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Freelancers: An Indian name for Google?

March 29, 2016
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First we had Sundar Pichai of India as the new CEO of Google. What next? Well, the possibility that the next version of the popular Android mobile phone platform will have an Indian name. That’s what’s next!

India and Indians are, almost on a daily basis, making a splash on the world’s stage. Long gone are the days when India was considered a quiet, sleepy country. We are arriving and have arrived. The name or the new Android version may indeed have an Indian name – but apparently it has to start with the letter “N”.

What are our choices? Who knows. Some have suggested Nirmala or Neha Dupia or New Delhi. Of course, we will not know until all of the voting is completed, but the very fact that our own son is now chief of Google and that he has brought home to India the possibility of an Indian name on the next Android version is a sign of our arrival on the world’s stage.

India, and the excellent tech that comes from India, is slowly but surely becoming a world standard and a world’s admiration. Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella did not become CEOs of some of the most important and recognizable companies world wide by chance. It is their India roots that have contributed to their prominence. These same India roots are on display every day in the high quality of the programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com. There is not a day that goes by when someone does not comment on the quality and excellence of our technological members of IndiaFreelancers.com. And well they should. All of our excellent and wonderful technological personnel on IndiaFreelancers.com have in their hearts the same India roots which propelled people like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella to the pinnacle of their careers.

So when you next think of and consider advising someone of where to go to find the best programmers and/or web developers. Remember that the excellent programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com may someday be the next CEO of a large American company – and may be bringing an important thing home to India like the next Android version – for an India name.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Star Wars: Reality and Fiction get closer

March 27, 2016
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The most recent Star Wars movie is excellent. It combines the elements of the past Star Wars movies (the past actors and robots) with the newcomers. It allows us to join the past with the future. Luke Skywalker is resurrected. Its great.

But how about real life? How close are these things to real life? Well, science is quickly catching up to science fiction. Those of us who are old enough to remember, can recall an old TV detective comic from the past called “Dick Tracy”. In that series the main character, Dick Tracy, had a wrist-worn “walkie talkie” which, in 1931 when the comic was first launched, seemed like a far-off impossibility. Well, say hello to my Apple or Android Watch. It can make phone calls and read text messages as well as email. Science fiction meets Science reality.

The same can be said for weapons of the future. We have seen images of lazers used as weapons for about as far back as we can remember seeing science fiction movies. However, in a recent report from the New Delhi based Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), they note that indeed they are close to having developed something called a DEW which stands for a Directed Energy Weapons (DEWs) and is something between a high-energy lasers and high-powered microwaves aimed at something. The Hyderabad-based Centre for High Energy Systems and Sciences (CHESS) noted that such DEW systems, in their hands, can have a reach of as much as 800 meters. 800 meters? That is almost a kilometer? Does this mean that this device can beam up and destroy an aircraft almost a kilometer up in the sky? Well, at this point the answer to that is “possibly.”

What does all of this have to do with the excellent Freelancers we have on IndiaFreelancers.com? Well the connection is that our outstanding programmers and developers are the bridge that is bringing science fiction and science reality together. Our superb programmers, developers and Internet geniuses on IndiaFreelancers.com may very likely be discovered on our website and asked to take part in what may very well be the future defense of India.

So please do not stop thinking and wondering. Our outstanding programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com certainly do not – and neither do the people working on DEWs or CHESS.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Medicine: What are Fixed Dose Combination Drugs?

March 22, 2016
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Today I had eggs and toast for breakfast. I had my eggs on one side of my plate and the toast on the other side. Yet, if I were to go to McDonald’s and buy an “Egg McMuffin”, I could buy a sandwich with bread and eggs all in one. That is what is a Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) medicine.

Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) medicines are pills (usually a pill or a capsule) which take a few different medicines and put them all (typically two but it can sometimes be as many as three) into one pill. The convenience of this is that when you take that ONE pill, you are really taking as many as THREE pills at once, but they are all mashed into that one pill.

One would maybe think “how convenient.” Instead of taking one pill, then another and then another. All you need to do with an FDC pill is take ONE pill and you would have ALL THREE medicines in that ONE pill. How easy can that be? Right? Wrong.

The dangers to taking an FDC medicine is the AMOUNTS of each of the individual medicines inside of an FDC pill! An FDC CONTROLS FOR YOU how much of EACH of these medicines you will take. You have no choice. Its like the Egg McMuffin. You do not get to choose how much egg or how much muffin comes to you. It comes already made. The amounts of each of these two ingredients (the egg and the muffin) are fixed before you get your sandwich. Now, when we are dealing with sandwiches that may not be such a bad thing but when we are dealing with medicines that can be terrible. What if you need a little MORE of medicine “A” but a little LESS of medicine “B”? Well, if you take a medicine in which both medicine “A” and “B” are fixed in that one pill and you cannot change the amounts of each of the medicines in that one pill – you may be in trouble. The results can be a disaster. You might wind up taking MORE of medicine “A” than what you need or LESS of medicine “B” than what you need.

