tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-148269332011-09-28T08:17:45.015-07:00Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.comBlogger721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-81708562479135162032010-12-29T03:01:00.000-08:002010-12-29T03:01:06.758-08:00

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-209772406307401252010-12-13T22:59:00.000-08:002010-12-14T02:34:30.224-08:00

People who know me understand why I love xkcd comics, and this one in particular. It is actually titled "The Economic Argument", but you know how much I like food so I call it "The Proof of the Pudding Argument". Your irrationality seems a little uncomfortable, eh? No? Study that table again...carefully...Now? What, still irrational? OK. Get a dowsing rod over your head to check for some brain

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One of my old managers used to say, “we come here to do a good job. Little else matters”. Many of us have been shocked when faced with certain realities of working in a corporate environment. This is my understanding of ten such surprises that catch us unawares, especially in the first few years of our careers: 1.   Sorry, but this is not about you It is a humbling realization, but irrespective

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 Someone we knew for a long time died in a freak accident couple of days ago. When I mentioned it to a friend he remarked, "such events make me fearful of my own eventuality". I smiled and quoted Mark Twain, "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it". This friend was shocked at my

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I recently moved from D. E. Shaw to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. A good move, I hope, and obviously lot of my other friends looking for a jump have been asking me for "tips" on landing a great job. While I could write a lot on the subject, I found a very well written article called "How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere)". Go read it.

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==============================Yay! A blog post after almost two years :-)==============================When I started working over 14 years ago, the best PCs had 8 MB of RAM and their processors boasted of mega hertz speeds. PC hard disks were still under 1 GB, and floppy disks with 1.44 MB storage were very popular. Our machines have come a long way since then, but what about us, the people?

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I began my career with sales (while still in college), and have since moved on to different roles. But, selling has continued to dominate my professional life. I have realized that no matter who you are, what you do and where you work selling is darn important. Which is why I encourage young grads to begin their careers with a stint in sales, at least part time. It hones you as a professional,

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Siddharth Uppal (Sid, as we call him) has been one of the best technologists, and certainly one of the best people I have known. He was my very first team mate at D. E. Shaw after I joined the company and even though I was his Manager, I got to learn a lot from him. Among other things, he got me into blogging.Quite an avid blogger himself (his blog is called Some Creativity), a few months ago Sid

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reddit_url='[URL]'reddit_title='[TITLE]'These days many people ask me the same set of questions- “what’s happening in the financial markets?”, “Is the worst over yet?”, “why did Lehman Brothers go bankrupt?” And so on. Working in the financial industry, I am somehow supposed to know it all. Yeah, right! But, I can share what little I know so here we go.Financial Markets in CrisisFinancial

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reddit_url='[URL]'reddit_title='[TITLE]'Reliance MobileIf you are in India, and haven't been living under a rock, you wouldn't have missed the new Reliance mobiles commercial. It has a young couple on phone, who keep pulling each other's leg based on what they hear in the back ground. The girl hears a 'saas-bahu' serial in the back ground, the guy hears the girl flipping a magazine, the girl

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This November 12, I'll turn 32. This October 17, I would complete eight years of my life as a married man. That is quarter of my life. I was a guru in many things when I finished eight years on this planet. I was considered a tech guru when I finished working eight years in the software industry. But, when it comes to women I would still rate myself 0.01 on a scale of 0 to 1 billion. I know of

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Almost every candidate I have interviewed lately, for positions ranging from User Interface Designer to a Tech Project Leader has inevitably said something about Web 2.0. But, when asked what do they understand by web 2.0, not everyone seems to know. Here is a fantastic video made by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, USA. In under 5 minutes,

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Process, as we all know, is an important variable in the equation for software project success. But, just how important? If a fairy God-mother were to give you just one wish towards your project's success factors, what would you ask for? That everybody adheres to your organization's "established" processes? Or that you had just one or two more senior developers? Or that your staff worked in

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1166438572154773012006-12-18T02:42:00.000-08:002006-12-18T02:42:52.183-08:00

"Cold War cartoon defending the profit motive against anti-capitalist critics." Cartoon in public domain and available at Archive.org. 1948.

