I wonder where the Govt found this opportunity and grabbed it without delay..was it the new way of terrorism? First propagating Islam-phobia and then bring in the restrains slowly - one by one? What was it exactly?
Author takes into example two extreme institutes: IIT Bombay and Amity. They are the extremes in quality. The former is from the upper part of the extreme.
What you need to open an engineering college in India?
-Money and land. It's al right if you do not have adequate amount of land but you have money. [A]
How do you get the license?
-You have to pay for it. Fees and then the mandatory bribe.[B]
Are all the engineering colleges(you can read tech schools) are like these?
-Government - no, almost none. Almost all are good. They are usually free of [A] and [B] mentioned above and quality of education and students(at the time of entry) is exponentially better than most of private ones.
Private - 90% or more among these colleges can be simply labelled as garbage even though they have all the shiny pretty campuses which actually few have.
How do you admit students?
-If you are one of the TOP ones - {IITs - call them Ivy tier-1}, {NITs, IIITs - call them Ivy tier 1.5 - 2}, {some better private and Govt. colleges, maybe 10-15 in entire India - they range from Ivy tier 1.5 to 3} - then you admit students based on entrance exams and/or marks obtained in 10+2 exam(both are considered now).
If you are are among the rest then it's donation based. Donation is a form of bribe/development fee or whatever you call it. You pay a hefty fee either directly to the institute or through agents/crooks/thugs blah-blah and join that institute to get a B Tech/BE[1] degree at the end of 4 years. A degree is almost 100% guaranteed at the end of the year even though you can't figure out what the fuck is O(n)[2] and I mean just the definition without even understanding it.
Do they get jobs?
-Yes. Many(most of them) do. If not via campus selection then trying from the outside. Some get in 2-3-4 years. A friend of mine got a job 2 months back. 3 years after leaving the college. In the mean time he had collected 4-5 fake experiences and show a particular experience papers for that kind of jobs. There are companies offering this service they even pass background checks. Hiring is taken care by services companies. Forget Google, Amazon, MS, Fb, Start-ups blah-blah. It's Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Patni, CSC, Cognizant, Accenture. They hire in thousands. There are jokes in colleges like this year Infy is coming with a bus or train.
Their interview process is great. You are asked questions like "Do you have a girl friend?", "Which city you would prefer to join in?", "and why?", "Who is your favourite sportsman?" -> answer is a cricketer almost always, "Favourite sports" -> it's Cricket and then maybe he will talk about it. Questions like this. No, you are not interviewed for your coding skills. It's just a luck or random game. Some get in some don't. Don't ask why. Earlier I used to get angry why they don't check coding skills but then I realized they don't need that.
So, students don't learn or enhance their skills because it's not needed.
What is AICTE then? Don't they check it?
-Well, other than the officialese[3] it's a shop where you can buy anything if you can pay the right price. It personifies Indian bureaucratic corruption, babudom and how almost every system in India is rotten at the core/root and people are watering the tip or at least pretending to do so.
[1] Bachelor of Technology/Engineering and it really doesn't matter whether it's an E or a T.
[2] I am a CS guy so I skipped Mechanical, EE, Chemical (&c) equivalents.
tl;dr: Education in Indian engineering colleges is a farce that is why students don't get jobs when their skills are tested and they can't create jobs either. Skills again.
I don't know whether it's a mistake or not but I see a lot of new location/locality/city specific apps/startups coming out as only in city A,B or maybe works only in the USA. Though I'm sure majority of HNers are north Americans, most of these starups/services could actually open up to the world.
What happens is you see an app and from the outside it seems promising, you go inside and it's like "oh, great! USA only" or maybe "SF only" etc. One solution would be to just put a banner on home page "ABC only as of now" or whatever.
It was just a subjective question. I thought Dropbox could just extend this functionality.
Or maybe 3rd party apps/services could felicitate this just the way e.g. http://calepin.co does for static site generation. Use Dropbox for storage of emails. And naturally you'll have a local email archive on all your connected devices.
So, seems there's nth like this as Dropbox doesn't let us to do the compounding, as you also pointed out.
>>Who goes to a business meeting with a potential partner that can make your business soar, and then goes and blabs all over the internet about the partner's business strategy
One who has thousands of people(and more who can be potential independent businesses(musicians/singers) on his portal) to communicate to in a short time and the other guy(business) who never mentioned[0] secrecy[1].
[0] Yes, you out to have done that.
[1] Source: post.
I agree that he needed to communicate with the artists. The problem is the level of detail of the notes he shared. Did you read through his notes? Those notes were a perfected business plan handed to Yahoo / eMusic / Rhapsody, and a bit of a slap in the face to the major labels.
I have mixed feeling about whether it was right for Steve to be vindictive, but I am certain I would be pissed.
Everything the guy did just screams amateur. The first issue is posting information about a deal before a contract has been signed. However, I'd argue that the bigger issue is the $40 price tag that was slapped onto the iTunes upload service. The record label is already making money off of its customers through sales on iTunes; why on Earth would you cheapen the service by making it seem like anyone with $40 cash-in-hand can become part of the iTunes catalog? The fact that the author made $200,000 (!) in iTunes service sales alone says a lot.
My understanding is CD Baby was never a 'label'. They chose a service model and operated more like a fulfillment service. E.g. we will store and ship CDs to customers for a fee, we will upload your stuff to iTunes for a fee, etc. Charging $40 to upload to itunes seems very reasonable. If Apple wanted to allow anyone anywhere to upload to iTunes with no quality control, they wouldn't use partners like CDBaby.
Furthermore, it makes no sense to think Apple was pissed about the $40 since that happened after Apple got pissed.
It looks like a very fair deal for small artists to me.
> Everything the guy did just screams amateur.
I disagree. At the very least, he is very smart. If you read those notes, it is clear that he has an incredible ability to distill and communicate what was important.
"Everything the guy did just screams amateur. The first issue is posting information about a deal before a contract has been signed. "
Agree. Default state in business normally "not ok to talk about this" unless specifically mentioned or there is some reason to believe that it is ok by other factors. Sometimes of course it's explicitly pointed out. Maybe someone simply forgot in the chain of command. Doesn't a meeting with Steve scream "better not talk about this"?
In the end it doesn't matter whether Apple is right or wrong anyway. It's the golden rule. He who has the gold rules. In this case assuming you want to be in business with Apple you need to go to extreme lengths to play the game the way they want it played.
wtf? As OP stated, there was nothing in the meeting about confidentiality. If you are telling people your business plan, and talking about that plan would benefit them, but you want it to remain secret, fucking tell them.
I wonder where the Govt found this opportunity and grabbed it without delay..was it the new way of terrorism? First propagating Islam-phobia and then bring in the restrains slowly - one by one? What was it exactly?