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this is a genral concensus but there are some very strong under currents that are taking india away from this...

the number of infrastructure projects in and around major cities are growing exponentially. new airports, busniess parks, highways you name it... to add to this, india is not just out-sourcing.. yes it is a 70 billion dollar industry but there are lot many things going on in india.

yes given the beaurocracy things might not be apparent but india is coming into its own slowly but surely

what is this thing doing on HN front page?

Yes! thanks for pointing it out... ever implies SINCE 1979

its like taking the greediest best out of communism and capitalism. china implements a wonderful new beast - "commu-talism"

Yes, the producers had bought rights to use and change the plot in the book

I think the author is confused between knowledge and wisdom. I dont make any claims that i am smart but say if it takes me certain degree of effort and time to attain level-4 expertise. Imparting this level-4 expertice to a person who is at level-0 makes no sense to me.

The level-0 person should go through all the intermidiate levels to make the things that appear obvious to me, also appear seemless to him/her. Gaining level-4 expertise will lead them to a mechanical process of understanding. This is where we cross the line between wisdom and knowledge.

Also, the expert person more often than not is left with a feeling of being used by someone who attained somthing without any hard work. Things get complicated from here. My approach is to let the level-0 person give clues about reaching level-1 and make ways for the person to progress without complete reliance on me. Some kind of mentoring.

we could may be look at this link as a first step towards achieving what you say... let us all chip in..

thanks for giving this link. I really wonder why designer/ developers - who ever it is - decide to try and make these things like a slide show. things look more intuitive in the printer friendly version. if at all it is at most necessary to show it in a slide show, at least dont refresh the whole page.

has anyone out there developed such a thing - as on this page. what is it that leads to such a design? many sites do this.

I find this argument completely incorrect... Was Google made for expert users? Were ipods made for expert users? Providing an interface which allows users to accomplish a complex task and in the process users know what they are doing is the essence of the whole ui.

I would suggest provide support for both. As it has been mentioned, there are libraries that you can use to generate either of these. Tumblr is the first that came to my mind - it provides support for both.

Give developers freedom to choose either of them...

To assume an identity is a natural trait of every human. It has harmed us the most by far. I feel glad such an abstract topic is put in words by Paul. Thanks Paul.

I agree with Paul when he says we need to keep our identity small. Assuming an identity weather it be religious, national or any other, blocks our rational side from seeing things clearly. An identity levies upon the carries a sense of entitlement; it clots our mind with prejudice.

It is high time we stop doing this. And by keeping our identity small we lift the entitlement burden from our head. We no longer need to belong to a particular group, justify certain legacy thoughts that were forced upon us.

Many of the problems we face today are because of carrying identities which we assume by chance! The country where I belong, the language which I speak, the religion which I follow - every thing was enforced upon me by chance. Why should there be a resentment when one tries to shrug an identity.

It will only make our minds clear and we will be left with less burden to carry,

The thing that you are talking about is already in place in a very famous social bookmarking site - stumbleupon.com. It works on exact same principal - "Personally, I want to find comments by people I've come to trust, without necessarily agreeing with. My assessment won't necessarily agree with yours, so we end up with a system that has to record individual preferences."

It categorizes all the links marked and over a period of time it will show your surfing preferences. Every user has a profile and you can visit their profiles and view their preferences and subscribe to their 'stumbles' - links they liked.

The thing that's missing on stumbleupon is the discussion culture that present on HN.

thanks for that and yes, oops! :)