good to cherry pick the better ones from out there. There are lots of seriously good engineers who we can use.

As an entrepreneur/co-founder myself (of an early stage in the enterprise space), it makes a lot of sense for us to be India and AsiaPac focused - We have a large market that we would convert first. First of all it is so much easier for us to sell in my backyard and then I honestly don't have the time to wade through all the Visa & other issues that the US would throw at us.

The only reason I would consider the US is the size of the market which will be important to me once I've consolidated and have become profitable. The market that is right in front of me (India and then China) is large enough for me to grow to be a fairly large entity.

I am sorely disappointed. There seems to be a lot of racism here. Here's some more: http://www.firstpost.com/world...

Honestly, I am unable to comprehend why there's so much racism. The US is known for ensuring racism doesn't happen as compared to a lot of other place.

For those interested in detailed tracking: http://www.hindustantimes.com/...

There have been significant innovations brought to the global space efforts by Mangalyaan. These innovations are the ones that cut the costs of the Mars initiative to $75M.

There have been innovations in planning, management and execution. The key ones have been a strategic focus on component reuse and leveraging other ongoing space missions within ISRO to concurrently complete tasks for Mangalyaan (:-) Isro folks hate the nickname). The whole project was planned in detail and completely schedule driven. Mangalyaan took 18 months from Mission announcement to lift-off. http://www.forbes.com/sites/sa...

The other major innovation was in terms of software modelling & simulation of the entire mission. Physical tests were made redundant on a scale never done before - just one prototype was needed. This cut waste, time & costs significantly.

ISRO chose a longer route but the slingshotting technique paid off in terms of far lesser fuel consumption (thus reducing the weight of the space craft) and yet took approximately the same time as the Maven.

Low manpower costs also helped.

I would think the payoffs to the global space community are in terms of cutting edge techniques developed. Collaboration with the Indian industry have helped build next-gen capability which will pay off in the years to come.

The Mom, a Technology demonstrator is a product of Jugaad or Frugal Engineering. The next mission is scheduled for sometime in 2017-2020. More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Thought you all would find this link interesting: http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/marsorbitermission/marsorbitermission/mangalyaan-on-track-5-things-to-know-about-india-s-mars-orbiter-mission/sp-article10-1263914.aspx