If your body needs different amount of different medicines you would be wiser to be a little more industrious, put in a little more effort and take the individual medicines individually. My mom used to say “the person who strives to do less work usually winds up working twice as hard” and I believe that this is what is happening with these FDC medicines. If you wish to work so little that you do not want to take the trouble to take two different pills (heaven forbid you might have to open your mouth twice and swallow two times!), you will maybe pay the price of having to work twice as hard to get over the problems you might have by taking too much or too little of a medicine in an FDC.

Why are we talking about this here today? Well, the Madras High Court today, March 23, 2016, banned 344 of these FDC medicines. If you wish to know which are the medicines which have been banned, you can find them at this link here. However the key is to take your time, take a little more effort and take each medicine that you need individually.

Now, how is all of this relevant to IndiaFreelancers.com? Well the reason it is relevant to our excellent and outstanding freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com is because the future of medicine is in IT. More and more, medicine is going the way of programs and IT enhancements. CAT Scans, MRI Scans, Glucose Meters to test your blood sugar level, etc etc. Our world-class programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com would do well to keep an eye on the world of medicine. The next FDC that you may hear about, may be when someone is asking to hire you to make it easier for people to take their FDCs – and you will need to know what these medicines are if you wish to consider possibly accepting such a job.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

 

Freelancers and Apple: Please continue the romance

March 21, 2016
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Companies are, in so many ways, like people. They are both born and experience their early years. They both reach adolescence during which time they learn from their mistakes and they both then move on to being large and mature. Unfortunately, like people, many companies then go on to older years and then possibly one day cease to exist (or are bought out by another company).

Following the example above then, Apple is in many ways, showing us its age. One sign of this is the recent announcement now in March of 2016 of the launch of the iPhone SE and the decidedly lukewarm reception that this announcement has garnered. Gone are the large, adoring crowds for the launch of an Apple products. Gone are the long lines which stretch for blocks to the door of an Apple store in order to be “first” to buy a wonderful new Apple product. What we see in their absence, is a company which is slowly coming down to earth to be like almost just any other company. But notice I said “almost.”

Why almost? Well, because Apple is decidedly not just like “any other company.”  The many cutting-edge and new technological developments put in place years ago by Steve Jobs have ensured that Apple will be quite a remarkable company well into the next decade.

For this reason we recommend to our excellent programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com to continue to sharpen their iPhone development skills. To continue to learn and become proficient with Apple’s Operating Systems and writing programs for it. Please continue the romance with Apple. Apple may be showing us its age, but it is most decidedly here to stay for a long time. Programmers and web developers on IndiaFreelancers.com would do very well indeed to continue to stay very much in tune with the programming and development changes announced by the tech giant, as they will serve us well for the foreseeable future.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Aircraft: Up in the sky?

March 20, 2016
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What in the world can our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com and aircraft have in common? How does one mix, as my mom used to say, rice with mango? Well the answer is in the programming.

As our lives continue to move to the IT and computer world, pretty soon, regardless of whether you are operating an airplane, a car or a toaster, there will likely be a software component to it. More and more “smart” homes are equipped with things such as “remote” operating door openers, air conditioners which you can operate from your mobile telephone and other such devices. More and more cars are becoming mobile computers and, of course, airplanes are no different. Regardless of how different the airplanes or the cars look, IT and programming will play an increasingly important role in their make up and function.

Take, for example the recent announcement of a very unusual aircraft. In London today, March 20th, 2016, the company Airlander announced the creation of a very strange looking aircraft which they have called the “Airlander 10.” In an article in the Daily Mail this new aircraft, which is billed as “part aircraft, part helicopter” and a “flying bum!” is pictured and described.

This is an aircraft filled with helium (in order to avoid a repeat of the Hindenburg disaster). This very long and odd looking contraption is reported as being almost 100 meters longer than the longest passenger jet flying today, capable of transporting 50 tonnes of freight, up to 48 passengers and able to remain in the air for up to 3 weeks at a time! What a contraption!

However, as varied and unusual and groundbreaking as this Airlander 10 appears to be, we know one thing with certainty. There is undoubtedly IT and programming on board. No question about it. And if there is IT and programming on board, then our excellent and outstanding programmers on IndiaFreelancers.com are capable of creating, writing or perfecting whatever software runs that thing.