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Here is an interesting collection of 10 useful Web 2.0 APIs.http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/121806-web-20-apis.html

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from mercury to vv cephei. This is amazing. It puts in perspective two very important things:1. Physically, we are hugely, hugely insignificant2. But, mentally, we have been endowed with this awesome capability to discover and appreciate this insignificanceWow!!!

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The Codist carried a series of articles that I happened to stumble upon, thanks to reddit. Written by an experienced soul with about quarter of a century in this industry, these articles beautifully categorize software project disasters. Though I have only about half of the author's experience in the number of years, I can certainly relate to all of these at one level or the other. The good thing

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I found this very interesting piece today. It gives you three very very simple tips to increase self discipline:1. Make a want list2. Imagine your life as a timeline3. Visual InspirationThese steps are simple and may even work.

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A friend forwarded me a pretty unconventional article called 5 principles for programming. It starts with a very rare disclaimer: "I didn’t invent any of them, and I don’t always follow them. But since nobody seems to know very much about making good software, it makes sense to try to distill a little wisdom when possible."The five principles mentioned there are:1. Fail Fast2. Write Less Code (

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I came across this rather interesting "Law" recently. Zawinski's Law states that “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the “Law of Software Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly useful programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and application

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A fascinating essay, and a moving speech. But, it fell on deafest of ears.http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.htmlAnd while we are on that topic, here is an essay on Economist about why America gives unconditional support to Israel.http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7255198I guess we should see the middle-eastern crisis and the recent unfortunate events of West Asia in

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I guess it is pretty well known by now (at least two of my friends knew it already), but somehow managed to skip my attention till today. I came across a web site called wikiHow today. The Welcome box on its homepage says that "wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps people by offering

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I read a lot about Management, especially Project Management. But, only some deserve to be blogged. Like this one by Geoff Choo (the link is to a PDF file). The rules are listed below:1. Deliver, Deliver and Deliver2. Planning is for Wimps3. Whip Your Team to Higher Performance4. Communication is for Losers5. The Big-Bang Effect6. Common Sense Rules!7. Rub your lcients the Right WayThe above list

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Governments do truckloads of nonsense day in and day out. So much, every well informed citizen of the world knows. But, sometimes they outperform themselves.After the Mumbai blasts, the Indian government feels an urge to stop blogging sites. Including blogspot.com. Why? Because terrorists use blogs. What? Really? I mean, are you serious? I guess they also use e-mail, so will Mr. Singh's

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1150728839839326672006-06-19T07:45:00.000-07:002006-06-19T07:53:59.860-07:00

(Sorry about the title. Couldn't think of a better one for this post)I was reading an interesting article about (or, rather, against) Robert Kiyosaki and I stumbled upon a link in it that pointed to "The 48 Laws of Power", by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. To say that I loved those laws and the way they were put together would be an understatement. Go and read it all at http://www2.

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BillG, by the way, stands for Bill Gates. Just read Joel's wonderful essay on his first review with Bill Gates.

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I stumbled upon an uber-cool website that renders a nice little service- a cheatsheat to those irritating automated telephone response systems. It tells you the keystrokes or phrases you must use on the telephone to get to the operator directly instead of waiting endlessly on the phone line. Alas, it is helpful only for people in US and UK. I hope it will expand to include other places, like

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Yesterday, while just browsing through reddit, I found an interesting piece about making a fantastic paper plane. The link is http://www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/air-bld1.htmlGo try it out. I will try it myself sometime.While we are on the subject of airplanes, here is an amazing video I found. It is a radio controlled plane flown with superb skill, to say the very least.

