raghava

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by raghava 14y ago
s/Japan/India s/US\$35/SG\$40 Sums up my current situation.
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by raghava 14y ago
>> Gmail just isn't very "zen." Sums it up the best. Going through the points mentioned in their review list (on https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2645922?p=newcompose&... ), I feel by 'clean', it's just an attempt to Appleify
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Ask HN: (possibly silly) question about 'H1B eligible'
2 points by raghava 14y ago|0 comments
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by raghava 14y ago
Reminded me of the situation in which I was given 'a very peculiar issue which was very hard to simulate' (acc to the description). Considering that it was related to the message queue generation module of a core banking system, and that be
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by raghava 14y ago
I am very sorry for your loss. He was an inspiration, and would still continue to be one. May he find peace.
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by raghava 14y ago
shortwave recordings of numbers stations from across the globe. (The Conet project - http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/ ) Also, lush from Soma.fm
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by raghava 14y ago
From the article >> There's arguably never been a worse time to be a mediocre, average or typical employee. For most firms today, mediocrity is a cost to be managed and a burden to be borne, not a potential to cultivate or a resourc
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by raghava 14y ago
>> failing A line that I usually quote; "In case of a failure in the West, it's your ideas that failed; in the East, it's you who failed."
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by raghava 14y ago
Am a programmer currently in Singapore; some of my observations are as below. 1. Singapore is business friendly. But only for big businesses; investment banks and such. Small and medium ones will have a tough time considering the cost of li
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by raghava 14y ago
* play around with C->Python interface. ( http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8497 ) * complete the wedding preps before Nov 28 * give interviews and find a job
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by raghava 14y ago
So, nearing GandhiCon Four, I guess ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/GandhiCon.html )
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by raghava 15y ago
> outshine most of your peers At BigCo Inc, outshining others does not mean just working well. Playing the right cards, being in the right networks (and the right books of those in power) matter a lot. ;) As they say, only when powered
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by raghava 15y ago
Thanks! Would mail! :)
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by raghava 15y ago
Thanks for sharing your views. >> Fareed Zakaria's piece mentioning this as a competitive advantage of the U.S. education system I guess you are referring to the one where he mentions "Most of the world teaches the students how to t
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Ask HN: Startup scene in Singapore
2 points by raghava 15y ago|4 comments
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by raghava 15y ago
In bandwidth starved places (India, Africa), such a method itself seems more suitable. Some even found carrier pigeons to be useful for the task. ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/09/us-safrica-pigeon-... )
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by raghava 15y ago
Seems like a lot of visual clutter to me (tried having it as background on a monitor running 1366x768, not pretty usable for me) Many might find http://www.qitty.net/lnx/vim-cheatsheet.png helpful too.
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by raghava 15y ago
>> I hope I get proven wrong and in a decade we have Infosys quality product companies in India. A couple of honest questions. Do you work for Infosys? What exactly do you mean by Infosys quality ? About the 'low quality engineers
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by raghava 15y ago
shouldn't '@' be escaped with a backslash? ;)
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by raghava 15y ago
>> Give it time for marketing departments to do their jobs... Absolutely. They are working overtime on this one. Recently, India has seen a sudden surge in cosmetics for men. http://www.google.co.in/search?q=male+cosmetics+india+fi
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by raghava 15y ago
Am I the only one to notice a fancy designation ("senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer")! Chief Digital Officer? :)
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by raghava 15y ago
Then consider this list of such filed patents (just filed, not yet awarded) http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Se... #20100082494 tops them all I guess.
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by raghava 15y ago
Where I work, the original post is actually blocked by websense; and I believe that says a lot about the firm. And not just that, there is also a strict auditing of browsing habits. They have already incorporated edw519's suggestion of moni
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by raghava 15y ago
But alas, my friend, as long as the current exchange rate prevails, there would be many opting for the easy way .
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by raghava 15y ago
Not to nitpick, but the above linked post says that the author of Windows XP Unwired too could not get smssender.exe to work in command line mode, to send messages in a batch.
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by raghava 15y ago
>> his argument is basically 'Linux couldn't open a file that everybody else could, but by dicking around with random half-assed documented tools we could do it anyway!'. May be one could even interpret it like 'there are a lot of s
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by raghava 15y ago
Yes. I recollect a similar situation when I volunteered for a Linux fest. ( http://wiki.sampada.net/GNU_Linux_Install_Fest ) The venue could only accommodate 50 odd people but > 300 had registered on the eve. We needed to update all tha
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by raghava 15y ago
I feel that am sort of a younger version of you, on the other side of planet. 6 years with an Indian IT major (in a product unit, a million dollar banking product). Though I don't find my experience to be in "uninteresting" problem domains;
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by raghava 15y ago
Isn't this the same thing Bruce Eckel wrote a couple of years ago? http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=255898
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by raghava 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483976 could be sort of a prologue for Susam's post. The origins of the problem lie in the system and surrounding culture. EDIT: And http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411695 too.

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