That is one of the beautiful things about IndiaFreelancers.com. We have some of the best minds working as freelancers on our website – all capable of taking part in the most varied of things. Even a large helium-filled unusual aircraft.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: US Supreme Court and Surgeon General

March 16, 2016
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In so many ways, the new century of the years 2000 is the century of India. We are growing in India in so many ways. We have a very rapidly growing economy. In 2015 India’s economy was judged to be the fastest growing economy in the world with a growth rate of 7.5 percent. This was faster than even China’s 6.9 percent growth rate for 2015. The World Bank also projects that India will be the fastest growing economy for 2016.

But our growth and increasing world status is measured in the quality of our sons and daughters. Indra Nooyi is a prominent daughter of India who is today the CEO of Pepsi. Satya Nadella is CEO of Microsoft and Sundar Pichai is now CEO of Google. Indians are slowly, quietly but most definitely rising to the highest positions in the world and showing the world our quality.

Now comes the position of the Supreme Court of the United States. There are reports that President Barack Obama of the United States is going to nominate Judge Sri Srinivasan to be the first Indian to the Supreme Court of the United States. He is very well regarded in all judicial circuits. In 2013, he was confirmed unanimously to the Washington DC Circuit Court . That was an amazing feat for a court which is considered to be the “introductory” court to a Supreme Court appointment.

Why are these things I have mentioned above relevant to our freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com? Well, the reason is because our excellent and outstanding programmers, web developers and technical experts on IndiaFreelancers.com com from the same high quality source as the people who are today the CEOs of Microsoft, Google and Pepsi. Our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com share the same quality heritage as the possible future justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dr. Vivek Murthy, the current Surgeon General of the United States.

So, as I always tell our excellent freelancers on IndiaFreelancers.com, please remember that, as you do your work and answer your customers, your quality – and all of India – is on display. You are ambassadors to the world of the outstanding quality that is India.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Start in India – end up in Google

March 14, 2016
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In July of 1972 a boy was born in Chennai, Tamil nadu, in India. How could we imagine that that boy would go on to some day be the CEO of one of the most well known companies in the entire world? That boy is today known as Sundar Pichai (Pichai Sundarajan) and he is today the CEO of Google.

This is what we on IndiaFreelancers.com know so well. We in India have the abilities to be the best in the world. We have produced people who have created, invented and changed so many things in the world for the better. Today there are Indians who are CEOs and heads of companies such as Pepsi (Indra Nooyi), Microsoft (Satya Nadella) and Adobe (Shantanu Narayen). Indians are running things all over the world.

And where do they get their start? They get their start with the strong work ethic and strong sense of family and community that they learn as young lads in India. They learn to respect hard work and perseverance. They learn to respect their elders and love their families – and they take these lessons as “gifts” with them to go out to the rest of the world and bring glory to India. They let the world know that India is tomorrow’s economy. India is the world’s future.

Once upon a time the world thought that the next USA would be Japan or, more recently, China. But we have seen that this is not the case. Japan’s economy has decreased very much over the last decade and, more recently, the Wall Street Journal reported (January 19, 2016) that China’s economic growth in 2015 was the slowest rate of growth for the last 25 years.

But that is not the case with India. We are growing – and growing fast. India is today one of the most impressively developing technological countries. For all of our persistent poverty, we have large cities developing like flowers blooming. Technology, and web sites such as IndiaFreelancers.com which bring the world’s employers in contact with the wonderful minds of our great programmers, web site designers and other technological wonders in India are the bridge between the world and our wonderful young minds.

So please do not worry if today you are working as a Freelancer on IndiaFreelancers.com. This is your stage and your chance. This is your introduction to the world. The world – and its employers – are waking up to the beautiful diamond which is India and websites such as IndiaFreelancers.com serve as the introductory means by which these two worlds meet (the world’s employers and India’s outstanding tech professionals) and, if you will, marry.

Many a young person started on IndiaFreelancers.com, was discovered by a major employer on the website and was then hired to go to the employer’s country to grow with them. In India, I do not think we are wrong if we feel as if the 21st century is ours for the taking.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers and Money: Employed, Freelancing or both?

March 12, 2016
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More and more firms – both national and international – are making names for themselves in India. Even more importantly is that, as they do, they need more and more qualified employees.

No company in the world today can exist without having an IT infrastructure. Someone needs to take care of their network, their servers, their websites, their databases and on and on. Therefore, as companies grow, the number of well qualified personnel – especially technical personnel – that is required to keep them growing and thriving increases.

Recently, companies such as so-called “brick and mortar” companies like Tata Motors and Internet based companies such as Flipkart and Vodafone as well as financial firms such as Paytm and Future Group and established companies such as Panasonic, Mahindra & Mahindra and Godrej all announced that they are willing to pay their top performers as much as 200% more for the coming year than they paid them for the previous year – if they keep performing well and if they do not leave the company. For example, financial firm Paytm announced that it has budgeted approximately $3-4 million dollars to pay extra pay and bonuses for its top performing employees. Paytm, as well as other companies mentioned above, have announced that they will also rewarded top performing employees with generous stock options and promotions within the companies.  Companies in India are willing to pay a premium for good talent these days – and this trend is growing!