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I encountered the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis when a friend forwarded an article about it some time ago. In short, it asserts that "thought is constrained by language"- a very interesting and 'thought' provoking idea. Researchers and practitioners of systems theory, especially the kinds of John Warfield, George Chandy (of OPMS fame) and yours truly, believe that language is more than mere words and

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The title of this post is the title of an interesting story I read at Kuro5hin. I quote from the introduction to this article: "This is a first-person account of how IBM was able to con my execs out of millions of dollars. Gullible management tries to swim with the shark and gets chewed to pieces. Witness the exec-level FUD sales techniques and the $325/hr subcontractor labor bait and switch."

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Sabeer Bhatia, co-founder of hotmail who made $400 million from its sale to MS, is on a new venture these days- a blogbar. Read some details on this Indian Express site.Anyways, it is a toolbar (called Blogeverywhere - no, the link is not working as of today) that does two things:1. Better Hotmail experience: Provides option for offline viewing of mail, faster mail access etc. What I don't

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A blogger has two young children. He dotes on them. He loves the experience of watching them play and grow. So, what is the best he could do to ensure that the wonderful days spent with them during their early years are not lost? How can the experiences be 'stored' for the future? Blog them, of course.Rida and Rayan (my daughter and son, respectively) are the best things to happen to me in my

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If these guys mean even 10% of what they say, they have my undying support and sincere devotion.http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1384411,curpg-1.cmsI guess we should encourage such initiatives and prevent corruption of core-values from destroying them and their revolutionary ideas. The party has a website at http://paritrana.orgPlease share (in the comments section) your

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Richard Hamming was a great Mathematician and Computer Scientist. There is something about great people that makes them great. The following talk that he delivered at Bellcore in 1986 encapsulates many of those attributes. Fundamentally, he suggests that you ask yourself three questions:1. What are the most important problems in your field?2. Are you working on one of them?3. Why not?In other

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Hyderabad is a funny place. I mean, it is nice and all, but when it comes to traffic...it is a lesson in chaos- or how to create it. The following happened last Sunday, when I was going to meet a friend.Congress Plenary was in full swing and there were khaki men all over the city, more so on the roads leading to the venue. I was happily driving away in my Hyundai Santro on Banjara Hills road no.

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I was busy browsing through an orkut community forum when something went wrong with the orkut server and it couldn't deliver the pages to me. Instead of a boring, dull error message page, I was delighted to see the following:"Bad, bad server. No donut for you.Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a

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Ok. Heres the deal. You convince people to pay me $1000 to read my blog, and I will pay you $100 per person. What? Bad idea? Ok. Change of plan. Send them to Hyderabad, India (there's a small town by that name in Pakistan too), where I will talk about...er...well...does it matter?...let me think...Effective Business Systems (ah! that sounds good) for $1000 and I will pay you $100 per head. I will

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Gosh...did I really NOT blog for so long?Anyway, here is something I found very very interesting to read. It has everything I like about non-textbook style, street-smart exec style writing. In short, Ian Landsman opines that there are four rules that practical entrepreneuers should know and obey. His headings for them are:1. Fragmented Market2. Business Before Consumer3. Clear and Simple Revenue

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Here is an excellently written article on computer security. It is educating and amusing enough to keep your attention for its entire span. Best of all- we all can relate to and identify all the six dumb ideas:1. Default Permit2. Enumerating Badness3. Penetrate and Patch (knock...knock...is Microsoft listening?)4. Hacking is Cool5. Education Users (yes, it is a dumb idea according to the author..

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David Reid, a BBC Correspondent, wrote the following article on BBC Click-online, about Open source software and the international get together of open source movement at Amsterdam. He begins the article with an amusing observation:"The Dutch are pretty open about the sort of stuff that many of us prefer to keep to ourselves - what goes on beneath the sheets, for example. "Read it all, titled "

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In the not so distant future, you may well switch off your light bulb and still not be in dark. Quite literally so. A new technology, stemming from an accidental discovery, could mean that your room will be lit from table tops, walls and just about any surface you deem suitable. Enter the era of LED light fixtures. Read more about this at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9777070/.

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Gaurav Sabnis, an IBM (now Lenovo) employee and a popular Indian blogger, linked to an article in a local magazine that IIPM didn't quite like. IIPM threatened to sue Gaurav and also called up a senior IBM executive and threatened to burn IBM laptops. To save his freedom of speech, and for IBM's well-being, Gaurav voluntarily resigned from IBM. Kiruba made this t-shirt in response:Check out

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I came across the following article titled "How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Relinquish Control" by Peter Merholz. It talks about how the new mantra of Internet business seems to be to give away lot of control to the users, a-la google and flickr. There are pretty interesting points to note in the article:http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000501.phpWhile on the subject of

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On the 28th of September, 2005, at 20:10 India time, God gifted us a 3.1 kg bundle of joy. Here are a couple of pics I took of our beautiful son:

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This happens only in England: A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4284522.stmWhat next? Disinfected 'burkhas' (veils) for babies?

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1127459832186404412005-09-23T00:01:00.000-07:002005-09-23T00:19:07.326-07:00

While casually browsing, I stumbled upon this. MindComet, a relationship management company based in Florida, is beaming blogs into space. The idea is that aliens can get to know humans better by reading ramblings of ordinary homo-sapiens. Check it all out at the following links:http://www.bloginspace.comhttp://www.bloginspace.com/blogsbeingtransmitted.phpHere are some possible reactions from the

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I found the following link with a list of free books online. It is a very impressive collection of very useful books. Go and check it out...they may have a book or two to hook you up for a very long time:http://www.infosyssec.com/infosyssec/onlinebooks1.htm

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Hmmm...Microsoft and Time Warner are talking. The subject is AOL. And Microsoft wants to take it under its umbrella as part of MSN.Read the news at:http://www.nypost.com/business/28069.htm

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"On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will beheard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue butdevelop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstonewill go superconductive.But I must thank you for dropping a good joke on my afternoon. Onthat hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft’sgrave, I sincerely hope none of it will

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I have seen many resignation letters and mails saying 'goodbye' to loving colleagues. But, I love this one most. Bernard Sainte-Marie, a former banker at Lazard, lashed out at Bruce Wasserstein in an email message to his colleagues as he left the firm last week. His mail is an interesting mix of heart-felt messages and funny comments such as "I will be pursuing my career in the general

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http://www.treepad.com/I like this tool. It lets you write and store information in a neat tree-like structure. The website calls it an Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor.You may say that any XML editor would let you write stuff in a tree format but this is a full featured word processor. Check it out at http://www.treepad.com/. There is a free TreePad Lite

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Hmmm...everybody has a magic number to success. The '7' habits of highly effective people. The '22' immutable laws of marketing. The '4' P's of marketing (they have now incremented it to 5). The list is countless. I guess it all started in the pre-biblical era with all those '10' commandments and the '7' sins.However, a few of them have good advice that is worth assimilating. FollowSteph's

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Eric does a wonderful job explaining the kind of issues an entrepreneur faces and the kind of mistakes they end up doing. As a case in point, he lists and discusses the mistakes he made and the lessons he learnt while building SourceGear. Very interesting to read and useful to digest.http://software.ericsink.com/bos/Make_More_Mistakes.htmlOne loud and clear message is that businessmen should make

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Business2 magazine got hold of a few VCs and asked them what projects they would like to fund in the near future. Here is a list. Hmm...anyone?http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1096807-1,00.html

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How much easier can Blogging get? Now, even you boss will think you are writing a report when you are actually blogging. Blogger.com has come up with a Microsoft Word Add-In that lets you add as well as edit your posts from MS Word. Cool, eh? This post comes to you directly from MS Word. I hope I remember to test it out with Openoffice.org that I use at home.