This is where IndiaFreelancers.com comes in. On IndiaFreelancers.com you, the programmer or web designer, are able to interact with these companies as a prolonged “employment interview.” Companies hire programmers from IndiaFreelancers.com all the time. The way it works is that companies first hire a programmer or developer or website designer using IndiaFreelancers.com and, when they see the quality that the freelancer brings to the table, they offer the freelancer a job in their company.

It is a wonderful “try before you buy” sort of arrangement where everyone wins. The Freelancer is able to get his or her skills in front of companies and the company is able to test the potential employee to see if their is a “fit” between the employee and the company. Everyone wins.

Therefore, if you are a young – or not so young – programmer or web developer who wishes to “break in” into larger companies and their lucrative salaries, consider creating a profile on a site such as IndiaFreelancers.com and letting these large companies FIND YOU instead of you finding them. Let them hire you on IndiaFreelancers.com and see the excellent qualities you bring to the table – and very possibly they will hire you.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: Are tablet computers going away?

March 9, 2016
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There are things which we look at and think that “they will not last”. When tablets were first introduced, this is what we thought. A regular desktop computer with a nice sized screen and a keyboard make sense. It is very easy to interact with the keyboard, the mouse and the computer on a desktop – not so easy with a tablet.

First of all, there is no easy keyboard. Yes you can have a “virtual” keyboard, but its not the same. Secondly, the virtual keyboard takes up some of the space which would normally be used to view whatever you are seeing on your screen. Then there is the issue of “How do you hold it?”. Tablets just do not seem to be easy to grasp. Do you put your fingers on the screen in order to hold it? Are you scared of dropping it? Have you dropped it?

For all of these reasons we feared that tablets might not remain in demand and, unfortunately, it is starting to seem as if we were right. The International Data Corporation, a global research firm, in December 2015 published the results of a study they conducted which indeed noted that “Despite a decline in overall tablet shipments worldwide, business use tablet segments are positioned to see steady growth.” Now to many who read this, the sentence where it says that “tablets segments are positioned to see a steady growth” would catch their eye. But to us, the part that says that “a decline in overall tablet shipments” is the part that catches our eye.

These are things to keep in mind if you are a programmer and/or website developer on IndiaFreelancers.com. As you write for and create programs, please make sure to remember to make them responsive. Remember to make them able to be viewed across all screens – mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers. Why? Well, because even if the tablet – as we now know it – may be in decline, there are millions of them around and people still use them. Thus, it makes sense to take them into account when you create programs or web sites.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

Freelancers: The Akash Mittal story

March 7, 2016
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Akash Mittal is a handsome, energetic and hard working young man. He is presently pursuing the final semester of a five-year integrated Ocean Engineering programme at IIT Kharagpur. As any young man thinking of his future when his studies are nearing completion, he thought to apply to Flipkart for a job. He knew that “Being a six-pointer (CGPA), I knew I will never get through. So, I tried something innovative,” and so he did something innovative. Last week, he made a screenshot of a Flipkart listing page onto which he photoshopped  information about himself and uploaded it on to the Flipkart career page.

Well, he may not have been what Flipkart was looking for, but he is most certainly what the world is looking for. We at IndiaFreelancers.com have known all along that the world is very much looking for India’s IT talent.

So this is how the Akash Mittal story then unfolded. He may not have been quickly “snapped up” by Flipkart, but his innovative posting on Flipkart’s career page went “viral” and, as Akash has noted, soon many employers were calling Akash and offering him jobs!

As quoted in an article on EtRetail.com, Akash said that “After this thing got viral, I have received a number of offers, including that of chief product manager and chief technology officer.”

While this is wonderful news for Akash, it is what we at IndiaFreelancers.com have known all along. Employers from all over the world want India’s programmers and web designers. The world is waking up to the enormous quality that is to be found with technology professionals from India at a tremendous value because of the currency exchange. This interaction between employers worldwide and technology experts in India is exactly what we facilitate and bring together on IndiaFreelancers.com. We help to bring the employers and India’s excellent tech professionals together.

Therefore, although we are very, very happy for Akash and the wonderful happy ending to his job application story, we know that if he did not have such a happy ending to his application for employment going “viral”, he could have as well created a profile on IndiaFreelancers.com and earned large sums of money from the employers who would have hired him to develop programs and other application for them through IndiaFreelancers.com.

Ranjiv P for IndiaFreelancers.com

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