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Jeremy Bowers offers some compelling reasons for why software will, essentially, never stop sucking. He takes on Doc Searl's statement "'It's easy to operate a car or a house without being a mechanic or a carpenter, even though it helps to have those skills. Can't the same be true for PCs? Will it be? How?" to argue that this comparison between cars and computers is wrong and computer software is

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1123575469550795052005-08-09T01:05:00.000-07:002005-08-09T02:16:42.596-07:00

Quite literally, tens of Amway/Quixtar/BrittWorldwide IBOs have approached me in the last few years making wild claims of fortune and 'independence'. Whenever I tried to work out the scheme on paper, in black and white, it didn't make sense. While I don't necessary rebuke the power of multi-level marketing, the way of Amway may not be the right way after all. In May last year, MSNBC conducted a '

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GOfiice is an online office suite. You can think of it as a software application you use to accomplish work, like writing letters and creating greeting cards and business cards. You probably already use Microsoft Office to do such work. This site is like an online version of a conventional office suite.This site creates Adobe PDF format document files, so you can print them with outstanding

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"Ironically, though open source and blogs are done for free, those worlds resemble market economies, while most companies, for all their talk about the value of free markets, are run internally like commmunist states", says Paul Graham. He makes many other interesting observations and comments (some of which you may or may not subscribe to).Click here for his article.

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Synergy (opensource, with GPL licence) lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1122960883845115092005-08-01T22:31:00.000-07:002005-08-01T22:34:43.846-07:00

A colleague of mine got an error message in Microsoft SQL Server saying that the SQL statement was valid. Click on the image to check it out for yourself.

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I happen to have a spare motherboard- an AMD Athlon 2400. And I don't want to sell it on e-bay. I want to do something creative and useful with it and would like YOU to give me some suggestions. So far, my friends have thrown these ideas at me:1. Home automation system2. Home security system3. A robot to help me with household stuff (like cleaning floors, vaccuming etc.)4. Use it as a paper

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Clay Shirky writes about how categorization, as applied to the e-world, is more of a mis-fit than a helpful tool. He discusses Ontology in general and goes on to discuss it as applied to the modern electronic world. Read his very interesting piece at:http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Tanveerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09488872933467544727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14826933.post-1122620036321645112005-07-28T23:49:00.000-07:002005-07-28T23:53:56.326-07:00

Another Paul Graham classic. He makes some very interesting points like "Work people like doesn't pay well, for reasons of supply and demand. The most extreme case is developing programming languages, which doesn't pay at all, because people like it so much they do it for free."Go read it on his websitehttp://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html

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For details, go to this link:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.htmlThe Joel Test1. Do you use source control?2. Can you make a build in one step?3. Do you make daily builds?4. Do you have a bug database?5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?7. Do you have a spec?8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?9. Do you use the best

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Mumbai was flooded heavily in the last three days of incessant rains. Here are some pics that show how bad the situation has been. I know people who spent the night at office and went without food for more than 12 hours. A lucky few had chocolates and other snacks at the office vending machine or canteen. So far, over 50 dead and many many more missing. Another dimension to this is that many ATM

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Joel Spolsky, of Joel on software fame, says "The common belief is that when you're building a software company, the goal is to find a neat idea that solves some problem which hasn't been solved before, implement it, and make a fortune. We'll call this the build-a-better-mousetrap belief. But the real goal for software companies should be converting capital into software that works."This isn't

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I found the following article by Bruce Eckel pretty interesting. It is part of his "Thinking About Computers" and is titled "Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing". Check it out.http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0025

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Blogging blogsters are posting postsFrom moaning monsters to ghouling ghosts;Then why O why should I lie in waitSo I thought "lets get our action straight".To prove that I am not yet dead cold,Here I come, O blogging world.Here I come, my blogging world.

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Taking a cue from my good friend and colleague, Upster, I will try to post some interesting things here. Lets see if I can manage to keep this alive long enough.For more info on me, please pay a visit to my website.

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